My 2001 Bugeye Project, Watch this space

 

 

 

 

what paint did you use on the inner arches?

Ricey

 

what you planning to do to the bug

 

Big plans, full resray, full restoration. 400bhp engine build

 

Primer then stonechip, then the same paint the car is been done in for topcoat. An additive in the laquer as well

 

We have it in primer now

 

Paint on the front

 

The pearl shows in the pics but they dont do it justice

 

Good luck with the build!!

 

looks smart

 

looks good! Very nice

 

New subframe should arrive today then it's off to be powder coated with the wheels.

 

anymore on this one, I'm really intrested it looks like it's gonna be good

 

There will be shortly, at the minute we have too much work on to get back onto it, Progress should resume soon though.

 

great work mate,

can appreciate the effort gone into it,

my only bug bear with alot o white pearls is on the side tone they can go a bit off white, but other than that, cant beat a white scooby

 

I can garantee you 100% this wont be off white, i hate that too,

Aston martin pearl white is a pure white xrylic pearl £200 a litre

 

Bugeyes for life

 

yeah it annoyed me that much when i was looking for a white pearl i made my own haha

dupont white tinter am1 off the scheme, then the pearl coat was crystaline frost xirrilic pearl lol, used a full pot on it, cost a bloody fortune haha

but the results in the sun were worth it

 

Ive made my own as well but the result is very close to the aston martin colour. Ive saved a fortune.

2l of white tinter
1l of black tinter
1 tub of white pearl
1 tub of black pearl

£125 total.

I also got a decent laquer mipa CC6 5 litre kit £99

I used to use max meyer but its hard to get hold of in my area at the minute and i dont like paying standox prices lol. The mipa range i was apprehensive of at first but used their base laquer which is CC4 and was impressed so have used it for a while now.

The pearls i get are top qaulity but i import them direct from america at a fraction of the cost of whats available over here. HOK IP04 is around £90 a tub. I can get identical pearl same size tub. £16 delivered.

 

Some more pics

 

Loving it. Looking forward to the end result.

 

^ +1

 

 

 

 

 

Any progress? Was looking forward to seeing this come together!