Hand painted stripes, are they the way forward??

[Mini-Trainer]

I saw this FAKE in Edinburgh on Sunday......

Hand painted, brush stroked stripes to really give this beauty real charm!!

So anyone thinking of painting there stripes....think again!

I first saw it and thought hmmm nicceee well worth a photo op!

Rams

[MaTTy_P]

Ford capri anytime

[wildchild jules]

Quote: Originally Posted by MaTTy_P (original)

Ford capri anytime

Capri's are legend!!!!

[Minnie Mouse]

I owned 2 Capri's.....

[Mini-Trainer]

I think the guy was intent on getting the thing nicked, leaving a ready stolen radio on the dash!

I think it could of been an old skool twist and tune number

[Hartge210]

More Crapi than Capri

Love the open plan ice install as well

[LoCo]

I hand painted some stripes on and old 1963 mini in the seventies.
It was a light blue, I got some navy Dulux gloss from my Dad's shed and painted a stripe all the way around. Looking back it wasn't the best thing to do and I stopped short of painting flowers and wotnot on it but I felt like the 'bees knees' at the time, especially after I'd installed a 6' yellow, bendy aerial which came out of the bonnet, curved over, and then was fastened to the back.
Not exactly BMW or the way forward but great to go to the beach.

[:: Jon ::]

hard choice... that capri or that mini.....





capri

[Birdog]

Quote: Originally Posted by LoCo (original)

I hand painted some stripes on and old 1963 mini in the seventies.
It was a light blue, I got some navy Dulux gloss from my Dad's shed and painted a stripe all the way around. Looking back it wasn't the best thing to do and I stopped short of painting flowers and wotnot on it but I felt like the 'bees knees' at the time, especially after I'd installed a 6' yellow, bendy aerial which came out of the bonnet, curved over, and then was fastened to the back.
Not exactly BMW or the way forward but great to go to the beach.

Got close to that, E reg, Red with a white roof (classic), CB aerial on the rear driver side and looped forward to the roof/windscreen seem on the driver side.
I also thought I was the bees knees.

Birdog

[LoCo]

Quote: Originally Posted by Birdog (original)

Got close to that, E reg, Red with a white roof (classic), CB aerial on the rear driver side and looped forward to the roof/windscreen seem on the driver side.
I also thought I was the bees knees.

Birdog

He he, sounds brill. Remind me, what year was an 'E' reg?

[Mini-Trainer]

Quote: Originally Posted by LoCo (original)

He he, sounds brill. Remind me, what year was an 'E' reg?

Wasn't E Reg 88/89, the one I shot was an 'A' reg 1984 I think, CB radios where big in them days!!

[Birdog]

So. my dad bought it new in 88/89 and drove it till around 94, when it was put into the garage and left, 96 it striped and rebuilt (not by me), then november 96 I passed my test and was on the road, lasted me 2 year (E505GCP), then I bought another (M293OSA).
Then company cars, and now another mini.

Love the mini`s..............but, had a shot in a lotus elise the other day, the guy had put the 2Litre R-Type engine with a supercharger in it.
It goes like ****.

[Mr G]

I once knew a guy who painted his whole car with a brush. (a mazda RX2) He painted it the fashionable colour of Mission Brown using exterior house paint.

why?

becasue we dared him to.

[Buffster Bird]

[quote=Hartge210;2987458]More Crapi than Capri

I had a Capri once. Only had the thing two weeks. Didn't like it at all.

[sel]

Quote: Originally Posted by Mini-Trainer (original)

Wasn't E Reg 88/89, the one I shot was an 'A' reg 1984 I think, CB radios where big in them days!!

love it....the way the stripes dont really line up is quality at its best....well it is a Ford-nuf said ....and if 'A' came out in 1984.... i was 1 yr old.....just to make some of u feel old who can remember owning one