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One very standard looking Corsa ready for modification. You can see Jamie has already installed an aftermarket exhaust, taillights, and mirrors.

First job is to remove the bonnet, wings, arches bumpers, and all the parts that are to be replaced.

Then graphics are removed with a heat gun.

First job is to de-handle the car. This is done by stripping the paint, fabricating a metal plate and then seam welding the plate into position.

Next the welds are ground flush and the surrounding paint removed for a skim of filler over the whole area to ensure it completely smooth.

The tailgate is being made smooth and this takes the same preparation as the doors and any other smooth or bad boy panel.

Above you can just make out the strip of metal that has been welded to the sill in order to help locate the skirt. The metal has been striped from the front and rear arches in readiness for bonding.

On the left you can see the car once the laminate has been applied to the same panels. It is onto this fibreglass laminate that we will bond the fibreglass arches in a process known as bonding. The bond is so strong that once cured the arches and skirts will have to be destroyed to be removed.

It is here that this car caused us a problem. When the arches and skirts were tried in position they were deemed to be too high from the ground.

After consultation with the customer (we expected him simply to say he was going to lower the car) he requested air suspension. So whilst we were waiting for parts we primed the rest of the shell in order to protect it and so that something was being done on the car whilst waiting.

For many the car really looks like it is getting somewhere once the primer is applied.

As with filler which is best left over night to cure and shrink before being sanded primer is best left for a few days or ideally a week to cure fully before being sanded.

Both products shrink slightly as they cure, by letting them shrink before you sand them it means they have no shrinking to do afterwards which would mean re-doing the sanding job.

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