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Paint Stripping the MK1 Polo

Spent most of Saturday paint stripping the Polo panels its hard boring work but its got to be done and once we got into it when it started getting dark at 4.30pm we didn’t really want to stop.

The horrid purple paint is comming off quite easy and once we have it all off were going to sand the rest of the body work back to the metal so that the body shop have as little prep work to carry out as possible, this will save us quite a bit of money we hope.

Mark did say yesterday if money was no object he’d say “Sod it let the body shop do th lot lol” if only!

Next week if the weathers with us we recon we can break the back of the sanding the advantage of the MK1 Polo is it being so small.

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