aij29
Part of things
Posts: 639
|
|
|
|
|
Hi Guys
After my recent Yugo post i `ve started collecting parts for a car i havent got!!!!(may never have ;D)
Am i the only one or is it a standard thing amongst retro-ites?
Cheers
Adrian
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
My mate neil did a classic one, bought 4 wheels for a mkii escort, 10" rears, 8" fronts, his plans where to build a works replica rally car.
So over the period of 4 year, he got a pop plus shell, started work on it, put the wheels under it so it looks right, motivated him, even got a BDA in there too with the right box.
When it was finished, it looked the part. He took it to Epynt, and barrel rolled it on the 3rd corner, only thing left was the engine and box.
He was going to put the engine into a 2 door cortina mk5, arch it and it would be like the ford version of the opel manta 400 i supose, but he never did.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
My mate collects user manuals for cars he doesn't have. He even has one for a diesel locomotive...
|
| |
1986 Citroen 2CV Dolly Other things. Check out my Blog for the latest! www.hubnut.org |
|
|
|
|
|
|
I've got bits of a car we once owned....our wonderful Fiat Cinq Sporting that was killed by a nasty bloke in a stupid Merc ML !  Still have a brand new alloy,steering rack boots,wheel centres,half a speedo cable,side repeaters and a bit of trim ! Dunno what to do with them,fancy another Sporting but i have enough to play with !  |
| |
Just a modern....but surrounded every day by Porsche's !
|
|
Seth
South East
MorrisOxford TriumphMirald HillmanMinx BorgwardIsabellaCombi
Posts: 15,542
|
|
|
|
|
I bought an owners handbook for the A60 van / pick up about 6 or 7 years ago 'cos it was in a second hand book shop. Not far removed from my Oxford but it would be applicable to a car I owned a coule of years ago.
Most recently I bought some wheels that wouldn't fit anything I have/have had/likely to have anytime soon!
|
| |
Follow your dreams or you might as well be a vegetable. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
tucked under the bed is a fiat strada abarth
steering wheel, the wife don't know BTW.
i've never owned an italian car or TBH ever
intend to buy one, the guy down the scrappy
didn't appreciate what he had rotting away so
i nicked the steering wheel out of spite.
|
| |
|
|
aij29
Part of things
Posts: 639
|
|
|
|
I've got bits of a car we once owned....our wonderful Fiat Cinq Sporting that was killed by a nasty bloke in a stupid Merc ML ! Still have a brand new alloy,steering rack boots,wheel centres,half a speedo cable,side repeaters and a bit of trim ! Dunno what to do with them,fancy another Sporting but I have enough to play with ! Hi I`ve got 2 sportings,1 abarth with a modded punto 1242cc motor, I`d give your spares a good home ;D Cheers Adrian |
| |
|
|
aij29
Part of things
Posts: 639
|
|
|
|
tucked under the bed is a fiat strada abarth steering wheel, the wife don't know BTW. i've never owned an italian car or TBH ever intend to buy one, the guy down the scrappy didn't appreciate what he had rotting away so I nicked the steering wheel out of spite. Hi Just the thing for my Yugo parts collection  Wanna sell it? Cheers Adrian |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I collect bits from all sorts of cars, and they all come in handy! In fact, yesterday I broke the indicator bulb holder in my Merc lamp unit, couldn't get a replacement, so adapted one found in a box full of bits from an unknown car to fit in the hole  . |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Hi Just the thing for my Yugo parts collection Wanna sell it? Cheers Adrian hope it didn't come across as a selling thing. <blush> i aint got the horn push, can't find it. i know i've got it somewhere but i've got more curse word squirrelled away than i dare admit to. make me an offer ? its no good to me whatsoever. |
| |
|
|
|
|
aij29
Part of things
Posts: 639
|
|
|
|
[/quote] hope it didn't come across as a selling thing. <blush> [/quote] No Not at all i was just being cheeky ;D But you do have pm Cheers Adrian |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I've bought bits for cars I want to own....
|
| |
|
|
suffolkpaul
Part of things
Retro Free - just a pug 406 with 230k miles on it...
Posts: 696 
|
|
|
|
|
you got it the wrong way round!
most people on here collect car that they don't have parts for!
|
| |
|
|
suffolkpaul
Part of things
Retro Free - just a pug 406 with 230k miles on it...
Posts: 696
|
|
|
|
My mate collects user manuals for cars he doesn't have. He even has one for a diesel locomotive... "my mate"? got a little secret you don't want to share with us dollywobbler?  |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I has been trimming down the amount of tat I have for cars I have never owned or am unlikely to.
But I've just found YET ANOTHER boxful of J-Tat bits that I had forgotten ;D
|
| |
Last Edit: Feb 8, 2007 22:21:21 GMT by arthurbrown
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I have all sorts of curse word... eh I mean quality spares Whenever I tour the local scrapyards I tend to take anything from reasionably old cars, I have a quite impressive collection of stainless and chrome mirrors ;D |
| |
|
|
bstardchild
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 14,963
Club RR Member Number: 71
|
|
|
|
|
I've got a set of leather seats from a Calibra - I've never owned or want to own one of them
But is is part of a cunning plan ;D
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Somewhere I have a Riley Pathfinder workshop manual, parts book & handbook - one day I'll get the car to go with them!!!
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I've got thousands of bits for cars I don't have. Hoarding is good Having lots of parts lying about makes modifying stuff and doing engine swaps and the like much easier I find. The parts dept...  |
| |
1962 Datsun Bluebird Estate - 1971 Datsun 510 SSS - 1976 Datsun 710 SSS - 1981 Dodge van - 1985 Nissan Cherry Europe GTi - 1988 Nissan Prairie - 1990 Hyundai Pony Pickup - 1992 Mazda MX5
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
I've got in the loft, and air box and intake from a Saab 900 T16S (bosch injection), seats for a Skoda Favorit Mk1 front only, in dirty stained nasty brown.
Front and rear I think seats for a Skoda 120l in very tatty sunrotted black fabric, and BNIB a Skoda Estelle/Rapid Brake Servo.
I don't have any of them cars anymore.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
Still have a brand new alloy,steering rack boots,wheel centres,half a speedo cable,side repeaters and a bit of trim ! Dunno what to do with them,fancy another Sporting but i have enough to play with ! 
.
[*]
