Joline: I'm pretty sure you'll hate this..

[Purre Corsa BaBy]

awesome! but ye i agree on the mirror thing i just wish i had the balls to go rat look wouldnt know where to begin really

[Redditch]

Cheers for the comments guys, glad you like 'em. If I'm honest with you, the old mirrors were cool, but would look entirely out of place with the 50's work ongoing. I know its rat, but I like it to look the piece too

To begin: take a good long look ar rat-rods, and the aircooled vdub scene. I know people can stick what they like on the car, spray random things on it, make it look silly and call it rat, but it just isn't imo. To me theres rat-look (following in the rat rods and aircooled shoes) and shat-look (sticking a ton of hazzard tape to it, yellow lights, random patches of paint, etc)

[Redditch]

Yeah, lots have happened since



























Then this happened..


You can see the nail to the right


Wider at the left side rear


And so for now I'm rolling with alloys on the front and steel on the rear..

[rems]

looks awsome dude

[PRICER]

you going to have that ment? because its in the centre it should be easier to fix, should only cost at most £20 id have thought.

[Redditch]

Cheers rems!
got some unintentional rust coming through on the bonnet where a gritter got it... I'll be sorting that asap before it spreads to the scallop

I wont be fixing the tyre, sell them on to a mate or something, the steels I bought for the car anyway, wider and more 50's than the cav/astra alloys

[Redditch]

In comparison:


And this is how I left the arches the other day.. 10:30 am and about time to hit things with a hammer.




Pro tools!



stop, hammer time..


Loads better, and clearance isn't an issue now thankfully. The camera ran out of batteries but there were some rust holes I prepped, filled, and sanded before applying hammerite over both arches to stop any further damage.

And when the camera was back on we were left with this





inbetween paint, filler and fibreglass drying I had time to vaccum the inside, wash the plastics, get rid of a load of crap drawing some one did on my dash way back and these bits and bobs:

This was held by some string, time to make a catch (my pov spec model never had a door for the glove compartment so I made one out of a bit of alu a while back:



I also never had a clock, so some fake aging and mirror fixing tape =



In case of emergencies:


Time started 10:00am, finnished about 5:30.. a good day at work then

[tychogsi]

banded steelies look nice:)

[nath2905]

thats awsome mate , you doin the front too?

[Ditch]

Ta much both!
Nah the front will stay thin, personally a fan of the RWD stance it has (not suprising since I love old hot rods haha)

Should be getting a decent steering wheel soon, and giving the wheels a new colour if all goes good.

Edit:
Well this appears awkward, firefox was having a fit when I tried to post from my original account so had to make this one to post? if all goes well I should be back to my original account next post, even though I go under this name in practically every other forum. Peace, and sorry to the mess!

[Redditch]

And for some reason I ate this, the worst combo of burgers my freinds could put together...


For those that may still be interested , I fitted a new part today, thanks to my mate Alex for posting it out so soon

[nath2905]

looks mint as always, also i had the same problem with my old account, if u see my project is under 'VXR2008'

[hicks_22]

loving the camber on the rear wheels looks awesome mate

[thegreenmachine]

unreal that mate

[Grant26]

siticking out, looks good!