Paint
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Christines Restoration Pages
Christine's Paintjob
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In this section I will show christines paintjob finanlly finished in 2007. This section is still under construction! This pictures are already uploaded and I hope you will enjoy them... |
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1 - History & Arrival of Christine... |  |
2 - Starting Disassemble & Engine Test... | |||
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3 - First Cutting & Door repair... |  |
4 - Rocker Panel & Wheelhouse Repair... | |||
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5 - Handmade Bodystiffining & Rusty Views... |  |
6 - Shell only going to the Blaster... | |||
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7 - Primering after the Sandblasting... |  |
8 - Great handmade Workbench & first Panels going in ... | |||
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9 - Torque Box exchange & more... |  |
10 - Driver Side Floor & Torque Box Repair... | |||
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11 - Left Side & Firewall Repair |  |
12 - Left Side Front Floor | |||
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13 - Cowl Cover Vent Repair |  |
14 - Working at the left inner rocker... | |||
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15 - Dash & Tunnel Repair |  |
16 - Convertible Top bow & Quarter Repair... |
Painting under the quarter panels
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Christines Restoration Pages
Painting under the quarter panels
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Another hard part of the body restoration is waiting here for you! The inner rocker and also the lower part of the a-pillar has to come out. To make it looking better I show how christine is looking with one original and one NOS fender again. If you have questions about that don't hesitate to ask me. After finishing the body section there will be five more sections you could follow in the future. There will be a Paint , Body and Interior reassembling, Electric and a Power train section. |
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Old front floor LH already out
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Sometimes those repro panels are fitting fine
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Final measuring before welding
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What ever it is???
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Inner rocker completly out
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A-pillar taken out
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Cowl panel clamped back again to check
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Firewall extension going in
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Left torque box mostly out
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Inside view everything primered again
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Easy working without the inner rocker panel
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Just see the numerous factory spotwelds to the torque box
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Rambos Crashrepair
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This is part one of Rambo's story. After starting the restoration on christine I found that passengers doors was too much rusted, to try an repair. When aksing my friend Walter for a usable door he told me that he have one, but that it's still attached to an crashed body. When I saw rambo the first time I was impressed on the good overall condition. This car should normally only be a door for Christine. The car was involved in a heavy crash with a VW Golf (btw: the Volkswagen don't overlive that!). The car was offered than as a parts car for the pricely sum of around $2700. When I saw him the first, I directly want this car, mainly to get this already rebuild and very strong engine. But when my girlfriend saw rambo she loved the car from the first moment. Also I told that it isn't possible to hold two mustangs she said "Please give him a chance, don't butcher him!". After a long search I found the right workbench to get the banana out...
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Centerfold Star in 1987
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Rambo in 1995
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Inside 1995
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The door after I pulled it out
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Rambo after crash
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The seat out of direction...
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Stripped at airbase Bitburg
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After cutting the door with a grinder...
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Parts rescued out of the damaged door
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This was the most damaged area
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Body straight again!
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Four wheel Disc's is a nice option
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This is a new NPD fender and door...
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The banana look is gone...
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Welding started with the floor pan LH...
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A-pillar cut out - A lot of spot welds
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A new rocker panel would look great
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Engine bay in 2000
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That's one of three!!! complete build sheets
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Rambo's Dataplate
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T5 Plate Ford Cologne
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body parts together again and ready for welding
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door reassembled to check proper fit of body
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finished welding and starting paint prep
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damage on roof repaired
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testing GT pipes but too small
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Closed all holes not needed for GT conversion
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Quarter panels welded
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Zebra look before Painting
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Finished Preperation
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After painting passenger side
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After painting driver side
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Fixing GT- Stipes to Body
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GT-Conversion complete
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Interior reassembled
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Enginebay nearly finished
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Primering after the Sandblasting
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Christines Restoration Pages
Primering after the Sandblasting
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After finishing the Sandblasting I took the rest (still some there!) of the car, for a complete primering job. This is neccessary to prevent the bare metal getting rusty again. After that we took a closer look to see the result of the blast. The good news was that I now have a 100% rustfree car. The bad news were, that we discovered several new holes which need replacement. Both Torque-boxes, the inner rocker were shot and also the floors and the firewall didn't look as good as before. I needed one weeks to get over this hill, before I felt my emergy for this rustoration comes back. Then I took my parts catalog to do some additional orders. |
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Damage from older accident
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Large handcut hole in the Firewall
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Torque box botton
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Torque box sideview
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Firewall extension and more
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Final Result - Frontview
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Rear Floorpan View
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Radiocutout and Ingnition Switch
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Rear Frame Patch Area
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Convertible Top Area
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Rear Torque box area
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Rear Floor pan View
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Replacing Convertible Top frame
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Replacing Convertible Top frame
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Another hard part of the body restoration is waiting here for you! The inner rocker and also the lower part of the a-pillar has to come out. To make it looking better I show how christine is looking with one original and one NOS fender again. If you have questions about that don't hesitate to ask me. After finishing the body section there will be five more sections you could follow in the future. There will be a Paint , Body and Interior reassembling, Electric and a Power train section. |
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Back to Overview Bodywork | Previous Page | Next Page
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Old front floor LH already out
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Sometimes those repro panels are fitting fine
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Final measuring before welding
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What ever it is???
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Inner rocker completly out
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A-pillar taken out
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Cowl panel clamped back again to check
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Firewall extension going in
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Left torque box mostly out
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Inside view everything primered again
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Easy working without the inner rocker panel
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Just see the numerous factory spotwelds to the torque box
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