Hi all,I bought #001 Series McRae middle of the year and its been a big restoration project,I have seen on here this car was for sale in about 2001 for nearly the same amount as its cost me to restore it

I hope its all gonna be worth it,hope you like the pics






Sills were a little shot





Step in my life saving car restorer



Rear quarters behind the bumpers had to be replaced



The list of bodywork on this was was endless but the repairs my welder did were faultless,he cut all the rust areas out and replaced them

The car prepared for paint




Top quality paint job done






The work goes on under the car, changing rusty parts,there are loads more pictures on the Series Mcrae owners club these are just a chosen few

I'm ready for the replies

Gaz

 

Well done mate

Nice to see a Classic Icon being restored, should be worth a few quid in a few years time, Good Luck

 

good for you, looks great, im sure it will be worth a fortune once its done, I cant believe how rusty it was

 

Damn that sure is / was rusty...

 

Great job!

 

Some serious remedial work gone into that!

 

good job looks awesome

 

Top job keep it up.

 

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e7...5/CIMG2561.jpg

High caraumba! Great project though

TX.

 

Awesome mate Nice to see someone doing things right. It looks like you have a good beater and painter there. I'd hold onto them, too many 'that'll do' men these days.

Are you keeping it 100% std?

 

awesome job mate it looks stunning

 

seeing restoration jobs like this always give me hope for mine!

top notch work there

 

Im keeping the car pretty much standard yes,i need to replace the coolant hoses so ive gone for Samco in black,i will decat the exhaust for a little more power and i have a Classic Prodrive b/box to keep the standard look,im keeping all the standard parts in case i ever sell the car

Thanks for all the good comments,i wish i could take all the credit but i owe a lot to my welder Keith and painter Gerald

 

fantastic

 

Looking Good........

 

Superb!!

Glad to see a car getting the respect it deserves, and getting restored.
Hats off to you!!

 

Great pics and a top job there.

A true Impreza icon too

 

I restored #120 earlier this year but when #001 came up for sale i couldn't turn it down

#120

 

top work fella
iam currently trying to restore my classic import. nice bit of insperation you have given me to hurry mine up lol

 

Im in need of some motivation at the moment myself ive not done any work on the car in a month

 

Looks spot-on mate, I know a garage that has one sat outside the workshop just waiting for time to do the same, but time is precious at the moment

 

looks great

 

Do you know what number it is ? we have a database on the www.series.mcrae.co.uk site,im co-owner of the club

Gaz

 

I don't, but I could find out in the New Year

 

Cheers mate

 

Are any of these guys still active members

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&sou...DvCimrs7kX_oHg

 

Good work Deserves the top quality job it's getting

 

Top work fella ....

 

Was the sunroof standard on a series McRae?

 

Yes mate they all have a sunroof