Manky's Pop.

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Then I knocked up a pair of bridging plates for the gussets on the rear mudguard mounts. They'll bolt on behind the gusset so you won't see them. I've run out of grey primer, so had to use Halfords spray-on custard filler primer.

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Nice to be able to roll the Pop outside & use the workspace in the garage.

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All looking VERY neat and tidy.

Nice to be able to roll the Pop outside & use the workspace in the garage.

Be even nicer when you can drive it in and out.

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I don't think I could open the doors wide enough to get in, so will probably always have to leave a window open, so I can lean in to release the handbrake & roll it out.
I know from experience though that that trigger handbrake nips the palm of your hand when you do that!

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It's my weekend off work. I could've worked as we're short of staff at the moment but need a break after several weeks of double deliveries, so spent a quiet afternoon at the garage, sanding the filler/primer on the mudguard struts & flatting the powder coat on the guards themselves.
Then before I left this evening I shut the door down, covered the rest of the Pop with a dust sheet & squirted a quick coat of black over everything.
Doesn't look too bad, but I know from experience that when I take them outside in the daylight they'll look horrendous & I'll flatting them back for another coat tomorrow.

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I was just trying to figure out what the yellow thing is, reflected in the silver insulation on the garage door. It's the new rear numberplate.
I hope there's no holes or gaps in that dust sheet -I'd hate to have to scrub overspray off everything, but there's not much painting room in there with the car inside & I'm not leaving it unattended outside while I paint

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If the Corona virus didn't get you the paint fumes will 🤣👍😎

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  Mudguards sprayed, lacquered & bolted to their mounting brackets.
My memory really is getting bad -sometimes it feels like someone else built this thing.
When I stripped it down to rebuild it, I realised I couldn't remove the mudguard mounts without disconnecting the brake pipes because they passed through the strengthening gussets. So at some point over the past 7 years, I've cut slots in the gussets. While putting them back together recently I realised that rendered the gussets useless, so I made up bridging plates to tie them together again.
Now they're done & back on the car, I'm not convinced the slots would allow them to be removed without still undoing the brake pipes anyway. Hopefully I'll never strip the thing down again, or need to remove the guards, but I do wonder if a future owner will look at some parts of this build & wonder what the hell I was trying to achieve.

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