Robokill's Panda Levin Coupe!

[Mux213]

Alot of people never believed this day would come, but it has

This morning I set out around 10am on my way to Robokills house. Once there we made some plans about today, drank some very tasty coffee and waited for Ivan to arrive, drank some more coffee, and finally around 11am we walked outside into the wonderfull sunshine to encounter two HachiRokus parked next to eachother. Once filled with tools, the other, well soon to be filled with nearly nothing

This:
is our project for the day Yeah I know it looks ugly right now with all colours in the grayscale range, but it is about to get even uglyer

Surprisingly it only cost us about 3 hours to get the front seats, rear seats, carpers, side mouldings, just about anything attached inside the boot, lights, sunroof, and some other bits where removed.



Well things move ahead fast when two people are working together while the third (me) is mostly busy trying to rescue some tools from one of his toolboxes that had misteriously gotten full of water



Now that we had most of the stuff removed it was time to further work on the car. A mate of robo had already welded most of the really rusted bit but we still needed to fix up the result. We started grinding and sanding and treating stuff, putting a nice temporary primer on the bits that are normally seeable and putting some nasty anti-rust stuff on the parts that would be hidden behind stuff we had removed (mostly POR15 treated).



By the end of the day most of the exteriour work had been done. Robokill will be busy tomorow and during the week to finish the bits off and remove anything left over like stickers and such. Also there are a few damaged bits of bodywork to fix.

We put a few things back into place so the car will survive being parking outside for a few days



On saterday the car should undergo its first stage of its metamorphosis. We'll drive it off to a spraypainter and there it the last bits of exteriour will be removed. After alot of sanding, the whole car will be painted in white primer, inside and out. We'll put it back together enough at the end of that day and drive it back, the next week will be spend fixing any left over imperfections in the car, so more filling and sanding

The saterday after that, it will get its full new colours.....

More pictures:
http://www.basenlily.nl/album/default.php?dir_id=152