1987 Renault GTA :: Gone to a new home

[DeeJay]

I'd do the rest of the car before deciding on the spoiler/trim colour.

[PhilA]

Officially pulled the car off the road.

 

Plate turned in, insurance cancelled.

 

 

Phil

[Sir Snipes]

*tear

[PhilA]

[Ian_Fearn]

Surely not? Despite probably never commenting on this, I've always loved reading about the trials and tribulations. I feel like the car has been part of my life for years. 

 

Can you not do some kind of stupid road trip in it and send it out in a blaze of glory?

 

24 hours of lemons?

[Dick Cheeseburger]

  On 04/10/2018 at 08:12, PhilA said:

Don't think I've commented much on this thread to date. However, I do quietly enjoy the trials and tribulations you've had with the GTA. I do hope 'end of the line' means time to sell to enthused new owner...

[PhilA]

Yeah, it does. I have the car sat aside right now, waiting for someone with great experience and knowledge of the vehicles to pick it up.

 

It'll be going to a good home.

 

As you can read, the car has fought me every step of the way. I recently tried to give it another chance and it fought me again.

To be honest, I was getting fed up of "fix one thing, another thing breaks", constantly. My patience for the car was waning so I was driving it less, enjoying it less. One last push to try and get it sorted resulted in something else difficult to source breaking so it got parked up for the last time.

 

Shortly after that the wife started me looking at other cars, then the Pontiac occurred and she said that I can't keep 2 project cars. So, as per "gimme a call if you ever think of selling the car", a phone call was made and I agreed I would hang on to the car until he finished building his new garage building. So, tag turned in and insurance cancelled. The car now is a zero cost item sitting in the driveway, waiting to be picked up.

 

 

 

 

So yeah, an end of an era but not the end of the car by any means. Hopefully it'll continue with someone who has fresh enthusiasm for the vehicle for many years to come.

 

 

Phil

[PhilA]

(Oh, and when I say that, this guy has 14 Alliances. Some spares cars, but a couple that he and his lady enjoy driving around Cincinnati. Yes. Good home.)

[hairnet]

  On 04/10/2018 at 08:12, PhilA said:

travelling wilburys say no

[hairnet]

  On 04/10/2018 at 11:55, PhilA said:

 

 

Shortly after that the wife started me looking at other cars

sooo was she involved in the pontiac?

 

get her in on other car decisions

[Tadhg Tiogar]

  On 04/10/2018 at 12:24, PhilA said:

(Oh, and when I say that, this guy has 14 Alliances. Some spares cars, but a couple that he and his lady enjoy driving around Cincinnati. Yes. Good home.)

 

Fourteen?     

[PhilA]

  On 04/10/2018 at 16:43, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Fourteen?     

Yup. He knows them, has spares for them, likes them well enough. He's been looking for a non-rusty one for a while, up north the roads are routinely salted and it makes vehicles dissolve pretty quickly as we are all aware. Down here not really so the bodyshell has remained in good shape while the mechanical parts have fallen off.

 

Phil

[PhilA]

  On 04/10/2018 at 16:41, hairnet said:

sooo was she involved in the pontiac?

 

get her in on other car decisions

Only so far as to say it was an acceptable choice of vehicle...

 

 

Phil

[PhilA]

GTA news: Put battery in. Twisted key until more than *click* occurred.

 

Started up, ran just fine. Drove it up and down the driveway.

 

Parked it back up.

 

Brake tag (MoT) expired end of last month. Not sure if its future right now. It may end up just being parked up and staying in the family. I actually have enough space to do that. It's not costing anything to keep right now.

 

Kinda sad in a way, but I look at it this way. It's not crashed, it's not being broken for parts, it's not deteriorating at a rapid rate. I'm ok hanging on to it right now.

 

Phil

[Ghosty]

So it didn't go to aforementioned enthusiast?

[PhilA]

Nope, still sat outside under the carport.

[Rocket88]

my experience with "marque enthusiasts" is that they want the car for nothing, because it'll be going to a "good home".[see Peugeot 403 thread] .............

[PhilA]

I may just hang on to it. A few months away and I'm less upset with it.

Really all it needs is the driveshafts doing again, the harmonic balancer and the steering rack. The manifold area has sprung a leak of coolant so that needs to come off for investigation.

 

If I'm doing the driveshafts, the engine might as well come out to do the harmonic balancer and while it's out, access to the steering rack is greatly improved.

 

I have a decent crane now so this is all possible in the future.

 

Gonna get the Pontiac on the road first.

 

Phil

[SiC]

Sometimes putting a project away for a bit when you've run out of mojo is the best thing you can do.

 

(Hence why I have a garage and loft full of part projects...)

[PhilA]

I moved the car from the front of the garage to the back, after cleaning up some junk that was stacked up by the previous owners of the house. I wasn't really using the space for much so it'll keep the car dry.

Sanded this rear quarter down.

Laid down some experimental bright silver enamel. 6/10 too much Delorean.

 

Parked it back up and let it rest again.

 

Phil

[PhilA]

That was a month ago. Today I decided to see if it would go. Battery was dead, I had left it connected, oops.

Put it to charge and got it running though it's really unhappy with the old crappy fuel in the tank and the sensors so seem to have dirty spots where it likes to cough and die out. Drove it up and down the street and then gave it a wash before parking it up out front, on charge.

Phil

[hairnet]

Bump

But then you might be busy/cba/shopping/going for malts

[PhilA]

  On 13/07/2021 at 12:15, hairnet said:

Bump

But then you might be busy/cba/shopping/going for malts

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Car's covered in bird shit and dust. Battery is probably flat. It hasn't moved since then.

[PhilA]

I still need to dig this out of the wreckage of the garage. 

Doesn't look to have taken any damage, but it's hard to see. 

Phil

[ProgRocker]

I was wondering if you still had the Alliance.

[PhilA]

  On 30/12/2021 at 12:25, ProgRocker said:

I was wondering if you still had the Alliance.

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Yeah. "I want to buy it" disappeared.

 

So I put it round the back of the garage. Which fell down.

I still haven't managed to get it out yet.

[somewhatfoolish]

Husky's OK, so that's a plus.🚜

[uk_senator]

Just saw this on FB, an 800 mile Alliance in a scrap yard in VA, thought you may be interested Phil:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/416610792609131/permalink/965571651046373/

[PhilA]

That's in remarkably good shape.

Sadly, I have no space for it right now, but I have passed on the details to someone.

[junkyarddog]

Would be interesting to hear the back story on that car,how did it end up there with only 800 miles on it?

Do yards over there sell complete cars,or does it have to be scrapped?