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Decided to stick with the classic ATS alloys, although they are 13inch deep dish and taking into consideration

the colour of the car I stole this idea from the net, this should go nice with my colour contrast!

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Well as you all saw in previous pictures, the engine bay was looking quite good ( a thing of buty ) but looks can be decieving!

the blooming thing would not start and after several sore heads of establishing the fault I cant believe that I trusted someone else to refit the cylinder head and they so kindly horsed the rockers down tight! NO COMPRESSION, all the valves fully open, only myself to blame though!!!!!!!!

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oh well! I suppose it gives me time to fit the correct plate and fuel pump bracket while I'm wating on the cylinder head returning. I cant believe how hard it was to try and locate this bracket, they all seem to rotten but there is a " scrappie " breaking a manta coupe on ebay and the guy kindly cut it off for me and posted it including the pump for £60, what a bargain I thought!

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another wee job out of the way!

oh well! the bold Drew from Ambleside comes up trumps again! another wee visit down and yet again I dont leave empty handed, not only do I get a genuine Irmcher boot spoiler for the old girl but wait for it!!!! a GENUINE 3 PIECE ASCONA 400 FRONT BUMPER, bring it on, TOYS FOR BOYS!

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Looking good !

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Its taking shape now.

400 bumper away getting painted folks, pictures on its return

I've got group 4 security looking after it!!!!!

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Looking really, really nice.

How are you going to decal it?

Bearing in mind its a 4 door, how about Ascona Sport Decals for a change, that would look different?

I'm not really bothered about decals as the framework round the 4 doors is painted black and the door handles are also black, so added engelman mirrors will all show a nice enough contrast to the car.

cheers Paul

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Oh well guys I thought that due to the horrible weather that we have have been getting this summer I decided that the caravan should come in handy!!!! no better place to build the Ascona doors ;)

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hope the wife doesnt read this forum though LOL!

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door no 2 getting stripped to tranfer onto new one

what about this door panel then?

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used to be a manta panel, now its all trimed fits perfect on the Ascona

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GTE seats fitted in, a big improvement from the horrible red ones that were original in the car.

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finanly managed to get the car back on its rubbers again after finishing the fuel lines and got it out into the sunshine to fit the long awaited doors B)

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pity I forgot to pick the wings up from storage :wacko:

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unfortunately thats all I have just now folks, need to fabricate a bracket for the 400 bumper B)

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