swallowtail goodness

[Preen59]

"Flipper Blue" from memory

No thats a Type 3 colour. The Golf blue is different. It's a little darker. Can't remember the name of it though, haha. Flipper Blue is an awesome colour too, though!

[Peter Jones]

Florida Blue.



Pete

[Preen59]

Once again, Pete comes to the rescue! We'd all be screwed without you!

[mollins]

says its "miami blau" on the shell... close though...

thanks for posting pics aydan!

[mollins]

If you check out this pic you can see some idiot has siliconed around the windscreen. This causes it to rust...



we pulled out the windscreen and cleaned up the seal, there was rust all the way along the bottom edge, with holes varying in size from 2 to 10mm in diamet

thanks to aydan and his ebay welder for the help... this rust is now goneski.. it was filled and ground back to flat. then tidied up with some filler.

The windscreen was fun (read:dreadful) to get back in again.. I would love to hear how others do it, but i recommend you park the car on the flat when trying this. Push some 2-3mm diameter string into the seal then mount the base of the windscreen into the shell. Then, while keeping pressure on the glass near the seal, pull the string out from the inside of the car.

then if the windscreen is close to going in once all the seal has caught the outside of the shell, but just poking out a bit, drive up a gutter with one wheel to twist the chassis slightly, then push the windscreen in further. Then repeat with the other side. worked for us.

next job is to to fix the interior...

[DUB 20V]

it helps if you use a lube (inox) on the nylon string as it makes the rubber also softer to get in there.

[Jarred]

the window guy didn't need any curbs. he used slightly thicker "string", ie almost rope, and plenty of soap spray stuff (lube] and just worked his way around,

managed to do it all by himself, in bugger all time really..

[Valver.]

says its "miami blau" on the shell... close though...

thanks for posting pics aydan!

Yes, that's it. The Florida blue is a paler one in the flesh... don't think it appeared on any MK1s not made in Germany either

[mollins]

the window guy didn't need any curbs. he used slightly thicker "string", ie almost rope, and plenty of soap spray stuff (lube] and just worked his way around,

managed to do it all by himself, in bugger all time really..

yeah i think the problem was, when we fisrt did it, the car was parked on an angle across aydans driveway. so we were fighting it from the start. I suggested this only as an option if you have pulled out all the string and you are too close to pop it out and start again. More lube probably would have been a good idea also.

Cheers

Mike

[Ryan No.2]

Looking, and Souning good. Can't wait for the updates.