Guido the Fiat

[nathan126]

Great news! 

[Pete126]

Looking good Gordan [-/ a little bit of paint and Guido will be as good as new

[Gordan]

Well hes done, ok has been for 2 days but couldnt find the damn usb cable for my camera, it all turned out well, a few dents above the indicator are noticable form close-up, but otherwhise its cool. only bad thing is that square of new paint on the bonnet, which soo stands out from the rest of it... 
 

[Pete126]

It certainly looks better than it was, if you gently go round the edge of the square with some wet and dry 1200grit paper until its at the same level then T-Cut the hole bonnet and finish off with a good polish it should look better and hardly noticeable [-/

[Gordan]

will do, its either that or re-spraying the whole bonnet, which doesnt sound all that bad actually...

[Gordan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1WzQs9R9D0&feature=channel_page
 

[1973/126]

 Nice one Gordan. Like all the gadgets [-/...

[Gordan]

  im just waiting for a short circuit...

[stuey]

nice to see Guido back in the running gordan- hopefully alan will join the ranks of the running cars in a week or so but this is a good mojo boost to see!!! 

[Gordan]

Well i had a free day today and decided to do something ive been postponing for a while - drop the tank, fuel tank that is. i had no idea its such a pain to remove one of these, but its out now, and i have a feeling its going to be a even bigger pain to put back. anyways i got a new f. level indicator cos the old one wasnt doing its job:



the tank was washed (water, a lot of it, hope it wont rust  ) and i painted it in Hammerite Red (now that i got a can of hammerite, i just cant stop painting... ) ill post a pic of that tommorow, when its nice and dry...

[Gordan]

Well as i said before, i got tired of the stock carpets so i decided to do something about it, went out and bought a standard black carpet for houses etc. the main problem was that the orig carpets were not completely flat, so what i did was put them under some bricks to flatten them, then draw the outlines on the new carpet and snip-snip-snip and done! i really didnt think id be able to do it, but i did it and here are the pics....
  

p.s. notice the attention to details in the cocpit, like the black-red ambi pur fragrancer, or the black-red chewing gum container near the gearshift... 

[Eklipze3k]

You've even colour coded your handbrake lever!! No ... wait ... 

[Gordan]

Haha... i prefer not painting parts that are used often, the paint usually just falls off..

[Eklipze3k]

Hehehe

In all seriousness though that looks great, something I'd love to try but am sure I would get hideously wrong and end up hating 

[Gordan]

thx, the point is it was ridiculously easy, just draw and cut, i myself had no previous experience with this stuff, and it turned up great! and cheap...