Some of you may remember my RST S2 (H242 GWC). The time had come to sell it as i had been wanting a white 3dr for a while. I had spent a small fortune on the turbo trying to get it the way i wanted it and was pleased when i had finished it, i was in two minds wat to do, get more horse out of it or sell and get a 3dr, i decided to sell it as i was not keen on putting big power through the front wheels and to be honist wanted to go to the next level.
Once i had sold the RST to a good mate of mine the search was on to find a minter, i found alot out there but were just not clean enough, i made up my mind to get a good one you would need to spend between 10-12k. After looking through pages and pages on the net, i found one on ebay in staffordshire that looked promising, after speaking the chap on the phone it sounded good, i received some picutures and decided to go ahead with it.
8.00am on a cold october morning we set of from Fife, Scotland to Staffordshire with the trailer, van and a few mates. As soon as we arrived there, it started pishing it down and i really did not want to get the car wet considering how clean the chap had said it was on the phone, he opened the garage and there it was, i looked extreamly clean and judging by his response he was also not keen on taking it out, but it had to be done.
With a detailed look over it really was what i was after, bolsters were mint, 2mm crack in dash but was repairable and had only done 87,000 miles with everystamp on service book, stacks of paper work with the car - which was very detailed - really reminded me of my turbo. After looking through ther paper i noticed the car was reg with RSOC as concourse when the car had just ticked over 75K, i could see it was not the case now, but very close.
A deal was done, we got the 3dr on the trailer and headed back up north to fife with the weather getting worse as well. Arrived back to the garage about midnight and put the 3dr away.
My plan is to try and get it back to as close to concourse as possible by working through every part painting, replacing or cleaning it.
I think that non modified 3drs are becoming rarer by the day and really do look there best when left alone - so that is my plan !
The pictures show the progress so far.
H242 GWC - RST that was sold.
D22 BLC - The 3DR
Having first look at it at Russ's house
Me looking rather gay next to the car !!
Car arrives home
Rsoc seat covers added and paper autoglym matts
The alterations begin - removing non original parts
2-3 hours per side of scrubbing and healthy amounts of petrol
And the result
Began striping the front and working on the bay
After painting rad shield and intercooler
Will update more, lots of other progress has been made, will get pics up later
Cheers
Ben