Now I've been a member on here for quite some time. Haven't really spent much time on here but thought I'd come and have a look, and found myself atticted to restoration projects
Anyway I'm Sam, I'm from Bridgend, South Wales and I'm 18 in December and been driving 7 months.
Now this project is probably going to be very slow and boring to what is usually done on here. So I'l start off with my old man's cars cause there abit more entertaining...

Now the ST220 is the reason I got into cars. My Dad had two of them, an 03 Prefacelift and a 04 Facelift (Which was bought by sombody on here but now sold on).
This was his first ST220...
2003 Prefaclift 5 Speed Mondeo ST220 3.0 V6



2004 Facelift 6 Speed Mondeo ST220 3.0 V6








I promised myself I will own one of these one day, I absolutley adore the ST220, no idea why? Suppose it is the car that got me into cars. I love the V6 grunt and just the noise.

Now he's got this...
Volvo V50 R-design T5.
Underneath it's identical to a Focus ST, same engine, same chassis, same breaks etc etc.
It's a 2.5 straight 5 low boost Turbo engine which runs around 230bhp.
Anyway less blabbering about the car and get onto the pictures...





The interior is a mix of Cream leather and alacantara covered in R-Design badges.





Anyway enought about my Dad's car's and onto mine

Currently driving (and also my first car) a 1998 Peugeot 406 Family Wagon...








It passed it's MOT in March of this year at 106,571 miles. It's now showing 129,540 miles.

So far since I've had it I've...
-Replaced Every Rear Bush,
-Welded both sills and waxoiled due to rust,
-Replaced N/S driveshaft,
-Fitted Radio, door speakers, subwoofer and amp,
-Painted wood interior panels Silver, Then green and now torquoise,
-New engine mounts,
-Fitted boost gauge,
-Refurbed Injectors,
-Sortend Gear stick,
-Debadged,
-New drop links,
-Given it a good Detail,
-Driven the leggs off the poor car.

Unfortunatly it's came past economic repair well, before I had it to be honest And with a list thats ever growing of problems I'm going to be letting him go. The list...

-O/S CV Joint noisy at full lock,
-Gearbox Mount is like jelly,
-Need's new shocks,
-Glowplugs,
-Fuel Pump Needs a rebuild,
-Car feeling unstable at high speeds (think this is caused by a bit of everything),
-Rear wiper is tempremental,
-Indicator stalk catches fire if you press to go left too hard,
-3rd gear is noisy.

Ontop of that it needs new belts

The car's been a good friend of mine, I've broken down once in Birmingham when the N/S CV joint went and made driving pretty unbaerable. I keep snapping clutch cables due to a very heavy clutch but it's easy enough to drive without a clutch for a few hours to go get one. One snapped today funny enough I keep telling people my car's unreliable, but I've gone nearly 20k in 6 months (passed in March this year), I run the car on cooking oil, and I've driven it hard. Probably driven it in a way it's never been driven before. But it's a 12 year old Peugeot, what else do you expect? It's never broken down so much it's not been able to be driven. Just annoying things. It's got more rattles than mothercare but thats Peugeots for you.
Just one last thing though...


So it's making way for this...



Nice dent on the door from a hit and run










The Focus has done Start/Stop driving all it's life, always had 6 month oil changes, is due a timing belt sometime next year.
It's got warped breakdiscs which means if you hit the breaks at any more than 55-60 the steering shakes and the pedal vibrates.

I've just ordered enough oil for 2 oil changes, some petrol cleaner, 2 sump plugs, two oil filters, a fuel filter, sparkplugs and HT leads. and new break pads and discs.

I need to look into getting the bodywork sorted. Plan next year is to get a new drivers side rear 1/4, two new rear doors, repair any other little dins and dents and get it painted in white. Also looking for a new interior, maybe a MK2 Focus ST interior.
Then in 2012 once I can afford to insure a modified car I will be looking for a Reiger front bumper with Focus RS bonnet vents Focus MK1 side skirts colour coded and a ford collection rear bumper with two 2.5 - 3" exhausts abit like the ST220 but without the slash, although the collection rear bumper will have to go to a bodyshop to be modified tidy for the second exhaust. ST170 alloys lowered 35-40mm.
Other than that will be sorting out audio gear. Probably keep the standard 6000CD radio, going to get a device which connects to the CD changer input and tricks the radio into thinking my iPod is a CD changer and also a Bury Buetooth handsfree system. Fully amplified system, looking at a JBL 5 channel amp, small subwoofer and uprated components in the doors
Then as soon as I can afford it I'm planning an engine conversion, something completley different. I'm currently thinking a Jaguar X-Type 2.0 V6 or a Volvo 2.4i 5 Cyl lump


Bailes.