My Euro inspired Trooper: sale thread now up
 

Hi Folks,

been a while since i posted on here, a few of you will know my last beast that turned out to be a right shitter:



anyway, i couldn't resist so i went out and bought another white one. But a VTR this time.

ive owned it for about a month now, it was completely standard when i bought it. some service history and 57k on the clocks. i payed £1800 for it but the body work is absolutely mint (no pics unfortunately)

list of mods so far:

GAZ GHA coilies
lowered 80mm on back and 65 front (front is going down more)
gloss black vts wheels
gloss black roof (de-aerialed)
tcut rear badges
De-wipered rear
what i believe is a piper backbox with straight through centre section (bought 2nd hand and no labels on the box)
angel eye front lights (came with car)
de- badged grill painted gloss black

Pics (i-phone quality):















i also bought this lil gem today for £150. im using it as a parts car basically:




anyway let me know what you think, and before anyone says anything, the next thing to be sorted is the rear parking sensors.

Did you buy that 1st white on off here?

no mate got it off pistonheads, y u ask?

It used to be on here was for sale for a while, have a search you should be able to find it.

haha, dnt need to it was me that was selling it. i owned the last one for about 3 years and crashed it. then repaired it. then it started falling apart on me so i bought a vtr instead

Looking good mate, liking the roof. Did you end up buying that boot lid or not?

no not in the end, thas y i bought the the blue vtr, i can modify the bits on that then change em over to mine when its done. that way i havent got to take my car off the road lol

Ahh fair enough, whats the next plans then? Other than a new rear bumper lol

haha youll have to wait and see wont ya

Liking the White vtr apart from the thing handing from the rear tow eye.

Blue one looks a bargain for £150, was that picked up from round the westgate area?

Haha the angry bird is just a laugh. And no got the blue VTR from ramsgate

Looks smart bar the parking sensors (think thats what they are)

Ye I've got a replacement bumper, just need to get it painted

update:

I've nearly finished my custom bootlid now. shortened the recess by 100 mm and waiting for it to get painted. comments welcome

Looks good, how are you going to have the numberplate lit?

I've shortened the boot plinth too so it uses the original number plate lights

I see :) Should look pretty good!

Should look smart mate I'm liking it

Looking good mate, whens it being painted? Getting the rear bumper and boot done at the same time?

boots being painted this weekend because I smashed the glass in my other one putting a spoiler on.

the rest of its being done after I get new springs and helper springs for the mot.

Ok, I dropped the boot off today to get painted along with a lot of other little bits to get powdercoated.

Then after a couple of hours driving I picked myself up these bad boys:



14x6j weller steels gotta love em

Comments welcome

6j is a bit narrow isn't it? Are you getting them banded?

Yeah 2" band

think this car could look sweet when its done keep up the good work

cheers mate, got big plans for this one

quick update. spigot rings and polished centre caps came for the wellers. also got a quote from bandedsteels.com so they should be goin in within the next couple of weeks.



and I've been making a lot of progress on my front bumper too



and ive dropped the number plate down and found a new home for it



it's just a rough idea atm. got alot of work to do to get it to the standard I'm happy with

comments welcome

I like the look of where this is going. I always thought it would look cool to shortern the boot recess but i've never seen one like the mental image I had pictured until this! I think it looks really smart mate!

This car is looking good nice :D

cheers. hopefully getting it back Saturday. along with all my engine bay parts. I'll keep everyone updated

Its looking gorgeous.. White saxos ftw! Like the boot.. I need to think of original ideas like that (and be better with filler)

Clare

haha I had a couple of spare boots and an idea in my head, and I just went for it.

it's really hard to be unique on the outside of saxos these days. lots of ideas for the interior though

UPDATE:

A few weeks ago I got some GTI leathers. there's a small tear in the drivers seat but they will get a retrim eventually.





team heko wind deflectors went on.



Saturday I picked up my engine bay parts and bootlid



bay before:


bay after:


also found a crack in my manifold so I will change that next week.



just need my shorter plates now and the boot will go on.





C & C welcome, let me
know what you think

Boot looks really good! You going to have a spoiler on there or leave it without? :)

I'm thinking about a black mk1 spoiler

I love this car, the colour is amazing and even makes me want to have a white car hbaha

haha thanks

Looks good! Youve put my faith back into colour coding my bay :y: Also, I was gunna do exactly the same thing for the battery cover, make my own with that weird flexi plastic stuff.. Great minds think alike eh ;)

thanks. all covers were pre made. google a site called 'get bad ass'

all covers come from there originally and are all really good quality.

Oh its chrome stuff? Not sure Im a fan tbh! But thanks for the linkage :y:

Ys it's all chrome, but I got it all powdercoated, problem solved