Decided 3 cars was too much so sold the old girl. Leaving this thread here for prosperity and reference.
Same old story, don't need another car but stumbled accross a very genuine ad on ukpassats and could help but enquire further. To cut a long story short a deal was struck and I got on a train to Wales last week to collect my latest aquisition. The previous owner had owned it since 1990, used it daily and faticulously maintained it himself as he was from an engineering background. I have an A3 fold out spreadsheet with details of all maintenance carried out.
Anyway after a test drive, paperwork and a cup of coffee I set off back to blighty in the first car I have brought from another country
It had nearly three quarters of a tank of fuel and that got us the 200 miles home to Brighton. It ran really well and was quicker than I expected and returned exellent fuel economy.
Being a 1988 B2 it was one of the last as the B3 was due a few months after mine was registered. Being a CL its a little bit down on luxuries but does have central locking and the 4+E gearbox. No pas or ew but its not too heavy. It bustles along quite nicely and is happy between 70 and 80. I found that on the motorway drivers don't expect you to be so quick and have a desire to overtake regardless of speed.
So no real plans at the moment, I drove it to Beaulieu last Sat and will prob just clean and make it look as good as possible. I have had a go at hot air gunning the greyed out bumpers and just finished restoring the front near side wheel.
From this:
via this:
To this with a little bumper gel worked in with a nail brush then buffed off:
Still got loads more to do so turned my attention to one of the scabby steelies.
From this:
Via this:
To this and thats me done for now:
Oh and as its a bit of a grandad-mobile and it came from near Barry I have called him "Uncle Bryn" ;D
Same old story, don't need another car but stumbled accross a very genuine ad on ukpassats and could help but enquire further. To cut a long story short a deal was struck and I got on a train to Wales last week to collect my latest aquisition. The previous owner had owned it since 1990, used it daily and faticulously maintained it himself as he was from an engineering background. I have an A3 fold out spreadsheet with details of all maintenance carried out.
Anyway after a test drive, paperwork and a cup of coffee I set off back to blighty in the first car I have brought from another country
It had nearly three quarters of a tank of fuel and that got us the 200 miles home to Brighton. It ran really well and was quicker than I expected and returned exellent fuel economy.Being a 1988 B2 it was one of the last as the B3 was due a few months after mine was registered. Being a CL its a little bit down on luxuries but does have central locking and the 4+E gearbox. No pas or ew but its not too heavy. It bustles along quite nicely and is happy between 70 and 80. I found that on the motorway drivers don't expect you to be so quick and have a desire to overtake regardless of speed.
So no real plans at the moment, I drove it to Beaulieu last Sat and will prob just clean and make it look as good as possible. I have had a go at hot air gunning the greyed out bumpers and just finished restoring the front near side wheel.
From this:
via this:
To this with a little bumper gel worked in with a nail brush then buffed off:
Still got loads more to do so turned my attention to one of the scabby steelies.
From this:
Via this:
To this and thats me done for now:
Oh and as its a bit of a grandad-mobile and it came from near Barry I have called him "Uncle Bryn" ;D
