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I'm off to look at this right now. It's half an hour away from me. 

 

Don't come back without it

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My ebay is dead - how are you still searching? ^^^

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Didn't get it in the end. It's tatty but doesn't seem completely rotten. I drove it around a bit and just didn't fancy it. After a few German cars I just feel like something a bit more French. Or italian.

 

Don't come back without it

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Lancia Kappa with a V6 in it.

It's had a bump, has dodgy brakes & no MOT, but look at the blue interior

 

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This is class in a glass, no doubt it will be a right laugh fixing the brakes but whats the worst it could be? is that an Alfa 'Busso' V6 in there? Looks like one.

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Are 2CV chassis the french 'K series head gasket', in that if you have not got a reciept for a recent one, you have to budget for a replacement in the next few weeks.

 

The chassis is fucked on the brown turd one as well so theyre equal on that point.

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It's a reasonable comparison to make, although the pre 80s chassis were better. I'm surprised such a late car is still on it's original chassis, most were fucked by their first MOT...

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http://www.leboncoin.fr/voitures/297410913.htm?ca=7_s

 

This Merc 200D should have no trouble getting you to the local welders at speeds of up to 30mph. Price: €950

 

I had one of these briefly and it had performance to match a split screen Morris Minor. I got it cheap and sold it on for what I paid to my MOT man who patched it up and cashed in big time. He did give me free MOT's for a good while after though so everyone was a winner (apart from whoever bought it, naturally)

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It's a reasonable comparison to make, although the pre 80s chassis were better. I'm surprised such a late car is still on it's original chassis, most were fucked by their first MOT...

 

 

One car my mechanic worked on in the 1990s had had a couple of chassis by the time it came to be MOTd. The trouble was no-one would pay for rustproofing, so citroen kept paying for a new chassis under warranty. Our current 2CV was rechassied in 2000 and has now spent more time on this galvanised one than it did on the original, which to be fair did quite well soldiering on for 14 years. Hindsight is wonderful, and there if your planning on keeping a 2CV or similar, there is absolutely no sense in spending a single pound welding the chassis. Just change it. Once you can see  rust/holes it's going to be far worse inside. Pay someone and you'll have money out of £1k if there's only a little welding to bulkhead and floors needed.

 

The last throws of the death gurgle, is heavy steering as the column forces a new hole in the floor. The chassis' go mainly in two ways- one under the bulkhead so that the engine and gearbox droop forward exposing the gap you can put your fingers into like that black one for sale. two - sort of on the axle line so that the engine and gearbox push upwards collapsing the side panels above the wings like the brown turd example.

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STANZA!

 

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WARNING: Advert contains the longest roll-on sentence I've seen.

 

 

 

21000 miles from new

 

 

 

totaly rust free solid shell

 

A rust-free old Datsun? Isn't that like a unicorn?

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