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If, like me, Photoshop is a mystery but you have kids with a PS4 or X-Box with a game like Gran Turismo you can by a 250GTO, Cobra or 250 SWB and then play with different colours and put stripes and badges on it to see what works best.
My son played around with a 250LM for me last night and I have decided on a white and black stripe along the length of the car to break up the yellow.
Modern programmes make life much easier don't they ? When I started out customizing cars , I used to cut up photos and glue back together ! Still have the pics from experimenting with roof chopping my old Chevy ...
I use a website called [url]www.busselecta.com[/url] , its a VW Bus and Beetle site primarily but has a section for modifying Porsches too and the 550 option is close enough to a Sammio for me to play with colours etc...
As an impatient man I decided to flat back the boot.
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And then gave it a polish.
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I think you can see the how well the orange peel can be cut back. It is isn't, by any means, a concours finish but it doesn't look too bad. Just the rest of the car to flat back now :-(
My wife goes in for a knee replacement at the end of July so I will be taking a couple of weeks off to help her recuperate. I hope that this will give me a bit of time to get the car sanded and polished, although she might have other ideas
Jaguartvr - I'll suggest it. If I post a selfie with a black eye then you know it hasn't gone well.
For those thinking of the hard top solution, here's a profile shot. Like many others, the bloody roof has cracked across the front so I have to work on that.
Its a convertable, and by their very nature, the scuttle / windscreen will shake, and the car will flex way more than any tin top, so filling any join between hardtop will not work, no matter how hard you try. Sorry. (and yes i drive an MX5, with and without a hardtop, and i'm also a bodyshop technician / painter..)
The best bet is just to settle for a join and live with it.
If you look at Hilltop Automotives thread, He's actually creating a small join where the roof joins the A pillar, and that seems like great idea to me, its what i'd do too......
Sorry to bear bad news, but well done with your build and paintjob..!
Pretty good, it certainly turns heads. I think it's a combination of the colour and the virtually straight through exhaust.
The only place it's got a bit of a "meh" reaction is where my youngest son works. But then they have a number of MK1 Lotus Cortinas, Lotus Elan's a Lamborghini Uracco, a Broadspeed Capri and a couple of Lola Le Mans cars from the 70's (amongst other things) so my efforts with a kit car don't do much for them.
I live near Malvern where they turn out 15 or so "kit Cars" every week. Built by blokes in sheds from kits of parts the Morgan's are by their very nature "Kit Cars". Don't ever tell a Morgan owner though they are such though !!!
I live near Malvern where they turn out 15 or so "kit Cars" every week. Built by blokes in sheds from kits of parts the Morgan's are by their very nature "Kit Cars". Don't ever tell a Morgan owner though they are such though !!!
When working at a leading sports car manufacturer's development dept I was told by a fellow engineer (who really should have known better) that Morgans had a wooden chassis. He wouldn't be convinced either!
When working at a leading sports car manufacturer's development dept I was told by a fellow engineer (who really should have known better) that Morgans had a wooden chassis. He wouldn't be convinced either!
Wooden chassis in a Morgan? What a ridiculous idea, this is the 21st Century, after all.
No, since modernising their production facility in Malvern they now use MDF -
I hope you're jesting, in as much that the chassis is steel (or ally in the latest models) and the framework for the body is indeed wood (as it's always been). Except for the very rare GRP bodied one (IIRC called the plus 4 plus?) - not popular at the time and rarity now means they are hugely priced I believe.
I hope you're jesting, in as much that the chassis is steel (or ally in the latest models) and the framework for the body is indeed wood (as it's always been). Except for the very rare GRP bodied one (IIRC called the plus 4 plus?) - not popular at the time and rarity now means they are hugely priced I believe.
Yes you are correct.
Alloy or steel for the chassis, Ash wood for the frame only, No MDF, cant see that lasting too long.
The earlier cars weren't even treated , they rotted out very quickly . The later cars did get dipped which helped a lot. The wood is still part of the structure of the car so very important . Many of the panels in current cars are pre formed and nearly ready to fit. Fit and finish has been questionable in recent years, since Charles was knocked from the top position.
