Opel GT

Restaurering 2006:
Week 16: Transport to the painter. The painters starts priming and polishing
Week 17: First layer of paint, extra layers of clear cellulose paint and transport home
Week 18: We mount everything
Week 19: We treat with rust-prevention and make new carpeting
Week 20: Finishing of the carpeting and the very last mounting
FINISHED - Jesper's confirmation 25 May 2006!

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	April 2006, week 16: Ready for the painters. It was not easy to load it onto the truck since it has such a long "nose", but Max has made some wedges ready.
	Here drives an expectant Tiny Honk to the painter. The weather had been very unstable that day, but it was dry while he was transported and until pushed inside.
	Tiny Honk got his own corner besides the big, nasty, modern cars. All the 160 mechanics visited him every day to see the progress of the work.
	Peter and John in action. Our priming was nothing to their professional touch. Note that they use the tip of a finger - nothing was left to coincidence.
	Here it is painted with a special paint that discovers all irregularities.
	The old blue paint shone through.
	Allan is doing real handwork. It was really lovely work.
	They full primed three times and in three colours, very smart.
	A dull grey GT, but it will soon be much better.
	April 2006, week 17: The first photo shows my "test colour". It was hard to decide which colour was best from the tiny colour scraps, so I asked for a test on a larger part.
	It was perfect. It is a beautiful colour that lives with the light. It glitters and is very red in sunlight, gets darker during the day and ends looking like wine-red in the evening.
	It stayed a week to dry. Thereafter, it was polished again and then it got two more layers of cellulose paint. It is really shiny!
	I baked a marzipan cake for the painters to thank them. It was more difficult to form a GT from marzipan than I thought, but the logo is perfect - it says: "GThanks".
	Tiny Honk on his way home again. That happy smile is just heart warming!
	Right after it had been unloaded a lot of "boys" came to look and admire it.
	May 2006, week 18: We start mounting. Dad had came for the weekend to help. There's not much space in a GT for two grown up men.
	Max cuts the wiring system and makes a new one. He has some wirings to choose from behind him.
	Dad repairs the exhaustion suspending. The rear lights were not much red any longer, so we painted them with a red speedmarker.
	One of the endings of the rear bumpers were broken. Dad moulded it in plastic material, polished, drilled the holes again and painted it black - now no one can see that it has ever been broken.
	I polish all vinyl black several times, it was very faded. Every tiny little corner was treated with rust prevention. Mounting of the doors.
	One of the window systems were broken so we made a new one from electricity wire. We became very creative. Yours truly is still colouring the vinyl ...
	Max primes and remakes the tank ventilation so it does not spill when I turn. I measure the old dull mats - we had to order special carpets.
	The mounting of the teetering front lights "only" took four evenings. We had to watch our steps not to scratch anything. "Painted by John and Peter - no guarantee". :)
	May 2006, week 19: Everything is treated with rust prevention. My dear and very sexy favourite mechanic! :)
	I still tighten, glue and colour ... Even the "huge" trunk is painted.
	The doors are mounted with water drainage as on newer cars. I clean and polish the rims.
	We start working on the carpeting. First we made sound insulation which we used as a pattern for the real mats.
	The pattern is drawn on the carpets and both parts are glued together.
	May 2006, week 20: We are impressed by our carpeting skills. Everything is nice, new and does not smell of old cigarette smoke.
	A rotten side lining. Our deadline was my nephew Jesper's confirmation 25 May - we love deadlines. The night before we glued on the logos.
	25. maj 2006 FINISHED!!! Here we are - the proud confirmand and the not less proud owner of Tiny Honk.
	The fathers stared and the son's were envious! A father said: "You would like to be driven home in that one!?". But it was Jesper who was the lucky one. Max carried him at his christnening and I drove him at his confirmation, so now I am godmother, Jesper says.
	We played Marilyn Manson's edition of "Tainted Love" loud, while we drove away. Jesper is a teenager who is hard to impress, but while driving away from the church he said: "Here I drive in the coolest car in the world listening to Marilyn Manson".
	... happy ending! :) Perhaps I will post more photos of Tiny Honk's future adventures.
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2008-05-20