Junkman's Mitsubishite - alive and kicking

[Junkman]

After lots of considerage what would be best to replace SWMBO's Peugeot 405 with, we now decided to purchase the following shite out of Fukushima

 

 

despite it was registered two years after my personal cut off date for actual car production.

However, it is reasonably grim inside to appeal:

 

 

And it has pretty much all mod cons, including a postdiluvian gearbox and what appears to be some electric device you can hear strange voices from, despite there is no wire attached to the car. It is also gleefully void of any rotundity, with the hopeful exception of the tyres and steering wheel. This is only my fourth foray into shite from the Island of the rising sun and thus could well turn into a beautifully vain endeavour.

 

It's located so far darn sarf, that the upcoming collection thread should be an epic* one, especially since an obscure world city near England needs to be undermined on one of the outbound legs of the journey.

[twosmoke300]

Me likely !

[wuvvum]

That's almost as good as a J-reg Proton. 

 

I actually had one of those for a while (albeit with a proper gearbox ) and it was as blandly competent as I'd expected.  Bloody good brakes for a car of its age.  Sold it to a mate, who wrote it off.

[Mr Livered]

Superb. I like these. The thinking man's Mazda 323.

 

Whereabouts dahn sahf? Proper south, or the East Anglia / London / Home Counties bit on the way to the south?

[skattrd]

Nice purchase, is that one from the ebay tat thread?

 

The instrument cluster and switches look very compact.

[trigger]

I saw that on ebay, for the money I don't think you can go too far wrong with it.

[vulgalour]

What's with the shelf under the heater controls?

[Junkman]

I saw that on ebay, for the money I don't think you can go too far right with it.

 

EFA

[hairnet]

south itll be wilmslow

[Shep Shepherd]

I love the dash. It looks like something from Terrahawks

[HMC]

Top purchasing!!! IOW registration I think. Scuse my lack of Mitsu knowledge, but is this a saloon or a hatch?

 

That dash belongs in the dashboard thread btw

[Junkman]

That's almost as good as a J-reg Proton.

I consider this just inches short of a knighthood?

 

I actually had one of those for a while (albeit with a proper gearbox ) and it was as blandly competent as I'd expected.

I expect it to be as exciting as a decaffeinated Charisma?

 

Bloody good brakes for a car of its age.  Sold it to a mate, who wrote it off.

Lemme guess - break phailage

[Junkman]

south itll be wilmslow

Worse, it's even south of Bramhall. It's in Kent, actually.

[Junkman]

Top purchasing!!! IOW registration I think. Scuse my lack of Mitsu knowledge, but is this a saloon or a hatch?

 

That dash belongs in the dashboard thread btw

It says Portsmouth reg on regarchive.

It's a hatch:

 

 

I'll take proper pics of the dash when the car is here.

 

[MrDuke]

What's with the shelf under the heater controls?

 

The G-reg Proton that I once borrowed had the exact same shelf. It's just that: a shelf, for putting things on. Like, I dunno, a sh1t air-freshener, or a packet of crisps with glue on the bottom, or maybe the wedding ring that's just been hurled back at you?

[Junkman]

Looks like one could put two tins of Boddington's there.

Or those tiny tea cups with roses on them and a golden rim.

[dugong]

Er....right.

[garycox]

I was very tempted by this when it was on Gumtree.

 

Barrett convinced me not to buy it.

[Hertz]

It was on Friday Ad too just before Christmas. Nice purchase Junkman!

 

http://autoshite.com/topic/11228-ebay-tat-volume-3/page-1207?do=findComment&comment=496883

[dollywobbler]

Brill!

[Sloth in a bowl]

Separated at birth

 

Skoda Felica                                                                                                                      

 

 Mitsubishi Shite

[Junkman]

Right.

 

At 3:30 am today I returned from the Granada collection horror trip, just to get up again at 8:30 am to take a train to a huge slum, in which a wee tiny city is hidden. There I had to get from one Victorian station to another, and for this I had to take a device that, like Big Ben, is carefully engineered for maximum noise emission. To make what is elsewhere just an underground train system that deafening, is an impressive achievement, I give them that.

 

 

On the up-side, travelling by train means you can see what people hoard in their back yards, and the chod I saw today, uninterrupted for more than 200 miles, was mindboggling. The entire BMC and BL programme of yore, all sorts of cat piss challenge, and a myriad of other interesting shite, culminating in a Ferrari 400i in JRG left to rot in a hedge.

If I'd start getting my teeth into this country, like I did on the Continent in ye goode olde dayse, I'd dig up one black pearl after the other.

 

Anyway, paper with the picture of the Queen on it was changed for paper without the picture of the Queen on it, and off I went with the car back into civilisation.

The car ran actually fine, but once on the motorway, it didn't really want to get over 55mph. So I just kept trundling along and by the time I had passed Northampton, it was happily sitting at a 65. Once I was past Birmingham, where you can only do 50, because the motorway there has  been a construction site uninterruptedly since I first traveled it in 1983, the car happily did 75, sounding sweet. The final approach to Stockport was done in usual 85mph fashion, and there was even some pedal left at that speed. Acceleration had gone from showman's tractor to quite nippy as well.

So all in all, I'm well chuffed with my new bosozoku shite. When I arrived at home, my wife fell in love with it at first sight, and even daughter number one approved and finds it 'cute', so my education is not a total PHALE after all.

[Junkman]

PS, when the seller picked me up from the station, he said he had put 'a bit of petrol' in it, just to get me on the road.

In reality, he had filled it to the brim!

Superb chap that.

[pandamonium]

Nice one. I do like this car. Is the paintwork as dull as it appears in the pictures?

[Junkman]

Ah, that'll polish up nicely.

[dollywobbler]

Splendid.

[pandamonium]

Good stuff. Heat gun on the bumpers, bit of gel on there and it'll look a treat!

[Station]

The shelf is useless. It's made of shiny, slippery plastic that you can't put anything on. My dad made a wooden shelf which slotted in the gap above and even varnished it to match the brown in his Proton.

[Junkman]

I'll use some two-sided tape and put this on it:

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/171183320847

[Station]

About as classy as my dad's shelf.