Well I keep wanting to put up my ideas of what to do with my car somewhere. So I thought maybe it's time to start an owner's diary, even if progress on the actual car may be slow.
Let's start with my short but eventful car history. I passed my test on January the 11th 2008. 7 days later I wrote off my sister's Fiesta.
...followed by my own Golf later in April.
After months of searching for another Golf, in July, I came across an Astra... a Welsh one. So I hopped over the bridge and picked it up. It came with a backbox that seems to have been professionally fitted in a garage, and a collapsed parcel shelf with some dodgey cabling that I don't think was done at a garage!
It was a phase 2, 1997, 1.4i, spi that came with 6 months tax and mot, just over 100,000 miles, a good set off tires, a fair amount of history (which proved a cam belt change around 15,000 miles ago), only 2 small patches of rust (one on the bonnet and one on the drivers door), and then your usual stone chips but no scuffs or scrapes. Not only that, but a full tank of petrol, which if you can remember, back in July was worth almost £5000! Anyway, all this cost a slightly extortionate £710.
This is what she looked like after a clean and I took off the rear Vauxhall Badge,
Let's start with my short but eventful car history. I passed my test on January the 11th 2008. 7 days later I wrote off my sister's Fiesta.
...followed by my own Golf later in April.
After months of searching for another Golf, in July, I came across an Astra... a Welsh one. So I hopped over the bridge and picked it up. It came with a backbox that seems to have been professionally fitted in a garage, and a collapsed parcel shelf with some dodgey cabling that I don't think was done at a garage!
It was a phase 2, 1997, 1.4i, spi that came with 6 months tax and mot, just over 100,000 miles, a good set off tires, a fair amount of history (which proved a cam belt change around 15,000 miles ago), only 2 small patches of rust (one on the bonnet and one on the drivers door), and then your usual stone chips but no scuffs or scrapes. Not only that, but a full tank of petrol, which if you can remember, back in July was worth almost £5000! Anyway, all this cost a slightly extortionate £710.
This is what she looked like after a clean and I took off the rear Vauxhall Badge,
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