Hard days grafting today fitting back all the odds and sods, for example took me an age to fit the side repeater lenses due to the old retaining clips being fubar'ed, managed to find some ickle nuts that would just about screw onto the plastic mounting pins on the back. Seemed to work really well, but another hour wasted. I really do wish I was back in the UK for the ease of sourcing all those little extras that I don't think to order in time.
Anyway tried to fit the newly modified rear bumper and found I made a bit of a mistake with the design so had to hacksaw a slip of steel off each side near the end to stop it interfereing with the rear 1/4 panels, would have been dead easy to snip off with the disk cutter but I didn't want to ruin whatever paint finish I had got.
Why did I use 3mm that's another hour I won't get back, on top of the time it took me to fiddle the rear door exterior handles back on. And now the central locking wont work on one of the rear doors.

Should with luck get most of it done tomorrow, so might get some pickkies done in the sunshine. Not that she needs sunshine to look good.

Just about finished stage one today, the trouble with a little bit of knowledge and a lot of self confidence is that all too often I'll try doing something and it's only when I've done it I realise there was an easier way.
This has taken me an age to put back together, alright I spent a couple of hours faffing about getting one of the rear doors to lock on the central locking, that I can cope with but this mornings adventure was bleedin typical. Before I put the door cards back on I thought - as you do - it was a good idea to make sure everything worked. OK central locking now working albeit a bit sluggish on one rear door, try the window on the door button, nothing, bummer, works alright off the ctr console, just not on the door button so an obvious fault with the button. Very carefully, expecting to get a face full of springs etc take button apart over a bit of scrap white worktop, seems to be all working just a little bit discoloured around the contacts. Manage to clean everything up, reassemble and fit and it still wont bleedin work. Sit in the front trying the console buttons, yes everything works - just a minute what does this button do? It's the overide for the rear windows NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!
Flicked the overide switch and of course the door buttons work. Thats yet another 1 1/2 hours I'll not get back. I just can't believe what a total bleedin cod - portion I can be at times.

Anyway here she is at last.
looking good against the sunflowers over the road

The colour is from an old Alfa colour chart, the screen gives it a slight green tinge on here which is false.

Certainly wont have trouble finding her in a car park, now I'm getting used to it I do really like the colour, bit different to all the grey (50 shades of ) euro-boxes on the roads today, who needs drl's.

And on my screen at least that is a better shot of the colour, certainly on the bonnet.

And of course her name is "BUTTERCUP" yyaaaayyyy.

Did the paint come with sunglasses for free. Very nice, black mudflaps and side steps ?

**** me - you painted it yellow!!! I am now going to watch tennis!

It looks great............................your garage.

Personal choice and the freedom to do what you desire is a wonderful thing, but why yellow?
I'm searching for the antihistamines,

frog hopper said:

Just about finished stage one today, the trouble with a little bit of knowledge and a lot of self confidence is that all too often I'll try doing something and it's only when I've done it I realise there was an easier way.
This has taken me an age to put back together, alright I spent a couple of hours faffing about getting one of the rear doors to lock on the central locking, that I can cope with but this mornings adventure was bleedin typical. Before I put the door cards back on I thought - as you do - it was a good idea to make sure everything worked. OK central locking now working albeit a bit sluggish on one rear door, try the window on the door button, nothing, bummer, works alright off the ctr console, just not on the door button so an obvious fault with the button. Very carefully, expecting to get a face full of springs etc take button apart over a bit of scrap white worktop, seems to be all working just a little bit discoloured around the contacts. Manage to clean everything up, reassemble and fit and it still wont bleedin work. Sit in the front trying the console buttons, yes everything works - just a minute what does this button do? It's the overide for the rear windows NNNNNOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!
Flicked the overide switch and of course the door buttons work. Thats yet another 1 1/2 hours I'll not get back. I just can't believe what a total bleedin cod - portion I can be at times.

Anyway here she is at last.View attachment 127564
looking good against the sunflowers over the road
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The colour is from an old Alfa colour chart, the screen gives it a slight green tinge on here which is false.
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Certainly wont have trouble finding her in a car park, now I'm getting used to it I do really like the colour, bit different to all the grey (50 shades of ) euro-boxes on the roads today, who needs drl's.
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And on my screen at least that is a better shot of the colour, certainly on the bonnet.

And of course her name is "BUTTERCUP" yyaaaayyyy.

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Looks good mind you, bet you will be pleased to get completed

It's...striking

Well I wasn't expecting that, hope swmbo likes it?

freelance said:

Well I wasn't expecting that, hope swmbo likes it?

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the colour is always a contentious subject, bet the car looks really good in the flesh. I have to agree with Tony e, a bit of black on there will give the yellow a crisper look. The paint job looks really good and your hard work shows

I actually like it.! Good choice

You're right, you'll never lose it in the car park. Enjoy

Ahh you've painted it in my favourite colour!

I had a 89 vogue 2.4 trb'd in 2005 she was a lovely beast, bit slow but oodles of FUN!!

Enjoy her

You do realise that it will be dubbed 'the yellow peril' or then & again perhaps not in France
Job well done, now enjoy !

A few things (a lot) still to do, dinitrol kit sat ready in the workshop for me to do the underside, gona refresh the a/b/c pillars with satin black. Have a very tatty pair of exterior sill finishers to do something with, might just fab up some steel 40mm box or something like that. I shall clean up and replace the body mouldings?/rubbing strips in another couple of weeks once the paint is fully hard. Need to make a decision about the colour of the wheels, as I see it I have 3 choices body colour - bit over the top, black - maybe, or I think might be better in silver/alloy.
Took her out for the first time yesterday, picked up our neighbours to go to a do, they were very complementary about the colour once they had stopped laughing, then of course the drivers window just would not open and on the way back the front interior light didn't want to play, and the clock bulb was out. All fixed today, window and courtesy light just poor connections. Then the doris complained ( well she said it was a suggestion) that the seat belt clips in the back were digging into her arris and could I do something about it. Ended up fabbing some little brackets to twist them through 90 deg, job done.

Something I need to get done by the pro's is to check over and gas up the air-con, a long way past my limited capabilities.

Mulcaster1 said:

the colour is always a contentious subject, bet the car looks really good in the flesh. I have to agree with Tony e, a bit of black on there will give the yellow a crisper look. The paint job looks really good and your hard work shows

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Thanks for that, my hard work was just a bit of faffing about prepping and trying to read my notes on how to put it all back together, cardboard boxes and zip bags were a godsend.

The real hard work was all down to Dale my mate the bodywork expert. Well done him.