Post by Dweenimus on May 4, 2016 18:33:29 GMT
OK, so. atlex suggested I do this.
My girlfriend used to send me pictures of cool cars she see's. She then found she really liked the GT6/Spitfire type cars.
We started having random ideas of getting one as a project, but never really committing to what we wanted/how much etc. So we looked and found the GT6 was completely out of our price range, then started looking at Spitfire projects on eBay.
Then one random Sunday in August last year while we were out with my family for my birthday, we put a bid in.
We won. Then the adrenaline kicked in, of, did we really just buy that rust bucket?
The week later, we booked a trailer to meet us there and viola
It hadn't been on the road in over 10 years, but drove onto the trailer fine.
Poor thing had to sit outside for another couple of months while the garage got sorted, as it had been converted to a bedroom.
It fits nice and snuggly!
We started stripping the car and found it had an awful greeny grey spray job, but the original colour was orange!
So we decided you know what? Let's go back to the original colour! It will go great with my MX5
Also, the car is diddy. Like you think MX5's are small? Weirdly, more space inside that the MX.
The garage wasn't a pleasant place to be in the winter. Even with the heater on, it was still stupidly cold! So we tried doing little bits on the sofa, like shining up these
Christmas time came around also, so not much got done. And trying to get Project - bought my dad an MX5 on the road.
Also the garage has a TV/Xbox and I got distracted.
My girlfriend used to send me pictures of cool cars she see's. She then found she really liked the GT6/Spitfire type cars.
We started having random ideas of getting one as a project, but never really committing to what we wanted/how much etc. So we looked and found the GT6 was completely out of our price range, then started looking at Spitfire projects on eBay.
Then one random Sunday in August last year while we were out with my family for my birthday, we put a bid in.
We won. Then the adrenaline kicked in, of, did we really just buy that rust bucket?
The week later, we booked a trailer to meet us there and viola
It hadn't been on the road in over 10 years, but drove onto the trailer fine.
Poor thing had to sit outside for another couple of months while the garage got sorted, as it had been converted to a bedroom.
It fits nice and snuggly!
We started stripping the car and found it had an awful greeny grey spray job, but the original colour was orange!
So we decided you know what? Let's go back to the original colour! It will go great with my MX5
Also, the car is diddy. Like you think MX5's are small? Weirdly, more space inside that the MX.
The garage wasn't a pleasant place to be in the winter. Even with the heater on, it was still stupidly cold! So we tried doing little bits on the sofa, like shining up these
Christmas time came around also, so not much got done. And trying to get Project - bought my dad an MX5 on the road.
Also the garage has a TV/Xbox and I got distracted.
gf has got final say on the spitfire. I'd like to make it faster etc but in a compromise, I'm allowed to do whatever i want with my Mx5 without any problems of "you're spending how much on turbo/super charging?"
? compared to the mx5...
