Posted by dubqnp on June 7th, 2010 |
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Well the sanding is completed. Were just waiting for our body shop to come over and show us where they want the pannels cut for the new ones to go on.
We’ve started to clean the ziebart off the engine bay so that we can cut the rear tray out and smooth it all ready for [...]
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Posted by dubqnp on March 9th, 2010 |
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Well with the weather as good as it was over the weekend I cracked on with the sanding. The roof is now down to the metal and this now leaves us with the bonnet, drivers side, tail gate and one door to sand. The it’s the engine bay were going to clean it all out [...]
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Posted by dubqnp on November 9th, 2009 |
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Well the metal!
We’ve spent another six hours stripping and sanding the MK1 Polo and it’s starting to show progress. We have decided to take the outer shell back to the metal so that it can have a proper job done on the respray and we can makes sure that there is no underlying rust issues. [...]
1977 . mk1 polo . MK1 Project . polo . polo mk1 . rotton . sanding . stripping . volkswagen . vw
Posted by dubqnp on November 1st, 2009 |
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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 [...]
body shop . mk1 polo . paint stripping . polo . prep work . respray . sanding . vw volkswagen