Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 2:26 am Post subject: Dans Mk1 comes out of hibernation!!!
Hi all,
My mk1 finally has come out of the garage! (Its only been nearly 6 year) I bought the china blue 1300s from a used car dealer in manchester in 2002 for £400 with 1 owner from new, 6 months tax, and 60,000 on the clock. I drove her for only a few months and fell in love but then my work forced me to move down south and put the mk1 in to storage...
When I could I came back home (which wasn't offen) I started cleaning her up bit by bit! In the 6 years with some help from a few Vauxhall mad mates Ive managed to striped the mk1 down to a rolling shell and give her a cleaned up and full respray. We also started the G.T.E. rear disk conversion and the C20XE conversion. I managed to sort most of the wiring out and have had the engine running up but theres still a few teething probs left to sort...
Sadly Ive just had surgery to my ankle proventing me from driving and going home to play with my mk1 over Christmas! But my mad mental Vauxhall mates thought that they cheer me up by moving my much loved mk1and all the junk Ive collected over the years from Blackburn all the way down to plymouth (Only just over 300 mile) and straight in to my new garage 10 meter from the front door!!! Thanks Carl n Shawn your the best mate goin and I owe you both massively... (Some of you may know them as the mk2 turbo rusty bullet crew? they're at santa pod every year without fail)!!!
Now thanks to my mates I can really get stuck in to the mk1 and with a bit of luck get her to some of the shows early next year!!!
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_________________ No sooner did I get the mk1 back on the road, she's back off again for turbo power!!!
Took a few more photos today.
The lighting was a bit crap since all its done down here is p**s it down all day! Ill get some better ones when its not rainin so I can get her out side!! She's really is in good nick though...
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_________________ No sooner did I get the mk1 back on the road, she's back off again for turbo power!!!
Its amazing what you can do with a little hard work just check out the nackered exhaust I Got off a GTE I broke ages ago
It still needs a good buffing up but its been well and truly brought back from the dead! (Only the rocker cover, spark plug cover, timing cover and heat shield left to do now)...
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_________________ No sooner did I get the mk1 back on the road, she's back off again for turbo power!!!
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