so it's happening the color is busy
being changed
as we speak right now it's looking
incredible
now you know last week's episode we got
to
see the whole transformation in terms of
it going from this white vehicle
getting fixed up and starting to get a
little bit of paint on the tub and
things like that
but today we're gonna see the full
reveal welcome to another episode of
roam over landing
my name is adrian abrahams last week the
hilux arrived at bodyline to get fixed
up and begin its metamorphosis
now we put the finishing touches on the
vehicle and reveal
the final transformation
so now they're busy painting the body of
the vehicle at the moment
and once that rolls out of here it needs
seven days to cure okay so it's quite a
long process
that i have to wait but luckily for you
guys
you live in the future world so you're
gonna get to see it
pretty much immediately once that paint
is dried and everything is cured
then the vehicle can be reassembled now
that's going to be
the next big kind of change because
we're going to start seeing
the puzzle pieces coming together we're
going to start seeing
that real transformation happen
what a crazy process watching the
vehicle transform like this
it's indescribable to think that you
know this vehicle came in here a couple
weeks ago
white scratched up with little dents and
all sorts of things from living a life
as a 4x4 rental vehicle at busch law now
it's looking incredible
this vehicle is seriously going to be a
show stopper now it's time to start
reassembling the vehicle
i can't wait to show you the full thing
i haven't seen it yet
i can't wait to see it myself let's do
this
and just when i thought the stripping
was done now
it was time to pull off the wheels and
send them away to get the tyres and
rooms separated
so that they could get to work on
refreshing the rooms and changing their
color
it was amazing to see how efficiently
they managed to cover up
and turn these scratched and chipped
rims into basically a brand new set
in a day and once they were all primed
up and ready to go they could be left to
cure
but there's no wasting time so in the
meantime
i got to work on prepping the badges and
tail lights for painting
with the badges i wanted to create a bit
of a contrast with the matte paint
so i decided to paint them gloss black
and then with the tail lights
we just have a light tint on them so
they could sit a bit better with the new
vehicle color
now with everything prepped it's just a
matter of waiting for the spray
booth to open up so we could get going
so now we've just got the last little
bits of things to do
all the little aesthetic changes maybe
you know stuff like
changing the color of the badges
changing the color of the rims
de-chroming the vehicle things like that
you know they may not seem like big
steps but they end up having a huge
impact on the overall aesthetic of the
vehicle at the end of the day
so it's something that i like to do i
like to go that extra step of doing that
it's a bit overkill for a lot of people
and has got absolutely nothing to do
with over landing
and totally everything to do with my
personal preference
and that's part of the fun of building
these vehicles is you know putting your
personality in it
and making it something special so yeah
i'm keen to kind of
have a look and see how all of these
tiny little changes
end up contributing towards the overall
transformation of the vehicle
every day at body line has involved some
sort of transformation
and now this may seem really small but i
cannot
wait to see how big a difference all of
these little details are going to make
to the overall look of the vehicle
and it's really so much fun to bring
your imagination to life and getting to
see it all happen
in front of you but we also know
that black badges make your car go
faster and
we're gonna need all the horsepower we
can get for this bill
i have a newfound respect for the auto
panel and paint
industry because you know being here for
the past couple weeks and
documenting this entire process of
fixing up the highlights of bodyline
has just been incredible i've gotten to
really
see the real amount of work that goes
into
just fixing it and it's been a rude
awakening for me
to see that the amount of time and
effort that all of these
people put in to get a vehicle fixed up
and it's been truly impressive you know
even something as simple as
you know going ahead and just painting
little badges and things like that
it's about sanding it down primering it
you know
busy treating it getting it prepped and
then
painting it curing it baking it there's
just so
much effort that goes into all of these
little things
and i think as as a layman you kind of
look at it and you go ah they just put
it in the booth and they paint it and
it's done but it's not like that
but i'm super excited to kind of see
all of these puzzle pieces come together
now
i'm going away for the weekend you know
we're going to come back
the vehicle needs to cure all the paint
and everything needs to dry
there's a whole bunch of stuff that just
needs to kind of happen now and
i can't be there the whole time so
i'm going to take a bit of time go and
chill out and come back on monday and
we're going to hit it hard
we're going to reassemble the vehicle
and i cannot wait
to see this thing finally put together
we'll catch you guys just now
although i'm not camping it's really
nice to be out here in the bush the past
couple weeks since i got the hilux it's
just been non-stop go
go go i really needed a little bit of a
break
and considering i haven't actually been
out into the bush for
over six months since lockdown started
i'm
really glad i decided to just take a
break
not work this is the only thing i'm
filming
uh just it's good to disconnect
sometimes
and it's nice to remember what all of
this is for
you know it's not just about building
the vehicle to have an
awesome vehicle it's about building the
vehicle
to come out here and explore and
experience amazing things
i'm looking forward to as this build
progresses to a point where
i can really start using the hilux and
