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Re: "Cutie" a 18 year old project and counting
« Reply #150 on: May 29, 2016, 07:36:53 AM »
I think the last of my pictures for today

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Re: "Cutie" a 18 year old project and counting
« Reply #151 on: May 29, 2016, 08:39:19 AM »
looking great
keep the updates coming

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Re: "Cutie" a 18 year old project and counting
« Reply #152 on: May 29, 2016, 12:27:00 PM »
Don's Beer Break waiting for Primer to dry.

Sorry I couldn't resist :-)

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Re: "Cutie" a 18 year old project and counting
« Reply #153 on: May 29, 2016, 01:35:25 PM »
In Primer First coat of 3

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Re: "Cutie" a 18 year old project and counting
« Reply #154 on: May 30, 2016, 08:01:05 AM »
Solar Powered Dryer :-) Watching out for future Generations

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Re: "Cutie" a 18 year old project and counting
« Reply #155 on: May 30, 2016, 08:02:10 AM »
A very well earned Break!! Enjoying the Sun. To tired apparently to make a good Selfie

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Re: "Cutie" a 18 year old project and counting
« Reply #156 on: May 30, 2016, 08:53:21 AM »
don's Kicking ass on it
it is looking great, just wait until you get some colour:)

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Re: "Cutie" a 18 year old project and counting
« Reply #157 on: June 05, 2016, 08:31:16 AM »
All Loaded up yesterday for the trip to the paint booth.
and here she sits ready for her new colour.

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Re: "Cutie" a 18 year old project and counting
« Reply #158 on: June 05, 2016, 08:32:41 AM »
Base coat
and Goof ball (Don) posing in the refection of his work lol

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Re: "Cutie" a 18 year old project and counting
« Reply #159 on: June 05, 2016, 08:37:45 AM »
Clear coated and finished waiting for a night of drying and Pick up in the morning. (Today lol) Looking forward to seeing her in some daylight. Don's doing an awesome Job and I'm really liking my choice of colours. Was uncertain for some time.

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Re: "Cutie" a 18 year old project and counting
« Reply #160 on: June 05, 2016, 12:22:39 PM »
In the Sun light :-)

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Re: "Cutie" a 18 year old project and counting
« Reply #161 on: June 05, 2016, 12:23:41 PM »
When in he shade it really looks Black :-)

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Re: "Cutie" a 18 year old project and counting
« Reply #162 on: June 05, 2016, 12:25:28 PM »
Really happy with the colour. Next weekend its off to Brian for the headliner install :-)

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Re: "Cutie" a 18 year old project and counting
« Reply #163 on: June 08, 2016, 09:47:13 PM »
Wow this car sure has come a long way! Looking great Rene.

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Re: "Cutie" a 18 year old project and counting
« Reply #164 on: June 24, 2016, 01:07:51 PM »
Thanks Geoff, its largely due to your great work G !! and countless others. I'm looking forward to finally being able to see it with my own eyes really soon :-)

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« Reply #165 on: June 24, 2016, 02:26:00 PM »
don sent me pics of it a bit ago and he did an amazing job
you will be thrilled with it I'm sure

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Re: "Cutie" a 18 year old project and counting
« Reply #166 on: June 26, 2016, 10:14:46 AM »
Thanks Russ,

I Landed yesterday and I'm hoping I might be able go take a look at her today :-)

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Re: "Cutie" a 18 year old project and counting
« Reply #167 on: June 26, 2016, 08:57:07 PM »
Saw my Car in person for the first time in 5 years.

Awesome The Guys all did a killer Job on their respective parts of the Project. Thanks Geoff, Don, Brian Russ, Rob, Jerry and everyone else that had a part in it so far. I have a lot of work ahead of me the next couple of weeks but I'm looking forward to it.


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Re: "Cutie" a 18 year old project and counting
« Reply #168 on: June 26, 2016, 09:01:39 PM »
get cracking you have a ton of assembly work to do but should be fun
keep the updates coming

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Re: "Cutie" a 18 year old project and counting
« Reply #169 on: June 26, 2016, 09:40:38 PM »
I hope to get it over to the shop Tuesday, looking forward to seeing it.

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Re: "Cutie" a 18 year old project and counting
« Reply #170 on: July 29, 2016, 09:11:56 AM »
I have a lot of Project updates to do when I find a quiet min. But here is a Question that someone might be able to help me out with.

Late model door handle seals, the ones I got from CIP Suck is there anyone that supplies a better fitting version that anyone can recommend??

Thanks for any tips.

Cheers René

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Re: "Cutie" a 18 year old project and counting
« Reply #171 on: July 29, 2016, 02:21:18 PM »
always found good success with Wolfsburg west stuff. Although can't say i've done it on a later car like yours.
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Re: "Cutie" a 18 year old project and counting
« Reply #172 on: February 13, 2017, 11:34:45 PM »
whats the status on cutie?  :cool:

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Re: "Cutie" a 18 year old project and counting
« Reply #173 on: February 25, 2017, 01:19:44 PM »
Hi Silas, Thanks for waking me up lol.

I posted a bunch of update on FB but I guess I forgot to add some info here. She is currently taking a winter break. I unfortunately did make my goal last year and Had to fly back to CH without her done. I'm hoping that we will be able to get her rolling under her own power this spring  / summer. won't be 100% finished but are they ever ??

I'll try ti get some updates on here soon. She's turning out nicely can't wait to go for a drive finally.

Cheers Ren

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Re: "Cutie" a 18 year old project and counting
« Reply #174 on: March 29, 2017, 01:05:45 PM »
Some very late project updates lol

One of my first jobs after i landed was drilling for all the gauges. Scary !! I need to touch up a bit around the edges or make a Bezel / gauge panel to cover up the filler i had to add after drilling for the gauges.

the very first thing we did was fun with baby powder lol getting all the weather seals on the car. What a pain.

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Re: "Cutie" a 18 year old project and counting
« Reply #175 on: March 29, 2017, 01:14:50 PM »
here is the center console I made needs some tweaking to make it fit was never a priority to get done so after a initial test fit it hasn't gone back in the car. A detail i will deal with closer to the end of the project.

And a shot of the Rear bench cover. Cover from Sewfine Fitted by the Local Interior master Brian Cook thanks Brian for the killer work and the short notice help.

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Re: "Cutie" a 18 year old project and counting
« Reply #176 on: March 29, 2017, 01:18:36 PM »
the center console has the Trans Temp and Head temp gauges plus my Bluetooth interface from JL Audio

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Re: "Cutie" a 18 year old project and counting
« Reply #177 on: March 29, 2017, 01:20:28 PM »
And the Gauges are in with the woodgrain panels all in place.

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« Reply #178 on: March 31, 2017, 09:39:26 PM »
great update & pics!  :)

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Re: "Cutie" a 18 year old project and counting
« Reply #179 on: April 02, 2017, 04:38:26 AM »
Cutting out the glovebox area to fit the new Glovebox was a scary experience :-) and caused me a few issues afterwards with the wiper. Dang i didn't consider everything when building this. I should have had the car here when i was building the box. Would be the normal way of doing things lol