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So what have you done to your car today?

Started by Loo-knee, 28 April 2011, 21:20:22

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Shackeng

Quote from: Diamond Black Geezer on 27 January 2016, 09:21:05
If I could graft the hidden door pockets and the interesting double lift up armrest (which serves as a small table for rear passengers, have you ever noticed this?) into my PFL,  then I would. Nice touches.

Overall I'm a PFL boy. Also, it's easier to retrofit the little niceties from a FL onto a PFL, than the other way round. (front end, door cards, center console, rewire the drivers door, new back wings/tail lamps, bootlid etc and so on.. )


Anyway, what have I done today? Went over one of the spare doors with some fine abrasive to remove imperfections in the paint. It's a still a little too orange peely for my liking, but at least the lumps, 'acne' and run have (almost) gone now. Missus cleaned the door card with AutoGylm's finest, and by christ it looks like ruddy new. Doesn't look like a 20 year old lump of plastic and leather.  Just need the rest of the car to match, now!  :D

Agreed, I much prefer the console on my MFL to the FL. However I took the 3.2 out today to get it dirty and have some fun. It always puts a smile on my face. :y

Diamond Black Geezer

 :y I've owned a FL, and it had plenty of advantages. At the end of the day the FL was done for a reason, to make the Omega more updated. By 2000 every car going had had its black plastic in bodycolour, and squarer, more angular lines were in. Personally I think the FLs doorcards look fresh and very modern even now. Less so for the bonnet, like Sarah Jessica Parkers nose, it is!  :y But yes, I'll stick to my PFL... foreverrr!!!  :D

So... as of last night took off the NSF door and wing, and replaced. With hurdle after hurdle. Panel gaps that an Allegro would snigger at, everything needs to be off and re-jigged and put back on properly again - but she's in one piece ready for our hollibobs tomorrow. (same thing happened almost a year ago, in getting her from SORNed to MoTd for a holiday, too, actually!) All part of the story.
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1980 V8 Lagonda & a 2014 Adam & a 2015 Antara.

Diamond Black Geezer

 :y I'll have to check but think Pissy did that in her second or third year on the road!
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EMD

Omegatitis

tigers_gonads

Punched the crap out of the back seat  ::)

My hand hurts so I guess that means the car won  :-[ :-[

TheBoy

Wiped all the crap from the INSIDE of the screen. Manflu. Dying.
Grumpy old man

STEMO

Quote from: TheBoy on 28 January 2016, 18:07:43
Wiped all the crap from the INSIDE of the screen. Manflu. Dying.
Again? You seem very prone to it.


Mind you don't shit the bed.  ;D

Nick W

Opened the door to take delivery of my wishbones etc.
Next step is to see if I have some suitable size tube to easily remove the front bushes for my polys.

05omegav6

Quote from: Nick W on 28 January 2016, 18:40:47
Opened the door to take delivery of my wishbones etc.
Next step is to see if I have some suitable size tube to easily remove the front bushes for my polys.
52mm rings a bell...

Lazydocker

Quote from: TheBoy on 28 January 2016, 18:07:43
Wiped all the crap from the INSIDE of the screen. Manflu. Dying.

Man up! ;) :D

Whatever it is... I didn't do it

Lazydocker

Quote from: STEMO on 28 January 2016, 18:09:35
Quote from: TheBoy on 28 January 2016, 18:07:43
Wiped all the crap from the INSIDE of the screen. Manflu. Dying.
Again? You seem very prone to it.


Mind you don't shit the bed.  ;D

Don't worry... So far your record is safe ;D
Whatever it is... I didn't do it

Nick W

Quote from: Harris K Telemacher on 28 January 2016, 18:41:42
Quote from: Nick W on 28 January 2016, 18:40:47
Opened the door to take delivery of my wishbones etc.
Next step is to see if I have some suitable size tube to easily remove the front bushes for my polys.
52mm rings a bell...

56.7mm bore according to my calipers. Then before I could root through my stash of stock I had to leave to ring some actual bells!

VXL V6

Fitted the MP3 player in the new un.

minifreek

Collected my set of Elites freshly shod with new Bridgestones :)

Shall be fitting them sometime over the weekend coz I got a suspension conversion to do on my SPi as well as fabricate an exhaust for it too...
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