Buying the car

Buying the car

Because I knew Adam, I bought the car for a really cheap price (£500) in April, 1997. Adam had apparently spent over 14 times that amount putting it together, but it was in a sorry state. However, it took me a year to decide to buy it.

The main problems with it were:

1. The floor-pan has a large number of rust holes in it;
2. The electrics were very flaky;
3. The engine had not been used for a while;
4. The petrol tank was causing the bonnet not to close properly (you can just about see it on the earlier photograph;
5. The colours chosen were very '80s (black with fluorescent pink!);
6. The interior had deteriorated quite badly;
7. Three of the tyres were bald;
8. The front quarterlights were broken;
9. Squirrels had decided that they would stash their nuts in the engine compartment;
10. The wheels had rusted;
11. The gel-coat had lost its shine, and there was a surprisingly large amount of body filler on the body (Adam told me that this was to reduce leaking.

Images

Here are some images of the car when I rescued it from under the tree (click to enlarge):

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