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Thankyou, me too it looks so much nicer!:hearteyes: Will be spraying the car Racing Blue with Yellow details in the style of the 2006 Renault F1 cars :smile: Cheers! :tonguewink: Getting there slowly...

Made some more progress yesterday with the help of a friend whos good with electrics. After I connected everything inside the car and earthed it all back up after the priming, we tried starting the car by the key. Unfortunately no power is getting to the starter motor. We investigated, following...

Took out the last of the sound deadening located on the roof and removed the horrid fabric material heat shield thing today from the engine bay, makes it look so much better and will eventually replace it with a Nimbus one once the cars running and actually being used. Ground off the rear seat...

The surface rust plaguing the car interior needed sorting. So earlier this week we dug out the sandpaper and spent two whole days sanding all the inside down. Exhausting work - but the results were worth it. It now looks a completely different car! After sanding the cage down we begun removing...

We knew the car had been sitting for many years when we bought it and so knew there was a possibility of the engine being seized. Once we got it back at the lockup we tried cranking it by hand - it was seized solid . At least the dogs were happy about it. Anyway... We took the inlet manifold...

No its a ph1 with a ph2 front end, as is stated in the post :) Thankyou though.

So two weeks ago me and my girlfriend (Alex) bought a ph1 172 car with a full weld in roll cage by Custom Cages. We wanted it as a project to do over the summer break whilst off University and our intention is to have it as a track only car and maybe compete in it one day . The pics below show...