niwid
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Nov 19, 2012 13:49:22 GMT
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Just thought I'd let you guys know about this place in Doncaster South Yorkshire, might be useful to the MX5 lot. I'm on the phone to them quite a lot at work, and I'm really impressed with the service that they offer their customers and the products are great. The team there seem properly clued up and passionate. Friendly too Plus they had this parked out side. Stunner
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Nov 19, 2012 14:02:51 GMT
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Yeah, they're good guys - sorted me out with stacks of bits of my MX5, and hung around for me to get there when I needed a part on a saturday afternoon.
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mk14dr
Yorkshire and The Humber
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Club RR Member Number: 85
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MX5 Citymk14dr
@mk14dr
Club Retro Rides Member 85
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Nov 19, 2012 14:10:44 GMT
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It looks like a super place does this. I passed a couple of years back and snapped this from the road...
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Nov 19, 2012 15:07:00 GMT
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That splitty belongs to the owner, it's running a Subaru engine with quite decent power, but looks 100% stock. He reckons he drove it to the south of France at 80mph all the way. Usually on a splitty the engine would have expired long before the dodgy handling caused you to crash, but he'd got a steering rack off a Bedford Rascal which apparently makes it drive like a dream*
* I assume one of those dreams where you're driving a wobbly old VW "upgraded" to Rascal based steering
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Nov 19, 2012 15:28:53 GMT
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mk14dr
Yorkshire and The Humber
Posts: 4,472
Club RR Member Number: 85
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MX5 Citymk14dr
@mk14dr
Club Retro Rides Member 85
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Nov 19, 2012 15:33:27 GMT
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Seriously Dave, I'd forgotten just how FIT that '5 was on those wheels IIRC, didn't 'yo momma' end up with it? Is it still about?
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Nov 19, 2012 15:48:22 GMT
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TBH I'd forgot how good it looked - Got me thinking about getting another MX5 til I remembered it's still parked on the drive. Looks absolutely gash now (ropey soft top and awful wheels), like you say my mums running it these days. I only got round to taking the coilies and HKS exhaust off the other week though!
TBH it's been an awesome car, all it's needed in repairs since I got it is a clutch master cylinder and rear caliper freeing off for the test. It's getting ready for some welding though, the back arches are dicked. My mum loves it still, but she's contemplating moving it on cos she's got a bad neck and its a PITA to get in and out of.
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Last Edit: Nov 19, 2012 15:49:48 GMT by cobblers
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