Metal Work

Well another bit coming along nicely, all the normal steel metal work has been sanded where required and treated with some metal ready from http://www.frost.co.uk/ which is the same as jenolite. great stuff and removes any iron oxide thats left and leaves the metal with a phosphate coating.

The metal work then got a couple of coats of 2 pack primer, ready now for the top coats. If you have no spraying equiptment POR15 is a really great paint to use on these parts,

The body got a wee bit done but not much, just the job of removing the sticky tape that held the bonnet and boot on whilst the kit was transported home. Petrol or white spirt works :)

Metal work

Well another bit coming along nicely, all the normal steel metal work has been sanded where required and treated with some metal ready from http://www.frost.co.uk/ which is the same as jenolite. great stuff and removes any iron oxide thats left and leaves the metal with a phosphate coating.

The metal work then got a couple of coats of 2 pack primer, ready now for the top coats.

The body got a wee bit done but not much, just the job of removing the sticky tape that held the bonnet and boot on whilst the kit was transported home. Petrol or white spirt works :)

Where we are now

As I said in my last post the kit is now home, the chassis I will be going back to the start and going through everything so its 100% and the way I want it.

Body wise loads of sanding and buffing to do in order to get the flash lines polished out before I start to build parts into it.

Along with some sanding and buffing the first job is to get all the metal work sanded and ready for some 2 pack primer, then top coated in 2 pack black.

When we collected the car from GD we got about 8k of parts which was the handiest option living in N'Ireland rather than getting bits shipped now and then, also I didnt like the thoughts of having a screen shipped and arriving in 100 pieces :(

So here goes the fun begins

My kit

A bit different than normal, within a few days of deciding to build Gardner Douglas Cobra a fellow GD enthusiast who had started building a kit had decided time was against his dream. He decided to sell the new parts he had acquired with his kit, along with all the Jag donor parts which were all overhauled by ward engineering etc.
At the same time buying an already built car from GD.

This ticked quite a few boxes for me as the project so far was along the lines of what I was aspiring to,

Colour Black
Engine LS series 400BHP ++
Everything else either new or refurbished.

So 15k later out of pocket I had the beginning to my dream. I first saw my project at GD when we called into when on holiday July 2009 and met Andy for the first time, you could just tell how much he lived the cars by his enjoyment to talk about tech stuff and show people around the factory, whilst enjoying coffee :)

I was supposed to get back over for the project around the start of September but life in general took over, as it does.
So it wasnt until 8th October the trip was taken from N,Ireland to newark to pick up the project and take it to its new home :)

The blog begins

Hopefully this will work out ok, this is my first blog and the aim of it is to show the journey of my Gardner Douglas Cobra build.

The end goal is to have the Cobra looking something along these lines :)

My journey started out around 6 months ago with a very hard search on which kit to build and after many inspections and questions the path was clear Gardner Douglas.