Eoynteenie
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more on about the seatbelt mounting, was thinking of finding a good donar car and cutting that whole wing out and welding it in, not worrying about it at the moment
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Rutger-peer
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I did exactly the same things on my car. How else would you wanna do it?
Oh, now I see this last post. Don't bother using a part from another car, since I can't imagine that that will be in a good enough condition. Sooner or later that part will start to rust (more layers of metal on top of eachother in wheelarch is never gonna work) and you'll have the same problems (+ you'll have to wreck a donorcar for it, which is a shame anyway).
Oh, now I see this last post. Don't bother using a part from another car, since I can't imagine that that will be in a good enough condition. Sooner or later that part will start to rust (more layers of metal on top of eachother in wheelarch is never gonna work) and you'll have the same problems (+ you'll have to wreck a donorcar for it, which is a shame anyway).
Dunno if its any use but there was a discussion and photos here of rear seatbelt mount repairs.
http://www.renault4.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=3836
http://www.renault4.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=3836
Eoynteenie
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Try having 27 female guinea pigs in the back of one of these things! the noise when i took a corner :shock:
Snoopy1974
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Good evening to all,
Do not be surprised if you have no news from my GTL during few months, the winter is actually too cold and too wet to allow pain jobs.
Rendez-vous au printemps
Do not be surprised if you have no news from my GTL during few months, the winter is actually too cold and too wet to allow pain jobs.
Rendez-vous au printemps
Snoopy1974
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Hello everybody,
few months ago I said "rendez-vous au printemps", the spring is not yet here, but last week the weather and the temperatures were surprisingly fine, and as I'm fed up with the time it takes to restore my car, I decided to work every day on my car
I started to spray a polyester primer on the fiberglass parts: front wings and inner wings (the rear door is the one of my 77, I'll tell you about in my second thread...):
Then I made the seals on every place where new parts have been welded:
To realize the best thing I can do on the rear corners of the doors, I took those of my blue GTL as one's model:
As you can see mine are as careful done as those of Renault, I think they are even better done
Have a good day
I will soon tell you about the following of the story...
few months ago I said "rendez-vous au printemps", the spring is not yet here, but last week the weather and the temperatures were surprisingly fine, and as I'm fed up with the time it takes to restore my car, I decided to work every day on my car
I started to spray a polyester primer on the fiberglass parts: front wings and inner wings (the rear door is the one of my 77, I'll tell you about in my second thread...):
Then I made the seals on every place where new parts have been welded:
To realize the best thing I can do on the rear corners of the doors, I took those of my blue GTL as one's model:
As you can see mine are as careful done as those of Renault, I think they are even better done
Have a good day
I will soon tell you about the following of the story...
Snoopy1974
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Hi David,
as you can see time is long before ending this restoration, but many things -good and bad- happened in my life, so I didn't have time to work on it.
But I start to be fed up, so I decide to "mettre le turbo", it seems that I'm going to work as soon as possible to finish it for spring 2012
I wondered how you F6 "gets old" since you finished it ? All the repairs you did are still ok, you still have no new rust on the car, the engine works well ?...
as you can see time is long before ending this restoration, but many things -good and bad- happened in my life, so I didn't have time to work on it.
But I start to be fed up, so I decide to "mettre le turbo", it seems that I'm going to work as soon as possible to finish it for spring 2012
I wondered how you F6 "gets old" since you finished it ? All the repairs you did are still ok, you still have no new rust on the car, the engine works well ?...
Snoopy1974
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Hi everybody
Here are the pictures of the following jobs I did on my car these last weeks, I begin with pictures of the final primer coating of the body:
As I already told you on my 1977 thread I sprayed the wings and inner wings with filler primer, then I sanded them with 240 and 400 dry paper:
I also decided to spray at few areas of the body and inside the fiberglass parts, a stoneship primer to protect the fiberglass from gravels, here are the pictures just before:
The following will arrive soon
Here are the pictures of the following jobs I did on my car these last weeks, I begin with pictures of the final primer coating of the body:
As I already told you on my 1977 thread I sprayed the wings and inner wings with filler primer, then I sanded them with 240 and 400 dry paper:
I also decided to spray at few areas of the body and inside the fiberglass parts, a stoneship primer to protect the fiberglass from gravels, here are the pictures just before:
The following will arrive soon
Snoopy1974
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Good evening all 
Applying of stoneship primer on the different parts:
And... I made an enormous mistake, I'm furious
on the left of the photo you can see I didn't hide decently the bulkhead and there is stoneship primer at a wrong place, I will have to sand again this area to correct my mistake 
Applying of stoneship primer on the different parts:
And... I made an enormous mistake, I'm furious
on the left of the photo you can see I didn't hide decently the bulkhead and there is stoneship primer at a wrong place, I will have to sand again this area to correct my mistake Rutger-peer
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But how is it going with this one?! Did you put this project in the wait for a while?
Snoopy1974
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No of course, I wait desperately for a better weather report to take it at the coachbuilder...
Rutger-peer
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Ah, okay, good to hear. This one is going to be marvellous when it's finished, I'm sure of that!
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R4l vert jardin 1977
Hi Snoopy, Angel and others, my vehicle is out for painting !
take a look at my new album(garage nigthmare with prep is over)
album "R4L VERT JARDIN 1977"
just going to paintshop on 26th April 2012 !
Hi Snoopy, Angel and others, my vehicle is out for painting !
take a look at my new album(garage nigthmare with prep is over)
album "R4L VERT JARDIN 1977"
just going to paintshop on 26th April 2012 !
Snoopy1974
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Hi everybody,at last, after many months waiting for news from my friend Sylvain, I have something to tell you abour the restoration of my 1987 GTL Clan ! The last time I told you about, all the parts of the body have been given to him, I was waiting for him to paint them, before working on the body.
This week, he called me telling me that his coachbuilder Gérard had painted all the parts, and that he was waiting for me to bring the car to him, to finish the job
Yesterday I went to Sylvain and I discovered his job:
Look at this beautiful fiberglass wing painted in 602 grey, it really looks like a steel one, isn't it ?
The rear wings have just been primary sprayed, they will be adjusted and screwed to the body before been painted definitively:
RichardIRL
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Beautiful. Nice colour on an R4
Will you be keeping the fergat wheels?
Will you be keeping the fergat wheels?
Snoopy1974
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I restored the fergat wheels 2 years ago, they are ready to be fitted as soon as possible 
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I restored the fergat wheels 2 years ago, they are ready to be fitted as soon as possible
View attachment 7191
Lovely.
Are you keeping the interior original?
Looks like it will be a nice original model
Snoopy1974
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The genuine interior also waits for me to be fitted in the car, it is in very good condition, just needs to be carefully cleaned; the only problen is that the springs inside the basis of the front seats seem to be a little damaged...
Whent I started to restore the car, I decided that it will be exactly as it was when Renault built it in 1986... in every detail... except the inner and front wings in fiberglass... I'm sure these parts won't never rust
I actually look for stickers "Clan" to apply on my new body, if someone knows where i can find such parts... :?: :?: :?:
Whent I started to restore the car, I decided that it will be exactly as it was when Renault built it in 1986... in every detail... except the inner and front wings in fiberglass... I'm sure these parts won't never rust
I actually look for stickers "Clan" to apply on my new body, if someone knows where i can find such parts... :?: :?: :?: