HMC- Return of the Cheeky 500

[Sloth in a bowl]

So is the plan to put the Mazda motor in the Wartburg, or the other way around?

 

Or both?

[HMC]

Wartburg en route!

 

My transport man is almost as excited as I am. Growing up in Poland his first drive of a car was aged 11..... in his uncles wartburg 1.3s. It's definitely in safe hands as he kept me on the phone for a good 10 minutes telling me about used cars behind the iron curtain the 70s/80s. He's due here in about an hour!!!!

[doug]

By 6.38pm we want pics!!

[MarvinsMom]

god the suspense is KILLING me!!

 

tick.......

 

tock.....

 

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tock....

[DodgeRover]

It's been about an hour now..

[Soap Distant]

WERE IZ WATBERG?

[HMC]

Right on time, My contact from the east arrived. We met near the (Devon and cornwall) border. I greeted Arek and, looking to my left and right under the dim streetlamps, handed him a brown Envelope. My comrade then unloaded the goods and we parted........

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Mr_Bo11ox]

HOT HOT HOT

[Hertz]

What a stunner!

[holbeck]

That's pretty special.

[Soap Distant]

An S. Decadent luxuries such as fog lamps and sliding sunroof.

 

Sweet!

[tooSavvy]

Nettie Green.... MeltsDown .... [/Homer drool!]

 

Top Snagging m8

 

 

TS

[Cavcraft]

Essentially, what you've done here is to hire a helicopter, fly over all other motoring forums and defecate on them.

[Shep Shepherd]

Top stuff! I particularly like the 'Mauserkino' LED-based fuel and temperature gauge set-up, which in retrospect was way ahead of its time

[richardthestag]

Right on time, My contact from the east arrived. We met near the (Devon and cornwall) border. I greeted Arek and, looking to my left and right under the dim streetlamps, handed him a brown Envelope. My comrade then unloaded the goods and we parted........

 

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fuck yeah

[dollywobbler]

Excellent comrade.

[Soap Distant]

VAGBURG

[hairnet]

VAGBURG

WARTVAG

 

technically it can be pineappled now

[LessThanEqual]

Sure the driver's name wasn't Marek?

Either way, green Wartburg AND an RX8? Life winner right there.

[Squire_Dawson]

I'll never forget when we were on holiday in Northumberland, passing through Warkworth I sensed something out of the corner of my eye. It was only a bloody 'L' reg Wartburg Knight Tourist, lilac colour, pouring blue smoke out as it trundled along. I almost had a fit. Made my day that did. They were a very smart looking car.

[SiC]

This thread has taken a twist. It was only last month that you had 3 Mondeo's.

[cort16]

Oof

[Hertz]

This thread has taken a twist. It was only last month that you had 3 Mondeo's.

 

HMC shuffles the shite fleet pack quicker than a Black Jack dealer in Las Vegas.

[Shep Shepherd]

Obscure Shepfact: very late Wartburgs had Opel Vectra 'A' front seats and interior fabrics (and no doubt more), due to GM taking over the AWE factory and building Vectras alongside Warts for a time until they had built a new Opel factory nearby. The Treuhandanstalt did get one thing right, at least.

[barefoot]

They were a very smart looking car.

Compared to what?

Not a Cortina mk3 Coke bottle, I'm guessing.

A fucking Marina was a better looking car back in the day!

[MarvinsMom]

Compared to what?

Not a Cortina mk3 Coke bottle, I'm guessing.

A fucking Marina was a better looking car back in the day!

HUBBA HUBBA!!

 

it has arrived (AT LAST!!) and its just about as grim as we had hoped it would be.

 

ah but you forget that this is the beige forum,

 

the crappier, the more unloved the more unusual, the more the forum  like it!

 

would you like a wartburg? i would.....

 

and i do like the marina, more than it is healthy to do so!

[oldcars]

This place takes some beating with the quality motors just now.

[trigger]

FAPFAPFAP! What a fab looking beasty! 

[Shep Shepherd]

I like the Wartburg 353/1.3. A lot. To me, it looks like a Neue Klasse BMW drawn by a young child

[RobT]

MEGA.

 

Sod taking the Golf to Germany next month, take the Wart. I'm sure Mrs HMC would love that idea...

 

It looks really tidy, is it a resto job or all original?