Pics of my old car, which I owned and drove for so many years have finally emerged from the ether. I can't believe that they have been missing for so long, but have now somehow found their way back. They are old photos so are not the best definiton - no digital cameras back in those days. I believe that most of these were taken back in late 1986, early 1987.
I first bought this old rusty hulk with its holes in the body work, no inner sills, and a smart contrasting bonnet somewhen in the mid eighties. The driver's side mirror was of a fully floating nature whilst the passenger side one had actually floated off altogether.
I spent many months learning to weld, welding it up and then fitting new rear wings and with the help of a mate who had a spray gun, gave it a respray.
This was the result of around 18 months of work in my spare time and I was so proud of it.
Then ten days later a drunken twit (Spelt that wrong) didn't see it and wrapped his ford escort around it.
It doesn't show up well, but it wrecked the boot lid, rear wing, rear bumper, both O/s Doors and the front bumper. :shock:
The insurance company wrote it off and paid me a small sum of money and left me with the car. (After over a year of haggling)
I couldn't afford all of the bits to repair it so I removed the bumpers and filled up the holes, cut a hole into the boot lid and sank the number plate into it (Couldn't work out a smart way of getting number plate lights without doing this), painted the front grill and side strips black, (looked very nice in 1987 :shock: , sank the front number plate into the lower grill, removed the door handles and 'frenched' in the drivers door push button, blended in a pair of S1 rear reflectors, and other stuff which I am sure will come to me soon. It's not finished here, but to be truthfull it never really got completely finished. I drove it around, fitting alloys in late 1989, and not much else except for the engine which produced nearly 200bhp according to a local rolling road.
I first bought this old rusty hulk with its holes in the body work, no inner sills, and a smart contrasting bonnet somewhen in the mid eighties. The driver's side mirror was of a fully floating nature whilst the passenger side one had actually floated off altogether.
I spent many months learning to weld, welding it up and then fitting new rear wings and with the help of a mate who had a spray gun, gave it a respray.
This was the result of around 18 months of work in my spare time and I was so proud of it.
Then ten days later a drunken twit (Spelt that wrong) didn't see it and wrapped his ford escort around it.
It doesn't show up well, but it wrecked the boot lid, rear wing, rear bumper, both O/s Doors and the front bumper. :shock:
The insurance company wrote it off and paid me a small sum of money and left me with the car. (After over a year of haggling)
I couldn't afford all of the bits to repair it so I removed the bumpers and filled up the holes, cut a hole into the boot lid and sank the number plate into it (Couldn't work out a smart way of getting number plate lights without doing this), painted the front grill and side strips black, (looked very nice in 1987 :shock: , sank the front number plate into the lower grill, removed the door handles and 'frenched' in the drivers door push button, blended in a pair of S1 rear reflectors, and other stuff which I am sure will come to me soon. It's not finished here, but to be truthfull it never really got completely finished. I drove it around, fitting alloys in late 1989, and not much else except for the engine which produced nearly 200bhp according to a local rolling road.
