*MAXXD* Clare's Rieger F40 Escort Cabriolet "BigCab"

[Alanman]

Oh my god the Cab is gutted. It looks like its been robbed. lol. 4 hours last night and another couple tonight.

Bonnet - Flat blocked, repairing slight blemishes, filled the screw holes for the bonnet catch ready for the aeroflush type (hopefully). Drill 20 holes in the vents at top to allow air flow to the heater fans and water drainage. Its a fibrglass bonnet and the vent never had holes. Lazy Alanman. The bonnets only been on since the accident (3 years) and I've gone through 3 paint jobs in some places. lol

Spoiler - Flat blocked. Not much work needed really, but I have got rid of a couple of minor imperfections that have always been on it. And one randon stone chip.

Boot - Jesus, we've never took boot off. There must be 6 or 7 layers of paint difference under the hinge. lol. I'm leaving that for Darryl to DA down, would take too long to do by hand.

Headlight / Grill - Removed the last of the wrap, mesh and the headlights. Started flating and rubbing but not finnished yet. This is going to take ages but can only be done by hand.

Rear bumper - Removed number plate and fed all the wires through for the reverse camera, jacked car up and removed bumper. One of tonights jobs is to flat this down, there's loads of stone chips in the arch just behind wheel. It huge off the car. Tryng to do as much as I can myself before it goes to Darryl.

Front bumper - Still on car but will only take two minutes to take off. I need to leave most of this for Darryl too, cos when the wrap was removed some of the paint went with it too. OOPS!!. Other than the paint no major work. I do have some fog lights to go in somehow but that could be done when its back on the car after.

Also took petrol flap off and flatted that down, as well as the hinge covers for boot lid. Last thing to go will be the mirrors. They'll be flatted and painted, no chrome mirror. yay.

Tonight I'll have big pile of bits ready to go tomorrow morning. I'm a little scared cos its come so quick. I know its only November, but the show season is just round the corner. It'll be here before you know it.

I am looking forward to the new look. I have never been able to stripper the car to this degree and have everything painted seperately. We've alway had specialist paint that needs to be painted all together on the car. So because of our choice of colour this year, Darryl will be able to do a propper thorough job.