Opel GT ready for paint

Ron's Opel GT has had the door shuts etc coloured, and is now ready for topcoat - Great looking cars these, early ones came with an 1100cc motor - all show no go, although a 2.0 red top with a 5 speed box is more common place in resto'd ones.





last week we finished off Ash's mini - lots of reconstruction replacing a shit old flip front with steel fixed panels, then full repaint. Not bad for a first car, especially once the metalflaked banded steels go on!!!





and also through the paint booth this week... Keith Seume's T25 for a quick freshen up....





more paint to come by the weekend - Keith's ain't finished yet....

Dragging

Luckily today the Cops spotted that our suspension had dropped on the Brasilia, but just before that happened a passing driver managed to capture this footage and got in touch...





Thanks to the Traffic Dept. for their understanding...

Ulta VW photoshoot...

Keith kindly spent the day with us last week taking photos for a feature in Ultra VW mag. Should be in the November issue, but in the meantime here's a teaser or two...





The Brasilia is for sale - if you are interested please email me at anthony@autostyl.co.uk

Sunshine shenanigans...

Out in Keith's Cal Looker....

Notch progress

After a week off in Spain, the rest must have done us good... as we're flying this week....



off with the waxoyl...



roof got bare metalled... and filled...



more tomorrow...

Out one door in the next....

Team playas Evil Ben's and Autostyl - hooking up some more collaboration on this Notch...

Out of Benny's metal work all done....



and into Autostyl for paint...

Brasilia and Jamboree....

Been a very busy couple of weeks at Autostyl...

first off with our local show approaching - The Cornwall VW Jamboree, the Brasilia got a makeover... and looks all the better for it!



First, some hours flatting and masking up to lay in some panelpaint.



silver sealed...



gold base and gold metalflake laid down, then off with the masking...



House of Kolor Tangerine Kandy applied over the lot - and cleared...



after a couple of days - the clear was flatted back to lose the edges of the artwork, then masked up for more detail...



On with some black base - and then the GREEEEN Flake...

Then off again with the masking - uber carefully... and on with a nice flowing few coats of clear....





With the car back together and the marquee packed up - it was off to the Jamboree...

a great weekend, great people and some more silverware for the Brasilia, this time in the Aircooled Sedan Modified class - up against some super clean bugs.

Mike and Glenda's westy also took first in the Bay class, hopefully first of many...

Over the weekend George striped up an award we'd flaked and kandied the week before - and the Autostyl Car of the Weekend award was born....

The first lucky recipient(s) were Mark and Paul with their Airbus- nice car guys... had the type of stance we like..... on the floooorr! Pictured here - Ant and Mark outside the official prize giving...