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27 minutes ago, soldave said:

I looked at that paint can and thought it might have been citrus white and not cirrus! Really good to see you making progress :)

Thanks Dave

😂 It's definately down as Cirrus white in the Lotus paint codes. My paint guy says when you tint raptor it tends to come out a shade darker than when it's sprayed on as normal paint.  Really need to see it in proper daylight. And soon!

  Why can't the DVLA put proper paint names on the V5s instead of saying it's "white".  Would make life a whole lot easier...

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Paint pt?

Well it has been an interesting few weeks.

I contacted Andy Graham at Lotus to see if he could tell me when Monaco white first appeared as a customer option, his reply was really interesting "the colour charts show Monaco White replaced Cirrus White in late 1973, and Monaco White is the colour recorded as one of the colour options for the Elite."

So Monaco white replaced Cirrus white as a Lotus option a good 6 months before the car was launched and as such, as Andy has said, "it is highly unlikely that it would have been a colour option at the launch of the Elite.  I should have listened to what Mr Evans (original owner) has always said "The car was an Ice white"

Soooo, it has been re-Raptor'd with Monaco white, and very nice it looks to.  Re-doing it has its benefits, it now has an extra coating underneath which adds to the protection and sound deadening.

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Now the underneath is done the next job is to tackle all the little repairs topside.

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Fibreglass on the inside first

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With tape backing

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Then fibreglass on the outside

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Then cut, shape.....

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and another on bites the dust, another one bites the dust and another one's gone, another one's gone, another one bites the dust, Hey!....I'll get my coat.

 

 

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21 hours ago, Trunnion 74 said:

Fibreglass on the inside first

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With tape backing

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Then fibreglass on the outside

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Then cut, shape.....

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and another on bites the dust, another one bites the dust and another one's gone, another one's gone, another one bites the dust, Hey!....I'll get my coat.

 

 

Ensure the area's well ventilated when working with fibreglass otherwise it'll go to your head and you'll start singing .. oh, too late.

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56 minutes ago, Denis247 said:

Ensure the area's well ventilated when working with fibreglass otherwise it'll go to your head and you'll start singing .. oh, too late.

😂😂 thanks Denis. 

The area is well venttilated and I do wear a very good 3M mask, can't smell a thing.

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I know that repair. Top of the door on the inside, end that meets to the B post. Very weak spot.

I made an alloy plate to rivet on the inside, then blended the outside with filler. It's a neatish job, but hidden behind the door trim in any case.

Tony

 

 

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Getting there.  Still a bit more to do

Some prep work on the doors. Skim of filler to get out the lumps and bumps and then blocking 1st with 80 then 180 grit until they were silky smooth

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They're such a laff at the workshop...

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All done.  One more job ticked off.

 

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On 31/03/2023 at 09:45, EXCEL V8 said:

Had that bit come unstuck or did you remove it to do other work in that area?

Pete

Hi Pete,

It had started to come away the original boning was no longer any good so I decided that it needed taking off and re-bonding.

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More repair work.  This time to the centre console and the front air dam.

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I got the air dam off eeebay, had to rebiuld both the side edges  as there were bits missing.  Took quite a bit of rebiulding but pleased with the result

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The bottom of the centre console was fractured at the centre and one side.  New fibreglass was added and I decided afterwards to reinforce the area so I added some......

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lightness!  Some Mecanno come in really handy, just the job. There was also a large area on the back wall of the glovebox that had been cut out (you can just see it in the first phoyo) that was missing  and need fresh fibreglass and some reinforcement.  I've also done some repair work on the rear window surround and reinforced the area where the courtesy light goes with a couple of strips of Meccano as well.

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On to the next job...

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4 hours ago, EXCEL V8 said:

There must be £50 worth of old Meccano there!  You could have auctioned it on fleabay 😁.

Pete

😂😂😂  I did actually get them off fleabay and they're not as expensive as you might think 😉

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