This is my daughters car, We bought it in July 2018
It’s been rust treated, had brakes, it has 40mm lowering springs and new dampers. Had a top end rebuild a couple of years back.
There’s a build thread
forum.retro-rides.org/thread/204975/ella-1999-vauxhall-corsa
Ella lives in Bangor, and that’s 200 miles away, she’s working full time now and the corsa needs some love, but there’s a bit of a stalemate… I need it for a week and she then can’t work etc.
So we sourced another car, with a slightly bigger engine (it’s a 1.4 lupo) went through it and then swapped cars last weekend.
Spent a bit of money sorting the lupo, so with Ella’s agreed input, if I sell it for £400 I just about break even.
Local merchants have offered me £315 so I don’t think I’m being unreasonable
It has 2 months or thereabouts MOT, starts and runs, but top end is noisy, it smokes a bit too I’ve been told (but the 100 miles I drove back down the motorway I didn’t notice it) brakes could do with a bleed, tyres have loads of tread but are cracking in the treads
Bodywork is a bit rough, it’s been lightly gouged both sides by her.
Drivers mirror is manual, passengers is the wrong colour and the glass is shattered. The wheel arch plastics are tired and could do with replacement. But it looks ok from a few meters
It’s been rust treated, had brakes, it has 40mm lowering springs and new dampers. Had a top end rebuild a couple of years back.
There’s a build thread
forum.retro-rides.org/thread/204975/ella-1999-vauxhall-corsa
Ella lives in Bangor, and that’s 200 miles away, she’s working full time now and the corsa needs some love, but there’s a bit of a stalemate… I need it for a week and she then can’t work etc.
So we sourced another car, with a slightly bigger engine (it’s a 1.4 lupo) went through it and then swapped cars last weekend.
Spent a bit of money sorting the lupo, so with Ella’s agreed input, if I sell it for £400 I just about break even.
Local merchants have offered me £315 so I don’t think I’m being unreasonable
It has 2 months or thereabouts MOT, starts and runs, but top end is noisy, it smokes a bit too I’ve been told (but the 100 miles I drove back down the motorway I didn’t notice it) brakes could do with a bleed, tyres have loads of tread but are cracking in the treads
Bodywork is a bit rough, it’s been lightly gouged both sides by her.
Drivers mirror is manual, passengers is the wrong colour and the glass is shattered. The wheel arch plastics are tired and could do with replacement. But it looks ok from a few meters
