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Apr 14, 2009 10:46:56 GMT
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Just like Grunty, I managed to pick up a cheap car yesterday to use as a runaround. Details HEREThere are a few things I need to sort on it (door handles, locks etc...) as well as look at the usual stuff like a service, fix the alternator, but for £45 it's a pretty good little car.    I want to keep this one as cheap as possible (bargain basement) unlike some of my other cars, so please keep the ideas to a sensible level. I'm tempted to go Council Spec with it - rough looking, hit with a stick and various different colour panels. Not rat.....COUNCIL! Or I could go the obvious matt/satin black route for ease & cost reasons.....but all ideas welcome. The cheaper & easier the better. Stick will be a definite, but not sure which route to take with the wheels or the bodywork yet? |
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Apr 14, 2009 10:48:33 GMT
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Hey I've got some inspiration for you...
Finish one of your other cars first!
kthxbai
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Apr 14, 2009 11:00:57 GMT
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Finish one of your other cars first! Where's the fun in that?? This is to work on while waiting on other parts for the MR2 or Rascal....it's not a distraction, more a means to fill the time until more progress can be made on the others.  |
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kee
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Apr 14, 2009 12:04:32 GMT
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slam job done prepare for many many dull and cheap motoring miles  mk1/2 pepperpots look pretty good on these and are cheap as chips. or go for some mondeo steels if you want em bigger |
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orangecords
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Apr 14, 2009 12:14:00 GMT
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years ago i had a mk1 fezza that i grey primered and lacquered with wheel spacers on the standard steels painted the same and heated the springs to drop me about 3"-looked awesome! then i got bored and red oxided it and matt blacked the bonnet with the lacquer again-looked better still!
although i saw a slammed 309 the other day in satin black with red oxide gti alloys-that looked feckin amazing!!!
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I then wanted to start cleaning the interior as it stinks of wood (the material not the smell of a boner) best quote ever! |
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Apr 14, 2009 12:16:25 GMT
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You've really surprised me this time! thought you were buying to sell/give to a nephew or summat! Not sure how ya do all these projects. prepare for many many dull and cheap motoring miles really? I don't know how you of all people can say that! wider and bigger feeling but its still a small old skool crossflow fiesta underneath the modern skin, cheap seats and wobbly suspension!  Things that stopped it being dull or horrid to drive 1. A good service 2. better wider wheels/tyres 3. suspension replacements with upgrades 4. seats swapped for ones ya don't fall off 5. a better quality exhaust that alows the use of the fifth gear/motorway hills |
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 it doesn't matter if it's a Morris Marina or a Toyota Celica - it's what you do with it that counts  |
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kee
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Apr 14, 2009 12:25:18 GMT
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prepare for many many dull and cheap motoring miles really? I don't know how you of all people can say that! i'm sorry, but what? i can say that as i have one it's out family car and its as dull as the day is long. its a 1.1, K reg, 5 door shopping trolley that sniffs petrol and is slow as hell thats how i can say that  |
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Apr 14, 2009 12:31:21 GMT
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1600 cvh engines can be had pretty cheap and go in easily ford also put a zetec iin the later mk3s they have tonnes of potential and none are really ever modded properly. i have plans for ours once we get money for a replacement ;D |
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Apr 14, 2009 12:54:53 GMT
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No offence meant matey! They are pretty poor as standard, so fair enough. I was gutted 2 days into a slug ridden wobbly asthmatic POS. close to cashing in me insurance I can tell ya! Blame the bean counters, and quality control people. so nearly there but so dull as they come, specially a soggy old one. So I think of mine as improved, not really 'modified'!  most still think its a POS, still fun to chase expensive performance cars round corners though! As a daily which mine is/was, there's much better cars I suppose, but as a project, yeah I'd do it again totally, lasted longer than my Mk1's too though I miss my XR2  |
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it doesn't matter if it's a Morris Marina or a Toyota Celica - it's what you do with it that counts |
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Apr 14, 2009 13:01:55 GMT
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The 1.6S me and my bro had for a short spell was a right laugh! The engine felt just that little bit too powerful for the chassis, and it was only a boggo carb'd CVH, so god knows what an RS Turbo would be like... terrifying I expect!
I vote a great big NOOOO! to matt/satin black. Unless a car is modified in other ways it just looks total shat in my view. To me, paint doesn't make a car, it finishes one.
I reckon keeping it simple would be best - clean up the bodywork and paint, a hearty slam and some choice 13 or 14in alloys with dish and stretched tyres. Spot on and not too pricey (depending on wheel choice!)
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Apr 14, 2009 13:18:07 GMT
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slam job done prepare for many many dull and cheap motoring miles mk1/2 pepperpots look pretty good on these and are cheap as chips. or go for some mondeo steels if you want em bigger 45 quid eh? nice. I second the slam and pepper pots, but stick and old school cherry bomb backbox on, lose one of the silencers and add a k&n style bolt on filter. gotta have it sounding like a monster, lot of pops and bangs and people will think some class of rally beast is comin, pure comedy value! |
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Apr 14, 2009 13:20:38 GMT
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but stick and old school cherry bomb backbox on, lose one of the silencers and add a k&n style bolt on filter. gotta have it sounding like a monster, lot of pops and bangs and people will think some class of rally beast is comin, pure comedy value! or chav as is/was usually the case |
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orangecords
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Apr 14, 2009 13:22:29 GMT
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ooooh just been reminded of an olive drab one from a few years ago on polished pepperpots with fiesta stencilled on the rear quarters in white!  liked that one a lot too! |
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I then wanted to start cleaning the interior as it stinks of wood (the material not the smell of a boner) best quote ever! |
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Apr 14, 2009 13:32:46 GMT
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I'll give you some inspiration when you've finished your other cars But they have some potential as a Euro looker/CultStyle Taxi looker. |
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Apr 14, 2009 19:05:23 GMT
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Cheap could mean door rubbers off, polish, Freecycle alloys, can sprayed, leopard print seat covers and steering wheel fluffy.
Alternately, go stupid with recycled bits off old rally/race cars, and some signage o make it look like a basic rally slag.
Or else, just drive till it explodes, £45 , welll spent.
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Apr 14, 2009 19:11:42 GMT
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Cut the springs in half , lose the side trims , paint it all in yellow primer or red oxide and then cover the bonnet with dozens of front covers of 'Fiesta' with a nice wipe clean clear fablon laminate over the top to finish off ! ;D lol
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You've been telling me you were a genius since you were seventeen ... in all the time I've known you I still don't know what you mean !
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Apr 14, 2009 19:24:22 GMT
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/\I like the Fiesta covers idea on the bonnet... however, I'd do that with a coat or seven of clear satin lacquer so it looks "eu naturel, marleen" (in a Boycee stylee).
I'd yank off the rubber stuff on the doors, but polish the car up (to make it stand out from other Fiestas of the same age!), some nice rimmage (deffo 80s old skool - phat three spokes would look ace) and then introduce its ass to the tarmac a little.
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Apr 14, 2009 19:26:50 GMT
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Agreed , lacquer would look better |
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You've been telling me you were a genius since you were seventeen ... in all the time I've known you I still don't know what you mean !
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most still think its a POS, still fun to chase expensive performance cars round corners though! 
liked that one a lot too!
