I managed to get home yesterday with a bit of daylight left! so here are a couple of snaps:
I'm currently doing a few repairs. That O/S front wing has been straighten out a little, while I wait on a replacement. Put some dash bulbs in too, so I can see whats going on at night!
The gentleman I bought it from purchased the car in 1988 and gave me the newspaper with the ad to prove it! 33,000 miles and £5,000 at the time. It had been his main car and family workhorse since then, going to the Alps a couple of times on holiday. Its on 177,000 miles now. He gave me a stack of bills for parts, but mainly did the work himself. He now owns a 17 Turbo, as well as a Visa and Traction.
It did have 16v seats in it, but I've put the (faded!) grey/white tweed seats back in.
I've got to see our local signwriting about the BX sticker, as it would be a shame to lose it when the inevitable paintwork is done.
What sort of condition is the piping in? Did the previous owner replace any of them? Being the earlier non-plastic coated variety they are quite succeptible.
My local signwriters make up the engine bay stickers and have made up my sidestripe for the SD1 when it was painted, any decent local graphics company SHOULD be able to sort it. Or you could just sell it to me instead
Now part of my fleet, thanks to Dom for sticking to his word and giving me first refusal, it drives better than it looks (thank god) and will need LOTS of TLC!
Last edited by Tim Leech on Sun Jul 31, 2011 5:38 pm, edited 1 time in total.
I had a brand new front bumper which I gave away with my MK1 when I sold it the reason I let all the MK1 stuff go was so that I'd NEVER be tempted to buy another.
But that's going to take some polishing Look forward to seeing it soon