My freshly painted calipso cab!!

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Painted by me!!
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Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:17 pm

That is the daddy, absolutley jaw dropping mate!! I am feeling the love!,




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Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:20 pm

Interesting! Was it originally Calypso? Paint match good?
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Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:25 pm

stunner mate
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Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:29 pm

Yep original colour quite a good match doe'st matter to much as i resprayed the lot but i used the same varient on me dads 318i an that was good!! its the second time i've painted it, done it bout 2 an a half yrs ago now this time round most of it got bare metalled!!
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Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:34 pm

As in real bare metalled? How do you guys strip it back to metal?
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Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:35 pm

Amazing that you can't see the orangepeel and fish eyes in the pics. 8O





:snigger: looks great Ben. You now need to look after the paint properly, Woody said you use an old pair of boxers to polish it :lol:
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Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:37 pm

soon to be featured!! but i'm not to sure if i wanna put it in pbmwm!!? as most of the cars in there r tacky as u like with pants body kits! thats if there english! ]if not there a high powered car nothing wrong with that!!], But there most probably done in florida or sweden or some other foreign place!! Other than britain Just thought it was a british mag? so there 4 i would of thought a brit car would have more athoritare :mad:
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Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:40 pm

I paint stripped the bonnet, and the rest [the wings an doors] i ripped of with a geared d.a with 80grit!! Etched, polyestered, primed then painted!! :D Proper job!!
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Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:42 pm

mate that looks stunning,did you do the job yourself?

if so i need some work done on my motor,intrested????
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Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:43 pm

Nice job.....
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Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:48 pm

Interested in all aspects as just opening up my own paint shop!! even leather retrim's!! we'l be able to do them 2!!
also boot builds and custom jobs a speciality!! :D
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Not quite the finished product yet!!
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luxconvertible wrote:Interested in all aspects as just opening up my own paint shop!! even leather retrim's!! we'l be able to do them 2!!
also boot builds and custom jobs a speciality!! :D
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Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:52 pm

Nice prices for zoners?

I need some stuff done on me touring. Shall I PM you?
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Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:52 pm

Yep certinly do!! this is me lol
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Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:54 pm

Bad hair day lol had been workin on my car all over chrimbo early starts an late nights 5 til 8 then 6 til late!! :o:
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Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:57 pm

pm'd you winkeye
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Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:00 pm

I can vouch for the quality of Ben's paint on this car, i was desperately tryingto find something to wind him up about at lakeside, but not a thing was wrong!

Ben. Want to paint a few bits for me before summer?
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Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:07 pm

Looking great there, fine choice of colour :thumb:
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Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:29 pm

that is amazing mate any more photos of the car and i if your going to start up let us know :D
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Wed Apr 04, 2007 6:55 am

damn she looks good! nice job done overthere!

and concerning PBMW Mag, I know they do like dutch people as well :) remember the alpinewhite E46 M3 looky from a few months ago? and not only that car, but al ot of belgian cars are already shown in the Mag. but hey, it's worth a shot to try ;) certainly worth to be shown towards the great great world :)
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Wed Apr 04, 2007 12:56 pm

Job well done sir. Beautiful looking car.
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Wed Apr 04, 2007 1:58 pm

WOW! I'm lovin the colour and the rear speaker pods.

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Wed Apr 04, 2007 3:23 pm

Excellent! Nice work
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Wed Apr 04, 2007 8:18 pm

8O 8O stunnin!! love tha paintjob! nice work, even at the engine, mine is at the paintshop for ythe moment, schould look good to, btw, have u left those mirrors on during the paintjob?
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Wed Apr 04, 2007 10:45 pm

Very nice!

I want calypso as my project lovely colour.
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Thu Apr 05, 2007 9:43 am

:eek: hell no!! the whole thing got gutted!!
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Thu Apr 05, 2007 11:08 am

Need more pics...
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Thu Apr 05, 2007 11:42 am

Excellent job mate!!

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Thu Apr 05, 2007 4:16 pm

lovely job nice colour.
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Thu Apr 05, 2007 9:34 pm

Looks beautiful!
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Thu Apr 05, 2007 9:44 pm

I have a question, this is the second car that i've seen on the site with new looking bulkhead sound deadening pads. ie the ones against the bulkhead by the battery and along the bulkhead to the fuse box cover. where do i get them from ? :?: :?:
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