The Nissan SWB Transformers Trasformation (My Ride) lots of pics

Ok well i was thinking about it and i havent actually done a "My Ride" thread, just some stuff in the DIY section. i finally put together a video of the whole painting process, and thought id share it all for you guys to have a look at.

i bought the car at the beginning of 2012 of a mate for $1500. it was in pretty good knick, although the exterior had seen much better days. the paint was de-laminating over most of the panels, and on closer inspection noticed a fair bit of rust. it came with a newly installed(mid 2011) 2" king springs lift kit, extractors and a 2.5 inch straight through exhaust.

this isnt my first patrol, and another mate of mine and I had always planned on giving the first patrol a bonnet paint job with what ended up on this one, so i teed it up with him and we decided to respray the whole car.

im in the process of changing the interior over to black, ive resprayed the dash and replaced both front carpet peices. i also just installed a new set of rear solid windows from patroldocta.com.au they are great!

the list of thinks that i will be doing to it in the future are as follows:

1.convert entire interior to black
2. tint windows really dark
3. Rear quarter chop
4. buy or make a rear bar and rock sliders
5. 33" tyres
6. Make Myself a set of rear drawers(black of course)

all up im pretty happy with my progress so far on the truck. it needs a head gasket replaced i think, it leaks a bit of water i think thats the head gasket, and i will get around to that sometime, i just wont push her too hard till then.

please enjoy the pics below:

the best before picture i could find:

http://i1071.photobucket.com/albums/...p/IMG_0194.jpg

then the car came apart:

http://i1071.photobucket.com/albums/...p/IMG_0225.jpg

http://i1071.photobucket.com/albums/...p/IMG_0221.jpg

http://i1071.photobucket.com/albums/...p/IMG_0223.jpg

then my mate came down and the fun began:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31XwBnDTdoI

and now the finaly product (well up to now at least):

http://i1071.photobucket.com/albums/...21153062_n.jpg

http://i1071.photobucket.com/albums/...26267033_n.jpg

http://i1071.photobucket.com/albums/...54821469_n.jpg

http://i1071.photobucket.com/albums/...09976340_n.jpg

plenty more to come and ill keep you all posted!!!

Gee all that in 9 minutes hes gooooood hahahahahahahaha almost too good to get dirty now ;-)

i tell ya what mate, that was one hell of a week. we were pulling 7am starts and finishing at around 10-11pm. poor guy had to drive back to sydney after it all too. oh and FYI thats about 300 gig worth of footage compressed into that 9 minutes lol

Awesome work mate!
You did it great!

Yep, great write up/pics/vids old mate!!!!

Great work mate. Top job with the video too. Starting to get the impression that black is your fav colour lol.

That was a good vid to watch, I like your videos...lol

Top stuff mate, jeez you boys work hard up there and so damn fast!!!!

sweet, I like black rigs and the SWB is coming along nicely

Within reason, I like almost anything black :)

thanks boys, yeah i love the black i suppose, i had a black car as my first car and just love the look. and black is better than the standard nissan grey i reckon so yeah i hope it comes out good in the end

This thing looks nice and tidy.