126 luigi.....by gadge

Gadge, i recognize that name.. are you on club126 by any chance?

certainly am! spreading my wings over here a bit

Looks like it's coming along nicely. I really need to get mine sorted out too.

i've decided to really go for it this year. i've been lazy the last year or so, so not much has happen. its one thing saying your gonna do a resto, but actually doing its another!! and once its gets on top of you and you stop, it takes ages to get going again! but hopefully by christmas, he'll have a face and be running!

quick update, put the first lick of primer on before i weld the front panel and wings on. never spayed with a gun and compressor before so took a few coats to set it up right, but i think i'm getting the hang of it now?

and the welding finally gets started...........

Getting there.
Can't wait to see it when it's finished.

decided along time ago that the area below the windscreen was a little too cluttered for my liking so i decided to do something about it so i'm going for a single wiper conversion, reducing the washer jets from two to one, move the ariel to the roof and covering up the blank dummy airvent hole on the passenger side. in the first photo you can aready see that i've relocated the wiper arm to the centre of the windscreen panel.

ok more work done and after an unexpected hole turned up under the wheel arch and then a compressor failure, work pretty much ground to a stand still however I persevered on and finally finished the luggage compartment ....... I'm not gonna say its the best paint job in the world but I'm very pleased with it so its a pat on the back for me and on to the next stage....... getting it started


....... what a lovely surprise!


primered up ready


three coats later and plenty of rubbing compound later and it came up lovely


then cleaned up the heater assembly re-wrapped the wiring harness and fitted it all back. nice one

I had no idea you had this little gem!

can't wait to see luigi finished!

Oh yeah .......... He was dragged out of a stable from a very grand house just outside of coventry. The front end had suffered minor accident damage, the wing had a hole the size of a fist, the head lining was sagging, the drivers seat collapsed it wouldn't start and it had no brakes........ So naturally I had to have it! Lol

That was in jan 2006 and I've been dropping on and off it ever since

Keep it up! I want to see this done sand at one of our shows!

That's the plan bud, hoping next year it should've been finished now though tbh lol

after a lot of head scratching, I decided it was time to sort the inner wheel arch hole that I had been avoiding. the hole in question I had known about for quite some time however it wasn't until I removed the strengthening panel that the full exstent of the hole was revealed and as I thought it was a lot worse than expected...... I dusted the angle grinder off and got stuck in.......

Once the old metal was cut back a template was made using a piece of old card board and I cut a shape out of and old bonnet I had lying around and trimmed it to shape and before long I'd managed to get it just right and welded into position. A new strengthening plate was ordered from Germany and before long that too was in its place.

then with sealing compound liberally applied and a good dose of underseal blasted over it, which I also managed blast over the side of my face.... (you can only imagine what that was like to get out of my hair ) It was then left to dry for a few days and then sprayed over with some top coat red. I then stood back and admired

while I was at it I also got round to cleaning up the second pair of calipers that I'd bought (the first pair being unserviceable) and giving them a lick of paint too, the choice being silver as who am I kidding painting them red . these pair should be familiar to some as they are off a MK2 punto

yesterday I thought I'd turn my attention to the front leaf spring. in the early days of the project I had discarded this spring into the darkest corner of my garage and acquired a modified spring which came off an old bliz buggy project off eBay. it had a few leafs removed lowering the ride height however over the years I've decided that it might be a tad light at the front and may even be dangerous so I went back to the dark corner and dug out the original leaf which by now had suffered its time in solitary confinement quite poorly (turned out that corner also had damp) so it required a through clean up. while I was there I also changed the bushes in the eyelets, and as always with bushes one came out nicely on the bench press the other was quite happy to stay where it was so the blow torch dealt with that. With the new ones quickly pressed into place its wasn't long before the leaf was reunited back on the car after 4 years . next up is to replace both hubs and refit the disc/calipers and get it back on its wheels

dude you soo need to tow this behind the stilo just for a epic pic . a Fast red Stilo towing a small red fiat lol

looks like your making progress Y)

Cheers buddy I'm hoping one day it might take pride of place in front of the forum tent next year

Progress has been slow over the years but now I've finished the luggage compartment it's picking up ace alittle

were you live its only fuel and ill be down to help

jatkinson said:

were you live its only fuel and ill be down to help

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cheers buddy your a good un i live about 10 mins from Stanford hall so quite far from you