Project Panda
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 11:04 pm
Thought it was about time i started my own project log. Your going to have to bear with me with this as it's ongoing and not going to be finished until i get a full time job and my own house (room for doing the 2.0ltr calibra turbo conversion).
I bought my corsa almost 5 years ago, cost me £1800 it's a V reg and at the time had around 36000 miles on the clocks. I bought this around a month before i passed my test but didn't drive it until two months after i passed (due to holidays etc!) It is a 1.0ltr Envoy so bottom of the range as simple as you can get!
Unfortunatly i have only recently started taking pictures of what i have done/doing so i'll try my best with the pictures etc to make them flow and show the work.
Although this picture isn't of my car this is what mine looked like (with exception mine had just the steel wheels). Dan it's white so you'll like it!
It had been in an accident on the front drivers side (bit like adam's) but had been fixed! (Although i've since found out not brilliantly)!!
As you can see the car had black plastic bumpers, steel wheels and the interior (well what do i say!!)
One of the first things changed was the stereo as it didn't work. So i got a cheap one from makro (a Goodmans)
I then set about tidying the car up as the paint work was dull etc. Once i was happy with this i then set about looking for a set of colour coded bumpers to improve the car's looks. Like most of the other parts i have had they happened to be Red. So after rubbing them both down priming and painting the car's looks had changed for the better.
Not long after this i went into work for my shift (Halfords) where i was offered a set of Lexus lights (Now i know most of you will say Nooooooooo!!!!!, but for £8.50 you can't complain and they will soon complement the rest of the car!)
I was pleased with the way the car was starting to look, but with the colour coded bumpers and lexus lights the back looked like it was missing something. after searching every scrapyard for 3months i eventually found one that had a spoiler in. They wanted £35 for it so i snapped that up. The spoiler was black and upon bringing it home both my dad and i agreed leaving it black would be different and would look good against the white. This is what it looked like with the bumper, lexus lights and spoiler, (at this point ignore the tints, wheels, aerial, exhaust and the fact the arches are missing! )
Next up was the interior. That had to go.
I found an interior that i thought went well with the theme of my car from a 1.2 corsa. This cost me £90 from the scrapyard for the black carpet, all the black plastic panels, all door cards and the seats. They were disgusting when i took them out! (They looked like the car had been on a farm with the ducks living in it!) Once home a can or two of Auto Glym Interior Foam soon sorted them. They came up a treat.
The car looked so much better with a black interior.
Next were the alloys! I managed to get a set of multistud 15" ripspeed wheels from work for something like £150 with tyres!
This finished off the cars looks for the first year.
I bought my corsa almost 5 years ago, cost me £1800 it's a V reg and at the time had around 36000 miles on the clocks. I bought this around a month before i passed my test but didn't drive it until two months after i passed (due to holidays etc!) It is a 1.0ltr Envoy so bottom of the range as simple as you can get!
Unfortunatly i have only recently started taking pictures of what i have done/doing so i'll try my best with the pictures etc to make them flow and show the work.
Although this picture isn't of my car this is what mine looked like (with exception mine had just the steel wheels). Dan it's white so you'll like it!
It had been in an accident on the front drivers side (bit like adam's) but had been fixed! (Although i've since found out not brilliantly)!!
As you can see the car had black plastic bumpers, steel wheels and the interior (well what do i say!!)
One of the first things changed was the stereo as it didn't work. So i got a cheap one from makro (a Goodmans)
I then set about tidying the car up as the paint work was dull etc. Once i was happy with this i then set about looking for a set of colour coded bumpers to improve the car's looks. Like most of the other parts i have had they happened to be Red. So after rubbing them both down priming and painting the car's looks had changed for the better.
Not long after this i went into work for my shift (Halfords) where i was offered a set of Lexus lights (Now i know most of you will say Nooooooooo!!!!!, but for £8.50 you can't complain and they will soon complement the rest of the car!)
I was pleased with the way the car was starting to look, but with the colour coded bumpers and lexus lights the back looked like it was missing something. after searching every scrapyard for 3months i eventually found one that had a spoiler in. They wanted £35 for it so i snapped that up. The spoiler was black and upon bringing it home both my dad and i agreed leaving it black would be different and would look good against the white. This is what it looked like with the bumper, lexus lights and spoiler, (at this point ignore the tints, wheels, aerial, exhaust and the fact the arches are missing!
)Next up was the interior. That had to go.
I found an interior that i thought went well with the theme of my car from a 1.2 corsa. This cost me £90 from the scrapyard for the black carpet, all the black plastic panels, all door cards and the seats. They were disgusting when i took them out! (They looked like the car had been on a farm with the ducks living in it!) Once home a can or two of Auto Glym Interior Foam soon sorted them. They came up a treat.
The car looked so much better with a black interior.
Next were the alloys! I managed to get a set of multistud 15" ripspeed wheels from work for something like £150 with tyres!
This finished off the cars looks for the first year.
Not the best of pics of the dials.
) and guess what colour it was!! 
This was during the time when the sun was out and temperature was between 30-35 and one day got as hot as 37! All this and i could open the windows! 
). Instead of buying just the tyres i found a set of 15" ripspeed wheels that were hidden at the back of the warehouse at work. They were a couple of years old so go them for a bargin price of £85! The idea was to have the tyres taken off but in the end i just put these on the car for a bit!
