pirateinthecaribbean Posted January 6, 2014 Posted January 6, 2014 Hello all, Just thought we would introduce ourselves. My wife and I bought my 15 year old son a 1.3 Starlet for his birthday back in August as a working project over the next year or two until he gets his licence. We are English but have lived in Wexford, Ireland for the last 8 years and we all love the place. The car is a perfect little 98 AO1 silver/grey blank canvas with less than 70K miles and we have already started working on it since XMas. He got a full Glanza body kit, electric door internals and an interior from a Mitsubishi FTO from Santa - it should keep us going for a while since i spend a lot of time working away and i have even put my own project classic mini on hold to help him out. Since i have been a fast Ford man myself for the last 25 years we will be trawling through the technical tutorials on here in order to build him his ideal first car. work done so far; Full service and Cam Belt changePassenger FTO seat fittedFront wings - filled and painted side repeatersSanded and primed body kitGlanza tailgate fitted, also rewired reverse and third brake lightsRetro fitted door internals, Central locking and electric windows (not working yet -need to fit door control module)that's about it for the time being. work needed for completion; Fit the rest of the interiorFit body kitwindow deflectors and tintswire front fog lightsGlanza dialsICE & Alarm with global closing and remote lockingDe-lock and fill doorsRear beam with disc conversion and lowered suspensionthen wrap the whole car in matte gun metal vinyl with bronze Rota grids to finish then when he has a year or two NCB we will look to fit a 20v 4age with 6 speed from a Levin or similar Hopefully between this project and school it should keep him out of trouble on the streets. Regards to all,Michael & Joe Quote
morgey Posted January 6, 2014 Posted January 6, 2014 Sounds like you've got some good plans but you will struggle to get the 6speed in with the 4age. Mines tight as anything with a 5 speed. Quote
Nanglebadger Posted January 6, 2014 Posted January 6, 2014 fantastic project!!!! looking forward to seeing some photo updates as you guys progress! Welcome along to UKSO! Phil. Quote
wickedep Posted January 6, 2014 Posted January 6, 2014 welcome!! nice to see a father and son project. good luck. Quote
Chris_GlanzaV98 Posted January 6, 2014 Posted January 6, 2014 Welcome along ! Good to see something like this ! After waiting a while to drive it im sure he will take care of it ! Quote
Darraghmh91 Posted January 6, 2014 Posted January 6, 2014 Nice one mate soulds good and good to see another irish fellow join the site .. You should join toc.irl if you havnt done so already .. Nice to see father and son do somethin like this my da just gives out stink to me Quote
daniel_g Posted January 6, 2014 Posted January 6, 2014 What an awesome thing to do, nice on guys !! Plans sound decent, look forward to seeing pics and updates along the way. Quote
Rosso321 Posted January 6, 2014 Posted January 6, 2014 Welcome along I used to live in wicklow im sure you get your parts in ferns as the two lads seem to have good bit Up there. Quote
Starlet-Joshy Posted January 7, 2014 Posted January 7, 2014 Welcome mate!, Project sounds awesome! Quote
K24_glanza Posted January 7, 2014 Posted January 7, 2014 Sounds like a nice little project. You should get some pics up! Quote
pirateinthecaribbean Posted January 9, 2014 Author Posted January 9, 2014 Thank you all for your warm welcomes & Comments. I will be sure to post some pictures up when I get back home as I am working away for the next 2 to 3 weeks. My son and I are excited about our little project and equally look forward to being a part and hopefully contributing to this forum. Thank you all again & wishing you a Happy & prosperous new year. Regards Quote
Flynn Posted January 11, 2014 Posted January 11, 2014 Welcome along.......as morgey said above though some major cutting would be involved in getting a 6 speed box to fit the starlet bay. We both have 4age 20v fitted (in slightly different ways) and neither of us could squeeze one in! Not saying you couldn't though! Get some pics up too! Quote
Eynonz Posted January 11, 2014 Posted January 11, 2014 Your son is lucky to have such a cool dad. Quote
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