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Bronco II, big difference. Still cool, just make sure to not corner too hard in one.

Damn, I would have loved taking it off your hands. Let her know should she decide to pass it on!

Nice, take a few photos, would be interesting to see! If not this then a few other areas that are more hidden where pretty doesnt matter as much.

In other news, I've now done almost 1000 miles in the A8. It continues to be excellent. There might be a clunk developing on the driver side front and the brake warning light comes on for a few seconds under hard acceleration but the later might just mean I need to top up the brake fluid slightly. Looks great when its clean, no bodywork rust to worry about with this one!

Work on the E65 will continue this weekend, however I'm using any other hour of sunlight I get to continue improving the Senator. It's had it's headliner carefully stapled back into place (until I can be bothered to retrim it) and received a badly needed wash yesterday: I admit it might not look much different from the photos posted before but it really made a difference. I will have to take the heatgun to these black rub strips as the plastics restoration stuff has long worn off. Now that the car is reasonably clean inside and out I decided to have a closer look at the rust spots visible on the passenger side sill. They were partially hidden by the sill/door rubber strip, removing it gives us the real extend of it after having cleaned off all the grime: Yeah, that is indeed one crusty sill. Thanks Opel for designing a proper rust trap, ingenious. It's much better in the back as I'm fairly sure the whole rear sill/door jamb was professionally replaced by a previous owner on both sides, hence them being near perfect, but that of course leaves the rest of it untouched. Some very gentle sanding with the Dremel revealed this... It's pretty clear that all of this needs to get cut out eventually (@gm this might be the moment I need the details of the guy who welded the Eunos...) but I could for the moment get away with filling the holes and properly rust proofing the rest until a proper repair can be done. With the sill covers and rubbers still in place things were perfectly covered up on the driver side. I honestly didn't really want to look closer but needs must: Yeah, thats not much better. I've cleaned it all up with the Dremel and drenched it in Kurust so I can start covering it all in zink primer. Right now theres only the odd pinhole and its easy to cover it up with all the trim that caused this in the first place. I do intend to keep this car for the foreseeable future though so eventually it needs welding. I don't wanna know whats hiding underneath those lower sill covers however...

Yeah, posted it again a few days ago. The seller won't get close to that as he didn't pay close to that either. He didn't even get the hint when I told him what car he's actually owning. Destined for the scrapyard/oval unfortunately, as is often the case here.

Reasonably priced but high mileage SC430 in an interesting spec, aside from the ugly wheels. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/358124973801236/

44k mile V6 Xedos 6 Manual with mismatched door for less than 900 quid. Looks like a really good deal until: Excellent, so the paint is now completed ruined and just needs 4 grand spending on it. https://www.gumtree.com/p/mazda/mazda-xedos-6/1473022890

Almost a clone of mine aside from the wheels. Considering it's driven in the salt it probably won't have much attaching the front bumper to the car anymore. Super rare color (if its Aurora), I could use that bootlid...

South African market Audi C3, badged as 500SE! Parked since 1999. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/335271291136?mkevt=1&mkpid=0&emsid=e11021.m43.l1120&mkcid=7&ch=osgood&euid=0477cc397334476cb2fd04414d22db80&bu=43272004167&ut=RU&osub=-1~1&crd=20240224035734&segname=11021

A collection of kitcar shite for sale: https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/381980747884549/

Manual A4 Avant in an awesome spec: https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/796759002274281/

This is prime Fotu material right here. 35k 2 owner Accent in an interesting color for just 500 quid: https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/762148535800455/

The Dynasty is looking great, such an unusual sight pretty much anywhere now. I'd still love to find an Imperial of that time.

This post made me kinda want it now, great.

