stokesay
Part of things
1991 Daihatsu Charade GTti, 1992 Impreza WRX RA
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 Bought a Daihatsu Charade GTti from a scrap yard. They'd just advertised the wing mirror, and I phoned them up to see if they had any other parts for sale, to keep my other GTti on the road. They said they'd just had it in, and I could have the whole car for £250. I jumped at the chance. 1 lady owner with 76,000 miles, and NO RUST! It had been put in her garage when the turbo went, and she sent it for scrap when moving house 7 years later. One of the only a few still on the roads! and here's the one that got away, in a local scrap yard:  |
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Last Edit: Oct 9, 2017 8:37:53 GMT by stokesay
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On its way to the scrapyard!  |
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ovimor
North East
...It'll be ME!
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On its way to the scrapyard! .... Nahh? Fleebayy WhiteRoom  OVIMOR |
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Knowledge is to know a Tomato is a 'fruit' - Wisdom, on the other hand, is knowing not to put it in a 'fruit salad'!
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Saved this from the scrapyard about 9 years ago, got it roadworthy, enjoyed it, sold it, want another one.   |
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My silver Carlton GSi.
I already had my red one and in 2010 an Autobahnstormers member offered the silver one for £300 as a spares car with some MOT left, it was going to the scrapyard if nobody wanted it as he already had a new car.
I didnt haggle and when he offered to deliver from the other side of the country just for one last drive it was mine.
My plan was to use it until the MOT ran out then break it for spares.
Anyway, it had a huge list of faults and was awful to drive so I fixed a load of bits to keep it going and grew to like it, that Autumn I welded in new wheelarches and painted them in the garden, they are still on now.
For several years I'd do just a few more jobs to see it it would get another MOT and use it as a rolling spare parts donor for the other car.
In the end it really reached the end of the road but I couldnt let it go and thats when it became the project car that I had a thread going on. It had 188 new pieces of steel welded in and lots of other work and its been back on the road for a year and a bit and I love it.
It'll never become spare parts now and instead of increasing my spare parts stock it drained it and now I have two cars to keep going.
The scrap car turned out to be my favourite car of any I've ever owned.
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VIP
South East
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Oct 10, 2017 10:08:22 GMT
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I rescued my third Yugo from a scrap yard, back in around 1998.
A friend was after some XR2 parts for his MK2 Fiesta and we found one in a local yard. It was parked on top of the Yugo, and rifling through the car I found it had failed it's MOT on a couple of bulbs and a tyre!
The XR2 on the roof was 'carefully' for lifted off by the yard guy. (It left two scrape marks on the roof). Replaced the blown bulbs from good ones in the Fiesta, swapped the good spare with the bald tyre, handed over £50 and drove it home.
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Oct 12, 2017 10:46:40 GMT
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Bought a "fire damaged" Nova saloon from my local scrappie for £100, it had been parked too near a bonfire and some plastic trim had melted and a bit of paint scorched!
I ran that car for 4 years without any problems, sold it to my window cleaner for about £500 then HE ran it for another 4 years till his daughter borrowed it, parked it in Brum and it was nicked! We got it back a week later but it had been savagely abused and vandalized so it was broken for parts. The SR dash it wore is in my Toledo now!
Steve
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