Matts Bluebird

[Mad::Matt]

Yeah thats right.

You've all seen it before anyway.

Front
http://img466.imageshack.us/img466/2433/frontrightom1.jpg
Back
http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/5779/rearrightoh5.jpg
Retro Interior
http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/4273/betweenfrontseatssh4.jpg
Big boot :D
http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/4249/tehbootzp4.jpg
And the engine XD
http://img105.imageshack.us/img105/6848/enjunrn0.jpg

Did clean up the wing mirors, and the bumpers, no pic of the bumpers though.

http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/7008/wingmirrorsplityi6.jpg



Maybe go out tomorrow to get some nice pics. Most probably getting some on Tuesday as I'll be deep in the country.

[427 Kustoms]

5 door hatch is the way to go. It's great for a first car, you can fit sooo much booze in the boot!

[Mad::Matt]

5 door hatch is the way to go. It's great for a first car, you can fit sooo much booze in the boot!


Heh. This is my second car ;)

Plus I don't drink XD

Anywho, took a few photos today. In a feild. Where I got stuck.

Japanese for the win and pulled me back out :D Fucking mucky though.

Here are two shots. Getting me some more tomorrow hopefully, in the countriezzz.

Front
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/962/feildfronthv3.jpg

Rear. Loverly feild that.

http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/9125/feildrearflashlf5.jpg

More pics later etc.

[Mad::Matt]

And heres some more.


http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/1760/fileyroadlowcroppedbb0.jpg


And

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/8223/fileyroadhighcroppedrx8.jpg

And

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/1164/fileyroadrearwm0.jpg

[Pete]

clean as fuck that mate

[peanut]

I though only old people drove these.;) ;)

[Lex]

it just makes me lol, but i spose a cars a car innit

[octagonalpaul]

some of the older nissans go on forever, I always like old cars more, less complicated:p

[Mad::Matt]

I am back.
With more pics.

Only one decent one out of three though XD

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/9448/lowlaneslantyaa5.jpg

http://img523.imageshack.us/img523/9625/lowlanerearyy8.jpg

http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/3582/lowlanebridgefrontmc1.jpg


:)

[ashb]

I LOVE IT!! my dad used to have one abotu 5-6 years ago but in red, was a lovely car, never broke, kept right on going. he eventually sold it for scrap because someone drove straight into the side of it when he left parked at work. boy was he pissed off.. :D if the stereo in that is a blaupunkt one then it appears we still have it :P...something went wrong with it and so we took it out with the intention of fixing it and putting it back in...we never did lol...:D

[Mad::Matt]

Yeah stereo is a tape-playing Blaupunkt. Not a bad one, just doesn't play CD's XD

Which is why mines in the garage and a CD players in the car :D

[Mad::Matt]

Ah more pictures. And more of an artistic attempt.

Sort of.

Hmm anyway.

Been somewhat rallying-ish.
Ok farm roads. Pssh. Mahoosive puddles that quite frankly people would have called me mad for even thinking about driving through, but I ploughed on, and through.
http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/3615/imag2789qz7.jpg

Before anyone points out the churned up tracks behind the car leading to the wheels, yes they were caused by me being handbrake happy :D

http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/8952/imag2784lu8.jpg

Lower shot

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/7049/imag2787tl6.jpg

And an 'arty' black and white one

http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/7799/slantbwfs9.jpg

:D

[gonças]

slam it :O

[summat]

Always loved the old Nissans. These ones remind me of the AE86 Toyota.....;)

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a79/simcard1/imag2787tl6.jpg

[Mad::Matt]

Oof I bloody love that!

In fact, I will be changing the grill, and I never thought of doing it like that.

Old chop I did to see what it'd look like:

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/5876/grilltestlw3.jpg

I was planning on doing the middle one, but I might do it the way you have on that pic.

What rims are they btw? Look ace on it.

Probs be flaring the arches too, will chop it tbh, s'ok if I use the rims you've used?

[summat]

Yeah course man. The were off a AE86 on google images. Slatted grill looks the best.

[mddesigns]

make it rice:D like this one:D
http://images.hasznaltauto.hu/1172407/2021234_1.jpg
http://images.hasznaltauto.hu/1172407/2021234_2.jpg
http://images.hasznaltauto.hu/1172407/2021234_5.jpg


(naaah,just kiddin)


btw,the 2nd and the 3rd version is good

[Mad::Matt]

Right, I'm back, with grill modifications :D

My Bluebird is the T72 model (later model) and as such comes with the cross shaped grill.
I've been to the salvage yard and picked up the grill from a T12 (model before mine).

