After that thought it went slightly downhill
woke up one morning to find my spoiler had been ripped off, completely ruining it (which was very annoying as I spent hours sanding and sorting it out originally because it was in a bit of a state)...it was bolted on with 6 bolts and 5 had been ripped out, it was left dangling by one, seemed a bit strange to me as I would have thought they would have just stolen it outright.
It also make some nasty scratches on my tailgate, there was actually a muddy footprint on the car were they had wrenched it off, and scratched everything
So I did the best I could to T-Cut and touch everything up, and this time I bonded it on with industrial bodykit adhesive...and then colour coded the adhesive you could see, took me hours to do!
But then a few weeks later I wake up to find the spoiler is completely gone, it had been fecking cut off with the bottom of it still on the car!!!!!!! B******S! So feeling very disheartened I just left it looking a state for a few weeks, finally got around to chiselling, yes thats right chiselling the remains of it off - glue was bloody tough stuff and I stuck my standard ford spoiler back on - and touched up the ruined tailgate as best I could.
Infact thats how it is now, I thought it pointless to fix when its sat on my driveway and could be stolen again, so my latest project is building a top notch garage with hidden camera - being done by a mate of mine for less that it would cost to have the spoiler fixed, so well worth it and means I can sleep easy at night
Well onto the latest news....
Funnily enough the car progress has almost slowed to a halt since I got it on the road in november last year, the thing has been so unreliable I haven't been able to afford to do anything except fix it. Its costing me £339 a month to insure it (thank god its gonna drop to well under half that lol) and then I worked out its averaged about £400 a month in repairs, add optimax petrol to that and well there goes all my wage
Off the top of my head its now had:
Two new bearings on the passenger front, and a new hub.
New rear passenger bearing.
New bonnet cable.
New speedo drive and diff for the nearly new gearbox as that broke!
2 new starter motors.
New lower arms.
New pins for alarm.
Relays for fusebox.
There's a ton more stuff to, about £2000 worth in total including the above
seriously thought about selling up, espicially when in May 06 the clutch went, leaving me stranded AGAIN lol.
Except it wasn't that simple - it needed a new clutch, clutch bearing, clutch pressure plate, clutch ratchet, and clutch cable! The tax also needed doing, as did a few other bits....
Finally got it back, and my brake lights stopped working when the pedal was pressed so I had to get a new brake clip before I could even drive it again lol.
Anywho back a few days lol here are some pics of it at FITP 2006, finally got it to a show (my first) and was really pleased, wasn't the best of weather and car was quite dirty but still looked very nice and got me right back in the mood for the car, which was lucky as the clutch went about two days later lol. Anywho here we are:
And yup thats my fanta can pmsl
Only thing really different in the pics to the last is a few little bits to the engine bay, painting cleaning and what not, the standard rear spoiler and fecked tailgate!
Soooooo onwards again...