SouthernGT No6
- Thread starter Nick Brough
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Well the car went to the painters back in May it was planned to take 3 months, popped into see the car yesterday and it is expected to be back to me before April, so only 9 months longer than expected 
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I was starting to get a little impatient until a wise friend reminded me "As long as you get a good paint job out of them that’s what matters.
It’s the only thing you actually see when it’s done." So here are a few not very detailed pictures to show progress is being made, also show Bob and his friend (who worked for TVR in Blackpool making the moulds for production cars) discussing some of the finer points on their work so far.
.I was starting to get a little impatient until a wise friend reminded me "As long as you get a good paint job out of them that’s what matters.
It’s the only thing you actually see when it’s done." So here are a few not very detailed pictures to show progress is being made, also show Bob and his friend (who worked for TVR in Blackpool making the moulds for production cars) discussing some of the finer points on their work so far.
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It's a difficult one I'll agree. The body is not a Lee Dawson one so needed a lot of work, the clips are not in the pictures but are done. I only have a single garage that already has a car in it so having free storage over winter has been a bit of a blessing, it has also given me some time to save up to pay for it
. So it would have been nice to have had it back in September but at the moment the delay is not a disaster.
Thanks Nick although Bob (Lotus expert) and Mick (ex TVR) have done all the work. The body is a lightweight Chris Melia one, and it's not a criticism it's just different to some others so needed a lot more work to align things.
Hi Bob, thanks I never had any worries honest
should definitely be there at the next meeting if all goes according to plan, hope you are you allowed out to play again Bit of a teaser from a test of my paint (front clip insert). Linden Green seems to take the form of several shades as per the pictures attached, all I can say is my Linden Green was matched from an original sample from a creditable source, so I am sticking to that
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Looking good nick
With the car due back from the painters imminently, time to do the black boarders. I mostly followed this https://www.gt40s.com/threads/tornado-ts40-875.22724/page-11#post-233304 to do them.
