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Well I will start yet another project thread for this car. I think its like 5 now?
I bought the car a few years ago now, for $955 nzd, so about 400 of your monies. It was in average condition body wise, straight but a bit of rust bottom of doors and faded paint due to too much cutting and polishing.
The car had had about 12 owners, most in the south Island, so I guess that is why it hasn't rusted yet. So here it is a couple of days after I got it home. The drive home was a 6 hour drive with my dad in convoy with his Renault 19. Car ran good, no problems. Happy as it had done about 3000 miles in 5 years,so wasn't used to much driving.
I drove it like this for about 9 months. I changed the horrible wooden gear knob for a factory one out of my dads parts car, swapped the location of the boost gauge and the computer display so I could see boost when my hands were on the wheel, fixed the wipers as the old joints were badly worn, replaced tail lights with non faded ones and got a matching brightness front indicator lense. Found an oldschool 80's alarm, that still worked by a button under the steering column, tidied up badges etc and got teh paint somewhat shiny.
Then...