Q300 OBP Coming back to life
Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 9:15 pm
Q300 OBP is the Gold Coupe that we are rebuilding for Desmond Gorman. The car itself was known to MOC members as the Grey Coupe belonging to Becky Falstein. It passed through another owners hands, who whipped the original 1380cc engine (for a GTM I'm told) and never fitted the standard 1275cc replacement.
Pic004 by Alistair Courtney, on Flickr Before starting work.
Desmond didn't like the original grey colour and wanted something more vibrant, so a full respray was in order. He also didn't like the leaky old sunroof, with its rotten seals and rusty clips. In fact Desmond wanted a solid roof and the best way to do that is to mould the roof in place. So the first job was to make a mould for filling in the sunroof. Fortunately, I now have a Mk3 Coupe of my own, waiting for its own rebuild (someday!), and it does have a solid roof so the roof was polished up and used as the plug for a new roof mould.
The rest of the car was not as smart, but I still didn't want to cover it with splashes of resin so I masked off the rest of the car with plastic sheeting and then layed up the mould in the traditional way: First the roof got six coats of wax, then I applied two layers of gelcoat - I figured that I would probably be using this mould again - before laminating with six layers of CSM and a section of coremat for extra rigidity.
Pic004 by Alistair Courtney, on Flickr Before starting work.
Desmond didn't like the original grey colour and wanted something more vibrant, so a full respray was in order. He also didn't like the leaky old sunroof, with its rotten seals and rusty clips. In fact Desmond wanted a solid roof and the best way to do that is to mould the roof in place. So the first job was to make a mould for filling in the sunroof. Fortunately, I now have a Mk3 Coupe of my own, waiting for its own rebuild (someday!), and it does have a solid roof so the roof was polished up and used as the plug for a new roof mould.
The rest of the car was not as smart, but I still didn't want to cover it with splashes of resin so I masked off the rest of the car with plastic sheeting and then layed up the mould in the traditional way: First the roof got six coats of wax, then I applied two layers of gelcoat - I figured that I would probably be using this mould again - before laminating with six layers of CSM and a section of coremat for extra rigidity.