billybunters - from a bmw z4 to a mx5 se

Gladiator · Postby **Gladiator** » Tue Aug 29, 2017 8:55 pm

I'm sitting here reading this with my mouth agape!!

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KevGoat · Postby **KevGoat** » Tue Aug 29, 2017 9:07 pm

Gladiator wrote:I'm sitting here reading this with my mouth agape!!

Nothing BB does shocks me anymore :roll:

billybunter · Postby **billybunter** » Tue Aug 29, 2017 9:54 pm

well I suppose...it has been coming for several months now. :lol:

but I don't think I will be laughing too much while I am rubbing out that paint :shock:

93_Clubman · Postby **93_Clubman** » Wed Aug 30, 2017 11:34 am

BB, sounds like your back has improved - hopefully you can spend more time painting it white this time.

ManiacLachy · Postby **ManiacLachy** » Wed Aug 30, 2017 12:13 pm

This isn't a car, its a canvas. billybunter is Rob Ross.

billybunter · Postby **billybunter** » Wed Aug 30, 2017 3:34 pm

I was only thinking this over today-while looking inside the door jams you'd have to be a real idiot to destroy a paint job as good as this one and it appears.... I am that idiot! :lol:

back problem is still there so I will have to take this one carefully or it could end up a basket case :shock:

red was probably not going to be a stayer anyway. back 10 years ago I bought a red na from Sydney and paint it yellow :lol:

bruce · Postby **bruce** » Wed Aug 30, 2017 3:52 pm

Should have left it originally white and then put the red paint on my car!

billybunter · Postby **billybunter** » Wed Aug 30, 2017 4:42 pm

when I get it rubbed back and that will take some time mainly because who put the paint on did it properly :lol:

and I can't water blast it off - I will decide if I should go all out and bring out the angle grinder :shock:

93_Clubman · Postby **93_Clubman** » Wed Aug 30, 2017 5:02 pm

billybunter wrote:I will have to take this one carefully

Not completely a bad thing, as that should help duplicating the quality finish you achieved with the red paint job.

billybunter · Postby **billybunter** » Wed Aug 30, 2017 5:27 pm

just using the wet rub180 grit its pretty hard work on the cut back, I might go buy some 120 and see how that goes. might be good to score up the surface a bit so I can get through the paint :lol:

the go 240 and higher later

the flared in the above photo are not mine -just something I thought about adding if I went back to a re=spray. but it would involve cutting both front and rear guards to add then, plus a bit of drilling too

i'd also have to consider I would not go any bigger than the 15" wheels for ride quality but would go wider wheels. but DEFINATELY would no lower it in any way as i had enough of being in a tip dray in that crappy LOTUS :lol:

Daffy · Postby **Daffy** » Wed Aug 30, 2017 5:30 pm

ManiacLachy wrote:This isn't a car, its a canvas. billybunter is Rob Ross.

BillyB......... you got to get this squared off mate- you dont want to end up like this!!!!!! :lol:

billybunter · Postby **billybunter** » Wed Aug 30, 2017 8:14 pm

bit of a stripe removal day and a rub down too

KevGoat · Postby **KevGoat** » Wed Aug 30, 2017 10:38 pm

billybunter wrote:the flared in the above photo are not mine -just something I thought about adding if I went back to a re=spray. but it would involve cutting both front and rear guards to add then, plus a bit of drilling too

Looks like back to re-spray from the rub down so far. Those flares are a point of no return mod, so definitely require a lot of thought and a plan of where the car's heading before committing.