Japanese Technology. Malaysian Style

[red5]

Do the valve clearances. Do it!

 

[urpert]

Can we have a pic of the interior? I remember these having weird almost-Citroen stalk things.

[DodgyBastard]

I'll get a pic tomorrow!

[Junkman]

That's one mighty fine automobile you have there, sir.

[Semi-C]

epic work! its like being back at school (the Jannie had one)

Snap! My middle school's Janitor had a Sequin Blue saloon, narrowly beaten into 2nd place on my shortlist of "trickest staff car" at the time, by Music teacher Mr Durrant's Montelimar Green GS.

 

Yours,

Montague Withnail

[Noel Tidybeard]

iirc 12v gave a decent compromise between 16 efficiency and 8v flexibility

[The Moog]

When I was 19 a mate told me he had got a wicked new car, leather the lot. Dirt cheap and all. I was proper jealous till he turned up in a Proton.

 

How we laughed as I burnt him in my shonky Renault 9...petrol tank leaking.

[DodgyBastard]

Believe it or not is one of my dream cars from my teenage years... I remember being 14 and looking in the yellow paper mainly for motocross bikes but I'd always check the car ads and it would be guaranteed I would find a proton for £300. I've actually got 3 of the cars I lusted over as a teenager, I just need a Lada Riva to complete the fleet. 

[Wilko220]

There's also a Chris Goffey road test on YouTube for added shite points.

 

Here you go. Check out the fantastic tank top.

 

[red5]

 

 

That is all.

[cms206]

Japanese Technology. Malaysian Style.

 

I'd have another but much prefer the pre-MPi shape saloons; a J-reg with an MPi mill would be GR12.

[cms206]

[Squire_Dawson]

It is indeed a nice car.

[Lankytim]

I had a black auto one of these, it was mint and I sold it for 40 quid!

 

Mind you this was 10 years ago when it was worth 30.

[DodgyBastard]

DSC_1986 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

DSC_1979 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

DSC_1975 by srblythe, on Flickr

[vulgalour]

I didn't know these had a mad single spoke steering wheel.  Previous excessive want levels now increased further.  They have quite simply one of the best rear ends ever designed, I don't care who disagrees with me on that one.

[derskine]

Saw it today and must say I really like it, and it's not the type of thing I'd usually go for.

[nisfan]

£100, 200ish miles driven, sometimes at speed and not a single thing went wrong, i really like this car and wouldnt have looked twice previously.

[New POD]

In my search for a cheap dizzler I've found this!

 

 

 

It may still have some mot on it and it's more in my price range at £150

 

It's a 1.3 pez so no doubt it'll be utterly crap. Brilliant.

 

 

When the insurance company ask "Has it got an immobiliser, or a tracker or an alarm"  the answer is to laugh, and say "who the F**K would be that sad to want to steal this?"

 

Bargain, and makes me wish I'd never bought the wife a BMW Mini.

[Jim Bell]

That awesome steerage hoop reminds me very much of a BX direction controller.

 

[derskine]

That awesome steerage hoop reminds me very much of a BX direction controller.

 

 

 

I thought BX the first time I seen it too.

[urpert]

I didn't know these had a mad single spoke steering wheel. Previous excessive want levels now increased further. They have quite simply one of the best rear ends ever designed, I don't care who disagrees with me on that one.

Yep, I knew I remembered something '80s Citroenesque about the interior.

[DodgyBastard]

With the search for a nice set of wheels for the proton I was looking for something retro in 4x114.3mm fitment, I looked into old datsun wheels which were going to cost the same amount as I paid for the car, found a set of mgb 4 spoke revolutions but found I'd need to faff around with sleeved nuts in order to fit them.

Then I found these on the blue forum for £25

 

mgb Rostyle by srblythe, on Flickr

 

 

A short time later and some sanding and spraying they looked like this

 

 

The Proton's new wheels... by srblythe, on Flickr

 

 

I got the tyres from the Renault speedlines

 

Weak handbrake vs Steep hill = this by srblythe, on Flickr

 

 

Now fitted to the rostyles and on the car...

 

 

DSC_2278 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

DSC_2273-1 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

DSC_2271 by srblythe, on Flickr

[KruJoe]

Hey, those looks better than I thought they would on the car.

Now lowered?

[DodgyBastard]

It was lowered before, a coil chopped on each corner by the previous owner.

[KruJoe]

Oh right! It seems more obvious on these wheels. Looks well though, so it does.

[Wilko220]

Like it

[Pillock]

That's one of those things that if someone described to you, you'd go "Don't be a twat" but then actually turns out pretty sweet.

[Parky]

That looks surprisingly decent. I would never have considered Rostyles could look good on anything other than seventies BL tin but this has been a pleasant surprise. 10/10 excellent work!

[vulgalour]

I'm going to do something foolish when I've got some pocket money, I can just see it happening, and it's going to be all your fault.