So, I haven't posted in quite a while but I thought I should bring stuff up to date and also create seperate threads for seperate cars.
This one is a 97 MX-5 with the 90hp 1,6 liter engine. Even before I bought my X1/9 back in 2005 I helped a friend buying this car in southern Germany. So I went down the Fiat route back then and even bought myself another MX-5 but when she came to sell it to make place for a later model I couldn't not buy it.
The good thing is that she had regular services done, it wasn't in great shape but it wasn't neglected either. I helped her change the roof back in 2008 but that is sadly due again as we got a cheap one back then. The thing she didn't do was cleaning it, she daily drove it through the winter and hardly ever took it to a car wash so the body was a bit tired.
The first pictures when I took custody of it. It's quite complete, I have the tonneau cover and the wind deflector, manual and so on.
signs of age here and there...
and a bit of trouble brewing:
Work to come...
Anyways, inspection was still valid and so I took it around the snowy alps for a start:
But then (slowly) the work started...
This one is a 97 MX-5 with the 90hp 1,6 liter engine. Even before I bought my X1/9 back in 2005 I helped a friend buying this car in southern Germany. So I went down the Fiat route back then and even bought myself another MX-5 but when she came to sell it to make place for a later model I couldn't not buy it.
The good thing is that she had regular services done, it wasn't in great shape but it wasn't neglected either. I helped her change the roof back in 2008 but that is sadly due again as we got a cheap one back then. The thing she didn't do was cleaning it, she daily drove it through the winter and hardly ever took it to a car wash so the body was a bit tired.
The first pictures when I took custody of it. It's quite complete, I have the tonneau cover and the wind deflector, manual and so on.
signs of age here and there...
and a bit of trouble brewing:
Work to come...
Anyways, inspection was still valid and so I took it around the snowy alps for a start:
But then (slowly) the work started...