I'll have to explain first....
My girlfriend bought this wee buggie last year. It was her first car and she loved 'him'. She even named him, Boris..... Which is weird. Anyway. He gave us completely trouble free motoring, except when the h/g went, but that cost me £12 to fix. Plus 1 set of plugs, he's cost £23 in a year! not bad for 400 quid!
Anyways, she's off and bought a new Punto now she's a banker (ooooohhh, fancy!)
So.... She couldn't quite bear to see 'Boris' go to the scrappy's as his MOT is up soon, and he'd need a fair bit of money spent to get him through (christ, I'm even calling it 'him'
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Well, it's more of a charity case than a project, but what the hell. The little car deserves it for being so good for so little. So, a bit of RS Turbo here, a bit of Si there, and a shitload of paint and we'll be laughing!
It's going to be a long winter
First, I had the bright idea of painting the garage floor
This must have been a blonde moment.................. :blonde: The paint is ship deck paint, and needs hardener... Which I didn't add and the bloody paint is still wet....
So, we soldiered on anyways.......
How 'he' looked before we started.
As you can see.... 'He's' a really very crap 1.1 quartz............... Right.
Get the tools out, start ripping all the useless shit out.
And ahhh yes, the lovely ford owners best friend.
Rust.............................................. .
But luckily the only rust was on the front crossmember. All easily replaceable.
The floor and rest of the shell was in A1 condition!
Hopefully tomrrow I'll get the car onto the nice dry paint and start stripping properly.
Poor Jen (the wife) is in tears, she's dament it'll end up i the scrappy's. How little she knows......