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Lawrence of Arabia!!

Dewgel

Buy & Sell Member
Looks like my old blog got deleted with the server crash and such, soo..

I call it Lawrence for some strange reason.. haah.

Picked this up for £250 from some kid who had it for about 5 month and never ever cleaned it.

It was in dire need of help, it stunk of petrol, had loads of stuff in it and everything was hanging off.

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After cleaning it, decided to colour code the mirrors, as for some reason they were black.
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The next thing needed was a rear bumper, as the body kit was only held on on the right hand side, so it was just hanging.. so I went and got one, which turned out to be green but none the less it was a new bumper

And my mate, who's got a great touch with spray cans sprayed the bumper.

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The next problem we were faced with was that the exhaust never actually sounded too rumbly, it just sounded daft, after putting our hands over the exhaust we noticed there was actually nothing coming out and looking under there was a massive hold where the back box starts, so I had to get a standard exhaust.

Here's the scariest bit.. we eventually got our hands on a Super S / SR bumper.. it was gold but ok. As we took the body kit ooff on the front, this is how it was held on.....

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SCARY. lol.

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Then, after deciding that the paint looked manky, we decided to respray the thing. My mate, who is great at doing this got a lend of a compressor and got to work.

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And here is how it stands now..

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With a dixie horn :-D.

Haha.

Cheers for reading peeps! I doubt it'll pass it's next MOT which is in January so probs gunna be stripping Lawrence in December / January.. so some Super S parts will be coming around then haha.
 
lookin good man! I recon you should open up the grille properly though!

I think the grill looks good as it is, but it might suit fully open, was thinkin that.

I'm thinking of getting a standard bonnet and turning it badboy, but not sure if it's worth it with the MOT being January..

The floor needs some serious welding done.. I'll take it to a garage and ask how much it needs doing for the MOT.
 
Also, where's your rear number plate light on that mate?

Ssshhhh :doh:

I know, it's actually behind the bumper at the minute cos I'm needing a new bulb for it, nothing came of it yet so..

I think that's daft though, I mean.. the plates are reflective anyway.

Silly law!

Cheers for reminding me though.
 
i like how the previous owner couldnt make up his mind whether he wanted it to look like a corsa or a punto, absolutely hideous, i will be interested in the super s bumpers,been after some for a while, thats if you strip her, would you consider selling as a whole,before mot runs out???
 
You need to have a seller account to sell on the MSC. I know you're not selling yet, but any discussion of people buying this car from you will be removed anyway.
 
You need to have a seller account to sell on the MSC. I know you're not selling yet, but any discussion of people buying this car from you will be removed anyway.

I suppose I see where you're coming from.. but like.. okay lol =\...

o_O
 
this was turning out to be a good thread,alot of banter and chat which you dont usually get, aw well i guess the "management" dont want us to be socialising, aw crap i forgot to start the sentence with a capital letter lol
 
this was turning out to be a good thread,alot of banter and chat which you dont usually get, aw well i guess the "management" dont want us to be socialising, aw crap i forgot to start the sentence with a capital letter lol

Turns out that way.

And probably by time I sell the car, I'll have a membership account, but I don't think there were any actual transactions made here or any promises, just some chatting.

I am aware of the situation you have with ruling and wouldn't be so disrespectful to ignore it, if I was to make a proper transaction on here, I would become a member / get a sellers account.

Anyway, I can't be bothered with causing any arguments so I suppose we should leave it at that..
 
half this thread is missing

You need to have a seller account to sell on the MSC. I know you're not selling yet, but any discussion of people buying this car from you will be removed anyway.

lol.


this was turning out to be a good thread,alot of banter and chat which you dont usually get, aw well i guess the "management" dont want us to be socialising, aw crap i forgot to start the sentence with a capital letter lol



You both got caught being naughty and breaking the rules, instead of saying sorry or keeping quiet you have to make a fuss, if you don't agree with the forum rules please complain to Kev.

Dewgal - a sellers account is £2.50 if you wish to sell through this site.

Micramike86 - you got caught trying to buy something off a non member so don't act like a martyr. We are not out to get everyone for silly mistakes however if you consistently breach the rules then as a moderating team we will enforce the forum rules.

Any continued moaning within this blog will result in me deleting everything and resetting the thread to one post.

Mike
 
Micramike86 - you got caught trying to buy something off a non member so don't act like a martyr. We are not out to get everyone for silly mistakes however if you consistently breach the rules then as a moderating team we will enforce the forum rules.

sorry old scone:blush:
 
And now, the car is scrap!!

Ian and Kenny were loving the underneath of it when they saw it, and we all found something out! I've had a Janspeed de-cat on all this time haha.. and the Janspeed backbox which blew when I got the thing lol.

Suprised Ian hasn't put his pics up yet :O:O Here's one I took of the udnerneath :p

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Damn thats rusty! lol Never seen one with that much rust!

That's just one of the pics mate, there's a hole where you can poke the carpet underneath the accelerate pedal, and the sills have huge cracks in them, the crossmember is so weak and rusty you can bend it with your finger.

Ian was just in a laughing fit he took some good photos mind, have to get them off him when he's on!
 
wow thats serious! you sure it wasnt parked in the north sea every night?! My rear rollbar is going the same way as that though got to get that done before next mot
 
wow thats serious! you sure it wasnt parked in the north sea every night?! My rear rollbar is going the same way as that though got to get that done before next mot

No but the previous owner had the car held up on a forklift at work while fitting the janspeed system, so I've been told.. which I strongly believe as the car is bent lol..
 
No but the previous owner had the car held up on a forklift at work while fitting the janspeed system, so I've been told.. which I strongly believe as the car is bent lol..

What a knob! For starters, hyraulic systems loose pressure so i wouldn't stand under it with out something solid holding it there!
 
ha ha i no was only wearing gloves because i would have had to drive back to mine with extreamly black hands and didnt wana ruin the inside ov my car

wont be multi coloured for long either will it steve and ian is mad if he think his car is slow
 
What colour's it going then?

Well I was thinking white, and painting all the grey bumper trims jet black, with white speedlines.. not sure at the moment though, might be keeping this one standard guys!!! Just need to paint the door the same blue the car is :laugh:

Lovely car mind, will start a blog up soon.

Been driving my old car with no exhaust, sounds beautiful :)
 
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