Figured I'd start a thread for people to post their before and after pics of their cars after doing major paint/body work to them. Here's mine:

Image 1: Sprog II as it looked when I picked it up on Feb 22, 2003 at Classic MINI.

Image 2: Sprog II and Sprog I, several months before I sold Sprog I. Probably April of 2003. Note that II has the chrome bits.

Image 3: Sprog II after all the major paintwork is done. This was before the 2004 dragon, as people who know my car can tell - it's not covered with stickers.

Post what you have!

 

Very nice job

Earl

 

That Looks Awesome!!!!

 

Great thread idea

Here's mine:

Image 1: This is what she looked like when I purchased her in October. Isn't it cute?

Image 2: A host of exterior mods including aero body kit, vinyl company graphics, tint, new wheels & tires, clear corner lights, and chrome side fins.

Image 3: A shot of the bonnet flames.

 

Talk about total transformation! I like! Tastefully done.

 

Don't know if would classify as "major", but took a deer in the nose

Before



Full Sized Link

After



Full Sized Link

 

I'd call that major.

 

It was mostly cosmetic. Would have been driveable if some of the plastic from the hood scoop hadn't punctured the radiator. I am afraid the deer didn't fair as well.

 

Its amazing how durable these little cars are in accidents.

 

Here are my pics:

Before: The day I picked her up



After: After all the Mods I have done thus far (check sig)

 

https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...tid=2986&stc=1

https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...tid=2987&stc=1

 

It's amazing the difference the aero kit makes. IMHO, it looks soooo much better w/out all the chrome up front. The biggest suprise I had on mine was the difference the painted side skirts made over the stock black trim.

 

My original plan for getting an S was to get a DS/B one and give it the Aero kit treatment with a silver union jack on the lid. Then I decided to go colourful.

 

Original stock...



then plus aero kit.....



and then stripes, driving lights and window tint.....

 

And it's not done yet.



These are Chrome trim on my bonnet stripes.



And a bigger dragon roof graphic.

Old Dragon


New Dragon

 

Sprogs got to have the coolest sticker job I've had my pleasure of seeing. Very nice.

 

Gaugh! That's not a sticker, it's paint! White from a Mazda 626, red from a Subaru Forester.

I am known as the "sticker wh*re" in my inner circles due to all my dragon stickers, amongst others. But the graphics are a 3-d paint, even has "seams" like a real flag.

 

Again, not major but a good number of changes:

Before:
http://motoringcentral.com/images/DSC00110.JPG

After:
http://motoringcentral.com/images/rota.jpg
http://www.motoringcentral.com/images/booty.jpg

since the "after" pic the S's on the side are now black and the NAM decal is a MINIMechanic decal.

 

Nice actual size sticker. Now you just need some boot stripes and you will be all set

 

I thought about it but decided against them.