Here goes:

From the beginning, heres the nasty state the grill was in:

http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/1408/grilluncleankr0.jpg

To which I cleaned lots:

http://img74.imageshack.us/img74/8606/grillcleanedmk4.jpg

Filled in the silly gappy bits at the end:

http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/1966/endsfilledvb5.jpg

Painted with primer:

http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/2103/primeredge1.jpg

Then whilst that was drying I cleaned up the badge:

http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/4199/badgebeforepaintpw4.jpg

And:

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/950/badgeafterpaintwu5.jpg

I don't have a pic of it on the pole being silver, heres the original grill (top) and the cleaned up T12 one:

http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/5973/bothgrillssx2.jpg

And on the car:

http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/9990/newgrillageuf3.jpg

:D

[vermilion]

Great work there Matt, a real improvement on the other grill :) Now, lets see it slammed with some retro jap styling!

[Pete]

nicely done.
can still see some of the gappy bits though, paint looks a bit different to the rest.
why dont you cut out the slats and fill it , then put some fine black mesh behind it

[Mad::Matt]

nicely done.
can still see some of the gappy bits though, paint looks a bit different to the rest.
why dont you cut out the slats and fill it , then put some fine black mesh behind it


Explain more Mr Petey!


Oh aye, general note, I've also resprayed the hubcaps, colour coded that bit of black plastic trim between the rear arch and the door shut line. I debadged the original grill, filled in near side rear arch dent, and a stone chip on the offside passenger door.

[cavybanger]

Thats a minter m8
u hardly see them round these days
well not where i live anyway
the only time i c them is when i go out banger racing
theres loads of um out there, and last for ages lol

[Mad::Matt]

Right.

I've been playing with the grill again.

The original grill. Its had the centre piece chopped out, like the chop done by Summat on the previous page.

On to the pics!

This is the original grill, debadged and pretty much as is.

http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/2875/imag2826te2.jpg

Onto the chopping! One dremelly thing later, and we have a choppy outty bit. And no, its not floating, its on the bit of glass I put up to stop bits of plastic hitting me in the face :D

http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/2752/imag2827em4.jpg

I then glued pieces of plastic under the gaps, both to provide strength, and something for the filler to sit against.

Clampage:

http://img61.imageshack.us/img61/1816/imag2828hy3.jpg

Then I decided I wanted some choons, so I set about with my ghetto CD player. The fact that the speakers were against a metal cabinet gave it cool bass echo.

http://img61.imageshack.us/img61/3825/imag2829qa6.jpg

Heres the plastic pieces sans clamps:

http://img61.imageshack.us/img61/9267/imag2830xz6.jpg

And the staple of every garage during a project. Coffee! :D

http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/6782/imag2831so5.jpg

Now, I don't claim to be the master of body filler, and I never will make that claim, so no funny comments about how shit my filler work is. All I can say is at least I apply and work with it better than chavs do to their cars.

http://img394.imageshack.us/img394/9674/imag2832wb1.jpg

And this is as far as I've got with the sanding, just the bottom slat, and that needs more to it anyway, so more pics tomorrow, when it shall be paintified!

http://img394.imageshack.us/img394/6733/imag2833km3.jpg

[zlurv]

Looking good Mad::Matt :)

its gonna look good if u tint the blinkers in the bumper.

[Mad::Matt]

Right, more done today :D

After lots and lots of sanding. Seriously stupid amounts.

http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/7956/imag2834zk1.jpg

http://img385.imageshack.us/img385/5274/imag2835ml4.jpg

Then there were a few marks from air bubbles that had caused dips in the filler, so I mixed up a little more and filled them in. Whilst it was curing, I had a cig and made smoke rings:

http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/6918/imag2836qt5.jpg

Sanded it all back, and got some paint on. I forgot to take pics of the primer.

Ignore the pink sheet, its just to protect stuff XD

http://img385.imageshack.us/img385/8997/imag2837ie0.jpg

http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/3678/imag2838ac9.jpg

The paint has run a little bit, and a few lines are still visible, so needs a bit of sanding and repainting to get it looking better.

[mddesigns]

it looks much better

[zlurv]

It looks great!

[octagonalpaul]

nice, now get it on the car! and then pictures:)

[Mad::Matt]

Right. Its on the car :D

I resanded it today, and repaired a crack that had appeared in the filler, and gave it two coats of paint.

http://img386.imageshack.us/img386/7339/imag2841qr5.jpg

http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/2069/imag2840lc4.jpg

http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/7853/imag2839nb3.jpg

Gonna get some fine black mesh to go behind the grill too.

Also, the speakers that are further up this page, are now in the car, as I've replaced the rear speakers, cause the standard ones were both shit, and the seals had disintegrated.

