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Guess it was Mystic Blue then. All I know it was a very dark colour, looked black, and had a Storm badge on the rear! I've an Aqua Blur VR. Actually live outside Yeovil so not often in town with it other than the odd occasion driving to work (such as today), not really much fun though... apart from the Tesco bypass! I'll have a lookout for you, whereabouts in Yeovil are you generally?

My first spot! :grin: Saw a tidy black Storm :salute: in Yeovil at 1.55pm cruising past the library on wednesday. Just caught myself before I waved as I wasn't in my Corrado and that may have seemed a bit wierd...!

Thanks mate! I managed to convince myself I couldn't make it any worse! Although shortly after the first picture I was wondering what the hell I had done...no choice then but to plough on! :lol: Really pleased with the the finish (have surprised myself!) and has started giving me naughty thoughts of going over the whole car with the buffer... :norty:

Cheers fella! I nabbed it from my Dad's garage, along with the drill and rubbing compound! :grin: It's pretty ancient...the draw strings is unravelling. Not so much help for you though, sorry!

Not been doing a great deal with it recently, mostly due to funds, or lack thereof, so just trying to do a few touching up jobs. Got the handbreak and gear lever surrounds out and gave it a good clean under there, and then been sorting on of the 'bad' bits on it. Basically on the legside door I had some laquer peeling off. It has had a respray at some point in its past, and my guess is they didn't do a great job on the prep. :nono: Anyway i thought I'd give it a go myself, try and get it half decent in the interim and figured if I cock it up it has to go the body shop anyway, so I've not really lost!Thought I'd document progress with a few pics! Bad bits. The tools. 400, 600, 2000 wet and dry and some ancient Woolworths rubbing compound! :lol: Start rubbing down the old stuff with the wet and dry Spray a thin coat of laquer to try and give the paint a bit more protection from the sanding More rubbing. Then after some more new laquer and rubbing: Done! Skipped a few steps there, obviously. Gave it a good buff up with the buffer and the finish has come up better than the rest of the car! It's by no means perfect, am unsure whether to spend more time on it getting it absolutely flat, if you get close you can see slight ripples were the patches were, or to just leave it in case it turns into a forever job :nuts:

Saw this at Volksfest, congrats on your win, well deserved! Very smooth.

Good to hear your rebuild is almost done! Not sure I could tackle a full rebuild, but it's nice to know there are those out there who can and do, and keep the cars going. Look forward to seeing pics of it when it's complete! :) More Pictures!:

Admittedly you can't see much of the car!

Cheers mate! Would have more pics up but it's refusing to accept they are less than 800 pixels wide when they are under 700, :bad-words: so I'm gonna leave that for a bit until it sorts itself out!

It's taken my a while but finally posting pics of my 'Rado! Some on here might recognise it as Walesy's old one, and that would be because i bought it off him! cheers Walesy! :salute: Absolutely loving it at the moment, the way it drives, the sound if you give it the beans, not to mention the beans themselves, the little spoiler that pops up, jut sitting in it, but most of all is the constant looking back at it when you've parked it 'cos it looks spot on and then thinking "that's mine" :D It instantly puts a smile on my face when i come home and see it sat on my drive, no matter what my mood. Very much standard at the moment, other than the Lupo wipers and I intend to keep it that way really, only doing essential improvement upgrades! The only thing that does tempt me is lowering a tad, as it often looks a bit high, and I love them when they look squat and hunkered down....but I'm not sure how that would affect the ride, don't want it rock hard so it shakes the interior apart! So that's something for way down the line. For now I am just having a good interior tidy up, getting trim out and cleaning the dirt that's built up. Next move is to give the leather a good seeingto with one of those Furniture Clinic kits. Anyway, pictures:

(well last night) Swapped my vent flap bowden cables over. They were clipped to the wrong levers! Was wondering why I wasn't getting any air to the footwell vents! Easily done mind you, even after I took them off I still managed to put them back on the same way... But it's all gravy; no cold feet for me this summer! :D Took me a while to figure out what the problem was initially, as everything was in working order; it's alright though, I enjoy lying on my back, upside down, with my fingers in some flaps... At the same time I also managed to familiarise myself with the exceptional build and design quality of the Corrado dash. My highlights so far are the small tray in front of the fuses on the drivers side, and cig lighter mounting, which as far as i can see is only held in by magic... :lol:

Perhaps he moved and couldn't get a parking permit at his new gaff... Nice car though, looks fabulous and a tad unhinged!

Can't argue with that! God knows how long it took him to get that good...