vulgalour Posted April 21, 2018 Author Share Posted April 21, 2018 If I take the paint off it'll rust to roughly the same texture fairly rapidly. I'm gonna go fit some 20" wheels now and Fab branding all over and turn it into a donk. JeeExEll 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted April 21, 2018 Share Posted April 21, 2018 Just joking Vulg. Do you have a 'concept vision' of what you want with the car?Seems to be a very 70s custom approach of 'see how it goes' ATM. Which is good.(But, being an artist, have you done any concept drawings?). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tadhg Tiogar Posted April 21, 2018 Share Posted April 21, 2018 Just joking Vulg. ...I wasn't!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted April 21, 2018 Share Posted April 21, 2018 Having perused the giffer trinket thread eye r disapoint that there's no chrome vinyl wrapping going on. dozeydustman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgalour Posted April 21, 2018 Author Share Posted April 21, 2018 I should talk about The Plan a little I suppose, because there is one with the car even though it might not seem that way. Some parts of the car are spot on for what I wanted now. Some parts need much more work. In short: late 70s/early 80s mild custom. FrontThe MG B lights were the best fit I could find at the time. The longer they've been there the happier I've become with them. I haven't found anything I like better and they look correct for the age of the mods I'm going for. Also, they're really very visible in use, which is a big bonus. The only thing I want to change on the front is to get the lights hidden, my ideal would be motorised flaps to give the illusion of a full width grille, it's just a looooong way down my list of stuff because the front end looks fairly well resolved now, bar the paintwork. RearI'm almost as happy with this as I am the front now. The BMW lights and more modern inner lights were the closest I could get to what I wanted at the time and while I prefer them over the stock lights, they aren't exactly what I want. Now I have the 60s Ford lights I can put a proper matched pair in and get this sorted when I have some time to do so. The new lights will also allow me to lose the foglights hanging under the car. I'm really happy with the frenched number plate. I'd like to figure out a tidy way to hide the exhaust tip too, or perhaps fit a dummy to the other side just to balance the rear end out a bit better. I'm in two minds about keeping the boot badging, I think it helps to balance out the proportions a bit but it's not in keeping with the sort of mods that were done in the style I'm going for. The only other thing I want for the rear end is a rear window louvre, of which I've seen photos of a grand total of two for the Princess, I can see myself making one of these. ProfileThe side view of the car is almost exactly what I want now. The beige-over-red looks right (and seems universally approved of, which is surprising) and helps take a lot of the height out of the bodywork while also making it look longer and sharper. The black satin C pillar I like since it blends in with the door frames and window rubbers and helps make the roof almost look like it's floating. I won't be making the roof or A pillars black because leaving them beige helps the bodylines look better. I'd like to get a light tint on the windows, it's a bit of a greenhouse with the untinted glass, I just can't decide on whether to go grey or brown for that at the moment. I will be reattaching the stainless sill trim that runs along the top edge of the sill as this will again help with making the body look longer and leaner and protect the doors from stone chips. I won't be reattaching the chrome arch trims, it's too much and will make things look fussy. I also think I'm leaving the door handles chrome, they work perfectly fine against the colours and repainting them bodycolour is going to tip me a bit further towards 90s styling than I'd like to go. InteriorThis is the most finished part of the car, really. I do plan to repaint the dash insert in copper to match in better than the current purple and I'll probably be retrimming the parcel shelf in buttoned black vinyl or velour (if I can find a black velour that isn't prone to UV damage as the current stuff is). I'd like to fit the Ambassador electric windows that I've got in the front. I'd like to replace the gearknob, ideally with the goldstone ball I have (drilling glass is... problematic). That's really it. I like the Princess interior pretty much as it came from the factory and I don't feel like retrimming absolutely everything is going to offer me any benefits WheelsLotus wheels for the summer (maybe even this year!) and chrome smoothie trims for the rest of the time is the plan. I'm happy with both these set ups and they both look really right on the car. I've toyed with white or redline (rather than full fat walls) tyres just because, but honestly, plain black is fine. I've no intention of painting the letters on the tyres, I'm not going in that direction. EngineThere's nothing I want to do here either. Leaving it standard is fine. I'll tart up a few bits and pieces, repaint the purple bits orange or copper to match the rest, but other than that there's nothing to worry about on this front. So there you go, that's the plan. It's taken far longer to get here than I wanted because of circumstances but it should come together fairly rapidly visually now I have everything lined up for it. Getting that big portion of the paint finished has been a huge boost for me. I look at the car and I actually like seeing a good section of it looking finished, rather than half-done. It's tricky, really, to convince other folks that it'll be done one day because it's been part-done for such a long time! There's the doubters too, of course, that don't think I'll ever finish it (and sometimes it has felt that way too), but I'm feeling much more optimistic about my chances now. I'll be finishing the paint on this side of the car, then the face and boot lid, then the driver's side last since that needs the the most amount of fettling before paint. The rear panel I'll do once the rest of the car is sorted out. The bonnet, for the time being, I'm leaving completely alone. It's a huge flat panel, it's going to be an absolute chore to paint and, ideally, I need to get it off the car to do a good job since I'm going to be restricted to rattle cans on it. I'm seriously tempted fork out to get a 70s mural airbrushed on the bonnet, I have some ideas for that I've been keeping to myself (and will continue to keep to myself), the challenge there is going to be finding an artist I can trust to do a decent job. I don't want the bonnet mural to end up being on the receiving end of Billy's observations! Asimo, Stanky, Bobthebeard and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeeExEll Posted April 21, 2018 Share Posted April 21, 2018 Fair enough, carry on . . .But maybe the bonnet muriel best left til latr.Hey ho, it's your car Vulg, and to fuck with what anyone else thinks, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgalour Posted April 21, 2018 Author Share Posted April 21, 2018 Mural is the very last thing on the list and an idea I may well ditch once the bonnet is repainted. JeeExEll 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DodgeRover Posted April 21, 2018 Share Posted April 21, 2018 Do I foresee an oiled Conan the Barbarian as a mural on the bonnet. As long as it isn't wolves or dolphins carry on Sir! