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Mk1 Metro rolling shell £130 Wetherby - one week to save it...


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Evening! Welcome to my for-sale thread for my 1983 1.3 HLE rolling shell, for which I lose my storage on the 30th of June, so if it's not gone by the end of next Sunday or so or I have a very good promise that it'll get A-framed or trailered away on the 29th or 30th, I'll be taking it to get fragged on Monday 29th, or the new owners of the barn it's stored in will frag it on the 1st of July. This isn't a threat, it's just the way it'll happen!

 

I bought this in 2004, fitted Rover interconnected suspension because I fancied the smooth ride and a Janspeed exhaust because I couldn't afford one on my first Metro in 1990/1, welded it up, MOT'd it twice and had the engine develop a rattle that persuaded me to lay it up in a well-known barn since 2007, 3 months after its last MOT.

 

I then decided to break it because in 2009 there were too many really nice engineless cars appearing on eBay, and this wasn't really that nice, so the engine, heater fan, wings, doors and bonnet were sold, the Janspeed is in the loft awaiting better days. The rest was sold to a third party 3 years ago who can no longer pick it up, but thre v5c was never transfered.

 

It's got a blue and pigeon-shit coloured interior - because trhe barn's infested with pigeons who shit everywhere, HLE clocks, a "new" brake master cylinder, good rear subframe, five 12" wheels, and a bodyshell that, while not the basis for a concours car, fit an engine in it, refit some doors and body panels, some duct tape on the rear valance and sort the brakes - probably a bleed through with fresh fluid would do - and I'm fairly sure this would get itself a Swansea Pass for the next year.

 

 

Or, you could just strip it for spares, y'know...!

 

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Show up with the money and take it away and it's yours. I'll send off the v5 too.

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Many thanks, ruffgeezer. I'd reply but that would look like a vain attempt at a bump, so I will.

 

 

Still, it's for the best, eh? It's not like the original thread on the Metro club forum's had only 15 views since last night...

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