It's sort out time down at the ranch. We had a whole lot of stuff from the donor car which was not going to be refitted, so before we could box it up for the return trip to RP we had to pull everything out of storage to separate the good, the bad and the ugly before cleaning & fitting the good stuff onto the shell. On the pile of parts, two items of note are the cardboard tube heater silencers which run down inside the sills which are seldom seen outside of the car. These are replacements, unfortunately the originals were damaged sometime in the past life of the donor car.

Apparently we're now contemplating taking the suspension apart to the last nut & bolt for a complete renovation, paint & re-plate of all the components (like the job we did on a GT3: https://rennlist.com/forums/996-gt2-...-996gt3-5.html), so if you all have an opinion on this, please direct them at RP......

I know that I said we were hoping to have the shell painted white this week, unfortunately the meticulous Marc and Neil inspected the primered outer panels and decided that they wanted to do a little more perfecting before we can lay on the Carrara White, so we're going to mask off the rest of the car whilst we do these minor panel aberations and re-primer the fenders.

 

With the inside and floor painted white, our attention turned to the outer panels. The plan was to mask off the painted sections, dry flat the outer panels and gun them in colour, however once we flatted them off Marc discovered some minor flaws in the primer and decided that we would have to block it down and primer it again:

 

So this was the state of the shell last week after the rework had been done and the car re-primered.

 

And finally here's the car today after re-blocking and shooting it with Carrera White base coat & clear laquer:

 

Please note that the blue tinge in the middle of the shots is not the car, it is a camera fault on my iPhone.....

Nothing new there then?

 

Wow looks nice

Richard

 

Me likes SpeedyWhite.

 

I can't wait to see the photos of the re-build!

 

Looks great....and in the best color

 

WoW!! i'm really excited about the car! i believe, it will be beautiful!!!

 

Everytime I come into this thread it's like xmas morning..awesome.

 

First parts fitted today: Heater tubes through the sills.

OK, I admit, not huge progress as we have a lot of other work to finish off before we can clear the decks to hit it for real. Sorry Arpad!

 

Arpad-- Magnificent machine
More time ^^ for the rest of us to enjoy the show
...like Jakob wrote: Christmas every day!

 

even the greatest yourney begins with the first step...

hope you can finish your other works soon and can focus 100% to my speedywhite. Spring is here, nature calls for top down driving

i trust in you and Marc that the car will be finished in time and in 1A quality

regards to you and for your 9m team

arpad

 

thanks! can not wait to see it in real!!