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Mitchell
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in 2005 i bought a little yellow lupo as a run around while i fitted a polo gti motor into a mk1 golf it all spiralled out of control as soon as i handed my money over :rolleyes: as they allway's do anyway i had a massive 23 page thread on this build until it all went wrong, since then i have went from lupo to lupo with the idea to make one of them the next show car but all along the 1st one sat in the garage and i did'nt have a clue what to do with it, i started stuff then got sidelined by another car and 3 more loops followed with a few more cars aswell, anyway i have decided enough it's sat long enough and over winter i am going to fully rebuild it.

i am going to trawl photobucket for pics of the car from purchase and through the many look's it's had. bare with me. :lol:

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then 3 weeks after completion and day before feature :(

whilst parked up at a shopping centre the car had an electrical fire around the fuel rail area this cracked the screen and melted the laminate, looks bad but really just cosmetic stuff bonnet melted /engine harness /cover anyway insured correctly and the inspector came out and said that they did not have a bodyshop that would take on the car so agreed cash in lieu of repair ,so i get the cash and repair it myself, so cash came and i spanked it all on the engine :lol::)

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so everything out and this is where i decided to go all out in the engine bay with deleted engine mounts and undermounting along with fabricating a new cradle and front cradle, rain tray removed ,heaters removed,all brackets etc gone.

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engine in with no visible upper mounting and lots of space.

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buy sheets of 0.8mm steel and box weld all the chassis leg's and skim, weld up entire bulk head and remove rain tray

and heater inlets

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at this point i got really lost as to what i wanted in the car so i left it for probably close to 2 year, had a few lupo's along the way and a few other thing's, i built the engine and put it into my latest lupo

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Good luck mitch

Never got to see your lupo so really looking forward to seeing it in the future ;)

Looks stunning in the pictures and its such a shame about the fire :(

Ryan.

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Whatever, the whole thread is a lie and you're gettin a Rover 75

:P

The money and time you've spent without going insane when things dont go right, is beyond my resoning. I would of lost my rag long before now, and cried alot. So I admire you for that, amongst other things.

And bagsy first passenger ride, or else!

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How weird. I was looking through some old photos on my Laptop and I found that one that you posted going back from a show. With the roof rack and that on. Found some other ones to from down your old unit but I can't remember where they are now.

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