1987 Suzuki Swift Mk1 Milton Keynes £400 o.n.o

It pains me to list this Swift but it just doesn't fit into my long term plans and I'm now running out of parking spaces and faced with some hard choices.

Basically this is my daily driver, easily the most reliable car I've ever run and a real joy to own, it's only crime is it's not quite as iconic as some of the other projects at Rustempire towers, hence the advert.

So lets start with the details:

Model: 1987 Suzuki Swift GLX 4 door,slightly uprated with running gear from a Mk1 GTi
Engine: 1375cc 8v 75hp
Year: 1987
Mileage: 74,000
Tax: 31/01/2012 (Please note tax is £130 per year and I will tax it again at the end of the month so £400 o.n.o includes a years tax)

EDIT: I did that ^^ It now has tax until the end of Jan 2013.

MOT: 29/06/2012
Location: Milton Keynes, near the center about 10 minutes from M1 J14.
Price: £400 o.n.o

Contact details: PM me here or mobile: 07734 704125.

Overall picture (taken last summer, it's currently wearing a thin veil of winter crud)


History:

My uncle bought this car about 6 years ago, he used it locally for a year and parked it on the drive when the MOT run out. It sat there for a couple of years and he then offered it to me. I was going to turn it down until I checked out the blue interior, green LCD clock and awesome spec for an 80's B segment car.

The brakes and suspension looked tired and body needed a couple of plates (sills and around front towing eye) so I took a fortnight off work, stripped all the running gear off and did the following:

- Welded the rust, cleaned the body underneath and undersealed everything.
- Obtained good used GTi hubs, bottom arms and rear axle, painted and rebushed all with polybushes or genuine Suzuki parts.
- Fitted new GTi front dampers with lowered front springs.
- Fitted a pair of Bilstein rear dampers.
- Fitted Mk2 GTi front brakes with braided lines
- GTi steel wheels (Given new Kumho tyres all round and a white paint job last year)
- Replaced the radiator with a new one
- Took it straight for an MOT and it flew through, as it has every year since.

After that it's now had 3 years in my service as a daily driver with nothing but service items and never let me down.

Current bad points:

- Paint is very tired, patina, damage, call it what you will it's got a few little scratches and dents and has now gone quite flat on the roof.
- No tunes, has a Ford branded radio / cassette but it doesn't work, never bothered me.
- Blow from the exhaust, I'll try and fix this before it's sold. A blow from the centre join underneath the floor. I keep leaving it because it makes awesome misfire noises on the overrun!
- Small rust hole at the base of the front wing.
- Not amazing on fuel, I get about 30mpg but my runs are quite short and I think the auto choke over fuels a bit on start up, runs nicely after a couple of minutes though.


And that's about it. I think I've priced the car realistically because I guess there's limited market for this sort of thing. The point is it's quite unique, costs very little to insure and tax and it's rather awesome.

I'll post some more pics in a bit too.

Thanks for reading.

Rob