Happy Birthday Son
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Happy Birthday Son
A few of you may know that it was my Son's 21st Birthday on Sunday.
Over the last 6 months I've bought & restored in SECRET his dream car, a 1966 Ford Mustang!
With the help of the guys at Dowsetts Classic Cars (Ant Anstead's garage & the team who brought you the TV "For The Love of Cars" series - me included) we've done a full bare metal, made new repair panels, painted, re-trimmed & re-wired the car, with the obvious essential mechanicals.
On Sunday morning we took the train (he was still no wiser) to Dowsetts & I presented him with his 21st Birthday Present.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHMrGEapiC0
At least I'll get the lawn mowed & the bins emptied for this week
And as a friend reminded me; I'm investing in my future, as he'll be the one choosing my nursing home
You can check out the Restoration on my twitter feed or via Dowsetts, Twitter, Facebook & Instagram
Over the last 6 months I've bought & restored in SECRET his dream car, a 1966 Ford Mustang!
With the help of the guys at Dowsetts Classic Cars (Ant Anstead's garage & the team who brought you the TV "For The Love of Cars" series - me included) we've done a full bare metal, made new repair panels, painted, re-trimmed & re-wired the car, with the obvious essential mechanicals.
On Sunday morning we took the train (he was still no wiser) to Dowsetts & I presented him with his 21st Birthday Present.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHMrGEapiC0
At least I'll get the lawn mowed & the bins emptied for this week
And as a friend reminded me; I'm investing in my future, as he'll be the one choosing my nursing home
You can check out the Restoration on my twitter feed or via Dowsetts, Twitter, Facebook & Instagram
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What a lucky lad!
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Bloody Norah! I got a £185 Austin Mini with built-in rust!
Well done lad – and ignore your dad's warnings about doing burnouts...
Well done lad – and ignore your dad's warnings about doing burnouts...
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Wow, wow, wow! One very lucky boy!
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Any chance you can adopt me?..!
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I gave my son £100!
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Very Cool. He seems speechless. Unfortunately over here you won’t insure anything over ten years old until you’re over 25.
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Thanks for the kind comments Guys
Neil, I'd be VERY worried about your nursing home!
Anyways
We did all this in 3 Months!
You can see more on the Dowsetts Facebook Page including some video of painting the car!
https://en-gb.facebook.com/dowsettsclassiccars/
Quick over view:
Starting the Bare Metal to remove Burgundy paint over Blue paint, back to Original Red Paint then Steel.
Then strip panels off down to shell to remove paint on inner wings & under arches.
Discovering extent of arch rot under buckets of filler!
Cutting Out & Making new panels
Interior re-trim with new Dash & Seat Covers, including new steel dash panel welded in & painted to original radio fitting (Butchered out for a modern radio by previous owner)
Full repaint to original colour Signal Flare Red with painted in 10” stripes Flatted & lacquered into the paintwork
Neil, I'd be VERY worried about your nursing home!
Anyways
We did all this in 3 Months!
You can see more on the Dowsetts Facebook Page including some video of painting the car!
https://en-gb.facebook.com/dowsettsclassiccars/
Quick over view:
Starting the Bare Metal to remove Burgundy paint over Blue paint, back to Original Red Paint then Steel.
Then strip panels off down to shell to remove paint on inner wings & under arches.
Discovering extent of arch rot under buckets of filler!
Cutting Out & Making new panels
Interior re-trim with new Dash & Seat Covers, including new steel dash panel welded in & painted to original radio fitting (Butchered out for a modern radio by previous owner)
Full repaint to original colour Signal Flare Red with painted in 10” stripes Flatted & lacquered into the paintwork
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Wow!
What an amazing thing to do for him
What an amazing thing to do for him
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Amazing job Darren!
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Awesome
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Wow, wow and wow!
You work way too quickly!!!
The video of Adam being speechless is so touching.
You work way too quickly!!!
The video of Adam being speechless is so touching.
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Gorgeous, especially those new rims. Not your average 16 yr olds' stanced Polo wet dream by a long way...
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It is - it's the hug. WonderfulLMR wrote:
The video of Adam being speechless is so touching.
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