...was spent with the car i wanted to hate so much, but didnt....My czechwrecks mondeo estate
I promised you some pics and here she is, in all her shed glory
(the blue one not the silver sei )
In the second one especially you can see the crumpled front wing. Basically one of the 12 previous owners fitted alloys to her, but put the original steel wheel bolts back on you can guess what happened!
Originally planned to be a racer (PSML) you can see how lacking in interior it is at the moment
The seats we have got from a scrappies and our donar car, originally came with 1 ford orion seat, held in by one bolt
It does have a bit of a stainless jap can exhaust job done by one previous owner which makes me chuckle considering the car this exhaust is on
It does have its secret weapon though.....
:yum: :yum: :yum: Holy crap does it shift!!! The kickdown is amazing! It will flame most of the fiat range going currently, Even ST24 and ST220 struggled to keep up. It suprised a lot of people!
Just a pic to show how clean the engine is for such a ****e car!
So now you have an estate which is in crap condition on the outside, which is fully taxed,MOT'ed and insured on. What do you do? Well you take it to MondeoMania 2006 and enter it in a concours of course!!!
Unbeliveably here she blows on the mondeo enthusiats stand!! It actually was accepted on!
The bucket on the front was our donation bucket, and people who donated, we let them sign the bonnet!
I did my own bit of signage as well to it
All in all we raised from that event, 16 quid for charity on the day, that doesnt sound a lot, but when its all in loose change it doesnt sound so bad.
We were also donated a brand new water pump, a complete service kit for it (all the filters etc) and a set of 15'' steel wheels for it. All free.
The attention it got was amazing, it got loads of photos taken, and passers by said we had ****** to turn up in it, the state it was in!
All in all i had a great time, that car goes like stink for a piece of ****! and for 100 quid purchase price, im not complaining. It completed 400+ miles today without a peep and will happily cruise at 75-80mph, but the 25mpg was the best we could get. and if any chavs come along, that right foot just touches the accelerator, they are in for a suprise! The mileage has just turned over to 152,000 today for anyone interested in that fact
Theres still work needs doing however, so she isnt up to scratch yet, but on todays drive, both hills and motorways, the signs are encouraging
On a side note, mainly for all dodgy handbrake owners (namely the cento lot) dont leave it on a hill and in neutral or this might happen :bang:
I promised you some pics and here she is, in all her shed glory
(the blue one not the silver sei )
In the second one especially you can see the crumpled front wing. Basically one of the 12 previous owners fitted alloys to her, but put the original steel wheel bolts back on
you can guess what happened!Originally planned to be a racer (PSML) you can see how lacking in interior it is at the moment
The seats we have got from a scrappies and our donar car, originally came with 1 ford orion seat, held in by one bolt
It does have a bit of a stainless jap can exhaust job done by one previous owner which makes me chuckle considering the car this exhaust is on
It does have its secret weapon though.....
:yum: :yum: :yum: Holy crap does it shift!!! The kickdown is amazing! It will flame most of the fiat range going currently, Even ST24 and ST220 struggled to keep up. It suprised a lot of people!
Just a pic to show how clean the engine is for such a ****e car!
So now you have an estate which is in crap condition on the outside, which is fully taxed,MOT'ed and insured on. What do you do? Well you take it to MondeoMania 2006 and enter it in a concours of course!!!
Unbeliveably here she blows on the mondeo enthusiats stand!! It actually was accepted on!
The bucket on the front was our donation bucket, and people who donated, we let them sign the bonnet!
I did my own bit of signage as well to it
All in all we raised from that event, 16 quid for charity on the day, that doesnt sound a lot, but when its all in loose change it doesnt sound so bad.
We were also donated a brand new water pump, a complete service kit for it (all the filters etc) and a set of 15'' steel wheels for it. All free.
The attention it got was amazing, it got loads of photos taken, and passers by said we had ****** to turn up in it, the state it was in!
All in all i had a great time, that car goes like stink for a piece of ****! and for 100 quid purchase price, im not complaining. It completed 400+ miles today without a peep and will happily cruise at 75-80mph, but the 25mpg was the best we could get. and if any chavs come along, that right foot just touches the accelerator, they are in for a suprise! The mileage has just turned over to 152,000 today for anyone interested in that fact
Theres still work needs doing however, so she isnt up to scratch yet, but on todays drive, both hills and motorways, the signs are encouraging
On a side note, mainly for all dodgy handbrake owners (namely the cento lot) dont leave it on a hill and in neutral or this might happen :bang:
