China XS, Shed to shiner

[Grant]

Picked up a china blue XS for £250 due to a blown head gasket.
The car was in pretty tired condition. The interior ripped everywhere, needing new bumpers, bonnet, grille, boot, both doors due to denting or scraping, and missing various bit of trim inside.

But underneath all this, the shell is near enough mint amazingly, and to top it off, the head gasket hasnt blown! No oil down the block, no mayo in the oil, not oil in the coolant, andit runs and pulls fine. I found a leak on the radiator, so I'm assuming the bloke though 'oh crap its losing water! Must be the head!'

So this weekend the work set about fitting all the goodies I've accumalated over the last few months!

Fitted a new bonnet as the existing one was creased and scratched up where someone had obviously hitted a stationary object. A but of T-cut, and maguiars 3-step system and some elbow grease later:



So we then decided to remove the front end to see the extent of the damage from the front end bump. We also did a surprise mod that I will be revealing in a couple of weeks:



It needs two new crystals as the tabs are broken on those ones, but I think I'm going to black mask the new ones

The GTI-6 inlet manifold i picked up at FCS for a bargain (inlet and exhaust mani from GTI-6: £30!) was stripped down and tarted up:



Fitted GTI-6 steering wheel, sorry for sideways pic. Amazing what a difference it makes to the look of the interior:



And new heater controls asthe writing had fallen off the buttons on the old one:



Stuck on FCS Stickers from other car:



Put on filler cap covers in carbon effect vinyl. Going to do door pillars in aswell (the original black is peeling) and possibly spoiler. Not sure yet:



Came home from work the other week, and had this little number waiting on the driveway for me, courtesy of Darren at JDSport:



Contained two new doors, and two bumpers.
All were in need of a good cut and polish, so half hour on the machine polisher later and they look like this...





A few posts back i mentioned a surprise mod... Well, as everyone is aware, the original horn on the 306 is for lack of a better word... gay... so...:



Started swapping these panels yesterday and today... he drivers door had been bent open at the top at some point so was creased, and the old one only opened if the key was held in the open position. Not useful if you leave the keys in the car . So out came the hammer and screwdriver, two seconds later thanks to crappy peugeot build quality...




So next on the list was tackling the knackered suspension. The lower arm, although probably not, looked original, and to be honest that wasn't all that looked wrong with it...:



So that was swiftly replaced, and the coilovers fitted:



More pics to come, but the PC is being stupidly slow so i'll try again tomorrow.