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A little bit more to report.
I've spent what seems like forever cutting out and starting to replace the footplates for my cage. It's massively tedious work and I'm not the best equipped for metalwork either, so upto now it's been a case of 'cutting something, trying it, bashing with a hammer...
3 on my way home from work this evening.
Flamer 172 between Brant road and Harmston.
Monaco 172 on newark road, near Rookery Ln roadworks.
Arctic 182 on Skellingthorpe road, at Birchwood Av traffic lights.
All 4.30ish.
Seeing as the weather cheered up a bit today, I thought I'd give it a quick going over to lose some of the winter salt. It was in quite a state before!
Didn't bother going out for pics so theyre just on the road as usual.
Before:
Now:
And the current state of...
You'll struggle to get to 900kg in a Mk2, that's very light. Maybe completely dry.
Never weighed mine. Going by others and my own calcs I'd say about 820 with cage, so probably 780ish without cage.
Is the car on ebay from a trader in blackpool (i think it was) ?
If so, it's been posted about on here before, someone went for a look/drive and said to avoid. Can't remember exacts I'm afraid.