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Hi all after a long wait, this is the start of my long await rebuild of Q115 OCR. I’m new to Midas but have been working with the help of Alistair over the last two years to dismantle the car and start preparing it for it’s rebuild. As I have been living in France until recently it’s taken time as I was waiting to move house and get a garage for the project. My intention is to catalogue the process here as I start to rebuild the car.
As you are all probably well versed in the process of restoring Midas Gold coupes I won’t bore you with the dismantling which has taken place, so here goes!
Once the car was dismantled Alistair and I identified the work that needed to be done before repainting the car could start.
This is the car at the start. Identifying bodywork problems.

Part 2.
The main problem was damage to the front nearside which in the end needed a new section fabricated. Once the damage was cut out Alistair noticed that there was also damage to the internal structure of the engine bay that need repairing before the new section could be grafted in.

Part 3.
New section grafted in. Alistair did a great job! After the repairs where all completed there were a few jobs that needed to be done before sending car off to be painted like altering the aperture for the mgf filler cap and also enlarging the hole for the new sunroof that will be fitted. That all for tonight folks. Tomorrow moving the car to the painters and the first stages of the painting process.
Hope you will enjoy watching the project ‘Restoration Q115 OCR’ as much as I’m looking forward to doing it. I’m sure I will have lots of question to ask along the way of you seasoned builders but together we should get this car back on the road, where it should be.

I wish you all the best with your project and look forward to your updates, that reminds me I must get round to updating my own MK3 project.

Part 4.
After a long but necessary wait moving day finally came and we loaded the car onto Alistair’s trailer for the short journey to the Paint shop. The first stage was flating the whole car for the first primer coat.

Part. 5
Then stone chip was added for that extra bit of protection. Followed by primer and then final filling of all those tiny imperfections. That’s it for tonight. Tomorrow the first peak at the final colour when all the door shuts, arch and engine bay are painted and lacquered.

Part 6.
Sorry folk for the delay things got a bit busy. So here it is the first few shots of the door shuts. These photo are of the base colour coat without lacquer.

Part 7.
And now with some lacquer. For those who are interested the colour is a Ford colour used mainly on the Fiesta range but I have seen it on others and it’s called Copper Pulse.
I have more photos of the process but I’m going to see the next stage at the weekend when hopefully the whole car will be almost completed. So I’ll be back soon with another update.

Looks amazing already, a bit of paint transforms them.

Thanks Stuart, Yes the colour is a bit out there but I thought I would try bringing the Midas colour range into the 21st century . We’ll see how it look when it’s complete. More pictures coming soon.

Ian