When we arrived there was some good news, and some pretty much expected bad news!
The bad is that the bonnet is pretty much fubared. It looks as though the car has had some kind of vandalism or several hits of some sort to the middle of the bonnet! There's no sign of impact damage to the front and nothing else on the rest of the car - it looks like the poor little fella spent some time in a back alley with a drunken hammer-assassin! This was something we'd always suspected as there was no other reason for the car to have seen paint at some point and the original rear screen had some odd scratch marks in it that looked like they had been done maliciously...
John said that he could sort the bonnet out to a standard but he would be much happier to work with a new one. We totally respect his experience so we're now on the hunt for a new one, which looks like it might have to come from japan.... groan! this could take a few months so it looks like we may have a very shiny beat with a skanky bonnet for a while.... :D
On to the good news tho - everything else is fantastico! The guys have made amazing progress this week. They've fitted the rear wings and moulded them into the body/skirts. The rear bumper has been test fitted and the front bumper is hanging on for effect as well! The boot looks like it will need some spacers/adjustments to meet the over-sized wings properly. We've been looking at the catalog pics of the FEELS beat and it seems they have done something along these lines... anyhoos, here's the crappy phone pics... looking a bit dusty and sorry for itself after all the work but we have faith! :D
Bonked bonnet (the cream coloured patches are filler):
New rear view - wide(r)boy!
Side view - the old original wheels looking a bit feeble at the back now:
And here's something to remind us what it should all look like one day...
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