I suppose I better start at the beginning ;)
Having previously owned a Legnum VR4 but having to get rid :( A couple of years ago I was once again in the market to buy one.
I couldn't find anything that I liked in the UK so decided to import one from Japan myself.
After a few weeks of checking the auctions I saw this.
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...per/025373.jpg
The auction sheet didn't look too good.
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...per/025371.jpg
But the most important thing was the chassis code, this denotes it was a genuine Legnum SuperVR4 one of only 284 made. Originally Silver the Japanese owner had obviously had it resprayed in Black.
I won the auction and anxiously awaited the post auction photos.
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...numW_Front.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...gnumW_Left.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...numW_Rear2.jpg
Not good :(.
The screen had been smashed post auction, the bonnet was bent post auction and it was in a lot worse condition than I realised. They fixed the damage in Japan and eventually the car arrived :D
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...r/S6302741.jpg
Ill skip forward a bit now, needless to say I bought various parts for it and fixed it up over an extended period of time.
So this is how she stands today.
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...r/DSC_0846.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...r/DSCF2255.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...r/DSCF2256.jpg
Shortly after I got her on the road a Peugeot 206 hit the nearside rear door taking out the skirt, door, and damaging the wheel and rear lip. The insurance company decided to write the vehicle off and make it a Cat D.
I would dearly love to have a Guaranteed Valuation Insurance on her but this is impossible due to the fact she is now a Cat D. So a plan started to slowly form.
In exchange for some space while it was being stripped I was able to pick up a new shell for free :).
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...r/DSCF2250.jpg
Ill let the pictures do the talking now until we get to tonight :)
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...r/DSCF2336.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...r/DSCF2259.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...r/DSCF2333.jpg
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...r/DSCF2339.jpg
So basically now the shell is 99% stripped.
The grand plan is to strip the Super down and refurb/replace all parts and then rebuild it back onto the new shell.
As I dint have a lot of coin to throw at the project at the moment and the Super is still my daily until the end of the month I thought I would spend some time doing what I can do.
Stripping the woefully inadequate Sound proofing :(. What a pain of a job after a couple of hours spent tonight I got to this stage :(
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...r/DSCF3506.jpg
oh and the inside now looks like this
http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...r/DSCF3499.jpg
I want to Dyna mat the whole inside when I build it up and also I am doing a complete colour change so the crappy sound stuff has to go.
Cheers
Don
