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Noddy's COTY... hope you guys like pics lol
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 8:17 pm
by Noddy
Re: Noddy's COTY... hope you guys like pics lol
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 9:58 pm
by Noddy
Here are the pics I took of the car while it was up on my mates ramp
http://s1095.photobucket.com/user/pilli ... %20COTY/F1
They frightened the life out of me I can tell you....
But then things went from bad to worse
DEER STRIKE
http://s1095.photobucket.com/user/pilli ... R%20STRIKE
On my way to work , early one morning, I got stuck behind an articulated lorry going up the hill nearby where I live, I was doing 35mph in 3rd gear, and was 1 cars length distance wise away from the lorry, when a deer ran out in front of my car. The bloody thing actually made it across the road, then ran back out, resulting in a knackered bumper, with my air-con radiator in bits
I had owned the car 3 weeks
I bought a new air-con radiator and coolant radiator to get the car movable again and took the car to a club member (Chinna),who has a body shop. He sold me a black pre facelift bumper from his project car, fitted it and sprayed it yellow for me and saved my life
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. We had a long chat about how bad my car was underneath, and because the car was now 3 shades of yellow, a respray.He knew that I had done a bit of research on my car, and I knew I had his support in getting the car back to its original showroom standard condition
Just after the Deer strike, my car went into CMS in Redditch for a full service, cam belt/water pump change,front and rear drop links, and new ARBs all round and after it was discovered that the exhaust pipe from the cat-back to the back box , was the original pipe ( 18 yrs old !!!) a new exhaust.The car was also MOT'd and passed with no advisories and I was in heaven ( for a while).
I took the car to the JAE where we have an annual meet and won Best Standard Car runner up, which totally "blew my mind" as the car was still a rot box as far as I was concerned
Then in 2013, when I had saved up enough money to get the welding done on the car, I took the car back over to Chinna's workshop and told him "save it" no matter the cost because the little rotty bits I had seen when I bought the car were getting pretty bad.....
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Re: Noddy's COTY... hope you guys like pics lol
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 10:51 pm
by Noddy
Re: Noddy's COTY... hope you guys like pics lol
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2014 12:07 am
by SchumieFan
Wow... that's um.... had a hard life... Also your rear camber is out
Re: Noddy's COTY... hope you guys like pics lol
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2014 2:03 am
by Noddy
Thanks for the "heads up" mate
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appreciated
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Re: Noddy's COTY... hope you guys like pics lol
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2014 1:06 pm
by Daniel2019
That doesn't look like factory yellow.
Re: Noddy's COTY... hope you guys like pics lol
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2014 6:38 pm
by destinationtoby
Daniel2019 wrote:That doesn't look like factory yellow.
Probably cos it's not
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couple photos up there ^ of the respray mayte
Re: Noddy's COTY... hope you guys like pics lol
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2014 6:59 pm
by Daniel2019
I know ya parrot
I'm saying the color they put on during the respray isn't the same as factory.
Re: Noddy's COTY... hope you guys like pics lol
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2014 7:18 pm
by destinationtoby
Re: Noddy's COTY... hope you guys like pics lol
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2014 7:59 pm
by Noddy
that is the proper Y77 paint-code ( taken from the boot area of the car )
Re: Noddy's COTY... hope you guys like pics lol
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2014 8:07 pm
by SchumieFan
Did they not just run the paint code through a computer?
Or did they just take a sample from the boot?
Re: Noddy's COTY... hope you guys like pics lol
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2014 9:36 pm
by Noddy
When the rear strut bar was put in the boot, Chinna found the proper colour of the car, he matched it on the paint computer and it came up with a "match" Y77, so the car was resprayed in that colour.The car recieved 5 coats of paint
In 1996 I saw a COTY outside the Shakespeare theatre ( the guy thought I was trying to steal his car!!. You didn't peer into peoples cars like you can now-days guys lol) on foreign plates. It was the first FTO I ever saw, it was as yellow as this one is now.
I know the car looks different in the "spray area" but when the paint dried it came out the right colour, as can be seen when it is alongside other yellow cars
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Re: Noddy's COTY... hope you guys like pics lol
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2014 9:51 pm
by SchumieFan
It looks new... I wouldn't say it looks wrong... but I'd be pissed if they didn't re spray it by the paint code!
I'll probably go a full re spray in a year or so
Re: Noddy's COTY... hope you guys like pics lol
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2014 10:40 pm
by Noddy
All I set out to do was to make my car look like new
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make it look as if it just came out of the factory
To set a standard for others to follow
I spent £780 just on the welding of this car to make it a solid example, then I had it rust treated and then undersealed properly. The respray was a present from my loving wife as I had planned to get the car resprayed next year, when I was satisfied with the car in itself
The underneath of the car is good
The top side of the car is good
Now I can concentrate on my engine bay and start cleaning the engine up. I do not intend to bung on a lot of "bling" bits, just clean the engine so that it is at the same standard as the rest of the car, to make it look as if it too , just came out of the factory. There is a lot of work to do on the car yet to achieve the standard, I am getting there slowly
SchumieFan wrote:It looks new...
Thank-you for that very kind comment mate
I hope to return the compliment in the not too distant future about your own car.
and for all you "yellow haters" go squat on a sharp stick lmao
Re: Noddy's COTY... hope you guys like pics lol
Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 12:33 pm
by PHIL069
Great work you have had done there Noddy.
It's great to see another FTO get some propper lovin'
Your misses must love you to pay for your respray, good to see.
Are you going to takle the engine bay revamp yourself, or pay someone to do it?
I know it's not yellow, but my FTO has had a lot of work done to it, by me
I get a lot of satisfaction doing my own work.
After I resprayed my FTO, I too was smiling like a "Cheshire cat" and still do whenever I look at it.
You should take a look at my threads...
http://ftoaustralia.com/v3/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=25753
http://ftoaustralia.com/v3/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=28648
I know I'm self advertising, but I am a proud Mitsi owner.
Be warned there are a lot of photos.
Re: Noddy's COTY... hope you guys like pics lol
Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 6:34 pm
by SchumieFan
No I meant the paint looks new.
Car looks like rubbish, rust and rot and I have no idea why you preach on about 'showroom' this and 'out of the factory' then you put those seats in... I don't get what you're trying to achieve on here.
I think you need some ritalin
Re: Noddy's COTY... hope you guys like pics lol
Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2014 6:51 pm
by destinationtoby
Re: Noddy's COTY... hope you guys like pics lol
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 10:50 am
by Blue Spirit
Noddy wrote: ↑Fri Jul 18, 2014 8:17 pm
The car is number 35 on the build list, not 33 as earlier stated durrrr
VIN No DE3A0019060
Hi Noddy
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Re the above bit in your first post...
Your COTY VIN code inception was the 53rd. (In numerical order of all COTY VINs)
Your COTY was the 35th in order of build completion (Inc manuals & autos)
BUT, was the 31st
auto COTY build completed.
Trust that helps mate.
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EDIT: PS - re paint comments in thread above, ‘Y77’ is the correct ‘Dandelion Yellow’ paint code for the COTY. (Like the Passion Red FTOs, the colour is susceptible to sun-fade - particularly on the ‘plastic’ parts like bumpers, rear spoiler & mirrors - and the yellow goes ‘creamy’ after time).
Re: Noddy's COTY... hope you guys like pics lol
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 12:12 pm
by bjk
Don't think he's gonna reply to a four year old thread
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Re: Noddy's COTY... hope you guys like pics lol
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2018 12:20 pm
by Blue Spirit
He was around in FTOOC the other day...
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Just giving him a heads up here down under mate
The man with one of his COTYs at Ace Cafe London
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