£750 & a lot of T-Cutting later :oD
 

Sold one of the scoobs today so bought a cheapy runaround for £750 as an in between car for the misses until she gets something better sorted. 1993 Vauxhall Corsa 1.4 that was pretty badly faded.

6hrs of t-cutting & polishing later :eek: (No I can't feel my arms :D) & even i'm still stunned at the results :eek:. Especially when you consider how much it cost & that it only has 60k on the clock:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...rsa/Corsa4.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...rsa/Corsa3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...rsa/Corsa2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...rsa/Corsa1.jpg

MAFFA

No before pics?

Never thought of it :rolleyes:

Wish I had now as the car was turning white before I got to it :D LOL

its shiney....

but its still pink lol

been there and done that with a vauxhall nova

shiney as you like, but still not the proper colour, we didnt think it was that far off until my brother had a spoiler painted LOL

It's not that far off. 6rs of the t-cutting got it as close as you're gonna get & it's definately not pink anymore. Obviously if a panel was painted you'd probably notice but to the untrained eye it looks brand new :)

Looks very nice now :D

6hours! i'm surprised its not bare-metal knowing Vauxhalls paint quality

Well we'll only have the car a couple of weeks so i'm not that concerned :)

Paul - found this a bit closer than your golf...bout 1 mile down the road in the local garage :D LOL

Worth the effort then as you might even get more for it than you paid :)

Heres my old corsa :) :

http://www.cliftonmoorracing.co.uk/g...de%20sport.JPG

:cool:

My Mum has a red Astra that is white except for a new quarter panel after a carpark scrape.

Makes me cringe every time I see it. She won't get out there and do it.

Andy.

Hi Maffa,

Which ones gone? And more impirtantly what's eventually replacing it?

Cheers

Max

The silver one :( Will more than likely be seen at cruises around Essex now :(

Had to be done though as the other half wanted something different although it did make her cry to see it go!! I don't think you could ever have a Subaru like that one again :(. However on the plus side we bought it a year ago & sold it today for £500 less than we paid for it :D LOL

Anyway we're looking at the options. Could be any one of the following:

BMW 3 series
BMW Mini Cooper
Civic Type R
Lexus IS200
Mazda 6
Mercedes CLK

As you can see we've not narrowed it down just yet :D:D LOL Got a feeling it's gonna be one of the top 3 though. She's always wanted a new shape beemer but saying that she was disappointed by our neighbours new 323 that we took for a blast yesterday. She hates small cars but said she'd love a mini :confused: The Civic Type R is kind of a compromise between a newer more refind car whilst still maintaining some sense of fun & performance.

Actually you know what....we really haven't narrowed it down :D:D:D LOL

We're in no major rush as the Corsa's a good little runaround that we'll more than likely trade in for more than we paid for it :D Oh & we still have the other scoob ;)

MAFFA

Don't think BMW make an E46 323i do they :confused:

Matt :D

It's a year 2000 model that our neighbour has. Straight 6 2.5 Auto :)

MAFFA

MAFFA, thats a bleeding bargain for £750 mate:) Good job you done with the polishing too.



Cliff

strange selection of cars there, but I recently got a CLK and it is awesome - such a great car, can't fault it.

Cliff - Funny thing is we took it to the BMW dealership today & they said they'd give us £750 as a p/x :D:D LOL. Although we may just sell it privately for more ;)

Okay so today we test drove the Civic Type R, Mini One & a BMW 318. Jen was grinning from ear to ear after driving the Civic & the Mini & was pleasantly suprised by the performance of the 4 cylinder 318. She said the Civic was pretty quick (which was suprising after having a 12.8 second 1/4 scooby!) & that it stuck to the road like glue. It also had basically everything she needed & was also pretty comfortable. She fell in love with the Mini as it's such a girly car & she thought the interior was spectacular. The only problem was the performance so I think she wants to try a cooper & see if that can get her grinning a bit more. The Beemer was suprisingly good, if not a little bland on the inside, but it was comfortable, reasonably quick & quite refined.

I think the rest have been ruled out TBH as they wouldn't be what she was after driving 60 miles a day on country roads to work wheras with the rest at least she can have a bit of fun :).

I have a feeling it will be between a Mini Cooper (01/02), BMW 318 (00/01) if she can find one in black with leather and either a red or black Civic Type R. All of which can be got for between £8k & £10k with good mileage :)

Watch this space :)

MAFFA

:eek: watching!

Bought another car today :) Pick it up next Saturday :D

V reg Black BMW 323CI (Manual) with 18" BMW V Spoke 72 Alloys :)

Its a Sept 99 so it's the new shape and looks well nice on those wheels :)

I'll post some pics after we pick it up next Saturday :)

MAFFA :)

Andy - why don't you get out there and do it for her? ;)


MAFFA - good job!

Thats a good little car for the price. You wont loose any money on it.

I picked up a 1.8LX Escort with full ford (annual!) service history and 62K on the clock for £500.
I only intended to use it for a 3month contract. but ended up keeping it as a station/tip run car. With a 130BHP ecu its not bad, until you come to a corner :eek:

But you can park it anywhere!

LOL :D:D

We weren't expecting to sell the Scoob so fast :eek:

29/03/05 - Take Scoob off the road & pick up Corsa in the evening
30/03/05 - Advertise Scoob on Eb*y
31/03/05 - Receive an e-mail from someone saying they'll buy the Scoob
01/04/05 - They collect & pay for the Scoob
02/04/05 - Test drive a Beemer, Mini & Civic
03/04/05 - Test drive the 323CI & put down a deposit

09/04/05 - We'll collect the Beemer

I'll probably flog the Corsa on Ebay as well but by my reconing we'll have only needed the runabout for 11 days :D:D:D LOL

If anyone else has had this much luck & speed with selling & buying cars i'll be amazed :D:D LOL

MAFFA