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Debadging/dewipering:

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Close up of delocked boot handle:

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Relocated button and lock:

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Polished door handle bowels removed / chrome fuel filler flap replaced with Met Grey one

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CL grill badge and single spot lamp removed from front

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So far this year:

- Roof rack removed

- Spot lamp removed

- CL grill badge removed

- Rear quarter window stickers removed

- Polished door handle bowels removed

- Chrome fuel filler flap removed and Met Grey one refitted

- Final filling and sanding completed on rear boot plynth

- 'POLO' badge holes filled and sanded

- Wiper hole plated underneath with plastic plates glued on

Next:

- Wiper bulge ground, fibreglassed and filled and painted.

- Badge holes painted

- Delocked rear plynth primed and painted satin black

- CL calipers and 5mm front spacers instead of 10mm

- 8x13 ATS Classic at the rear

- 5 deg camber blocks

- New windscreen

- Engine bay deleting/cleaning/tidying/painting/polishing and laquering

- Polished and depiped G40 rocker cover

- Washer jets, mirror shells, boot spolier, boot handle, front grille and wheel arch spats all painted satin black

- Half colour coded bumper with satin black tops and smoothed toe eye covers

Gonna keep it oldskool but minimalist oldskool :-D

- Jimmy B

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Plans sound good mate, keep us updated!

So far this year:

- Roof rack removed

- Spot lamp removed

- CL grill badge removed

- Chrome fuel filler flap removed and Met Grey one refitted

:thumbsup:

Back on track! ;)

You'd be better off welding up the wiper hole though if you want it done properly.

Sweeeeet :nod: Keep us updated :thumbsup:

Sounds good. More pics please.

Nice to see it progressing! :)

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Back on track! ;)

You'd be better off welding up the wiper hole though if you want it done properly.

Yeah, your probably right. I'll give this a whirl first - you never know it might hold with the fibreglass and plastic plates superglued in place, we'll have to wait see how it turns out!

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Could fibreglass underneath too just to reinforce!

what do you mean by the 5 deg camber blocks?

5 degrees sounds abit mental to me.....?

plans sound good though :thumbsup:

Something like this, I reckon:

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yeah 5 degs is pretty insane but it should look phat, I am still undecided though, especially with 150bhp running through the front end lols

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