New to Tgtt Pic heavy restoration of my MK1 GT turbo take a look :)

tyrondevine

Fresh Recruit
Hi people my name is tyron devine im studying motor body vehicle repair at college i tunred 19 yesturday and i currently own a MK1 GT Turbo i bought the car with front end damige needed a new bonnet drivers side wing drivers head lamp and slam panel anyway enough of the chatting here is my ride when i bought her :)
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The car came with a few Mods to such as
Front mount Autobahn fmic
Full Japspeed stainless steel exhaust system
pipercross induction kit
magnecor leads
pipercross oil breather
braided brake lines
grooved and vented disks
and other bits and bobs so here is how she stood.
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So a few weeks after i bought the car she finally arived at college here she is looking all sorry for her self lol
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So first of all i stripped the damiged panels off
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Also removed the slam panel as it had seen better days lol
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Then i welded the new one into place
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So i removed my battery today and was shocked to find all this surface rust :|
Before
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After a good few hours sanding down it came up a treat.
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i then sanded down the crossmember and slam panel and other areas.
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And after abit of primer she looked like this.
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i also got the bonnet wing and air scoop sanded and in primer to heres a few pics.
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Getting primer by myself :)
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More bits in primer.
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The car also came de-wipred had a shitty grommit in there so i removed it and found that the the bolt had seized so got down to work and grindin the bitch off welded a plate behind and the jobs a good one lol.
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After a touch of bodyfiller.
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So the car had a few little dints nothing major but i want this Gt to be close to perfect when finished so i fixed ever little ding dint i could find lol here is how she looks.
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Right enough of the boreing stuff i got the front all in paint today.
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Before
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After
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Still needs alot of work people needs to be trizact buffed down etc etc still lots more pictures to come Comments welcome Thanks for looking :)
 
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pc18

North West England Area Rep.
how come you never removed the mirrors or took the kit off the car, surely it will crack where the side trim pieces meet the body work??
its looking much better though, always good to see someone putting a gt back on the road instead of breaking one, which happens so often these days.
 

tyrondevine

Fresh Recruit
how come you never removed the mirrors or took the kit off the car, surely it will crack where the side trim pieces meet the body work??
its looking much better though, always good to see someone putting a gt back on the road instead of breaking one, which happens so often these days.

I have removed everthing mate just havent got any pics up i have pics on my camera of every little thing more than 500 phots but i seriously can not be fussed posting ever little detail up lol :) heres a few more pics
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Inside of wings getting painted lol
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Ive got to many pics to post up.
 
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very nice job bud, shes coming along nicely :)

as mentioned above keep us posted of your progress mate :D

welcome to the site :haha:

kon
 

thefalls

Member +
Thats a very patient and tedious work for some of us,clearly you have the talent and time.
Keep it up,the efforts have paid up and its looking better with each pic!
 
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