So as said above, the time came for me to sell the car on, not out of choice but necessity. Knew it was coming for a while so took the car on a last couple of runs to get some final enjoyment out of it. First was a run with the Rev Limits group:
Then a couple of weeks later me and a few mates took the cars on a couple of my favourite routes:
Left Alloa at 7am, headed to Perth and stopped for breakfast, then it was on to the Old Military Road past Glenshee through the Cairngorms National Park up to Grantown-On-Spey and then onto Nairn. It was then back south Through Inverness, Fort Augustus, Fort William then staying on the A82 through Glencoe, Tyndrum, The Trossachs and back into Stirling. Some of the best roads and scenery you will ever come across.
The next weekend it was back up to Sitech's new unit in Dunfermline for Simon to remove all the performance parts and replace them with the standard stuff I'd kept. Once that was done it was down to my work to swap the car over onto it's standard wheels. A good scrub to get the weekend before's run off of it and it looked like this, standard besides some Eibach springs:
After putting ads on on the owners forum for the parts I had for sale, a guy I know locally through other people/cars got in contact with me asking how much I'd want for the car and all the bits as he had also sold his RS in almost identical spec to fund moving house and couldn't find anything else he liked for the same cash. A deal was agreed and he took the car and all the bits away on Friday. Shame he never said to me sooner mind as it putting the car back to standard meant time and money wasted for both us, Lol. I have however repainted the gold wheels in gloss black for him to collect next weekend:
So that's the end of FRS ownership for me, for now at least. If finances allow it it's highly likely I'll end up back in one at some point, although I'd be scared I'd buy another one and it'll never quite live up to how good this car has been to own for the past 2 and a half years and 20k miles. Never let me down once and only ever needed wear and tear parts and consumables replaced, even running an extra 100bhp over stock power.
Currently running around in this weapon for a few weeks till I find myself a semi decent cheap EP3;
A 22 year old Honda Accord 2.0 litre non-VTEC automatic. 70k miles of full Honda dealer service history, owned by an old guy who kept it utterly immaculate and brought it into work every so often so we could keep on top of the rust. Boss bought it off him earlier in the year as a runaround for the garage after the owner decided it was going to waste in his garage after only doing 700 miles between MOTs. Comes complete with a steering wheel which is attached to absolutely f**k all and the stench of Old Spice which 6 months later still won't leave the car.
