Better than walking!

[theorganist]

Due to the failure of the Maxi to get to the end of my road without overheating and my other frustrations with it, I decided I needed something a bit more reliable!

 

I picked this up from Wolverhampton this evening for the princely sum of £250.

 

It appears to be pretty solid with some marks and some rust spots, the from of the bonnet being the worse.

 

The interior is very good apart from the sagging head lining. The car is responsive, surprisingly quiet and comfortable. I was surprised how nice it is to drive. I always thought of these as the motoring equivalent of watching paint dry.

 

The only problems so far are the fuel gauge works only occassionally, it spends most of its time below the bottom marking of the gauge and the rear window wiper doesn't work.

 

It only has a months MOT but looking at it I don't think getting a new one will be a great issue.

 

For some reason my Flickr pictures aren't showing so they can be seen in their full glory on my photostream!

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/48758436@N05/with/9300889103/

 

Hopefully I can have this as trouble free motoring whilst I concentrate on getting my next Maxi on the road which I should be taking delivery of next month!

[Micrashed]

Fuck my eyesight, I thought this read as better than wanking

IMGP0847 by Peter the Organist, on Flickr

[Pillock]

S'nice that, bonnet shouldn't be hard to sort if you're so inclined and it looks like it's one of the better examples left. Free giffer-rug with it too or is that yours?

 

Quite rare to see one where the fuel filler isn't surrounded by brown dust and thin air.

[Jim Bell]

Fiesta?

Wanking?

 

 

 

Fwar!!!!

 

 

Stock market latest!!!

[Wilko220]

 

Fuck my eyesight, I thought this read as better than wanking

 

 

 

 

There's not much in it. I keep changing my mind.

[Station]

I like the second picture of the Maxi looking with one eye a bit concerned in the background through the windows of the Fiesta.

[Lord Sterling]

Top bombing sir! That looks a peach. Reminds me of my Mums old G-reg Fiesta Popular Plus.

[Split_Pin]

These are definitely rare enough to be interesting now, especially the first generation ones pre-SPI engines. Top work, I do like.

[phil_lihp]

Nice!  It's funny, these things feel really rather old fashioned and agricutural to drive compared to a contemporary Corsa yet unlike the Vauxhalls they do seem to be gaining quite a lot of charm as they get older - it's nice to see such a tidy povo-spec one too.

 

The rattly old engines seem to go on forever if you can keep pouring oil in fast enough when they start to wear but the rust claims most of them.  A big can of waxoyl might be a good purchase!

[Rocket88]

 

 A big can of waxoyl might be a good purchase!

As well as, or instead of?

[theorganist]

Lol thanks guys. The rug is mine !

 

It's funny but it does not seem long ago that these were everywhere it's quite shocking to think it is over twenty years old!

 

It does have a certain charm.

 

Thanks for linking my picture I have not used this new forum much.

[Station]

My brother bought one of these for 2000 in late 90's (a G reg). My other brother and wife then bought it off them. The gearbox went so I took it off their hands for NOTHING (it was sat languishing on my folk's driveway). I paid to have it fixed up, and then taxed and MOT'd it, and then my brother and wife decides that the deal was they were going to share it with me.

'No chance' I says.

Car then gets stolen in Liverpool city centre, and dumped on train tracks (same train track that Jamie Bulger was killed on!!!). Insurance company takes two weeks to recover, in the meantime, feral Liverpool school children break into it and set fire to it. Use insurance money (£300) to buy Escort, have welding done on boot floor and headgasket changed.

 

I thought they handled really, really great, and the engines had that 'it may sound like I'm about to die, but I'm going to hold on for another 20 years at least' kind've thing.

[fordperv]

 

Fuck my eyesight, I thought this read as better than wanking

IMGP0847 by Peter the Organist, on Flickr

So did i

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

You didn't answer my very important question about whether the gauges have rounded needles or the pointy ones. 

 

I'm guessing rounded. 

[chaseracer]

Fuck my eyesight, I thought this read as better than wanking

IMGP0847 by Peter the Organist, on Flickr

No, because then he would be 'Peter the Onanist'...

 

[scruff]

I must admit I saw one of these on the M25 at the weekend and did a double take, I hadn't seen one for ages.

[sierrapaul2]

theres a nice 1.1 pop round my way thats like new.old boy drives it once a week

[Pillock]

An ex's mum had a 1.8 n/a Diesel which I used to borrow. It was viable transport and did nothing wrong, quite liked it really. Maybe that was being 20, zooming off to Newquay and living the life. Aaaah.

 

It did snap a cambelt at about 100k, by that point it's value was well into three figures but incredibly her mum paid to have it fixed. It lived until my ex's sister scraped it down the side of a Welsh mountain.

 

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[RobT]

That's nice that.  Sometimes you just want something basic to potter around in don't you.  I still see a few around here owned by the oldies, in particular a mint Ghia in a nice metallic maroon over grey combo.

[theorganist]

Thanks guys it is growing on me. Hadn't realised how few and far between these are now it seems yesterday when they were everywhere.

 

I does not have the rounded needles I can confirm!

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Good. 

 

I spent ages pulling my instrument cluster apart to install pointy ones. 

[Junkman]

Knickers down, boners up.

Fuggin ace, man, well done!

[HMC]

looks great/ untouched- original font plates, original steelies etc. That front valance looks uncharacteristically non rusted too

[theorganist]

Cheers never thought a mark 3 Fezza would create this much interest! Rust wise the worse place is the front of the bonnet! Seems solid underneath to my untrained eye!