Ouch. I see what you mean about it not looking too bad at first glance though! Remember to save the red strip from that bumper!

cheers

James

i recon you can either fix that bumper with a bit of work, or failing that you'd be able to remove the red stripe, and put it on another bumper

All the fixings that hold the bumper iron to the bumper sheared off in the impact so the old bumper is completely knackered , I have saved the red strip although it has one small break in it I should be able to re use it.

have a good look - it might be that the fixings sheared off, but they are (iirc) maybe just bolts that can be replaced?

Redline, do you need the indicators too?

i'd imagine indicators are salvagable, as you can remove them from the bumpers pretty easily

the pasenger side indicator has never fitted properly, it just sort of hangs there so I could do with a new one for that side

decided on a cheap way to hide the small dent on the leading edge of the bonnet (which is all that remains of the crash damage to the car ) I am going to get the guy who did the window stickers to make me a set of bonnet stripes like the ones Ford fitted to what was arguably the best hot hatch ever made the RS1600i. there will be seven stripes across the raised part of the bonnet spaced 1/4 inch apart and decreasing in width the front one will be 1 and 3/4 inches wide going down to the last which will be 1/4 wide might even get him to put a red line between the first and second stripe to keep the redline theme going. watch this space !!!

Like this...?



Hmm...the jury is still out on how it'd look...but someone has to try it I guess!

cheers

James

yeah but as the bodywork is grey the stripes would be in black

You want to have the same bonnet as special, that's the truth!!

Err that would be a no !!! LOL sorry special

Wow - I reckon the car will look great with the bonnet stripes on, Redline! The one feature of 1980's cars that I love is the liberal use of pinstripes - particularly the Redline SE. Somewhere I have an unused Volvo 'Back-flash' which goes on the rear window, like what early XR2's etc had. Very tacky by modern standards, but very 'of its day!'
*Fab* that the car's been given a new lease of life too...

Is that the slitted black cover of the rear screen? If so I reckon you could have a sale on your hands to someone on here - I think redline quite liked it himself!

Steve

dont know how it would look with that lovely rear window sticker that sits at the top of my rear screen , I nearly bought that 345 off ebay just for the rear window louvre but that would have obscured the forum sticker, I love old school no matter how tacky (have you seen my xmas lights by the way ? LOL ), still want a set of black centre alloys with silver rims (some old golfs had them ) or mambas, I am getting some redline badges for the front wings ( to go below the volvo ones )and want to replace the little volvo badges with the larger ones used on the boot might squeeze in a 340 and a 1.7 badge as well (better than the stack stickers on the front doors of boy racers cars ) The spots are going to be replaced when I get an original front bumper and a pair of fogs are going under the bumper (why dont I just buy a mk2 escort and have done with it