really start enjoying it
it's good to get some rest now and be
prepped and charged up
for what's to come anyways guys i will
see you
back in joburg shortly cheers
so after having a nice little weekend
away in the bush
uh recharge the batteries a bit we are
back at bodyline
and we are now going to start assembling
the hilux
this is where we get to see all the
little puzzle pieces get put back
together finally i get to see my vehicle
whole again and not in pieces anymore
but otherwise
everything's going pretty well let's get
the show on
the road now this is where things start
to get exciting
all the pieces of the puzzle slowly
start to get put back together
the problem though with assembly is that
it takes much longer to put everything
back together properly
than it did to take it all apart so
we had a couple of days to slowly
assemble the
vehicle ahead of us every day they just
did a few more steps
until it slowly started piecing together
and i really got to see my vision start
to come to life
but the excitement of all of this made
it hard to be patient
i just wanted to keep pushing it more
and more and get as much done as
possible each day
but as with anything in life we face
delays
power outages and setbacks along the way
and all that does is make you appreciate
the end result
even more but i must say it is really
good
to start seeing my vehicle whole again
because i was really getting upset
seeing it torn apart every single day
and it just felt so
far away from achieving my goals and
with the finish line
so close what could possibly go wrong
so we've had a little bit of a setback
recently the
canopy over there has uh
basically the paint started peeling off
of it
while bushcheck were busy assembling the
canopy and what we've kind of learned
from this whole thing is that
this liquid armor wrap really doesn't
adhere properly to powder coating
what we're going to have to do is we're
just going to have to go ahead and
actually paint the canopy and do it with
normal paint
so obviously not going to be removable
or anything like that
but it's going to be a better step for
us to be able to get the same
look and finish as the vehicle it seems
really solid on the vehicle and it seems
really solid
on the bumpers so hopefully everything
is going to be good going forward
stuff's going to go into painting now
and let's hopefully everything's going
to be sorted going forward the harlax is
looking incredible
and i'm excited to finally get this baby
out of here and take it home it's been
three weeks now that the vehicle has
been here
and uh yeah it's ready to go
we're just putting the final touches on
the hard ax we're getting it ready to go
i'm so so excited to finally
roll out of here
so this has been quite the process
17 days at bodyline to turn
this vehicle from a plain white
little rental into something
quite cool and a little bit special
now even the wrap on this vehicle
is a little bit different you know this
is a
liquid armor spray-on wrap you guys saw
the amount of effort we went through to
kind of put this on
it's a new product that we are testing
out to see
can it stand up to over landing the bush
things like that you get a
much better finish on the vehicle
versus a wrap you don't get those little
little edges and frayed edges and things
like that from a wrap
and it really can get into all the
little places
and it looks really good the finish is
great you can polish it you can do all
sorts of things to it so
you know it's quite an impressive
product but it's yet
to pass my tests
so we'll be seeing that as we go along
and see
how it handles all of that but the color
this is a
metallic space grey and we have done
a matte finish on it i think it still
keeps it very rome you can see i've gone
with a lot of black accents
we've got black rims we've got the
normal black mirrors and things we've
added some blackout onto the windows
we've blacked out all the badges we've
blacked out the grille we've
tinted the rear tail lights we've done a
lot on this vehicle to really kind of
push that aesthetic
because i know what's going on here and
i know
the end goal for me is to have something
really really sick so this entire color
palette that i'm going for here you're
gonna see nice little details coming
through
in all the next episodes as all the
other pieces
of equipment go on this vehicle so this
is just the very beginning
for this rome 2.0 vehicle
and i think the rome highlights a lot of
people you know kind of saw the germany
as like the pinnacle of rome like oh
it's what's going to be cooler than that
the germany itself is a very cool car
and we went really far on what you could
do with it
but what we're going to do on this
harlax is going to be quite insane
we've got some awesome sponsors on board
and we're
really going to be testing out some of
the best
over landing equipment that south africa
has to offer so that is something i'm
very keen to kind of get to we need to
get this vehicle ready to travel
ready to roam as it were as soon as
possible
so from this point on we're heading to
bush tech we're putting on a canopy
we're heading to anka we're putting on
the bumpers we're heading to easy only
putting on the camping equipment
there is going to be a lot of awesome
episodes coming up so i really hope
you consider subscribing and if you want
to keep seeing this vehicle just get
more and more epic stay tuned because
you're going to see
some awesome stuff let alone all the
amazing adventures
that still need to happen this year
and now with the provinces all opened up
here in south africa
we can finally start traveling so
it's now the mad rush to get everything
ready over the next couple weeks
and get out on the road thank you so
much
for watching this episode watching the
series so far
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and everything
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remember landing cheers
thanks for watching this episode of rome
over landing i'd love to hear what you
think of the transformation so far
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