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scotty1982 wrote:Any updates on this? I'd love to see how she is doing now.
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If you do ever decide to sell please let me know first.
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I'd love to have her back.
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I've missed her far too much.
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Unfortunately the paint job looked like it had been done by someone who shouldn't have been in that profession.
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The car fell to bits with rot.
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Drivers door, rear bootlid, rear arches, sides of front bonnet all had servere rust damage.
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Both the sills were like paper, i could put a screw driver through any part of them with next to no pressure.
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Turbo needed a refurb, clutch plate was metal on metal on the clutch cover side
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(still held 470 bhp though
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) and the paint job was changing shades in parts.
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The whole front bumper had a horrible yellow tinge.
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I can post pics but they aren't pretty.
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The car could have been saved but it would have been well in excess of 6k, money i decided to spend on something that i could drive all year round, sorry to be the bearer of bad news but the
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'mule' is no more.
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Saying that, the work you and phil paid for looked awesome, some great choices in modifications making it a craking mr2.
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Both yourself and phil made this mr2 a cracking example, failed only to bad workmanship and me losing my love for the car although if it didn't need so much
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£££ i woud have kept her for many years yet.
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, Proof in that is buying 2 rear tyres
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(pro sport 4s), fresh oil and mot just weeks before everything turning sour.
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