What did you do today?

[CLINT]

Today as I had a spare half hour I decided to have a look at the smashed fog light on a Focus I've just put on Gumtree. No money was spent on it. I cut up and old mat and glued it over where the lens was.

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Now it was a one fog light car so I made the other one black too...

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Wonder if anyone will notice?

[mercrocker]

Not if it's on Gumtree, they won't.....

[borniteidentity]

I picked up the completely rebuilt cylinder head for the Sierra bASe. My two youngest sons are very taken with it, so rather than selling the Sierra - I shifted my Mercedes w201 on instead.

I’d upload a picture but I can’t see how. Anyway it’s beautiful now with a new camshaft, reground valves and a headskim - plus new thermostat housing and water pump. There’s also a Weber 34/34 carb to add too.

[Hooli]

I picked up the completely rebuilt cylinder head for the Sierra bASe. My two youngest sons are very taken with it, so rather than selling the Sierra - I shifted my Mercedes w201 on instead.

I’d upload a picture but I can’t see how. Anyway it’s beautiful now with a new camshaft, reground valves and a headskim - plus new thermostat housing and water pump. There’s also a Weber 34/34 carb to add too.

Under the reply box click 'Full Editor & Preview' then you'll see an attachments tab under the text box. Uploads are limited to 5Mb to try & stop us using silly amounts of storage too quickly.

[mercrocker]

"Weber" and "shifted my Mercedes W201 on" are actually keywords to my thoughts at present......Bloody fuel injection still not sorted after £500 plus. Pinto and Pierburg actually seem preferable at the mo....

[captain_70s]

It needs to be Japanese to be reliable.

Begging to be dropped on to a diesel VAG chassis.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

I had a Nissan Navara dragged in over the weekend and finally got around to having a look at it as it wouldn't turn over. Nothing obviously wrong as it was full of oil and water and had no warning lights come on according to the owner.
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Oh dear that doesn't look good
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This will be expensive as it punched a hole in the block as well.
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Navara spares should be cheap given the number bought back and scrapped due to being a bit* flexy in the middle. What's a decent motor cost?

U Pull It York have hundreds of these for breaking, all rotten chassis recall shitters.

[borniteidentity]

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Revitalised Pinto.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

The Base will sing again.

It's a 1300 Pinto isn't it?

[borniteidentity]

The Base will sing again.

It's a 1300 Pinto isn't it?

1600 sadly. That is, really, the only way it could have been worse.

There was a 1300 in beige (!) for sale in Der Nederlands a couple of years ago but, try as I did, I couldn’t get the vendor to take me seriously and it sold. If it was to ever reappear, my friend’s sister in law is fluent - so we’d try again.

The car has sat for exactly one year now, so I’m hoping that recommissioning is relatively painless. It still looks dreadful on one side, and I’ve no money to improve things either - but it’ll be nice to have it back up and running again.