• ray sherratt
    3 August 2013 at 15:56 #50280

    Hi
    What has happend to Chistian his pictures and comments
    where most informative,very good self educated engineer.
    I do hope he is well.
    Ray Sherratt.

    Christian
    5 August 2013 at 11:11 #50288

    Hi Ray, I’m here and well, thanks for the compliments!

    I’ve had a break from the car while it’s been in the body shop in which time I’ve edited the repair blogs and hope to re-do them once the car is complete.

    Here are some photos of my car recently back;

    TVJL
    6 August 2013 at 12:48 #50290

    Looking good, Christian. Who did you use (for the body work)?

    ray sherratt
    6 August 2013 at 18:50 #50292

    HI Christian.
    Just as I remenber them when I was an apprentice mec. The
    colour is gorgeous suits it to perfection, keep up your outstanding work, Forget about the ( knockers ) Iwon`t
    print what`s on my mind.

    Ray Sherratt.

    Christian
    7 August 2013 at 08:50 #50293

    Thanks Ray and Tim. I gave the colour a great deal of thought and had a few sample panels produced – the final choices were Cumberland Grey and the original Snow Shadow Grey.

    Snow Shadow Grey is slightly pearlescent so it tends to reflect it’s surroundings, it can sometimes look more silver or blue or green. I was worried it would be too light for the chrome but I’m really pleased with the result.

    TVJL
    7 August 2013 at 11:01 #50294

    So, it’s Snow Shadow Grey? More pictures please. Could you tell me the code, btw. Was it difficult to ‘match’, if you know what I mean.

    David
    7 August 2013 at 14:56 #50295

    It would be very helpful to know the current code and manufacturer of SSG in case I wanted to return my other car to its original spec from Citroen Silver, thanks

    SRD
    11 August 2013 at 06:50 #50298

    I see Cumberland Grey didn’t make it in the end. A wise choice going back to period color. how close a colour palette match is the SSG on 108 to that from the works ?

    The body looks excellent – wonderful work.

    Simon

    Stewart
    15 August 2013 at 10:55 #50308

    Nearly bought one once , any for sale

    SRD
    15 August 2013 at 13:26 #50309

    A Rapide in high 2 condition, is currently having a privately brokered sale at ?180k….

    Peter S30
    19 August 2013 at 13:38 #50310

    Coming back to where this topic started: randall977 (Christian)

    Christian has asked me to remove the two very long restoration blogs that he had started, which I regret because they were very informative and helpful. As amateur admin of this forum I do not have the time to keep all long threads on track and act against unjustified criticism.

    I hope he will bring back a summary or some of the information later.

    My recommendation for all forum users is: start short threads on each topic. Go to the appropriate section and start a new topic rather than adding to an ongoing one and discussing about something else. For example this topic here started with the question what happened to randall977 and later the discussion is about color codes..

    If you discuss the whole restoration of your car you risk to receive justified or unjustified bad comments. If you want to avoid this completely you should not post on a forum but create your homepage and display it there. And if somebody replies agressively on something posted he risks that the willingness to post goes down.

    SRD
    19 August 2013 at 13:45 #50311

    Peter

    Thank you for all your hard work keeping this forum going.

    Your points are correct, a great shame this has happened.

    C – thank you for sharing your work on 108 with us.

    Simon

    Christian
    19 August 2013 at 14:40 #50313

    Thank you for doing this, I hope to contribute some more material soon to help make up for it.

    Alistair Crawford
    19 August 2013 at 16:40 #50314

    Peter and Christian

    Let me repeat the thanks to both of you – to Peter for founding and running the forum and to Christian for your hard work in showing us the progress on your car in an interesting and informative way.

    Christian, I am deeply disappointed that anyone would be less than grateful and courteous to you, however much their opinions may differ.

    Thank you!

    Stewart
    6 September 2013 at 14:53 #50352

    Seems so way off the mark at that price, someone must have blown their kids inheritance on it me thinks.

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