pallasar
Member
Hi folks, nice to see a forum with a dedicated detailing section....
I have recently taken on the transformation of a w168 a class A140.
My last car got vandalised (mk1 Citroen xm) so I sold it on to an enthusiast to fix back up, and started to look for a new project and family hack. After a day or so of looking at options, the w168 a class caught my fancy being packed full of intelligent design and being cheap to buy and fix up.
After running it for a few days I fell in love with it, and so its transformation began...
The car has spent most of its life in Hull...and the salt air hasnt been kind to it. The front subframe was swiss cheese, so I took the opportunity to buy a solid used one, de rust it and repaint it with several coats of stone chip and get it fitted....it will likely outlast the car now
The bodywork is ongoing as are some other jobs it needs, but I'll post up progress pictures of it as it goes along if anyone is interested...
The paintwork was dull and swirled to death....there were 16 years of small scratches and "life" in the finish, so as soon as I could get the time, I took it into the garage and got to work correcting the finish.
The next job on the list will be refurbing the alloys, and then its onto the wheel arch areas and the whole rear subframe and trailing arm assemblies needs blasting and repainting so they look like new again...(it might be summer when I get round to that though)
Here is a few shots of the paintwork correction "day" Around 10 hours work in total.
The day I bought it:
Now:
I have recently taken on the transformation of a w168 a class A140.
My last car got vandalised (mk1 Citroen xm) so I sold it on to an enthusiast to fix back up, and started to look for a new project and family hack. After a day or so of looking at options, the w168 a class caught my fancy being packed full of intelligent design and being cheap to buy and fix up.
After running it for a few days I fell in love with it, and so its transformation began...
The car has spent most of its life in Hull...and the salt air hasnt been kind to it. The front subframe was swiss cheese, so I took the opportunity to buy a solid used one, de rust it and repaint it with several coats of stone chip and get it fitted....it will likely outlast the car now
The bodywork is ongoing as are some other jobs it needs, but I'll post up progress pictures of it as it goes along if anyone is interested...
The paintwork was dull and swirled to death....there were 16 years of small scratches and "life" in the finish, so as soon as I could get the time, I took it into the garage and got to work correcting the finish.
The next job on the list will be refurbing the alloys, and then its onto the wheel arch areas and the whole rear subframe and trailing arm assemblies needs blasting and repainting so they look like new again...(it might be summer when I get round to that though)
Here is a few shots of the paintwork correction "day" Around 10 hours work in total.
The day I bought it:
Now: