Hi all!

After joining this site sometime back in 2006 and having made (barely) any posts I decided to try starting a topic here (with the help of 4 Beers and now a glass of red wine since I ran out of beers..). I am greatful for any support, critical remarks and/or suggestions along my journey with my 1989 Sapphire 2WD. My ultimate goal would be to use it at a sort of daily driver during the summer and keep it in a decent and reliable condition (sometime far far away in the future), - but lets start at the beginning:

I could have been happy and satisfied with my EsCos I bought in 2014, yet in 2019 - god knows why - I started looking out for another Cossie to buy. Although never been a huge fan of Sapphires in the beginning I must have developed some interest in these models over the years. ultimately I came across a french registered 2WD which was for sale in Germany. The car was supposed to be stock with short fo 100k miles on the clock. On the pictures it looked gread for the price and when I drove out to meet the owner my brain stopped working and I just had to buy it...sort of..actually I just liked it and thought it was reasonably priced / cheap.

DISCLAIMER: I am not a car mechanic or the like - I also dont have a lot of technical knowledge nor a place to work on the cossie myself - so what could potentially go wrong, right?

Thats how she looked when I brought her home in late Summer 2019, pretty good for 7k Euros, right? (we will find out):