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There are some on eBay pretty cheap too!
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@Tommyboy12's car collection capers are always more exciting than my own, while he likes the thrill of driving to go get them, i just pay a man to bring them to my house, it all started in covid years, when Bojo said you can buy anything you like as long as its delivered covid safe, so i purchased a pair of mini coopers from Wales..anyway, its no surprise as Tom already announced it that i purchased the AS bike that is the rover 25, i think its been on Youtube before but not on my channel. Thought it was a good way to get back into things. Anyway here is a picture of the car and the video is at the bottom:
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continuing with the theme, and those that guess correctly I did indeed purchase ANOTHER metro sight unseen. This one was closer and only 350 plus 150 to get home so at a tally im now at around 3 grand in rust metros This one really is a doppelganger of the rust purple one, only this one looks terrible on top but is sold as under the skin. It also turned up with no key and not a straight panel on the car.
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It went for scrap
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sharley17194 reacted to a post in a topic: Sharleys Random project thread
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No but i was working on it, I think its sold now
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i have purchased ALOT of cars sight unseen, id say probably 8 out of 10 purchases ive never seen, i1 fact one of my austin 1300s I saw so briefly as it was rolled down to the tent, I've never actually taking a picture of it! That was purchased from scotland and shipped down here, it arrived in the dark and has been in the tent since
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So with the first metro turning out to be less than perfect, I decided another financial mistake would fix the first financial mistake, que this little cute number up in Aberdeen for ref I'm from Nottingham, seller seem genuine and I like the purple. I paid the full asking price and £350 to get it home, this one I'm a little bitter about, basically the seller scammed me, we agreed a price with the parts, parts never arrived, car no where near as described. Scroll down for pics of its true condition.... Its fair to say i got had over a barrel with this one, agreed for the parts to be included, he never included them, then proceeded to sell them on facebook. After a police visit he agreed to give me £100 worth of a refund but only sent me £90 saying that's all i deserve. TBF I'm still tempted to sue him for the tenne. Still with financial mistake number two looking even worse than number 1 and at this point I*m nearly 2.2k deep in metros....guess what I did next?
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It is kinda penned in by a puma.
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Still got her, she’s dry and warm in the tent. She’s not going anywhere
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There were a few obvious faults with the blue metro but i found they were much deeper rooted that I could ever have expected. When I picked it up it stank of fuel, i went to fill it up and it just wee'd all over the floor, it also coughed and spluttered every time I went to accelerate. I drove it 160 miles like this, was a fun caper but not one I want to repeat. When i got it home i bored @Tommyboy12 PSCAN tool and it promptly told me that the lambda wasn't giving any reading, so I replaced that: This made zero difference, i then found the TPS wasnt reading correctly, again this made no difference. I then went for the old plugs and leads spotted the coil pack was grotty as hell and the plugs were missing bits Again this made zero difference... so I thought id try and fix the fuel leak and discovered this! I also discovered the fuel filter was blocked and it was running the wrong fuel pump, i fitted a new tank and fuel pump, extra shite points for alpaso beige...and all my problems were resolved! the thing now flys and holds fuel. However i discovered the body was pretty bad even though its only covered 28k genuine miles....so i decided to make a 2nd terrible financial decision...
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Been a weirdly long absence from posting on my own threads, rather than hijacking Toms thread I thought I'd come back to my own thread, recently I've made a series of sporadic terrible financial decisions, it all started with the sale of my track car, i will post a series of updates on the fleet over the coming days but i wanted to start at the begining....where it all went wrong in essence, ending on my lates acquisition due to land sometime next week, i'll also try and do a blog on each of my cars in the fleet.... So winding back to Aug 2023...I wanted to change things up a bit so I sold the track puma on and thought id replace it with something more metro shaped, i found the below metro on Facebook, it was listed as running driving no issues. As the car was in Anglesey rather than be sensible and look at it, i paid for the car and drove it home, it turned out to be anything other than running, driving and rust free....
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Wait what
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I'm offended! its not ropey, and I can barely hear the exhaust over my deafness.
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