First off thank you in advance to those whom provide useful and creative impute to the project I'm working on.
For warning: This is not in the least the typical mod. project, purely aesthetic and not using any conventional mod kits or going for any kind of traditional theme. So this may not be of interest many of you.
Heres the deal. I bought a badly vandalized, somewhat weathered Saturn SL1 (compact 4 door sedan) for $500. All the mechanical workings and general running health of the car are in excellent condition.
There front driver/passenger seats will probably need to be replaced, I'm having the front/back windshields and one of the door windows replaced (know a guy whos gonna do it for about $200 with used glass), the center console is destroyed, light dashboard damage, upholstery from roof completely removed, many interior & exterior bindings are damaged(but intact more or less), minor paint damage, a few pieces of plastic exterior are cracked.
Any pieces I'm buying to replace will be from the junk yard(which will likely just be the seating), all other pieces I'm going to fabricate myself. (Except for whatever I decide for the stereo/sound system, which by no means will be extraordinary.)
I think by now it should be obvious I'm on a very low budget.
My biggest benefit to take into consideration is I work in my pops metal fabrication shop for rare and exotic cars (some of you may know him, Ellery Engel, he's really well known in Ventura county). So I have the means, the tools, the skills to fabricate/repair damaged pieces of the car.
The real base line of this project it getting the car tight and secure again, then covering up the damage with pieces of my own design. Its like a repair project by means of art.
Everything will be well made and have a consistent theme but at the same time it will obviously be an amateur piece of work. I figure I gotta repair all these these things anyways, why not put some creativity into it?
Tomorrow or the next day Ill have the glass replaced then wash the car so I have a clean "canvas" to work with.
So if this project sounds like something you'd like to follow and give your advise/impute, just stay tuned. Ill post some pics in a day or two once the glass is repaired.
Thank you very much for your time
For warning: This is not in the least the typical mod. project, purely aesthetic and not using any conventional mod kits or going for any kind of traditional theme. So this may not be of interest many of you.
Heres the deal. I bought a badly vandalized, somewhat weathered Saturn SL1 (compact 4 door sedan) for $500. All the mechanical workings and general running health of the car are in excellent condition.
There front driver/passenger seats will probably need to be replaced, I'm having the front/back windshields and one of the door windows replaced (know a guy whos gonna do it for about $200 with used glass), the center console is destroyed, light dashboard damage, upholstery from roof completely removed, many interior & exterior bindings are damaged(but intact more or less), minor paint damage, a few pieces of plastic exterior are cracked.
Any pieces I'm buying to replace will be from the junk yard(which will likely just be the seating), all other pieces I'm going to fabricate myself. (Except for whatever I decide for the stereo/sound system, which by no means will be extraordinary.)
I think by now it should be obvious I'm on a very low budget.
My biggest benefit to take into consideration is I work in my pops metal fabrication shop for rare and exotic cars (some of you may know him, Ellery Engel, he's really well known in Ventura county). So I have the means, the tools, the skills to fabricate/repair damaged pieces of the car.
The real base line of this project it getting the car tight and secure again, then covering up the damage with pieces of my own design. Its like a repair project by means of art.
Everything will be well made and have a consistent theme but at the same time it will obviously be an amateur piece of work. I figure I gotta repair all these these things anyways, why not put some creativity into it?
Tomorrow or the next day Ill have the glass replaced then wash the car so I have a clean "canvas" to work with.
So if this project sounds like something you'd like to follow and give your advise/impute, just stay tuned. Ill post some pics in a day or two once the glass is repaired.
Thank you very much for your time
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