1972 Mazda Rx2- Moves to a new home

WOW!!!!

Ive just spent about 2 months on and off reading this thread from start to here and I'm totally blown away by the work you have done so far and the challenges you have faced, lesser people would have walked away long time since

My dad had a RX2 coupe when we lived in SA, we were in the Transvaal. Ahhh so many happy memories of the place and that car, it would literally buzz everywhere. When we came back he was tempted to bring it back to the UK but at the last minute didn't bother, I have yearned for one ever since but now they are too rare.

Keep up the good work man, you are such an inspiration

So where were we? Ah yes, Johnny Bravo and the Bootfloor of doom....😊
Got gifted an old ,but fairly large computer screen from one of the guys at work,so decided that could be used in the garage whilst sorting out the drawings for the boot floor. Sunday dawned bright and early so decided to crack on. Went to plug screen in, curse word! non hdmi cable,old type din connector. Clever idea for the day,not,let’s shoot into Hastings and get a cable quickly....Wrong...Epic fail...You see, somebody had the bright idea of staging a half marathon there that day. The Cockwomble who decided to make sure that the route included every single road in or out of Hastings should be shot. Plain and simple. In front of their family. Just like a certain Mr Clarkson suggests occasionally. What a balls up. Their traffic management plan was more laughable than Brexit. It consisted of directing traffic around the shithole! that is Hastings,in ever decreasing circles..Pretty obvious when you pass the same intersection three times an hour 😡. So around and around and around for three hours until the streets were devoid of sweaty ars overweight men and women that really looked like they were not enjoying their day out,and then all traffic wardens do a Cinderella and disappear,leaving all the by now ,totally pissedoff motorists to make their own arrangements to get out of the ensuing traffic jam....

So that scuppered my master plan. As this had happened by the time I had got back

Had planned on taking new photos of the boot floor with the sun directly overhead so I wouldn’t get shadows,but had missed that by a couple of hours. And the sun hasn’t been seen since. Well, we all know you don’t come to a England for the weather...Turn the clocks forward for summer and it snows three days later 😂😂

So, again, use what I have. Dirty photos. Not that type...


Shadows create noise like this



Quick clean with the magic eraser results in this



Insert new red circles into known positions,scale accordingly


Then check angle between the two circles and rotate accordingly








Merge the two drawings that they are not overlapping,merely on the same screen



Then translate the one lot of graphics that it’s centered over a known position,and we are good to continue



And continue we will....regardless 😂😂

It's simple, if you read the thread.
Johnny is taking arty pictures of the boot, to send to his Rastafarian mate Victor, who's going to draw them in 2.5d and frame them as artistic art pieces.

More or less.

Sorry to prove you wrong Mr Bravo....but shadows arent green. I checked, nope definitely not green.

....well my Grandmother was Irish. I cast special shadows 😇

Something a bit different

It was a really well turned out car. Roll cage did it’s job.

Blimey, hats off to the rescuers.

Probably the worst place to hit it as the swirl pot and fuel pumps are in the left side of the boot