chelsea77

The car looks great! i also love the camera work ! well done

dazzaturbo

stunning!!!!!

MaDaSS

Before the work, absolutely f'ing stunning! lol. Looked awesome and the photos too really are well posed.
After? Not to my liking at all, but of course that is my preference only
But with the car looking so well and the awesome camera work i want one! Haha.

RetroRacer

Thank you the first set of pictures were done by my friend rob over at robjamiesonphotography and the others were by myself just got myself a new camera and im looking into taking up automotive photography as a hobby lots to learn yet tho!

DaveBeck

iTrader: (12)

Saw your car over on the Carbon vinyl thread. Love the look

Ive got the roof done also but im wanting to do my boot lid. Any tips on doing it or problems you came across? Could cold beers persuade you to help lol

Im going much wider on wheel soon (40mm) mine isnt dropped as far as yours, only prodrive springs. Arches have been rolled though.

eggy790

iTrader: (20)

what wheels are those? rota forces?

RetroRacer

All i can say Dave is best of luck, i laid the vinyl on the back of the boot first with the vinyl pulled tight and laid over the bumper to keep it off the boot as i heated and squeegeed it down, this was the easy part, u need a second pair of careful hands to hold it when folding the vinyl over the top part of the boot, the most annoying tricky part is where the spoiler holes are located there is a dip in the boot like channels, just need to keep the vinyl at a good warm/hot temp and take great care doing small sections at a time methodically whilst keeping the vinyl taught and off the bodywork at all times, it may sometimes seem like its going to crease if it does just pull it back and gently heat and re-squeegeey holding the squeegeey at a sharp angle, at least you dont have to worry about bubbles with this stuff which is a great help, pay extra caution when cutting the keyhole out, i took a while doing this as i didn't want any gaps or evidence of it being a wrap, i also panel wiped tricky areas i thought the vinyl would have problems sticking to, for instance where i tucked it over the edges all around the bootlid, afterward give it all a thorough heating straight after its finished and you should be good! by no means is it easy i was so fussy and didn't even let my co-worker touch it the whole time he helped lol its one of those jobs you really need to tackle yourself that way if u F it up its only yourself to blame lol.

The wheels are Rota Forces yes. 18x9 et35

DaveBeck

iTrader: (12)

Cheers for the advice mate. local vinyl specialist it is then lol

ScoobyRalph

Absolutely stunning car, very original and i am a big fan of the spoiler delete that i have seen on a few cars. But the overall affect is wow!! so fair play for being original.

Ralph

Stevesbluewrx

iTrader: (4)

Wow. Stunning mate. Stunning.

Looks almost like my mates car except his car is blue and he has black alloys.

Your have done a good job mate. White on black suits the de-spoiler look very well.

Steve

RetroRacer

Had a little play with the camera today no changes this month as im saving for ibiza lol.














Lowlife ftw

Bockett

Looking good. I dropped mine today (see blog) need to sort my camber out though.

RetroRacer

Dang... nice work Ben, if only it was driveable like that! looks sweet as, good luck with the camber bolts btw, look at my 4th pic down to see my camber lol would like to know what im running..

Ps. im going to work tomorrow to cut out some sample lowlife decals

Bockett

Looks similar to mine on the camber. I struggled to get the driving licence tucked up there just to tight still gives me something to work on. Decals would be cool if your free we doing that MSOC meet tomorrow I messaged you about

paulwrxboro

one of the best ive seen

Scots Subie

Hey retroracer love this look imo i liked the dark wheels but everyones different been following this look for a while now and really liking the carbon look bootlid out of interest (want to do it myself)
what were the measurements of vinyl you needed to cover the boot thanks in advance!

RetroRacer

Thanks Scot, i had 3 metres which did my roof the boot, mirrors and door pillars, i would say it took roughly 1.5-1.7 to do the boot as you need a fair amount overhanging to grip whilst pulling it into shape

M444GY

iTrader: (72)

looking good thank god scooby handbrakes are quite good lol

RetroRacer

haha! i was more worried driving onto that platform i couldn't see the edges of it, just water all round!

oliccm

Just something

71/200

iTrader: (2)

Have to admit im a fan, did this to mine last year however about to change the look for this year slightly undecided on what to do yet lol.

Not to hijack but a few shots of my bug im similar guise






Lovin the flat carbon look, i dont have the patience to try that lol. keep up the good work

riggedSTI

Retro has an awesome stance........any plans on adding spacers or going w/ 235's?

wrx-kurt

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I am a massive fan of it, looks so mean and low. top motor m8