[octagonalpaul]

that looks soo much better than it did before, good custom feel. have you seen retrorides.proboards86.com/ ? your car would fit in well there;)

[ashb]

looks great!! i wish i had my dad's old bluebird, this one's inspiring!! oh well, honda civic's ftw

[Richard]

Looking good, nice work! I know a guy who used to swear by Bluebirds and he's finding them rarer to come by, nice example you've got there, I'll be checking your progress!

[zlurv]

That look awesome!

[erikbartrosman]

for some unexplainable reason your car is cool as feck! I love it!

[Mad::Matt]

Rawrgh!

New pics with a bit of a Dub feel to 'em ;)

But first, some rally slag modifications XD

Mmm metal plateyness.
http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/1696/imag2844kp0.jpg

And onward!

Bit of artsyness, taken from up a tree
http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/6969/treeshotbwha8.jpg

And the promised Dubbage, my mate Chris's mk5 Polo Gee Tee Iiiii
http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/2554/imag2845ie1.jpg

http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/9352/imag2846qc9.jpg

And some more Dubbage in the form of other mate Toms T2 camper :P (some muppet taking the photo moved a bit though XD)
http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/2599/imag2881uc0.jpg

That camper is a bugger to drive though, had a go round the car park, very weird driving position tbh.

Owner of the Polo (Chris) took over the Bluebird... Bloody poser XD

http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/503/imag2861qy9.jpg

[Pete]

buy wantanabes :)

[RockyOc]

looks great .. although i dislike the name of the car ... swans for the win

[Mad::Matt]

One update!

Was given a free air filter. Be rude not to fit it eh?

http://img369.imageshack.us/img369/6522/filtaaaarat9.jpg

[Pete]

buy wantanabes

[Mad::Matt]

Pete shush! XD

Not getting Wantanabes, look too much like Minilites and I'm not keen on those.
Whats those ones with the red centres? Sorta like a star shape with large amounts of dishage?

[Scotty]

Pete shush! XD

Not getting Wantanabes, look too much like Minilites and I'm not keen on those.
Whats those ones with the red centres? Sorta like a star shape with large amounts of dishage?

Works? although ive only seen gold ones

[Pete]

SSR's?
im not up to speed on my old school jap rims but i do believe SSR makes some star-ish ones.

failing that wantanabes would look nice.

xD

[Mad::Matt]

SSR's?
im not up to speed on my old school jap rims but i do believe SSR makes some star-ish ones.


Thats them!

SSR Colin Star Sharks!


edit: Picceh!

http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k244/gsrturbo88/celica/Andrew%20KE70/Colinstarshark2.jpg

[Pete]

theyd look awesome
polished dish + gold centre :)

[Scotty]

as pete said, theyd look great.

what kinda price are they though?

[Matty]

I thought Bluebirds were RWD? Or are they?

[octagonalpaul]

I think bluebirds stopped being rwd aroun '82 If I remember. these aren't though. and Matt: you need those wheels! I was trying to find some but it seems impossible to find any in the right size:(
might get a set of these for mine
http://i3.ebayimg.com/02/i/000/ef/b0/b97e_1.JPG
even in the right fitment!
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=140231694049&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=004

did you notice any performance/ noise gains with the new filter?

[octagonalpaul]

http://img369.imageshack.us/img369/6522/filtaaaarat9.jpg

didnt realise that was a cat food tin in between !
epic

[Mad::Matt]

http://img369.imageshack.us/img369/6522/filtaaaarat9.jpg

didnt realise that was a cat food tin in between !
epic

Could at least have posted the pic off RR :P

Seems somewhat crisper in the throttle, need to fill in a few gaps between the tin and the filter though.

[octagonalpaul]

I could have, but I closed the window and couldnt be asked to open it again xD
I need to sort out the connection for the alternator on mine as its not charging the battery :S

[Scotty]

http://www.envyperformance.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=category.display&category_id=41 theres some amazing looking wheels there. watanabes, SSRs, Work. etc.

[Mad::Matt]

Ooft. Sexy site.

Cheers for that! Loads of cool stuff there :D

[octagonalpaul]

there are some nice wheels on that site:
http://www.envyperformance.com/images/products/Equip%2003.jpg
http://www.envyperformance.com/images/products/Equip%2002.jpg (http://www.envyperformance.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=product.display&Product_ID=3694)
http://www.envyperformance.com/images/products//sm_1033.jpg (http://www.envyperformance.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=product.display&Product_ID=4814)
yum

cant find any info on fitments though:(

[Scotty]

yea thats downfall of the site, not many prices either :(

some nice bodykits, lighting etc too.