Right it all started when i got offered a sapph which had been sitting for seven years and was supposed to be mint for £2000 when i got there it looked ok on the face of it but had rusty arches which had been boged up before and paintwork was horrible but now @ £850 i had to have it.
Pictures when i got there.



After a bit of tinkering she fired up and drove onto the trailor bit noisy but not bad considering the time it had sat.
Next i cleaned it up a bit and gave it a bloody good service all belts,sensors,filters and oils and apart from a noisy lifter it ran real nice and drove without fault.


Next is where it all went bad got it up in the air to check underside and change a few perished bushes and found lots of rust inner seals rusted through holes in boot behind bumper and worst the rear beam mounts where really bad so decided to find a new shell.
After a few cars that was not quite right i found this.



3 owners
670000 miles
all original panels and etched glass
History
Mint cloth interior
Fully polly bushed
Avo coil overs (front)Koni (rear)
No rust any where not even surface rust underneath.
So a deal was struck and the car was delivered friday morning and the stickers where removed straight away it took me 2 days and it was running M.O.T'd and taxed on the tuesday and drove to the ace cafe meet that night which it did without fault apart from a little prop vibration this is how it looked then


Now after a few weeks i have sold the O.Z super t's and refitted the originals to get some money back towards parts fitted cdf side skirt clips and after a good polish it looks like this.


I now have all the parts i need to change the lifters and im goin to give the engine bay a bloody good clean while im doin them.
After that plans are to get the bit of paint work done and fit a set of rs 7 spokes then stg3 if i can stretch.
Plans where to sell this once done to buy another escos but im becoming quite attached to my sapph.

Thanks for reading ill update when the engine bay is done.

Matthew

 

Good work Mate, got to love the sapphs

 

Very nice mate i seen that rolling shell on pistonheads looked a good one apart from the cheesy shit you took off was a bit pricey tho hope you didnt pay what they wanted for it on pistonheads.

 

Whatever could have possesed the person that did this to a low miler low owner Cossie?



They want to be taken out and shot that's what!

Fair play to you for fixing what they did wrong

 

Dont worry i paid no way near the asking price .

It had a power engineering 2.4 engine which he removed to use in a 3 door.

He owned it since 1992 was about 55-60 years old i could'nt really work out what led him to believe the stickers looked good also had a starter button with the words let the fun begin next to it! and stainless dials these have also been removed.

 

looks well m8

 

i would of actually bought that crystal blue saph off you for £2k, what a waste

 

I did really want to save it i love crystal blue and there quite rare but it was just too bad rear panel behind bumper had holes you could see through rear arches had been done badly before and where going again someone had been welding next to it and the whole of the passenger side boot and roof had really bad micro blisters under the paint.passenger doors where both gone at bottoms both inner sills had holes outer sills where starting to go and worst the rear subframe mounts where just about holding in there.
Sorry to go on a bit but it really was just too bad.

Ow! it also had 14 owners

Matthew

 

Nice work, car now looks very tidy with all they stickers removed, also saw that car on PH think the guy must of been dreaming at that price!

 

Looks nice m8,looked really nice on the super t's.

 

looking good mat mate
keep the saph its perfect, you going to santa pod next week?

 

Thanks for the comments will update soon once the engine bay is tarted up and the paintwork is done.

Give us a bell Joe would like to go if its back together things goin a bit slow with it at the moment been busy trying to sell my house.

 

ahh no prob then rip crystal blue 2wd...

Just wondering.. how much did you get the flint shell for?

 

ok no worries mat, bell you soon.

 

looks good mate
glad to see you took the shitty stickers and that splitter
liked it on the Oz's any plans for another set of rims

 

Got the flint grey one for £2500 but since sold the coilovers and morrettes and a couple of other bits lays in about £2000 there was cheaper ones but considering mileage owners mint interior and no rust anywhere (underside is like the day it left the factory)I dont think i got a bad deal.

 

Stickers where the first thing to go I did'nt really like the super t's looking for a set of rs 7 spoke softlines or 17" rondells.

 

that was the chaviest sierra i ever saw! i cringe to think what he's doing to his 3dr
you have it looking smart now

 

Fair play stunning,well done.

 

Got rid of the gold rims think these look much better.

 

Also had a little clean under the bonnet stiil lots i want to do though.

 

very nice mate totaly suit the car

 

Much much better now m8.

 

Looks much better now ,do you still have the 5 spokes off the crystal one

 

Sorry sold them a few weeks ago.

Matthew

 

looking good matt, my oz ts went on saturday and look great
fingers crossed the weathers good for tuesday night

 

I hope so mate its gotta stop raining sometime.

 

well done for sorting out that mess and keeping another one on the road......and it even looks bloody good!