Cobra,Impreza,Dimma, BMW
Hi all, just registered so not too fimiliar with the site.
Firstly, where can i buy trims etc for building up the car, roof trims, window rubbers, manifold heatshield etc?
Owned a clio 16v Dimma since January 96 when it was 1 year old. Originally dark blue and standard apart from the kit. Lowered it, had it smoothed and painted in Imperial blue which really showed off the curves of the car. It has the 17" compomotives on it and use to be in Max P many years ago, a double feature with the Williams but at that time mine was standard. Got the interior all decked out with Recaro Speeds and re-trimmed in black and blue Nappa leather with an alcantara dash. A few years back, I was travelling down to Isle of Man and aqua-planed off the motorway in extremely heavy rain. The car spun off down a ditch and took off the front bumper, bonnet dented but the worst damage was i took out a stumpy tree on the passenger side door so obviously that was wrecked and the side sill and roof had slightly caved in to the sun roof section. Got a pay out of 12k and bought it back for £1800. Spent £600 getting the roof and sill cheaply fixed, a new door and standard bumper. Stripped it out, caged it and put in buckets and harnesses with a side-exit exhaust which just constatly blew massive flames. Anyway, the pic i have posted is one driving round Knockhill a couple of years back. The car is now being restoed to its former glory and turning into a show car again to tuck away in my garage. My track car is now a scooby which i imported and again stripped etc and weekend car is an AC Cobra which replaced a Plymouth Prowler.
Anyway, hope to scan loads of old pics in to show you guys all the different stages this thing has been through and hopefully we will see a happy ending again as it rolls out the garage doors gleaming again. I told the garage just to think of it as a long term project, no rush but its been nearly four years, anyway, as i said no rush.
Wheels to go back to silver of course.
Cheers,
Matthew
Firstly, where can i buy trims etc for building up the car, roof trims, window rubbers, manifold heatshield etc?
Owned a clio 16v Dimma since January 96 when it was 1 year old. Originally dark blue and standard apart from the kit. Lowered it, had it smoothed and painted in Imperial blue which really showed off the curves of the car. It has the 17" compomotives on it and use to be in Max P many years ago, a double feature with the Williams but at that time mine was standard. Got the interior all decked out with Recaro Speeds and re-trimmed in black and blue Nappa leather with an alcantara dash. A few years back, I was travelling down to Isle of Man and aqua-planed off the motorway in extremely heavy rain. The car spun off down a ditch and took off the front bumper, bonnet dented but the worst damage was i took out a stumpy tree on the passenger side door so obviously that was wrecked and the side sill and roof had slightly caved in to the sun roof section. Got a pay out of 12k and bought it back for £1800. Spent £600 getting the roof and sill cheaply fixed, a new door and standard bumper. Stripped it out, caged it and put in buckets and harnesses with a side-exit exhaust which just constatly blew massive flames. Anyway, the pic i have posted is one driving round Knockhill a couple of years back. The car is now being restoed to its former glory and turning into a show car again to tuck away in my garage. My track car is now a scooby which i imported and again stripped etc and weekend car is an AC Cobra which replaced a Plymouth Prowler.
Anyway, hope to scan loads of old pics in to show you guys all the different stages this thing has been through and hopefully we will see a happy ending again as it rolls out the garage doors gleaming again. I told the garage just to think of it as a long term project, no rush but its been nearly four years, anyway, as i said no rush.
Wheels to go back to silver of course.
Cheers,
Matthew
