New Vixen Project

[chris52]

Body well on its way to being painted
Decided on a matt black


Just Kidding that's some sort of paint correction primer lol


final primer and will be ready for painting tomorrow a nice bright red


Should get it back either next week or just after Christmas

Chris

[AceOfHearts]

Looks awesome I am very jealous!

[chris52]

The body shop sent me a picture of the bonnet now painted to show the colour Body will be done first thing Monday so will update with pictures then.


chris

[Dollyman1850]

You're going to be nervous drilling all those holes when fitting your lights
Looks great but another red one!!!

N.

[anonymous-user]

Dollyman1850 said:

You're going to be nervous drilling all those holes when fitting your lights
Looks great but another red one!!!

N.

There's nowt wrong with red ones Neil !

I've been asked if they're Ferraris. Sadly only by small kids though.

[Dollyman1850]

V6Pushfit said:

Dollyman1850 said:

You're going to be nervous drilling all those holes when fitting your lights
Looks great but another red one!!!

N.

There's nowt wrong with red ones Neil !

I've been asked if they're Ferraris. Sadly only by small kids though.

I wonder out of all the survivors how many are Red, followed by Orange, Followed by A N other colour!!

[chris52]

It had to be red I had to do the ML white as that was its original colour. The original colour of this was a horrible and I mean horrible beige I toyed with the idea of blue and even orange my wife had the final decision and that was it no turning back. To be honest it's the colour I wanted anyway.
Chris

[anonymous-user]

Dollyman1850 said:

I wonder out of all the survivors how many are Red, followed by Orange, Followed by A N other colour!!

Well it's one more now than originally, but no bad thing.
Beige??? Eughh

[Andrew Gray]

chris52 said:

It had to be red I had to do the ML white as that was its original colour. The original colour of this was a horrible and I mean horrible beige I toyed with the idea of blue and even orange my wife had the final decision and that was it no turning back. To be honest it's the colour I wanted anyway.
Chris

This may sound strange but the period colours are coming back into fashion in a strange way I kind of like them as its a part of motoring history that's disappearing I know that the 78 Porsche I bought and sorted for my Brother a few years ago was originally Mocca Brown in many ways rather horrid but as cars have been changed then the pool of those cars disappears I think I would have re painted in the original colour of Mocca Brown.
However Red well a great Choice what shade is it Ford Radiant or Ford Rossa Red or another?
Andrew

[anonymous-user]

^ or like the Porsche in The Bridge. Mind you it's the blonde in it that looks good although she's a fruitcake.

[Moto]

Beige? Mine was originally Harvest Gold. Disgusting IMHO... This was her when new

[chris52]

You can see the original colour where the rear lights were it looked even worse in the flesh, a flat crappy beige.

[chris52]

Andrew Gray said:

This may sound strange but the period colours are coming back into fashion in a strange way I kind of like them as its a part of motoring history that's disappearing I know that the 78 Porsche I bought and sorted for my Brother a few years ago was originally Mocca Brown in many ways rather horrid but as cars have been changed then the pool of those cars disappears I think I would have re painted in the original colour of Mocca Brown.
However Red well a great Choice what shade is it Ford Radiant or Ford Rossa Red or another?
Andrew

Some things are best left in the sixties including the original colour of this car. The Red is not a Ford red can't remember of top of my head the name but it looks good in the picture I haven't seen it in the flesh as I can't drive at the moment (doctors orders) but hope to get it back just after Xmas.
Chris

[Andrew Gray]

chris52 said:

Some things are best left in the sixties including the original colour of this car. The Red is not a Ford red can't remember of top of my head the name but it looks good in the picture I haven't seen it in the flesh as I can't drive at the moment (doctors orders) but hope to get it back just after Xmas.
Chris

I think if you saw it in full Gloss on the whole car you may actually like it but its a big if.
When I see some OE restored Minies for example done in some of the strange colours it actually works but it has to be done really well hope your better soon have a great Christmas.
Andrew

[GadgeS3C]

Driving to the Pre-80s this year in convoy I looked in the mirror and thought I was in an Opal Fruits advert - nice collection of orange, lime green and yellow.

Not a great fan of 70s brown but our cars look great in some more extrovert colours.

[67Tuscan]

chris52 said:

Well not a great deal of progress mainly finding bits etc. Did get the new bonnet though and managed to get that fitc






Chris

Could you please tell me what process you used to strip the shell? I am about to undertake this on mine and I like how yours turned out. Have looked at chemical and blasting, and there are several types of blasting media. I want to keep damage to the fibreglass as little as possible.
Thank you in advance.

Reece

[Grantura MKI]

Plastic media blasting is the best way to strip. Save some money and clean as much grease etc from the classis before blasting starts.
Best,
D.

[chris52]

The shell on this one was very bad with loads or gel type cracks all over. I had it soda blasted but this was very aggressive and did leave the top/gel coat very uneven. I then ground down all the cracks and re - glassed all the damage finishing of with two layers of tissue over the whole car. This was a major job to do and took a ridiculous amount of time. The whole body was then sanded down with an 400 grit and sent to the body shop.
Chris

[Incognegro]

Not sure if this will be of any use but I will have 2 sets of Cerbera uprights (with brackets for AP CP5200 calipers) if also wanted the 4pot 4 bolt version of the caliper will also be available painted black with red TVR logo and polished AP racing lettering.

Holla if required

Merry Crimbo

[chris52]

Incognegro said:

Not sure if this will be of any use but I will have 2 sets of Cerbera uprights (with brackets for AP CP5200 calipers) if also wanted the 4pot 4 bolt version of the caliper will also be available painted black with red TVR logo and polished AP racing lettering.

Holla if required

Merry Crimbo

Many thanks for the offer but I don't think these would work on a Vixen.
Cheers Chris