With the body all in primer, and the insides of the doors and shuts painted the body shop started putting it all back together. The replacement doors and wings were not even close to fitting properly, and they spent a day bending and pulling them to fit better. At the end of it all there was a huge gap at the top of one of the wings that they couldn’t get rid of. I went to have a look at it and wasn’t happy leaving it. They suggested building it up in fibreglass, but I didn’t want to botch it, so got them to cut it and build it up in metal. With it built up and filled it looked a million times better and they were ready for the topcoat.

With it painted it looked much brighter than it would once the white stripe was on, as I was convinced it would tone it down a bit. I got a set of Gen 2 bullet wing mirrors off ebay so I got them painted at the same time ready to fit once I got some new rubbers for them. With it all stiped up it looked exactly how I wanted it, and spookily like the version I’d done in Photoshop as a test. I went to have a look at it, and ended up putting some of the wiring back together for them as they couldnt work some of it out. With the batery back on I started it back up for the first time in a long while and instantly got a giant grin.Just the underside to schutz and the body to be wax injected (well it would be a shame to leave it after all the work it’s had done) and it’s back to me to finish the wiring.