Re: my road rally mk2
Its been a while since I updated this (again) and quite a bit has happened.
Firstly after the wedding the mk2 went in to storage at a friends barn as id promised him id rebuild his MK1 Toyota MR2 that he’d been gifted. It needed quite a bit of work so in September I took the mk2 to his and brought the MR2 back to my workshop.
It was mostly complete but they like to rust and he wanted it fully rebuilt and resprayed all rust sorting and a few upgrades to make it suitable for historic road rallying. This included fitting spotlights and wiring, sumpguard and a tripmeter.
After about 5 months of work in my spare time the car was running and mostly back together. Then I had to get back on with spraying it.
I had never painted a full car before so I told my friend he could pay for the paint and I wouldn’t charge him for the labour to paint it. It was a good experience learning how to paint a full car and it came out quite well. Not perfect but with a good amount of cutting and polishing it is presentable.
After that was done I also got distracted by buying a van to convert into a camper. Not only would this be nice for me the wife and dog to go away it would also mean travelling to events would be a bit nicer and I would hopefully not have to pay for accommodation.
I have also been busy helping run another friends mk2 in the British historic rally championship all year and also another Vauxhall powered mk2 in the northern tarmac championship.
So all that with normal life and a full time job on top of it meant the poor mk2 hasn’t been touched all year. Until august……
Its been a while since I updated this (again) and quite a bit has happened.
Firstly after the wedding the mk2 went in to storage at a friends barn as id promised him id rebuild his MK1 Toyota MR2 that he’d been gifted. It needed quite a bit of work so in September I took the mk2 to his and brought the MR2 back to my workshop.
It was mostly complete but they like to rust and he wanted it fully rebuilt and resprayed all rust sorting and a few upgrades to make it suitable for historic road rallying. This included fitting spotlights and wiring, sumpguard and a tripmeter.
After about 5 months of work in my spare time the car was running and mostly back together. Then I had to get back on with spraying it.
I had never painted a full car before so I told my friend he could pay for the paint and I wouldn’t charge him for the labour to paint it. It was a good experience learning how to paint a full car and it came out quite well. Not perfect but with a good amount of cutting and polishing it is presentable.
After that was done I also got distracted by buying a van to convert into a camper. Not only would this be nice for me the wife and dog to go away it would also mean travelling to events would be a bit nicer and I would hopefully not have to pay for accommodation.
I have also been busy helping run another friends mk2 in the British historic rally championship all year and also another Vauxhall powered mk2 in the northern tarmac championship.
So all that with normal life and a full time job on top of it meant the poor mk2 hasn’t been touched all year. Until august……
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