Dutton Kit Cars and their owners

S1 Rebuild(s)

some pics of the rebuild process,

the top trailing arm bracket is broke......

the diff is sloping back a little (looking up) so that will need sorting.......

As you can see there isn't a lot of bracing in an S1 chassis, that will be sorted.

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Permalink Reply by 28ullkq4hau58 on March 21, 2012 at 20:43

i only asked about paint as you seem to have got very good reults in the past

i used to respray trucks and coach,s as part of my job but i,v never been to happy with some of the paints i,v used but 2k is very good but can be deadly stuff ordinary polyurathane gives ok results as it felxes with classfibre but take,s for ever to harden off

celly became hard to get not long since as they were trying to phase it out in favour of water based ,, but i believe that the water based hasnt caught on

have you got a good local supplier for paint ? (i,m still finding my feet in this area)

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Permalink Reply by Dave Adams on March 21, 2012 at 20:59

I wasn't trying to be funny with you.....Oooops :-(

cellulose is still fairly easy to get hold off as its still legal for cars where it was an original finish, its just tricky to use commercially. You can get good results from the smooth hammerites, but colour choices are limited.

The water based paints require drying ovens so are not practical for hobby use.

There are at least 3 celly paint suppliers within 5 miles of my home and it really isn't hard to get. if you have problems maybe i can help....but you wont have problems i am sure, Hull isn't that far from civilisation that things are different here ;-)....

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Permalink Reply by 28ullkq4hau58 on March 21, 2012 at 21:05

well i,m looking for something close to the dutton orange which i,ve found out is actually called pirate red ,,,

something thats easy to use with limited equipment as i havnt got properly set up here yet suppose i,v got more to do before i get to paint the shell but i,v started ,,lol

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Permalink Reply by Dave Adams on March 21, 2012 at 21:18

take a small sample to the paint suppliers they will be able to match it.

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Permalink Reply by 28ullkq4hau58 on March 21, 2012 at 21:22

do you know any good supplier in the scunny area ?

p.s sorry if i,m being a pest ,,

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Permalink Reply by Dave Adams on March 21, 2012 at 21:28

I will check it out for you but hull is only 1/2 an hour away and ferriby or is it winterton is even closer perhaps i bring you some.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Sheridan on March 21, 2012 at 21:55

Jawel paints are good Mike, if you know the paint code, they make and send any quantity you require, including aerosol cans. they have depo's all over the place.