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[a73uk]

Went to pick up a load of 70`s custom car magazines last night, came out, jumped in the car, had to do a u-turn, reversed into a dark drive... & did this on a low wall that I couldnt see in the mirror...



:bang: Cant remember ever doing anything like that in 20+ years of driving.. I`m so pissed with myself...

So much for keeping the original paint for another 20 years... I`m considering a complete respray now


Also managed to burn my dremel thing on the cooker after turning the wrong ring on within 1/2 an hour of getting home, smoked the place out... my place still stinks of burnt plastic now...



It still works, but the chargers had it..

NOT a good evening...

 

[Ucof]

*hug*

 

[a73uk]

LOL, cheers Ucof,

 

[rawill]

Oh well, narrow roads etc, you have done well to not get into scraps before now.

lets hope this is not the start of a bad run

 

[a73uk]

I`ve crashed before, quite a few times in the first decade of my driving career (although I`ve always been able to drive away after... except when I deliberately rolled a Mk1 Escort...), but I`ve never done such an irritatingly stupid bit of damage when doing such a minor manouver.

20 years my Unos managed with all its original paint & panels... then I go & do this... soooo pissed... I wanted to keep it all original for another 20 years.

That aint happening now...

I`m going to try to do a localised repair, I might be able to get away with it as 99.5% is on the outer lip, but if it still shows then I`m going to strip & respray the whole car.

It better not be the start of a run....

Oh well, narrow roads etc, you have done well to not get into scraps before now.

lets hope this is not the start of a bad run

 

[alexGS]

I have to admit I did laugh out loud at the description of the Dremel thing being burned out when you turned the wrong ring on. The real question here is, what on earth was the Dremel-imitation-tool doing in the kitchen... and on the cooktop...! Time for a kitchen tidy-up methinks

But as for the scrape, oh go on... touch it in with several layers of paint applied by a toothpick over several days, a quick sand with 1500 grit and a polish, and try to forget about it...

It's even more frustrating when you wash your car and notice similar-depth chips in the doors, etc. caused by supermarket carpark damage that weren't there a week ago. All you can do is keep the touch-up paint ready... otherwise you'd be doing full resprays every year or two...

-Alex

 

[a73uk]

To be honest I cant even remember why the dremel thing was there Alex ... I know I did some soldering to a retro VW dash fan on the right rear ring in the afternoon... which is why I had turned the ring up on full, to burn off the flux... oh yeah :idea:, I was modifying a BT home hub phone charger with the dremel earlier on... left it overhanging the left rear ring on the hob... thought I`d turned on the RR ring on, I`d in fact turned the LR ring on... went in the living room to check my email while the ring warmed up... then the smell of burning plastic... & an instantanious white fog decended throughout the place setting off the smoke alarm.... the dremel thing was deposited in the bathroom sink & several fans were turned on to disperse the smoke...

2 stupid things I would never usually do, both within an hour of each other... unbelievable... I blame my currently broken (& hurting) tooth... :bang:

I will attempt to blend it in, but if its not 100% then Ill have to respray or it`ll drive me mad, the paint on my Uno, although exceptionally good for 20, is obviously aged, so new paint on 1 wing will look wrong....

All my cars have been damaged outside, including the Uno (rear bumper had tow bar & scuff damage, NSR light lens was cracked - both thanks to neighbours parking by `feel`- & 1 mirror was kicked off by local chavs), my Jags had even more damage to 1/2 its panels, by the same neighbours & chavs) & is gonna need a respray soon too.

I like my cars looking mint, I`m a bit of an OCD sufferer like that

I did put another rear lens on the Uno`s light, but it was the later, slightly darker tint lens, that also drove me mad, I had the other side dark tint lens, but I prefer the light tint lenses, so, I ended up supergluing the cracked one so both rears matched again...

Check out the tow bar marks in my rear bumper (& the odd tint rear lights before I changed it back) & the kicked off mirror...




OCD... its a right pain in the arse...

I have to admit I did laugh out loud at the description of the Dremel thing being burned out when you turned the wrong ring on. The real question here is, what on earth was the Dremel-imitation-tool doing in the kitchen... and on the cooktop...! Time for a kitchen tidy-up methinks

But as for the scrape, oh go on... touch it in with several layers of paint applied by a toothpick over several days, a quick sand with 1500 grit and a polish, and try to forget about it...

It's even more frustrating when you wash your car and notice similar-depth chips in the doors, etc. caused by supermarket carpark damage that weren't there a week ago. All you can do is keep the touch-up paint ready... otherwise you'd be doing full resprays every year or two...

-Alex

 

[alexGS]

To be honest I cant even remember why the dremel thing was there Alex ... I know I did some soldering to a retro VW dash fan on the right rear ring in the afternoon... which is why I had turned the ring up on full, to burn off the flux...

