Bond Equipe GT4S, now awaiting the estate completion

Now..... There's a Rave from the Grave!

OVIMOR

Those doors; I thought you were talking about the band.😂

Those switches are worth money to the right person

Any way, so.

Back in the mists of time a man, no, this man started a project he was destined to never finish, the future looked herald pick up shaped and burbled (to the tune of 8 of Rover's finest cylinders) quite a lot.
As part of that future, he was preparing a bulkhead that looked very like this



which had been purchased for said project,yet when it came back from the blasters it looked even less shiny, but alas more like a colander,



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Which, altho great by Herald and Vitesees standards, was a bit more rust than was originally hoped for. The future now looked like a resonable amount of work.

Then this much guc and seam sealant was removed.





New tools and supplies were purchased






But when the gutters were removed, much rot was detected






But judicious use of a drill and angle grinder tided it up.



It was cleaned up taped off, given 2 coats of hydrate80 and a coat of weld through primer




as per industry standards, a cad template was created



and transferred in to steel




(As you may or may not know,this man has a fox word back,which causes a ridiculously huge pile of pills to be consumed every day just so he can carry out normal day-to-day operations.)

The previous flourish of work was done after the first injection in his back was done, and life was back to normal. The next day, as final fit up was commencing, the fox word back returned.......
It sat being looked at, In bursts and walked straight past, regarded as some kind of bad luck charm, with only minor projectetts being done near it, for 8 months it sat biding its time waiting showing its displeasure by acquiring a small amount of surface rust.


But as I said, that was all for a future that nearly happened but didn't, because well, if you have read any of the preceding pages, or in fact are actually here, reading this very text, you know already.

Think the early type was a neater design.
But bookmarked this.

Sorry but have to agree that, front and rear, I prefer the "earlier" model purely from an aesthetic perspective,
Nigel

No need to be sorry Nigel I, for one, am very glad we all like different things, otherwise we would all be driving the same fox picture box cars, listening to the same music and eating the same food.

Isn't it great we can all have different opinions here, without argument or drama, for that I thank you HoTWire

Seeing as I've liked pretty much every build you do I'd be interested in your input Dez

Ok, well…

The front indicator/sidelight units are too big and too clunky. Very easy to eliminate them altogether there days and incorporate them into the other light units.

Cut the centre bar out of the grill and have a full width tube grille. This visually widens and shortens the front of the car, helping the proportions a lot.

Front bumper. Entirely get rid of the front number plate plinth and rebuild the valance behind it, have the bumper blade running straight through, and mount the plate below like the earlier ones. This will have a similar effect to the grille mods. Continuous full width lines= lower and wider. I’d also get a plate made 10% smaller to help the visuals. Yeah it’s naughty but the chances of getting caught on something like this are slim.

Moving to the rear, the raised plate mount and light boss do nothing for the back of the car, in fact they detract from the nice little ducktail it has going on. I’d smooth them up ff altogether and have an infill panel of either black or brushed alloy that goes out to that obvious line there, and mount the no. Plate lights at each end. Will look kinda 240z-ish.

Also, triple lights is far too busy for a car that size. Id go down to doubles or even single larger multifunction jobs (mk1 Tina maybe?) mounted on the body only and loose the ones on the tailgate.

The side profile doesn’t really need much, there’s not a lot you could do without major, major work. Maybe add a chrome sill trim, again more visual length.