The Stripping Off (Or When Stuff Got Real)

After two years of owning the car with a redone motor and a crappy body, I gathered enough bravery for a more or less complete body repair. After finding the right guy for the job (more about this in another post, perhaps), I took one last photo of Alessa (that's how my S2000 is named, by the way) and handed it over to the master.

The right guy is on the left

The next step involved saying good bye to the old paint, plaster and superfluous body parts.

This door must have been changed some time. Black paint is factory paint!

The biggest surprise showed itself up soon enough on the right-rear wing area

Superfluous stuff

More superfluous stuff

Cabrio indeed

Car minus rear bumper and rear crash bar, plus cat

The paint is sanded out until the bare metal is left

The process is not always easy though

These two have behaved like a couple of bitches. Very hard to get off.

But in the end...

Since I had nothing to do all these days, I took the crash bars out for a ride. The tow thread never worked on me and that needed to be fixed.

The longer one is on from rear

First, check the thread on the bars themselves. Check.

Then take care of the towing hook. Mine had bad thread so had to be re-threaded.
Yes - that is red hot chili metal.

Lathe machine in work

Aand, done!