Thanks Don, and thank you for all your help and reference input. This forum would be a lesser place without your knowledge.
I think the trim is actually got rust spots under the protective plastic there!

 

Thanks.
Standard blue protection plastic for aluminium/stainless. I removed mine from new.

with it removed




still on the tabs

 

Totally agree, I needed a part number once for a sticker and Don helped me out, thanks Don! Spec C is looking great btw.

 

2 stage Menzerna polish, and Bilt Hamber speed wax. A bird shat on it half way through, and the weather played silly buggers

 

Made some job of it fella car is immaculate

 

Elan Valley by the looks of it?

 

Indeed. Our journey from Bala down to the Brecons was probably the best part of the 640 miles from Edinburgh to Lands End, both for scenery and quality of roads.
Given your name, I'd also say that I had the best pub lamb shoulder near Bala.
The following year, North Yorkshire was its equal, but not for lamb!

 

You've done a fantastic job HG, the car looks mint!
What menzerna products did you use?

 

Such a shame to take it off the road after all this, please reconsider

 

I've SORNed mine since its insurance expired, I don't see the point paying for something if we can't drive

 

Can still go for a drive to the supermarket and take the long way back.

 

I didn't sorn it, Matt, I couldn't! Moley suggested a limited mileage policy
Fivos, I used what I had, which wasn't ideal, originally chosen because of the fear of thin, soft paint.....Menzerna medium cut 2500 on a green medium cut hexlogic pad, and then 3800 super finish on a white hexlogic. I wish I had a polishing pad or 2, and some glaze. The bad marling/swirls have gone leaving some scratch marks that could be taken out, but Mrs is getting pissed off with me now!!

 

That's good then, can still get out in it.

I can hear it now "you care more about that car than you do me!"

 

Oh go on then, just one more layer of polish

 

love these in yellow..hatches are under-estimated in my opinion.

 

Stunning car, love this so much!

 

I put the replacement Whiteline front strut mounts on today, along with new spring perches, and Group N transmission crossmember bushes and a new Sti transmission mount. Both WL mount bearings had gone, so it feels awesome now

 

Snowfoamed with AG Polar Blast, and another layer of wax, finishing up some Colinite 476S


And a quick wipe over the engine

 

great work mate, that is some effort! I paid for the enhanced dinitrol treatment from Torque GT when I got mine but I feel I also need to do what you have done.

spent a bit of time restoring paintwork and it's onto the hidden stuff next. the stone chip guards were a right ballache to do!

 

Thanks.If I get another one ever ( possibly an S206 variant) I'll definitely strip it down myself and do it properly. I wish I'd done this earlier, but I'm feeling much more confident about its condition now....and it was a good learning process and I really enjoyed it.

 

Had to leave all this alone, as I broke my back T9 vertebrae a couple of weeks ago, and can't even be a passenger in a car at the moment. To say that I'm bored ****less is an understatement.

 

How did you manage that

 

I was dumped onto the top of my head in some decent surf, lucky not to drown, or have nerve damage. Very thankful but so very bored too.

 

bloody hell Hedge, glad to hear you're on the mend.

 

sounds like a lucky escape that!

i bet though the boredom has you constantly browsing for things to buy for the car lol

 

I wish. Turns out I've got another 3 vertebrae broken.

 

Last light above Sennen, Land's End

 

Looking towards Cape Cornwall

 

Very cool

 

So the final tally on my vertebrae was 6 crush fractures from t4 to t10. So to celebrate not being paralyzed or drowned, I've begun to spend some limited cash on this car.