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What happened to the Colt?


Conrad D. Conelrad

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I was just e-stalking my old motors on the MOT history site, and noticed the Colt of Many Shiters has dropped off the radar. The MOT expired last August, and the tax website returns 'no details found'. 

 

At least nine of us had our names on this car's V5. How did its story end?

 

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I was just e-stalking my old motors on the MOT history site, and noticed the Colt of Many Shiters has dropped off the radar. The MOT expired last August, and the tax website returns 'no details found'. 

 

At least nine of us had our names on this car's V5. How did its story end?

 

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Checked and tax appears to have run out in November 2017. It seems to have been SORNEDED since.

Last owner change August 2016.

Sounds like it’s still potentially in one piece?

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Well, I think from all the information above, it either exists or it doesn't, and it burns oil if it does. 

 

Based on this, and the "details not found" from gov.uk, I'm guessing it's gone to the big 1980s in the sky. 

 

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Nyphur sold it to RobT who promptly drove it straight to Southend to visit me and the Sierra base. That would have been 2016? It was in desperate need of a pair of rear arches but was otherwise a tidy little thing that drove well. Don't know who had it after Rob. A shame if it's lost it's life, particularly at the hands of a shiter.

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Last known custodian was castros_bro - it suffered some kind of failure and despite offers to buy it back it seems to have gone.

Has anyone asked him?

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Indeed. Here it is the day after I bought it in Portsmouth.

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And here it is two days after I bought it at the Fast Car Festival, Donington Park. Next to Ratdat's Nissan Cherry Europe.

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And here it is being ignored later in the day, next to a Vulcan.

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RIP fun little car.

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This will remain in my heart as one of the cars I entered a roffle for and genuinely wanted to win...

 

On the flipside I'm glad I didn't win it and have to deal with it exploding on me...

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Is it still around?

 

It would be a shame for it not to help another live. I remember bits being impossible to get so I’m sure it’d be invaluable to some poor sod somewhere.

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