I think this story is getting worse and worse... :slayer:

oh yeah :idea:, I was modifying a BT home hub phone charger with the dremel earlier on...

The kitchen should be for, err, cooking! Though I'm not the best to advise on that

2 stupid things I would never usually do, both within an hour of each other... unbelievable... I blame my currently broken (& hurting) tooth... :bang:

I will attempt to blend it in, but if its not 100% then Ill have to respray or it`ll drive me mad,

I haven't tried respraying a tooth before.

I did put another rear lens on the Uno`s light, but it was the later, slightly darker tint lens, that also drove me mad, I had the other side dark tint lens, but I prefer the light tint lenses, so, I ended up supergluing the cracked one so both rears matched again...

Check out the tow bar marks in my rear bumper (& the odd tint rear lights before I changed it back) & the kicked off mirror...

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Oh, now then, that looks absolutely SHOCKING doesn't it, with the left indicator so much lighter than the right indicator. After a quick glance for only 30 seconds or so, you can actually SEE the difference!

I'm doing better than that with my 164. One rear taillight has the red-stripes on the indicator, the other taillight has the white-stripes. Amazingly I have to actually point this out to people. Since the red stripes are on the left, I'm thinking of painting the white stripes green (on the right).

I wonder if we should have an Uno Concours competition thread; looks like you'd be in the running for first place.

OCD... its a right pain in the arse...

I couldn't possibly comment.

-Alex

 

[jo0lz]

Call "Chips Away" they could sort that minor scratch out and make it invisible . . .

 

[Ucof]

Say what you see!

I didn't know he'd moved into the car repair trade...

 

[a73uk]

I think this story is getting worse and worse... :slayer:

The kitchen should be for, err, cooking! Though I'm not the best to advise on that

I haven't tried respraying a tooth before.

Oh, now then, that looks absolutely SHOCKING doesn't it, with the left indicator so much lighter than the right indicator. After a quick glance for only 30 seconds or so, you can actually SEE the difference!

I'm doing better than that with my 164. One rear taillight has the red-stripes on the indicator, the other taillight has the white-stripes. Amazingly I have to actually point this out to people. Since the red stripes are on the left, I'm thinking of painting the white stripes green (on the right).

I wonder if we should have an Uno Concours competition thread; looks like you'd be in the running for first place.

I couldn't possibly comment.

-Alex

Leave it out Alex, ALL of us take stuff off our Unos & work on it in our houses, we`ve all had car bits in the bath/sink/oven, if I could I`d put the whole Uno in the bath likea big dog...

And I was cooking... cooking the soldering flux off the cooker.. & as it turns out, cooking dremel things chargers..

I`d fail concours, I aint THAT anal, I`ve just got certain.. um.. standards... & I like balance.. coz balance is most important

I`ve even got a 5th alloy spare so if I have a puncture I wont have an odd spare wheel on (but I havent resprayed it yet).

Theres no way I could have lights that odd though, especially on a 164...

I think Joolzy & me would slightly clash if we did a car up together

 

[a73uk]

If I cant then no one will Joolzy, maybe I`ll end up matt black vinyling it if it doesnt blend

Call "Chips Away" they could sort that minor scratch out and make it invisible . . .

 

[a73uk]

Oh yeah, you should see how he does a respray... although he only does cream cars...

Say what you see!

I didn't know he'd moved into the car repair trade...

 

[alexGS]

Leave it out Alex, ALL of us take stuff off our Unos & work on it in our houses, we`ve all had car bits in the bath/sink/oven, if I could I`d put the whole Uno in the bath likea big dog...

And I was cooking... cooking the soldering flux off the cooker.. & as it turns out, cooking dremel things chargers..

I`d fail concours, I aint THAT anal, I`ve just got certain.. um.. standards... & I like balance.. coz balance is most important

And Balance... Symmetry... Identical Twins... these are all things I like too.

I think Joolzy & me would slightly clash if we did a car up together

That would be brilliant to watch, and an interesting basis for a 'reality TV' show. Maybe you could divide an Uno exactly in half...

-Alex

 

[jo0lz]

I think Joolzy & me would slightly clash if we did a car up together

HoWz about HALF each Matey...
Do you want to decorate
the front half
OR
the rear half?
OR
The nearside?
OR
The offside?


We could produce the FIAT UNO version of this V-DuB [TWo-FaCeD] ScirRrocCco....

It's been in 9 mags last year and had THREE 2nd places (brizzle volksfest/ inters) in car shows

 

[a73uk]

That would be brilliant to watch, and an interesting basis for a 'reality TV' show. Maybe you could divide an Uno exactly in half...
-Alex

The original odd couple eh... lol

I`ve had a couple of rat look cars (that I deliberately did rat look, not just old bangers), I`m sure I`ve put pics of my old `Mad Max` FE Vauxhall up before, I also did a HB Viva matt black, de-bumpered, tinted with lumionous rainbow steels... to match my socks of the time (it was the early 90`s )... plus I lopped the roofs off a Cortina Mk5 & a Fiat Argenta back in the day too I just moved away from that scene (although I had the FE till about 3 years ago), I`m still tempted to do my blue Daimler XJ40 rat look if it doesnt sell (although I`ve really not got the room or time to do it).

