Cavcraft 2017: Another day, ANOTHER Rover!

[Cavcraft]

Been looking through this thread...and something kept telling me I'd seen those garages before.

Mr Cavcraft - did you used to own a Frontera a good few years back....and did you also used to be on FOG...cos if so , then I think I purchased a Chrome nudgebar off you , and you and my wife (at the time) fitted it by said garages as i'd fooked my back in....

 

If not - forget all that 

 

 

 

also I can't find the bloody pic of them fitting it!!

 

I certainly did, how's tricks?

[Cavcraft]

Did you get much for the Golf at the weighbridge? I helped my friend get rid of his Golf, a 2003 1.4 with 150k on the clock, no recent MOT, first gear where reverse should be, no other gears available, and broken springs, much to my surprise Car Takeback offered £156.

 

Yeah, a bit more than that. It went to a yard I use, I think he removes cat, alloys, battery etc then weighs them straight in. He also took that Ka at the same time, a bit of a double bonus really.

[sierraman]

Did the press (Jeremy Cockson, What German Car? Etc) shoot their load over these GTis, or were they panned at the time?

No, quite the opposite. He pitched one against a Corolla 1.6, a car he absolutely derided (don’t know why cause they were a solid old thing) in a 1/4 mike race. The Corolla absolutely trounced the Golf GTI, there’s a clip on YouTube somewhere.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

No, quite the opposite. He pitched one against a Corolla 1.6, a car he absolutely derided (don’t know why cause they were a solid old thing) in a 1/4 mike race. The Corolla absolutely trounced the Golf GTI, there’s a clip on YouTube somewhere.

 

 

Funny you should stay that: The Mark 3 Golf 1.8CL was slower than the 1993/4 1.3 Corolla hatchback that was superior in every dimension. That little Toyota was a genuine pleasure to drive, the Golf was just shit.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

[sierraman]

I’d sooner have the Toyota. Not a tremendously interesting car but neither is a Golf.

 

Local garage to me had a 02 plate one up at £500, looked really tidy, ran like a sewing machine with a sizeable test on it. You’d look like a bit of a giffer seen in it but who cares at that money it’s transport.

[Lacquer Peel]

Yeah, a bit more than that. It went to a yard I use, I think he removes cat, alloys, battery etc then weighs them straight in. He also took that Ka at the same time, a bit of a double bonus really.

 

What puzzled me is they paid £156 despite the distance from their yard (150 miles), and if I put the Inca into their site it's £0.

Are Golfs particularly desirable to breakers?

[dougiefourspeed]

What puzzled me is they paid £156 despite the distance from their yard (150 miles), and if I put the Inca into their site it's £0.

Are Golfs particularly desirable to breakers?

 

Some bits fetch good money on Mk4's, only the early Turbo cars had (very comfy) Recaro seats as standard and they go for decent coin. The headlamps are worth a few bob if I remember correctly too.

[Cavcraft]

What puzzled me is they paid £156 despite the distance from their yard (150 miles), and if I put the Inca into their site it's £0.

Are Golfs particularly desirable to breakers?

 

Say what? 156 miles? That’s crackers, definately must be something in them then.

I have noticed two or three ‘modern’ diesels seem to fetch quite good money too. It was well worth driving a clutchless car back home about 4 miles.

[Pillock]

There's specialist VW breakers who will just stockpile engines and stuff, and be able to rattle off a list of what camshaft is compatible with which dipstick tube etc. I guess they'd pay good money, and it would be a cube of metal plus useful parts within 48 hours.

 

I know you get other specialists, but there seem to be more VW ones than any other make. There used to be three within about 5 miles in Nottingham. Perhaps it's because there's so many shared components - the engine in my Leon came out of a Skoda, different engine code related to something stupid like it was missing the oil level sensor, same engine is in a Golf too with another really minor change.

[Lacquer Peel]

The value of my friend's gubbed Golf went up when they realised it was a "special edition", unlucky for them it's a runout base 1.4 with crappy 14" alloys and a few posh trim bits.

[Cavcraft]

I know someone who runs a VW specialist and in his words ‘we do really well because they’re shit’

[bezzabsa]

I certainly did, how's tricks?

LOL funny how the strangest things can remind you...I mean how many garages are there in Chester !!

 

Been looking through everywhere to find that Bloody picture, used to turn up on google searches, but appears to have vanished..

That was the last Frontera we owned, and when we sold it it did somewhat of a journey..was on Ebay quite a few times...then the wheels were on..then it seemed to drop off the Radar..

 

Split with her 7 years back as she had a problem with her legs - she couldnt keep them shut.. been married and divorced again since then too..

Currently single and got my Eldest daughter living with me due to the afore mentioned ex treating her like a skivvy..

