HillmanImp

Well, I'd just like to say thank you for taking the time to do that Bucketeer, I really enjoyed it and thought it was very clever and well delivered.
 
Ta

If you like 1980's Japanese saloons adorned in metallic grey paint, then Trademe has just the things for you.
 
Prosaic spec Mitsubishi Eterna on steels. I know it's a 1990 car but let's not kid ourselves here:
 

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used-cars/mitsubishi/auction-832467428.htm
 
 
 
Maybe this Mazda Luce is more appealing, with its RWD, double glove box and signature tape player. Still looks a bit mingebag inside, though I like the cloth myself. And actually it's probably a bit more brown than grey but again, let's not split hairs.
 

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used-cars/mazda/auction-832009263.htm
 
 
The winner has to be this run-out model 626 with ALL the accessories. 1 owner from new and manual for best offer over £1500.
 

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used-cars/mazda/auction-832079700.htm
 
 
If these don't do it for you, an obscure brown wagon should fit the bill, though bin the wheels for something less nice.
 

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used-cars/honda/auction-831935343.htm

Not really autoshite fodder, but this below makes me grin...
 

 
Mainly for the reason it's the full fat Nismo 370Z, owned by a 70 odd year old little old lady, the latest in a long line of Nissan Z cars.  Go on old dear!! )

Never seen one of these before
 
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lancia-Thema-2-0-16v-turbo-LX-Station-Wagon-/281558869729?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item418e3766e1
 

I like the stickers, i don't like the seats. 90s puke camoflaged.

A girl at work got excited today talking to me about food and said to me 'I love mayonnaise' making me shout 'YOU SAID LOVE MAYONNAISE'. That was enough innuendo for me today thank you Pillock.

Can you not just ring it as a pre 1960 Land Rover avoiding an MOT?

Jobbie rider, a shadowy flecht intae th' radge warld ay a cheil fa disnae exist. Michael Jobbie, a yoong loner oan a crusade tae champion th' cause ay th' innocent, th' helpless, th' powerless, in a warld ay criminals fa operate abune th' law.

Jobbie rider, a shadowy flecht intae th' radge warld ay a cheil fa disnae exist. Michael Jobbie, a yoong loner oan a crusade tae champion th' cause ay th' innocent, th' helpless, th' powerless, in a warld ay criminals fa operate abune th' law.

Mrs Trigger has been moaning for a long while about not having a car for herself and having to drive big thirsty cars so I decided to be a gentleman for a change and find something half modern and boring, after spending ages looking at some of the shit for sale and narrowingly missing out on a Yaris on ebay i ended up finding this Toyota Starlet SR about a hour away also on ebay.
 
The SR model was basically a run out model for the Starlet before it was discontinued for the Yaris. There was 1000 of them made in black, white or silver and they came with the standard 1332cc 16v 4E-FE engine kicking out a MASSIVE 74 bhp YO, they also came with some TTE (Toyota Team Europe) goodies, namely A TTE backbox, a TTE rear spoiler and a lowered suspension all round as well as a set of Speedline alloys, groovy hey!.
 
To be fair i didn't know anything about them before i bought it except that Mrs T wanted a Nissan Micra and i thought the Starlet looked like one but a little more manly.
 
Anyway i popped up to look at it during the week and a deal was made to collect it this morning, this all went well, the wind and rain was awful so it wasn't exactly the best day for it mind, I bought some fuel at Morrisons nearly in Bungay and I'm still kicking myself for not getting a photo as i was parked next to a old boy in a 1974 M reg Lotus Europa in brown! It was proper tasty, the old chap looked in his 80's too. Gutted!. The best photo i got was this ropey one on a back road.
 

 
It drives really nicely actually, it's only done 76000 mile so it should really, It's quite tinny and noisy inside, very much like most small Jap cars but it goes quite well and seems very frugal on the fuel. The power steering is a bit light for my liking but it handles really well but again it's a bit crashy over the bumps, i suspect the low profile 195/45/15 tyres don't help with that. 
 
So once it was home the first job was to pressure wash it, i don't think it had been cleaned for years. The last owner was a young lady whose first car it was and i don't think she cleaned it much.
 

 

 

 

 
It came up pretty well really, i done inside the engine bay too which looked better, after this the buyer for the Merc arrived and once he left with it (It made the 252 mile drive home faultlessly apparently which is excellent) I nipped up to ECP and bought some service parts for it, 10 minutes later that job was done (what a piece of piss!) so I got jiggy with the polishing mop.
 

 
Messy bloody job, it has a nasty scratch along the offside which i hoped would polish out but it didn't, tomorrow I'll wash it and give it a hand job.
 
It needs a few jobs doing, the rear parcel shelf is missing it's string and the wiring for the speakers and one of them has a hole, I should be able to fix this without to much trouble although i did think about fitting my old Kenwood 6x9's but they would have left holes exposed..
 

 
I think this was the original spare as it's a Conti but it's perished badly and needs changing ASAP, the spare is brand new though.
 

 
and the front bumper has well scuffed so will need painting (as well the alloys really).
 

 
Tomorrow I'll go over the inside, it smells a bit funky and there's dog hair everywhere which i hate, I want to get a new CD player for it do as the old one's wank.
 

 

 
and lastly it should have a full Castrol inspired SR sticker set but there missing which is quite common, I've found a chap on the Starlet forum who sells a full set of reproduction ones for £45 which I'll get, It should look like this.
 

 
You can see where someone in the past has painted the bonnet when the sticker was on it and just masked it off...
 

 
If any of you are still awake after reading this I'll post some more tomorrow once I've done the inside.
 
Konnichiwa.

Pressed a wire on the ignition switch barrel and everything worked again. The copper terminal must've burnt out, which I'm told is a common problem.

And I deliberately did badly cos I thought Cav wanted to win it.

Can I just point out I didn't want to win it anyway?

Jobbie rider, a shadowy flecht intae th' radge warld ay a cheil fa disnae exist. Michael Jobbie, a yoong loner oan a crusade tae champion th' cause ay th' innocent, th' helpless, th' powerless, in a warld ay criminals fa operate abune th' law.

Jobbie rider, a shadowy flecht intae th' radge warld ay a cheil fa disnae exist. Michael Jobbie, a yoong loner oan a crusade tae champion th' cause ay th' innocent, th' helpless, th' powerless, in a warld ay criminals fa operate abune th' law.

Mrs Imp is watching rubbish on telly so I decided to have a look through my photos on my phone and found this:
 

 
Seems that we have met this car before. 

Mrs Imp is watching rubbish on telly so I decided to have a look through my photos on my phone and found this:
 

 
Seems that we have met this car before. 

Jobbie rider, a shadowy flecht intae th' radge warld ay a cheil fa disnae exist. Michael Jobbie, a yoong loner oan a crusade tae champion th' cause ay th' innocent, th' helpless, th' powerless, in a warld ay criminals fa operate abune th' law.

Jobbie rider, a shadowy flecht intae th' radge warld ay a cheil fa disnae exist. Michael Jobbie, a yoong loner oan a crusade tae champion th' cause ay th' innocent, th' helpless, th' powerless, in a warld ay criminals fa operate abune th' law.

Mrs Imp is watching rubbish on telly so I decided to have a look through my photos on my phone and found this:
 

 
Seems that we have met this car before. 

Jobbie rider, a shadowy flecht intae th' radge warld ay a cheil fa disnae exist. Michael Jobbie, a yoong loner oan a crusade tae champion th' cause ay th' innocent, th' helpless, th' powerless, in a warld ay criminals fa operate abune th' law.

Yaaaaay!
 

 
ARSES