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgalour Posted April 21, 2018 Author Share Posted April 21, 2018 Definitely not animal related. Though now you've mentioned Conan, I'm sticking Grace Jones on my mural list. richardthestag 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chodweaver Posted April 21, 2018 Share Posted April 21, 2018 What about one of the MP3 adaptor units from ebay that include bluetooth an SD and USB slot? You'll need to run a separate amp as they don't have the output to run anything directly.Will find an ebay link later. Edit like this onehttps://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/new-Car-Audio-Bluetooth-USB-SD-TF-MP3-WMA-Board-12V-Wireless-Player-WMA-Speaker/112655170227What is it with the Chinese and those effing awful fonts on the front panel! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted April 21, 2018 Share Posted April 21, 2018 With Billeh in mind I'm picturing a tryptych; a stylized portrait of the owner slaving over a hot MIG to create his masterpiece, then Harris Mann, Spen King and David Bache play football with Derek Robinson's severed head, and finally a scene from that daft Princess advert with the bossman driving while his chauffeur sits in the back snogging some french bird. vulgalour and Datsuncog 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgalour Posted April 25, 2018 Author Share Posted April 25, 2018 Box of new paint arrived today and I was feeling considerably better than I have the past couple of days. Unit is empty for the first time in a while too, so everything was lining up particularly well, especially since the weather hasn't been conducive to outdoor work. To kick things off, I did the small amount of trim hole type welding on the front wing, there was considerably less of this to do than I'd expected. Then, once that was cooled off and flatted back, it was filler time, including the most visible and annoying of the dents on the boot lid.20180425-01 by Angyl Roper, on Flickr 20180425-02 by Angyl Roper, on Flickr The front wing has had a lot of work over the years, so it's a bit wobbly in places. I've done my best with it, but I still need to go back and do more filler work on the sections that curve under the car, sections you only really see when you're actually under the car, so they don't matter for now. When I'd got to the point that things were tidied up and ready for masking off, I had a little moment of inspiration with some slightly domed brown paper. In person, if you shape it into a crude sort of bubble skirt, it lends the car a slightly Citroen/concept feel. Consideration for another day that, I haven't the skills to be making surface-mount blind fixing compound curve lightweight spats that subtly blend from the arch flare. Doesn't look anywhere near as right in photographs, strangely.20180425-03 by Angyl Roper, on Flickr On with the masking then. Bit of a luxury getting to work indoors and use proper paper for this. Unfortunately the boot badges are fixed on rather too well with the trim clips we used so I couldn't get them off, instead masking around them. Not the ideal solution, but I'd rather that than damage the very soft metal badges.20180425-04 by Angyl Roper, on Flickr A few hours later, and some quite unpleasant hand sanding on the lower reaches of the front wing, and it's looking somewhat finished on this side now.20180425-05 by Angyl Roper, on Flickr 20180425-06 by Angyl Roper, on Flickr Pretty chuffed with that. I'll either paint the rear wing on the other side and the face of the car next or crack on with doing the welding repairs on the front wing and doors before doing any more painting at all. Rear panel will get painted once I get the new lights installed, there's no point putting fresh paint on that until I've done the welding in of the new inner buckets. Squire_Dawson, chodweaver, adw1977 and 35 others 38 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dozeydustman Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 Princess is looking good, Vulg. vulgalour 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pillock Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 Looks really good that! oldcars and vulgalour 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Felly Magic Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 Top work there. Suits it vulgalour 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilA Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 Bon. vulgalour 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarvinsMom Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 hmm, pretty car.....your car? pretty car.... its gotta whole rasperry ripple vibe going on which is nice. i like it. vulgalour 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shep Shepherd Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 The colour combination looks delicious! vulgalour 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danthecapriman Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 Lookin’ great! vulgalour 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captain_70s Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 Looks great, nicely done! vulgalour 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgalour Posted April 25, 2018 Author Share Posted April 25, 2018 I feel like Oprah. And YOU get a like and YOU get a like and YOU get a like... Pillock 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 Looks smart, that. Reckon the panel below the front winkers would look good in black... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghosty Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 That's just ace, it really ties the whole thing together. vulgalour 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgalour Posted April 25, 2018 Author Share Posted April 25, 2018 I've toyed with that idea (the black chin) in the past and it looks wrong. It needs an extra bit of styling of some sort on the side of the wings to make it look like an added scoop if it's going to be black. Just painting the upper face of it looks... well... cheap? Not right anyway. To other consideration is doing it red but leaving the grille surround beige so it blends in with the two-tone. It would remove some of the stuck-out-lip look the beige gives it but I have a feeling it'll also make the lights look too small and high. Dick Longbridge and RayMK 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chodweaver Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 From that pic, I am getting what you're driving at with the spats for the rear arches.Loving the look atm though vulgalour 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squire_Dawson Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 Wow, what a bobby dazzler. We have watched it rise like a phoenix from the ashes. vulgalour 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greengartside Posted April 25, 2018 Share Posted April 25, 2018 Looks chuffing marvellous, does that. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk vulgalour 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilA Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 Very popular too as dessert. This reminded me of your car. Tasted very good. Phil vulgalour 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeKnight Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 Felly Magic, The Moog, MorrisItalSLX and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldcars Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 Looks really good. vulgalour 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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