Anyway i'll see how kind the tax man is to me. My family friend sais to me he can't and doesn't have time to fix my panel damage and respray everything that i would like [:u], so he pointed me in the direction of another long life friend who has a Paint & Panel shop on the Coast that is excellant at matching Metalic paint. I got a quote from another guy up near my work to just to see the differance in cost of quotes . Well first quote is $1700. And thats to spray my front spoiler and rear J skirt , spray front and rear two tone bumpers again , remove all dents in mumerous locations and fix the panel damage and damage where J skirt attaches, plus respray Drivers door where it has been buffed back to metal allmost. My Friends mate will do indenticle work for $1200 which im happy with.So the wheels might have to wait just a little longer.

that seem exspensive compared with what i had done, rear 1/4 panel cut and a new panel welded in and painted, sideskirts painted and mirror painted all for $800.

Pete's at work at the moment so he can't post up pics, but he just sent me these via MMS..

I'll let him explain the changes in detail:





Looks awesome Peter!!

Hey Thanx Shiv :)

I finally got the car back from the spray painters after a week in lymbo. They went over the whole thing. Front and rear bumpers painted and clear coated.New pin stripes. Fixed all panel damage. Front spoiler resprayed and side skirt which was fixed too. All shopping dents taken out and whole drivers side re-done.they also painted the eyelids and the bonnet to i think, plus polished and buffed to a high sheen :) car looks like new.Very happy with the work. i payed grand in cash. As well i got a new 3-point self arming imobiliser with the added wind-up window mechanism fitted. Didnt want the hassel of a siren or the back up siren.The 3-point was a Rhino because of the faltless remotes and the auto wind up feature of a Mongoose. Can add a turbo timer if needed HAA HAAA lmao.

Next on the list saving for some Konig Rewinds, as i have just bought our first home , so the wife would kill me if i came sporting home with new wheels.LOL seriously!

here are some old pics of the Damage >

Finally.... my cusco strut brace has arrived from japan. $211.00 Auzy dollars to my door. Not bad seeing local importers were going to charge me $250, Plus the chance of finding a second hand one is near impossible.I just took off my cooler and my rear strut nuts and fitted the cusco strut brace and tightened it all up, put cooler back on and took some very happy snap shots for you to see.

looks fantastic, and you got alot of panel work done for the price, wd.

(the brace is sweet too)

Finally back on after all these years.
 

Wish my pics were still here.

I'll see if I can recover them for you

Admin I have done everything to come in as my original name MR2-GZE although it has been over 10 years since I used it, plus I changed my email address in those years which is no longer available -peterjdart@hotmail.com . If you look in my old profile you will see my name as Peter De'Catania and my current email is
decatania@gmail.com Could you help me to use my old nic  MR2-GZE please?