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sierraman

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  1. Before you do that, try vacuum filling it, sounds like an air lock to me.
  2. Leaking injectors aren’t that common on those to be fair. Top tip, stuff a bit of rag in the hole before you start digging all the shit round the injector clamps out.
  3. 1994 sounds about right for Superkings ending, they carried on in the US for a while after I think. They had some unusual stuff at the time that I’d now very difficult to track down like the Unimog Tar Sprayer.
  4. I think of when I was a kid if I’d discovered Bburago City I’d have needed my trousers changing. I’d have shit myself in excitement as that was the type of thing just up my street.
  5. Isn’t that Clive James there?
  6. I thought separate cylinder heads it would be a 2.5 VM diesel.
  7. I remember him, he lived out my way. Bought a Mondeo bumper from him - reverend blue whatevers, not the grassing twat.
  8. I’d be inclined to no mask so closely, it’ll build a ridge up which you’ll have the devils own work cutting through.
  9. Three quid on this but I’ve been looking for one for ages!
  10. Doncaster, it’s on about every 3 months, think next one is April. Don’t get me wrong there’s some with daft prices but most are surprisingly reasonable. Probably 25% less than EBay. Loads of fifty pence bins!
  11. Fifty pence bought this project.
  12. £1 bought this Tincorner, which seems cheap given they’re about a million quid on eBay.
  13. So what did I buy... bought this Mazda complete with bucket for £1
  14. Wasn’t that Nick Larkins?
  15. Are the tobacco deposits extra?
  16. Ex @155V6 Mercedes 190E gets new wiper and door mirror.
  17. I’d love to go to this but is it full of bearded wankers walking about giving a running commentary of ‘facts’ to a go-pro?
  18. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/285572789128?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=2Jv7l9z1Qdq&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=0gRg2HOGS5y&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY Take this, £27k, a rough one would be £4-5k, you could easily spend £15k on the body alone and you’d be lucky to get it anywhere near this. It’s also got bits on it that are impossible to find now like the seats being in good condition.
  19. On purely a financial perspective it’s never worthwhile restoring cars, you will never get the money back so sometimes if you can buy one from someone that’s lost their shirt on it so much the better. One thing that I often wonder with these 8,000 mile unicorn cars like at KGF, is what are you actually supposed to do with it? You can’t take it anywhere, what if it got damaged? What if something broke and you couldn’t just make something fit? There’s a lot to be said for buying something that’s basically ok but solid.
  20. This is the thing, unless you are doing up something like a Mini or an MGB, where nearly everything is available off the shelf, you are chasing down unobtainable bits on anything a bit rough. That’s why KGF etc have £20,000 Capri 1.6 for sale, it’s the only way of getting a perfect or as close as to one, so people will pay the money. Factor in to that there’s restorations and there’s restorations, there’s some truly skilled people out there doing some restorations where you’d be pressed to tell it from new, the Granada Coupe on here case in point. On the other hand many of them are fucking terrible, last year at Matthewsons auctions they had a green RS2000, from a distance it looked good, when you got up close it was a real lash up, bad welding all over, fish eyes under the paint, loads of bits where the filler hadn’t been applied and finished properly, crap mechanical work like brake pipes sat on and rubbing against body edges. Christ knows what it went for but if it was more than £5k it was too much.
  21. The issue is in some parts of France it rains as much as it does here, from speaking to a few people the French tend to appraise a car on how shiny it is, could be full of wob. Those South African Fords at the place in Scotland look a good base sometimes but many of them look like they’ve seen a shit load of paint and filler and the engines are often fucked. But nevertheless they’re a better bet than something that’s sat in a wet shed for 40 years.
  22. If you can’t DIY or fund a specialist to do the work it’s a disaster from the get go. I do think as well if the said owner does go to a specialist and they get the idea they’ve got a few quid, the quote will reflect that.
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