Fire in the hole!
Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 10:30 pm
Hello everybody!
I'm Nandi from Hungary, working on two projects in parallel:
- fully restoring a 1st Gen. Prelude
- relocating to the UK.
Based on these two things I thought I'd join you guys. I checked out a few of your cars and I can see that there are some proper Luders amongst of you which is great!
My little 1981 1.6 manual Prelude is now in bits and pieces, the bodyworks has been sandblasted to the bare metal, all the missing parts of the panels and the underside have all been carefully remade by hand as there are virtually no replacement body parts are available here. I also have a 1979 Lude acting as a donor car but its body is beyond repair, unfortunately. So the '81 has been repainted to its origial colour (turned out to be a little brighter than expected, but looks pretty none tho'), the original alloy rims were also sandblasted and painted with the outer edges polished, just like on the original cars. All the inside bits have been cleaned and prepared for re-assembly, new seat upholsterly is on the way, the only thing causing a bitta' headache is the beige carpet looking really bad and making a new one is not that simple.
The moving bits are pretty much o.k., the car had been in a daily use before I bought it, although some things need attention once the it will be up and running to reveal issues properly.
I will start a thread about the rebuild later on, I only have maybe 2-3 pics of the car in total, on two different computers which are now out of use. I'll dig those out later.
Oh, and while I'm at it:
Does this one:
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/ ... ?logcode=p
or this one:
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/ ... ?logcode=p
...look familiar to any of you?
Ta!
Nandi
I'm Nandi from Hungary, working on two projects in parallel:
- fully restoring a 1st Gen. Prelude
- relocating to the UK.
Based on these two things I thought I'd join you guys. I checked out a few of your cars and I can see that there are some proper Luders amongst of you which is great!
My little 1981 1.6 manual Prelude is now in bits and pieces, the bodyworks has been sandblasted to the bare metal, all the missing parts of the panels and the underside have all been carefully remade by hand as there are virtually no replacement body parts are available here. I also have a 1979 Lude acting as a donor car but its body is beyond repair, unfortunately. So the '81 has been repainted to its origial colour (turned out to be a little brighter than expected, but looks pretty none tho'), the original alloy rims were also sandblasted and painted with the outer edges polished, just like on the original cars. All the inside bits have been cleaned and prepared for re-assembly, new seat upholsterly is on the way, the only thing causing a bitta' headache is the beige carpet looking really bad and making a new one is not that simple.
The moving bits are pretty much o.k., the car had been in a daily use before I bought it, although some things need attention once the it will be up and running to reveal issues properly.
I will start a thread about the rebuild later on, I only have maybe 2-3 pics of the car in total, on two different computers which are now out of use. I'll dig those out later.
Oh, and while I'm at it:
Does this one:
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/ ... ?logcode=p
or this one:
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/ ... ?logcode=p
...look familiar to any of you?
Ta!
Nandi
