As a lot of people, I’m looking forward to have a nice summer. Some good weather, and everything seems perfectly in order. Get a nice color, a nice sight in the city of all the nice women ( my girlfriend luckely knows I’m trustworthy ).

But besides a passion for ICT and women (specially my girlfriend, a little bit sucking up to here can’t be harmfull), there is a third thing…beautifull cars. That’s why I bought a ’79 Triump Spitfire 1500 TC last year. The idea came when a friend of mine bought a Spitfire Mk4. When I saw it, I was completly away from the nice design. That’s why I wanted to have one too. So the search began, and I got lucky, only after 3 weeks, I had my own Spitfire.

As a lot of oldtimers, there is still some hard work to do, to get the car in a perfect condition. Especially if you don’t want to spend to mutch money on it. But I like a challenge, and with some knowledge about cars, I started to give my beauty a nice makeover. The first thing I had to do, was reviewing the bodywork. That was in a poor condition. The previous owner had allready done the bodywork a few years ago, but it wasn’t done properly. He had covered the hood with “mastiek” like we call it Dutch. But he covered it with too mutch, and becouse of the heat of the engine, it started to crack. Their where also some places where the paint started to come off + a dend in the passenger door. Below, I have posted some pics so you can see the state it was in when I bought the car.

As you can all see, the car can realy use a new paint job. The interior has had its best time and the hard top needs to be renewed. Well, only the windows need to be renewed, but I bargained for a new one, so I will allways have this one as a spair, once I redo the windows. I didn’t fix the dend, just bought a second hand Spitfire door . Also the chrome needs to be redone and also the plastic bumperstops and grill will be replaced with a chrome one. And offcourse, new rimms. So I started to strip the car and remove the old paint.

I didn’t want to do the paint job myself, so I asked someone to do it for me, since that takes a lot a patient, and I didn’t do something like that before. The car is still in the garage, waiting for its paint job becouse the guy wanted to review the car totaly before starting to paint it. I still have to chose the color. I’m going for red again, but haven’t desided on what kind of red. The only thing I know for sure is that I want 2 white racing stripes going from the front to the back of the car, just to give it a better look.

After the body work, I will start redoing the electricity circuits and interiour. So when I get the car back, I will post some more pics and tell about my progress.

Hope you enjoy the pics, I know it is not mutch at the moment, but it will come