SEATMad's gone mad... 1988 Mitsubishi Colt GLX 1500

[ProgRocker]

That is epic @SEATMad well done! 

 

[Vantman]

Mine in 2011 when i first joined AS,still with a forum member---

[loserone]

That would be @garbaldy

[garbaldy]

Yup sure is had it out on a dry day last week as soon be roamers season again and this year be back of to mull a repeat of the very first run 7 years ago.   

 

Op I had 3 of those mk2 colts one a turbo  back in the day nice cars well bought.  

[SEATMad]

15 hours ago, Nyphur said:

Yes that's right. I can recall at least 7 forum owners, there were possibly more.

I believe it was on load to a friend of @castros_bro when it went tits up and was deemed beyond economic repair 😢 

That's such a shame, what ever ended up happening to it? 

15 hours ago, MantaGTE85 said:

Very well played SEATMad! I have not seen one in ages. I would like to ask a SEAT-appropriate question, if I may. The indicator and wiper switches look quite unusual, how do you operate them on the Colt?

As @Nyphur said, both the windscreen and illuminations are done via 2 rotating switches. Very similar if not identical to the early Protons that were based on this. 

14 hours ago, Wibble said:

My sister in law had one back in the nineties, a three speed auto.

We borrowed it once, when I was between cars briefly, to go from Reading to Glasgow and back. It covered that no problem at all and didn’t miss a beat. Rot got it in the end but was sold to the owner of the Mitsubishi dealer, who said he was going to restore it. No idea whether that happened or not and can’t remember the reg. It was a dark blue metallic 5 door, C reg.

Well bought!

Yeah these things do suffer badly from rot apparently. Luckily mines had the work done to it for previous MOT's but as I'll be using this frequently, I'm going to keep an eye on the rot situation.  

14 hours ago, ProgRocker said:

That is epic @SEATMad well done! 

 

Thank you! 

13 hours ago, garbaldy said:

Yup sure is had it out on a dry day last week as soon be roamers season again and this year be back of to mull a repeat of the very first run 7 years ago.   

 

Op I had 3 of those mk2 colts one a turbo  back in the day nice cars well bought.  

Very nice! Looks absolutely mint! I'm not sure if there are any Mk2 Turbos left If I'm honest, I bet it was quite peppy back then! 

[wuvvum]

I had one in metallic beige some years ago - 5-speed manual but otherwise a similar spec to yours.  I was actually quite tempted by your one but I had a 1.5 auto of the next generation after that and it was dreadful on fuel so I decided to give it a miss - glad it's joined the fold anyway.

Can't currently find a picture of it, but here's my Mk1.

And here's the Mk3 which was shit on fuel.

 

Edit:  Found it.

 

[SEATMad]

2 hours ago, wuvvum said:

I had one in metallic beige some years ago - 5-speed manual but otherwise a similar spec to yours.  I was actually quite tempted by your one but I had a 1.5 auto of the next generation after that and it was dreadful on fuel so I decided to give it a miss - glad it's joined the fold anyway.

Can't currently find a picture of it, but here's my Mk1.

And here's the Mk3 which was shit on fuel.

 

Edit:  Found it.

 

Is there anything you haven't owner @wuvvum? 😂 I've always had a thing for these Mk2 Colt's. Mine is the manual one, so far after around 100 miles of driving its returned me between 25-30 MPG, I've defiantly owned thirstier cars in my time. I have also read somewhere before that the autos do like to drink. 

[SEATMad]

59 minutes ago, Nyphur said:

I can't remember, I presume it was sent for bean tins as I think it got starved for oil but my memory of it isn't great. @castros_bro could probably confirm.

Such a shame, looked in good nick in the Hubnut video (better than mine anyway).