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Delilah, now blue and white!

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Re: Delilah's nearly white!

Postby Muttley » Fri Jul 16, 2010 9:05 pm

Finally, one side is all shiny :D

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:D :D :D
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Re: Delilah's nearly white!

Postby matthew2riches » Fri Jul 16, 2010 9:19 pm

Looking beautiful!
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Re: Delilah's nearly white!

Postby trigger » Fri Jul 16, 2010 9:27 pm

NICE! 8) 8) 8)
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Re: Delilah's nearly white!

Postby BROWNYS V6 » Fri Jul 16, 2010 10:21 pm

lookin good,did u really spray that in your alleyway :?
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Re: Delilah's nearly white!

Postby ztorm » Fri Jul 16, 2010 10:52 pm

Progress at the speed of light!! You're a speed king (like in the deep purple song) Mr Mutt 8) :lol: :wink:
Looking great in shiney white 8) 8)
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Re: Delilah's nearly white!

Postby Muttley » Sun Jul 18, 2010 10:04 pm

BROWNYS V6 wrote:lookin good,did u really spray that in your alleyway :?

Yes! We dropped the garage door onto the roof and built tarpaulin tents at either end to keep out the rain :lol:

Here she is with both sides done :)

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Some paint reactions slowed us down a bit, but blue is going on tomorrow and hopefully door bottoms and bonnet in white too :D
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Re: Delilah's nearly white!

Postby RustWidow » Mon Jul 19, 2010 5:29 pm

Yeah, but even so - you've got to admire the skill and time that's gone in to her :-) thanks mutters and Dave! lol Nearly got my heart's desire now - a clean shiny transit in uniform colours and not bitsers lol
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Re: Delilah's nearly white!

Postby RustWidow » Mon Jul 19, 2010 9:52 pm

OK, the blue bit is done now (hurrah!)
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And then we've put on some go faster stripes..... :wink:
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And yes, I don't care what anyone says, I like it - think it breaks those big panels up a bit! lol
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Re: Delilah's nearly white!

Postby MattBlackMinibus » Mon Jul 19, 2010 10:43 pm

Oh yes ... She's a beauty :D
You've all done a cracking job on her. A real transformation 8)

Great work, and superb layout of colours and design (and nice wheels :lol: )
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Re: Delilah's nearly white!

Postby Muttley » Tue Jul 20, 2010 8:55 pm

Here are the "How we did it" pics :)

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Decided screen surround would look better blue!

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All done (except door bottoms and bonnet) :D

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Hope to have the rest done before Gaydon on Sunday (fingers crossed) :D
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Re: Delilah's nearly white!

Postby bigmastif » Wed Jul 21, 2010 1:24 am

cracking job andy well done mate, :D

only thing i dont like is the red stripes :?
but minted job all the same guv :D
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Re: Delilah's nearly white!

Postby Luke » Wed Jul 21, 2010 6:55 am

nice work 8) see you sunday @ gaydon 8)
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Re: Delilah's nearly white!

Postby Muttley » Wed Jul 21, 2010 8:57 pm

Luke wrote:nice work 8) see you sunday @ gaydon 8)

You may have to wait till Transitmania :( Running out of the old folding stuff :wink:
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Re: Delilah's nearly white!

Postby matthew2riches » Wed Jul 21, 2010 9:08 pm

Well, all-in-all... that looks sh*t hot!!

Top banana! Well done :D
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Re: Delilah's nearly white!

Postby BROWNYS V6 » Wed Jul 21, 2010 9:42 pm

thats a top job you have done there 8) only thing i will say is im not keen on the big red stripe :? and as for spraying it in a dusty alleyway hats off to ya 8)
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