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Spotted in Leamington over the weekend, not normally a fan of big wheels and skinny tyres on these, but really like this

Love the look of this thing, been hoping for years someone would do a decent job of getting 70's blocky design into a modern design (with all the pedestrian impact requirements it's no easy task!) Just hope they get something vaguely similar into production one day

Blimey that's some welding you've taken on and I thought my two were bad, good on you!

Little bit of afternoon work (besides rebuilding the welder, damn thing)



Looks pretty good I think, certainly something a bit different

Cheers for the comments guys.

Anybody else wish they never bothered?



And it was nearly in as well - time to find a spare!

On a better note, everything is painted!

The bonnet is on, and looks lovely



The doors are hung, and the shut lines look pretty good (a minor miricle as I hate spending hours aligning things)



and even some of the details are coming along - take one scruffy heater control panel



add a handy sticker (I love ebay) and wallah



Next big job is to get the wings on (and then find out the shut lines are actually terrible) and to find a new rear screen..... damn it!

Well its been a while since an update, but stuff has been slowly been coming along.

The first job on the shell was to dinitrol everything, so lashings of hot cavity wax have gone into all the box sections and some very heavy duty (but thankful not too messy) underbody wax has gone onto the high impact areas, and the bits that always rust on Capris! This is the stuff rust.co.uk/products/product/415157/009-dinitrol-4942-1ltr-under-body-wax-brown/

Next up has been sealing the body and adding a fair bit of insulation - Lauren told me that there was no way she was going to be with an NVH engineer and have a noisy car - so hopefully it won't be too loud!






The 6 dial dash is wired up now and seems to be working, just need to check the temp gauge when I get it up to temperature again.

The rear 1/4 glasses are back in as well, I've used an external double sided foam to hold these in, since I couldn't find anything like the original stuff. Seems to work pretty well.







With all those bits going in we've been painting all the trim up as well - everything is going to be gloss black



And then a job I'd been worrying about, which in the end turned out to be pretty easy - the windscree

The only problem was the flipping rubber was too long, nothing a knife couldn't sort out - don't you love non OEM bits!



To finish off the tailgate came back today - shiney!



Will try and get the tailgate on and the rear screen in this weekend - I hate this bit, so much chance of chipping the paint!

Looks like a fantastic day out this one.

And I love this, to the point I want it on my wall! Stunning shot

Loving the integration of air ducts into the bumpers, works really well

So with Lauren's Capri nearing completion I've finally started thinking about the Mk1 again. And got to say I'm feeling pretty excited about getting back to it

Sadly no progress yet as such (hope to get back on it over the winter) but I have started collecting parts (anyone else find that as fun as I do?!)

Photo time



First up is a pair of lightweight fiberglass seats. Came out of a Westfield I think and are really nicely made and trimmed, got a bargain on them too. But I don't think I've ever known a heavier seat base/mount! So will have to find some alloy ones to sort that out.

And now for something a bit different. I've been wondering what to do wheel wise for a while now and have come to the decision that one set of wheels won't be enough! (obviously) So far I've got the minilites that came with the car and a set of 4 spoke RS wheels (they're nice and light) - think I'm going to keep these as the full track rims, one with a set of slicks, one with some wets. Thing is that neither of these are really the look I'm after.

Then I thought I'd have a set of road wheels, and keeping with the muscle car theme I thought I'd take the steels with chrome rims/centres from the Mk2 and have them banded to suit. Not got this done yet, but I still really like the idea so will get it sorted out sometime soon. Hopefully they'll look a bit like the rally wheels you get on Cameros.

But still something was missing - could I get away with another set of rims, with a set of road legal track tyres of course. Yeh of course I can, but they'd need to be a bit different! Plus I had a trip to the US for work, so the obvious thing to do was to bring a set of wheels back in my luggage

Like so





They're Circle Racing wheels, 13 inch, 6 in for the front, 7 for the rear. Spun rims, so they're not too heavy, and pretty much a stock car (Nascar) style - I'd have rather had the 7 spoke design that Aero Racing make, but sadly they don't have beads so aren't suitable for the road.

Finally I also brought back one of these



Its lexan rear wing, rake adjustable. This going to be one of those try it and see things, hopefully it'll look alright! If not it was at least cheap (I wish we could get car parts here as cheap as they do in the States!) Either way I'm guessing it's a pretty rare thing in Europe which I always consider a bonus.

So, thoughts?