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14 hours ago, MarvinsMom said:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Classic-car/233474928146?hash=item365c30ae12:g:8~8AAOSw2oheK2TA

i think i am one of the few people who like these smiley faced festers. especially  on those 4 spoke wheels.

i wonder how much metal is in those wheel arches? they look of in the pictures, bur are they as nice in real life?

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To be fair they drove a million times better than the mk3 despite being pretty similar underneath, the 1.25 and 1.4 yam engines were much nicer than the 1.3 x flow but they slipped up by not making a sporty model, putting the puma 1.7 in one of those or even a breathed on 1.6 Zetec would have been an inspired move. 

They handled really well and the power steering made all the difference however they quickly became very unloved and fell into proper banger territory and sadly the rust issues only got solved in the next "focus" shaped model. 

What was that hideous purple base colour all about as well? Nothing spelt motoring misery more than that with a strangled 1.3 and no glove box. 

I remember a lad in work had the first gen of them and we were all amazed how it managed to have fuck all in it other than a headlight height adjuster? Apparently a standard requirement in 1996. It didn't even have a cassette player, just some am/fm radio thing. 

Proper AS territory these but that being a ghia it may have a few good bits on it. 

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3 hours ago, HillmanImp said:

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/405215370281380/

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Oh gawd. If I'd sold the 944 to that idiot I'd be able to buy this. Stupid me. 

*Edit*Adding photos of the seats. 

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WOW! 

I started looking at train fares to Blackburn the realised it hasn't had an MOT for 12 years.

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3 hours ago, Sir Snipes said:

Dunno, £8grand doesn't seem so outrageous for a proper 2 door sport nowadays. 

 

2 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

Agreed, and it's a very rare car.

On second thoughts, for what it is, the price seems reasonable.

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On 1/27/2020 at 12:08 AM, Austat said:

I never had the greatest relationship with my old man which meant anything he did I found deeply uncool. 

However years later after he died, I found myself getting into all the same sort of music he was into including Pink Floyd. 

That Datsun Cherry then sparked a memory of him having the day off one summer which was odd and his mate turning up in a yellow one, held together with yellow electrical tape, huge amounts of wob and still full of rust but the engine was so quiet I didn't even know it was running (I was hugely into cars back then also).

I can remember his mate laughing at the state of it but also saying it had never so much as hinted at breaking down in 10 years, something my old man's 2.0 GL Cortina could only dream of!!! 

They were off to Knebworth that day to watch Floyd and I can remember him coming home about 3am humming what I now know to be "comfortably numb" . Must have been about 1988/1989.

Turns out he wasn't as deeply uncool as I thought.......

 

But he did try a Bobby Charlton combover for a few weeks until the wind got it!!! 

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1 hour ago, vaughant said:

They were off to Knebworth that day to watch Floyd and I can remember him coming home about 3am humming what I now know to be "comfortably numb" . Must have been about 1988/1989.

Might have been Knebworth 90 - big charity gig which Pink Floyd headlined and did play Comfortably Numb...

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Approx 15 bikes in various states some brake only some can go back on road £1500 to clear will not split full receipt will be given Zx9 St1100 Gs550 X2 virago 535 Virago 1100 Katana 250 Cg 125 CB 100 Tgb deliver scooter NTV 650 Gs 250 Get 550 Not sure if I missed any bargin price

 

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Here's all the old shit from round the back that we haven't got round to weighing in yet. £1500

 

You decide:

 

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4 hours ago, egg said:

Ohhh forwarded that one to mum!

(BTW I noticed looking at its MOT history, that the most recent one has a view test certificate button, looks like that was a pretty recent change, TWC's 2018 MOT does not show the option but Her 2019 one does show the option)

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