Having said all that, I was bought up to look after everything, so if I get a car thats mint (none of the ones I customised were anywhere near perfect), then I`ll keep it mint, which is why I`m so pissed about the Uno`s arch :bang:

 

[alexGS]

with lumionous rainbow steels... to match my socks of the time (it was the early 90`s )

This gets better and better

Having said all that, I was bought up to look after everything, so if I get a car thats mint (none of the ones I customised were anywhere near perfect), then I`ll keep it mint, which is why I`m so pissed about the Uno`s arch :bang:

I know where you're coming from there...

Last century when I was 19, I had a rather tatty FIAT 126 (very rare over here) but I hated its basic quilted dashboard so much, I didn't think it deserved a radio (there was some ancient radio-only two-knob thing but I think it only had one speaker) - so I removed the panel completely, leaving a big rectangular hole. My friend ('jjhepburn' on the forum) kindly provided a broken UFO lamp and I incorporated its fibres sideways into a slightly-flattened, big shiny paint can. Then all I had to do was arrange a colour-changing lamp. In the days before three-colour LEDs, the best way to do that was a (noisy) little motor from some toy, a colour wheel from a party light, and a nice bright halogen bulb (H3 55W).

I then had a wonderful rainbow display of coloured fibres that 'sloshed' from side to side when I went around corners, and was so bright that following motorists could easily see it through the rear window. Obviously some little part of me was trying to come out

The previous owner of this same 126 ditched the headlining (it was sagging) and attached luminous stars to the inside of the dark-blue roof. That was probably why that thing was so noisy but man, did it look cool...!

The outside of the car had been painted in white fence paint when I got it, so I chose a colour I liked - metallic sky blue - and painted it with that. It was the weirdest paint ever, known as a 'one pot metallic', there was no basecoat/clearcoat, it was just thick, shiny metallic. I don't know what it was for or what colour it was. I dried it with a heatgun and got an amazing, radial-ripples effect, as though someone had dropped something into a pool of water on the bonnet - I mean boot lid - oh you know, the lid at the front.

At least there was no way I could ever get a speeding ticket in the 126 (2-cylinder 24bhp engine) - my Mum's Uno 45 was a rocket (I got my first speeding ticket in that) and I graduated to an Uno 60 soon after, which was just so effortlessly fast and smooth, quiet, and had luxuries such as heating AND ventilation at the same time. A button demisted the rear window just as effectively as the rear engine of the 126 did.

I see 17 year olds in England on the Alfa 156 forum and I think, how can they appreciate what the 156 has?

One day I'll find some photos of that 126 and we can compare our cool cars of youth.

-Alex

 

[a73uk]

This gets better and better



The outside of the car had been painted in white fence paint when I got it, so I chose a colour I liked - metallic sky blue - and painted it with that. It was the weirdest paint ever, known as a 'one pot metallic', there was no basecoat/clearcoat, it was just thick, shiny metallic. I don't know what it was for or what colour it was. I dried it with a heatgun and got an amazing, radial-ripples effect, as though someone had dropped something into a pool of water on the bonnet - I mean boot lid - oh you know, the lid at the front.

At least there was no way I could ever get a speeding ticket in the 126 (2-cylinder 24bhp engine) - my Mum's Uno 45 was a rocket (I got my first speeding ticket in that) and I graduated to an Uno 60 soon after, which was just so effortlessly fast and smooth, quiet, and had luxuries such as heating AND ventilation at the same time. A button demisted the rear window just as effectively as the rear engine of the 126 did.

-Alex

I think you need to dig pictures of that one out Alex!

The 126 could have heating & ventilation at the same time, just swivel the front 1/4 lights round!

I`ve had three 126`s, 1 1980 air cooled & 2 water cooled BIS`s, the air cooled one was my 1st `legal` road car as my hot rod HB Viva wasnt finished when I pased my test. I eventually swapped it for an 82 Talbot Samba LS... whoops! :yuck:

One of my BIS`s I badged as a Ferrari & had no trouble cruising at 70, even with three 6`+ friends on board! I even had it off the clock a few times....

Thinking about it, I had 14" Lancia alloys on the rear of the `Ferrari` 126 for a while, but they fouled badly & eventually swapped them back...

I had the Voxon pull out radio in the air cooled one, complete with a single pod speaker on the dash (which I still have!)



I`m not sure how many cars I`ve had, its circa 200, its hard to remember them all, I wish I`d taken pictures of 1/2 of them. I have found some negatives of some, I must try to get a neg scanner..