 

Nice to find out my garage and bollard spotting skills are 100% 

[Cavcraft]

Ha, yes your spotting skills aren’t lacking!

 

Your message reminds me to try and find another Frontera 2.0 Sport.

[Cavcraft]

Right, caught by chance a pretty half-arsed advert for a Rover. It had got pulled because the seller had put their email address on the advert, but luckily I had already mailed him before it was sacked off.

Communication has been a bit shit, mostly because of some pretty dreadful personal news here at home, and the seller is abroad. However, a telephone call yesterday morning led to a viewing appointment today and I got a break from what I was doing to go and have a look. The photo's I'd received were enough to realise the state of play, and the owner seems to have been totally honest over the description, but if a picture paints a thousand words, real life viewing increases that ten fold.

Here's the first view I got when the garage doors were opened, I honestly nearly fell over when I saw the other car...

 

 

 

(more of that shortly)

 

 

Anyhow, the target motor was/is the Rover, and here's some more pictures:

 

 

 

 

Excuse the state of the following pictures, I was quite excited at seeing both of the cars and whatnot. 

 

 

 

So, the wings are all off the car. One (n/s/r, I think) has just about had it, the o/s/f looks like it's been fillered, and the other two might just be saveable, albeit with a decent amount of work. I couldn't see too much underneath, LOLworthy famous last words say it didn't look too bad. The inner wings vary between seemingly fairly easy repairs, to some nasty rot that'll take a good bit of work to repair. I think the n/s/r inner wing was the worse, hopefully it can be just about seen in the pictures somewhere.

Mileage is 42,000 'might have been round the clock, the last two MOTs just say the mileage', and the car drove there fine from a 20 odd mile round trip. Oh good, you might have thought had you not seen the pictures, but as the tax ran out in 01/12/1989 it's not exactly inspiring! 

It has, I believe, sat in the same garage since then, I reckon someone has taken the outer wings off to start doing it up, then just sacked it off. 

 

I bombed home to message him after the viewing, as I was told the TR& had to go and I'd have loved to have taken it on. It's a 1976 one (sure the gear lever said 5 speed though) and the tax ran out in November 1983! Sadly, he's found a home for that though, which sort of urinated on my sliced fried potatoes a bit.

 

 

So, I've agreed a price for the Rover (a bit more than I'd planned, but there you go) and now the fun* will start trying to load it on my mate's recovery truck and get it back here. WCPGW with a 53 year old automatic car that's been stuck in a garage for 28 years, said garage is a decent distance from the road, via two sets of standard gates and up a level or two of concrete flags?  

 

 

 

 

[Guest Hooli]

Fucking hell Billy, good work there!

[Supernaut]

Cavcraft is back, and bigger and better than ever!

[Cavcraft]

[Craig the Princess]

Two-tone winner!

 

Sorry to hear about the bad personal news, glad you're back.

[Guest Hooli]

So straight into the pasture of profit or selling onwards?

[Split_Pin]

I was expecting a 25, I was not expecting this.

 

That is a nice colour combo for these too.

[Skizzer]

Cavcraft, you are a legend sir.

 

Shame you couldn’t bag the beige TR7. Mega early one too.

[Inspector Morose]

Mildly jealous. Owning mildly fucked old Rovers is the new "thing" you know. They'll all be doing it soon*

[Asimo]

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l9Zsugss1-U

[Cavcraft]

In other news, to go along with the odd bit of 'modern* Fords are rubbish' comments I may have uttered, I bought this a couple of weeks back:

 

 

It has, of course, got it's issues such as a nasty wobble from braking and water loss, the latter we think is the common leaking from the back of the heater matrix thing. The former probably sticking caliper, but that seems to have stopped now the car's in daily use, so fingers crossed.

I have to say it's an effing massive laugh to drive, not dissimilar at all to the MX5 Mk1 I had. It loves being flat out, corners like it's on rails and almost howls at full chat through the gears. Negatives are the aforementioned problems and the fact I twat my head on the door frame every time I get in or out!  

So that's four blue ovals now. Transit, 2xFocus and the Puma.

 

 

 

 

[oldcars]

Sorry to read about the personal issues, but glad your back. And what a way back with that Rover. 

[Timewaster]

If you could arrange with the Rover seller to store the Puma for 20 years then you could split the OSF fortune between you.

 

Good work. Glad to see you are back.

[twosmoke300]

Ahh the old puma A pillar concussion ! 

[Ghosty]

Have the P5 welded and sell it to Junkman. He’ll probably bite your hand off because not Lincolnshire.

[beko1987]

Water loss could be the plastic thermostat housing, mine cracked a chunk off it parked at asda not long after I'd met amy and puked all the coolant out. Not a terribly tricky job, the hardest part was rotating the 2 pipe clips so they could be got at with pliers, remove one of the headlights for ease.

 

Or it could be leaking from many other places of course