A Street Sleeper is reborn! THE END

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very good thread, cant believe u done all that from end of May to now!!! I have a reshell on a saxo to do but the replacement shell is rotten round engine bay so thinking of scrapping it and finding a better one instead of welding it up. I got mine on 20th of May and took the engine and box out for conversion, and that's it. Yours is stripped swopped and back on road already!!! Mines just sitting there waiting. Where does the time go....... And yes summer evenings are great for this kinda job!!!!

what you saw here, it took me years to do with the red one, due to parts, bum info and set backs! (which eat into budget and time)
now I don't have anything like that, just a perfected setup with a few upgrades, Also I can correct where I went wrong, and push some more upgrades to this car.
so if you have the bits already and you know your away around the car, your away!
mind fella, I took two weeks off work and was at it every day!
I put some long hours into it mind!
sometimes your better off reshelling rather than welding, it gets to the point where you have to say. I am better off just swopping it over and going from there.
this shell as saved me nearly 1000 quid as the old one needed that sadly to even get it into this sort of condition!
get a thread up on your rebuild as I love things like this, as I really have enjoyed doing this! I loved it with the red one, but not the bum info lol.

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done a bit today, mainly starting to bin some of the old metro bits, that are not needed now.
Also I put on my light covers, which are a rare find for metros now! I wanted a set for the old one, i couldn't get hold of any, but managed to find some for this car straight away! so today, i have put those on the car.




you can just make them out,

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i was going to get our gareth on here to spray some bits of trim off the gta, mum offered to spray my bits of interior, as she was doing some for the landy.
so i let her have a go.

here are the bits that i kept from the old metro,


the two parcel shelf supports were kept due to the ones on this car been damaged,
( i did have plans to paint these to match the black parcel shelf)

during the painting process, satin black.








my metal handles to replace the plastic ones, ( these are from a mk1 metro)


now this idea i did like on the HDI, so it was copied over,

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then the installation of the parts and red seat belts,
old




during




also i ran some seam sealer too, in a few areas, As this car has been repaired in the past, but they sorted the out side, but didn't bother sorting out inside, so i seam sealed their repair to the seatbelt mount and round the boot corners, to keep this car solid.
no photos of that, as i had to remove photos from my phone at the time.

while that was sealant was setting, i switched over to the front of the car.
before trim




after,







the finished boot, and red belts.







just got the front ones to fit, mind i have to say, having a car that has the proper bolts and seeing how it all goes together, really helps! As the 1st one was stripped at the rear! and i have miss matching bolts sadly. So i managed to do the job better, Using the bolts from this car!
So another step forwards!
the interior mods look well mint!! the side panels that were cream, look much better black, my mum wasn't sure at 1st until she saw and said yeah that's miles better that!
plus it goes the blue too, i do have a red in the fabric so the red seat belts will go nice with that, plus another rare feature to add to the car as well.
also you may have clocked i got shot for the shitty inner arch panels interior
it looked like this remember,


to this


much more neater if you ask me and the later stuff is better quality!
I am going to sort out a better boot carpet, as this one is knackered, thanks to my dad!
he put oily bits in the boot when it was in the gta! ****ed the old parcel shelf and knackered the carpet, i could have kicked his head for that!!
but anyway that's now dead with the old car, and has been well warned about this car!!