Fortunately the weather did indeed turn out to be mostly great this weekend (it actually felt like spring, imagine that) which means I could finally tackle ripping out the old smelly interior of the E65. The headliner was by far the worst of it all and impossible to safe: Fortunately I'm the expert for BMW headliners at this point (5th or 6th time I remove an E65 or E39 headliner) so things went pretty smoothly until one of the damn seat rails of the driver seat decide to seize up again, which meant I akwardly had to disconnect it from the rest of the seat base which probably took the best of 2 hours of my time yesterday... With both seats and the sunroof glass out the headliner was gone in no time: This is when I noticed that BMW decided to install subwoofers directly underneath the seats. And to nobody's surprise plenty of water made its way into that as well. Amazingly it still seemed to work perfectly fine despite being submerged, the wiring hardness and connectors certainly were very well insulated. And thats where the difference between BMW and brands like Alfa lies, alot of this stuff is surprisingly solidly engineered while even in perfect conditions the electrics in the latter are a nightmare. As always with the seats out now was a good time to remove all the grime you'll never otherwise reach underneath. With the seat removal such a pain I didn't want to take any chances so I actually ordered a replacement woofer on ebay for a total of a whopping 27 quid incl. postage. While faffing around with the subwoofer I noticed a cable that didn't quite look OEM to me. I have been wondering what another wire leading up the driver c-pillar and suddently ending right in the middle of nowhere was before. Well, turns out one of the previous owners had a tracker installed in the car... Well, it is no more. It's always very satisfying removing junk wiring, one of the cables had its insulation stripped which cannot have helped much with the onboard electronics. Well, 2 solid days of faffing around, transfering control modules from one set of seats to another, testing and carefully reassembling everything later we now have a headliner and two replacement (identical to the old) front seats again. And the best of all, thanks to the breaker 750i it cost me exactly nothing. The driver seat isnt fully bolted in yet as the subwoofer can only really be installed with it out, hopefully it'll be here soon. I also won't properly install the C- and A-pillar trims yet as more work will be needed for other reasons in these areas. Seeing the before and after photos I'm quite satisfied with what I managed to get done though. If I hadn't done the front seats and all the other while I'm in there jobs this could have been done in 2-3 hours. I'm probably going to request to have the windshield replace before putting the A-pillar trims on one last time. I got comprehensive cover with Admiral, has anyone however experienced their premium going up because of a windshield claim? It won't take long before this will be right in the driver's view.

Wow, mine must be worth 12 grand then!

I've posted this here about a year ago. Since then it has deteriorated further and now has a new owner who hasn't done anything with it but now wants at least 700 quid more for it, yet he doesn't even know its correct name (its obviously not a Town Car): https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/364737783043?itmmeta=01HPW1NF8J7CKJ65E9ZM26HV64&hash=item54ec10e503:g:RTYAAOSwNSZlz1UB&itmprp=enc%3AAQAIAAAAwJ8Ob6JPCxv1KIyf%2F4MHiIqNzfYVGWgsxXHzDVUJ5B6X75ECzWp8nY9SxrhdCfNxJVoJtSu6qTDrFpVuHJIR%2FpZ%2BcMkKeUPrUpmKSbdH%2FbM%2Fddlyhx4iTaenz5Y9hJ%2B14Hcuu5CLti64Xighm%2F3h3hXRMtZf3VBSnKLu7j6r1FG7C3D%2FWrLIqdGjrxzhUnaUCzRAsYqPCX%2B0BIaml%2Fy4QbzWXSp8%2FBwXBV%2Bzf6LTr6TW%2FmKfH8Zh50I%2FlzmmX03AWA%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR7j01YG3Yw This really looks like it used to be a great car. Ivory pearlescent (just like mine) and an ivory interior is a good color combo.

White suits it quite well, looking good!

Weren't these just in the movie to get smashed up?

Nice looking Corolla Liftback with blue velour interior for £1150. https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/786117350001628/

Awesome, send me a PM with the prices, maybe I can polish the damage out of them. I've just installed the bonnet insulation clips as well, thanks for sending the part number. No clue why I never looked them up before, I ended up needing 15 of them and not having a hanging mat after years of seeing this makes a big difference: It's still hanging a little on the side where it would normally be rigid enough to slide under the little edge leading front to back, no clue why Opel decided to go without clips there. Once I've cleaned it properly it will finally look tidy again though. Weather looks good for the weekend so hopefully I can make some progress on the E65 interior over the next few days.

Missed out on the cheap HMC Crown Vic Limo? Here's its even more extravagant sibling for 800 quid! https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1130283388130713/

That's a rad looking truck, just needs 4 spotlights on top!

Awesome. I'm happy to send you the blank and original key so you got the reference right next to you. It should be pretty much identical to the US market Q45, might be easier to find the info there. They are indeed similar, one of the best wheel designs for that era saloon in my opinion, had them on two E38s before. They are 15s on the Senator, I think BBS etc. would offer a 16" version which are appropriately expensive nowadays. Quick Update on the A8: Its continues to be a great car. I've had Kwik Fit down the road reseal the front right tire, so far it seems to hold air. Fingers crossed it'll stay that way.