Hello retro readers,
First off ive got to say what a great forum, like most ive been lurking around abit before making an actual post. I love reading through these immense build projects, and there are some truly amazing cars here. ive been really interested in the forum for a long time but up until now i haven't had any need to make any posts as the cars i have had ive managed to find great forums for. I'm currently driving a suzuki sj410 and i have had a morris minor, and both of these cars are much more common than my new one.
As for my new project, i haven't been able to find any vehicle specific forms for it as there are only ment to be 40 in the country. But I'm sure you should find it quite interesting as its incredibly retro! so i have gone all french and bought a peugeot. it has plenty of little quirks such as an alternator that faces downwards, and a gearbox which is contained inside the engine. So I'm sure I'm going to have some great fun working on it and finding parts.
i bought it off ebay from my local scrap yard, there were two for sale and they were both from the same place advertised as barn finds, one was very rotten but had lots of paperwork but the one i bought was much cleaner and the only paperwork it came with surprisingly was an mot from 2008 costing £1500 . i cant imagine anyone letting a scrapyard have these cars so i can only imagine that the owner had past away and the barn was being cleared maby?
my plans are to keep it as original as possible but without doing a complete restoration, and it definitely needs new paint. looking forward to hearing your opinions and advise, it would be interesting to hear if anyone has had any experience with these cars or maby even owned this one at some point as it has had 11 owners!
thanks for reading
joe
First off ive got to say what a great forum, like most ive been lurking around abit before making an actual post. I love reading through these immense build projects, and there are some truly amazing cars here. ive been really interested in the forum for a long time but up until now i haven't had any need to make any posts as the cars i have had ive managed to find great forums for. I'm currently driving a suzuki sj410 and i have had a morris minor, and both of these cars are much more common than my new one.
As for my new project, i haven't been able to find any vehicle specific forms for it as there are only ment to be 40 in the country. But I'm sure you should find it quite interesting as its incredibly retro! so i have gone all french and bought a peugeot. it has plenty of little quirks such as an alternator that faces downwards, and a gearbox which is contained inside the engine. So I'm sure I'm going to have some great fun working on it and finding parts.
i bought it off ebay from my local scrap yard, there were two for sale and they were both from the same place advertised as barn finds, one was very rotten but had lots of paperwork but the one i bought was much cleaner and the only paperwork it came with surprisingly was an mot from 2008 costing £1500 . i cant imagine anyone letting a scrapyard have these cars so i can only imagine that the owner had past away and the barn was being cleared maby?
my plans are to keep it as original as possible but without doing a complete restoration, and it definitely needs new paint. looking forward to hearing your opinions and advise, it would be interesting to hear if anyone has had any experience with these cars or maby even owned this one at some point as it has had 11 owners!
thanks for reading
joe
