172, Tiguan
So having been without a Clio for about 5 days I thought it best to buy another. They are, as those who have driven one, quite addictive. This was crazy idea number one.
The second crazy idea is I am definitely definitely definitely building this to a budget, a small one.
I now live in Durham but still (for the time-being) work down south. I stay with my parents one week, then work from home the next and so on. My Dad has recently retired and was looking a bit bored, I had an idea.
The long and short of it is that i'm funding the project and my Dad is going to do most of the donkey work, with me helping out when i'm staying with them (think of Dad as Ed China and me as a younger, taller, Mike Brewer). He has built a few Westfields in the past, time to dust off the tools.
After about 30 mins of hunting for a car I found one advertised on here by Mike at Rentech for 'Spares or repair'. A quick call discovered it had had an entire top end rebuild and cam belt change last year but the bottom end let go recently. The car ran, but there's a hell of a knocking noise. Mike explained they already had too many cars each so weren't interested in it themselves.
The car was taxed, Mot'd and apart from the engine, sounded fairly genuine, though at this point i hadn't even seen the car. A deal was struck and I was the new owner.
I made a call south and chatted with Dad how best to get it back to his, as it was even further south in Portsmouth. It needed a tow and we soon discovered his car was going to be overweight with it on a trailor, so we decided to hire a flatbed van. £95 later and the car was back at my parents.
Dad took these pics when he got it home:
Odd lights, but it does have an HID setup.
The car drove itself under it's own steam up the drive and into the garage.
The car has done 86k and appears to have a full - if interesting history file with it.
Plans are to turn it into a trackday car with the odd sprint and hillclimb in mind, possibly more, it depends on funds.
Fast forward one week and I'm back down south for the week. I first saw the car the Monday just gone.
TBC
The second crazy idea is I am definitely definitely definitely building this to a budget, a small one.
I now live in Durham but still (for the time-being) work down south. I stay with my parents one week, then work from home the next and so on. My Dad has recently retired and was looking a bit bored, I had an idea.
The long and short of it is that i'm funding the project and my Dad is going to do most of the donkey work, with me helping out when i'm staying with them (think of Dad as Ed China and me as a younger, taller, Mike Brewer). He has built a few Westfields in the past, time to dust off the tools.
After about 30 mins of hunting for a car I found one advertised on here by Mike at Rentech for 'Spares or repair'. A quick call discovered it had had an entire top end rebuild and cam belt change last year but the bottom end let go recently. The car ran, but there's a hell of a knocking noise. Mike explained they already had too many cars each so weren't interested in it themselves.
The car was taxed, Mot'd and apart from the engine, sounded fairly genuine, though at this point i hadn't even seen the car. A deal was struck and I was the new owner.
I made a call south and chatted with Dad how best to get it back to his, as it was even further south in Portsmouth. It needed a tow and we soon discovered his car was going to be overweight with it on a trailor, so we decided to hire a flatbed van. £95 later and the car was back at my parents.
Dad took these pics when he got it home:
Odd lights, but it does have an HID setup.
The car drove itself under it's own steam up the drive and into the garage.
The car has done 86k and appears to have a full - if interesting history file with it.
Plans are to turn it into a trackday car with the odd sprint and hillclimb in mind, possibly more, it depends on funds.
Fast forward one week and I'm back down south for the week. I first saw the car the Monday just gone.
TBC
