Alfasud 1186cc Ti, the restoration starts

Dralf1965 · 11-03-2008

A few pictures of my latest purchase, it's a dead ringer for my first sud in 1987. As you can see i have started to repair the area under the servo, heater and battery. It looked pretty good until i wire brushed the paint off, to be fair there were only a few small holes, but the whole area was so pock marked and thin that i thought to just remove the whole lot. I've done it all before as you know, so not too daunting. There is the edge of the passenger floor to repair, and some work to do around the bottom of the rear inner panel, more pictures of that later. The engine runs nicely now, just the brakes to fix.
Does anyone know anything about this car? it was off the road from 97, has had an entire new front end, including wings, bumper, indicators lights suggesting a front end prang, the doors have new sections let into the bottom, a new windscreen still with sticker, and it's been resprayed.
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Fluffyduff · 11-03-2008

Looks pretty good. Best of luck with the resto

suds · 11-03-2008

Last time i saw that car it was at justsuds place last year

GhostyDog · 11-03-2008

All I can say is

Thats going to look awesome when it's finished

Mark Alfa · 11-03-2008

Thats a nice Sud, good luck with the restoration

green cloverleaf pat · 11-03-2008

i love the mk1 sud ti good luck with the restoration ,look forward to seeing some more pics.

kevjtd · 11-03-2008

great looking car, keep the pics coming

sudsonic · 11-03-2008

Tell you what mate, you certainly get stuck in, no hanging about...

Ahh I will just cut out the whole damn battery tray and fix it properly..

Excellent

I love the colour, is it polissipo blue or something spelt like that ?

My first Sud was that colour, suits the car really well.

Good luck with it, it will no doubt be a lovely car when finished.

dave.armstrong · 11-03-2008

It looks just like my first mark 1 Ti.

Posillipo blue.

I love mark 1 ti's

Good luck and can't wait to see the finished result.

Alfasixnut · 14-03-2008

Well done on starting the work so quickly and keep the pictures coming - and I agree, the colour is really suited to the car.
Best wishes
Philip

Dralf1965 · 14-03-2008

Progress is good, we may get to Spring Alfa day yet!

green cloverleaf pat · 14-03-2008

[quote=Dralf1965;1642057]Progress is good, we may get to Spring Alfa day yet!

you work really fast ,looking good hope you can make it to spring alfa day as would love to see the sud ,i will be bringing my tix.

kevjtd · 14-03-2008

inspirational

hami · 14-03-2008

LOVE it. Very jealous. Hope to see it some day on the move.

Hami

RSFruitbat · 14-03-2008

I have nothing but admiration and respect for your ability to undertake a job of this magnitude. I think I would have passed out at the thought of doing what you are doing.
Brilliant. Well Done.
Oh by the way my favourite colour for the Sud

Regards rsfruitbat

MarkgQ4 · 15-03-2008

Originally Posted by RSFruitbat

I have nothing but admiration and respect for your ability to undertake a job of this magnitude. I think I would have passed out at the thought of doing what you are doing.
Brilliant. Well Done.
Oh by the way my favourite colour for the Sud

Regards rsfruitbat

what he said !
excellent work fella.
and how quick!!