Hi all I haven't been on here for a few years so thought ide put a post so my previous Subaru classic ended up worse for wear dreaded rust so decide to hunt for a good shell and start from the beginning fully soda blasted and acid etch primed

In transit on way home I actually stayed in the back of the lorry with it 🤣🤣

 

Freshly unwrapped

Freshly unwrapped


Loom out the old one going in

New filler neck from icp

New lights and boot seal

All new fuel parts from icp

 

all new loom wrapped

 

This is going to be awesome

 

Thankyou I'll post more soon

 

Looking good , a bit of a mammoth task , but keep posting it will be good to see how you get on with it 👍

 

This great, keep posting.
Where did you source the shell from?

 

Hi mate the shell came from Portsmouth way it was a project that some one never got round to doing so spent I think 3 years in storage and then I bought it for £700

 

Ofcourse I will mate slow and steady tho I have to divide my time between the wife buisness and car 🤣 although truth be told she drives it the most I take it for an MOT that's about it 🤣

 

Cracking post, what a lovely shell, as someone who has bought another classic impreza to find its rotten badly, this looks amazing work, what did you wrap your loom in? Been looking for something for a while, auto electrician left half my looms bare after fixing my wiring issue and screwing me over.
£700 is a bargain for such a clean shell.

 

**** on wheels

 

excellent project good luck

but if you don't get it wrong can you please recoat bolts you use

 

Thankyou and did you not view it when you purchased. To check for rust? Granted some areas it's hard to see/tell but yeah I was rather lucky with this one complete rolling shell to. Yeah sure so it's Tessa wiring loom tape on Amazon pack of 5 it's the sticky cloth one OEM look 👍

 

Haha that's fine mate some Bolts have been put back in I'm waiting for the new ones for around the plastic filler neck the 4 black one also what have you managed to pick up on and I do have pretty much the rest of the bolts in a bucket ready for the zink platers

 

this will be great

 

Excellent build, very interested to see how this progresses.

 

It was a cheap eBay buy, ended up picking it up on a dark rainy night before lockdown hit. All old mot's had no mention of any rust lol.

 

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oh **** to be fair in your defence I think all of us have done it at some point 🙈 was it to far gone?

 

Finally got the glass in today front and rear once the cars done I'll get the rear tints removed

 

Front lights cleaned prepped painted and restored ready to go back in I've left the inner lamps out for time being

 

Excellent work, love this progress.

And of course the natural place for car parts is in the kitchen.

 

My friend was re building his engine , and washed his heads in the dishwasher , that is a proper use for it 👍😂

 

Cheers mate I do quite a lot in the kitchen 🤣 the wife don't mind to be fair just wants the car back on the road asap

 

Yeah I've heard of this I don't think she will let me go that far lol but have heard it works wonders 😂

 

Due to unforeseen circumstances I am looking at selling the whole project if anyone would be interested

 

That's really sad. I'm always impressed when someone takes on this level of work on a driveway.