Yay

Jings, glad you are OK, although it sounds like its time to get rid of the XR and swap the gold MR2 for a nice sensible BX.

Douglas

Heh. Almost as bad as my drive looks at times.

If I hadn't decided to keep the 75 I'd probably have had the old MR2 off you as a track day hack.

saw a mica blue MR2 MK1 at JAE on saturday, mica blue with polished up tear drop alloys, standard throughout apart from the radio, very nice motor! loved the chromed cam covers and blue magnecore leads! shoulda got a pic!!!

I thought you had the GTi not the atmo diesel?

GTi is sensible, practical everyday performance. All the crap that breaks on french cars has already broken. Important stuff has been repaired so that it works as intended, and its more practical everyday than a MK1 MR2.

Knock the back seats down and its actually got a pretty huge boot. Perfect for lugging bits of Sierra around.

(c:

Douglas

oochie... Just jingled your nerves and no physical damage I take it? I think something similar happened to PeteM in his turbo technics estate except there was a wheel or some debris on the road which smashed his alloy I think from memory but that is going back a long way.

Is it a XR4x4 and are you sure it didn't damage anything mechanically?

Very got some very polished up teardrops now, as the bloke we got it from did refurbing as a living :)

Well the gold one is provisionally sold i'm afraid

Alright I'll swap the BX for the other one if you like.

Douglas

Cant say it jingled my nerves at all. Lots of wobbling, then a big bang, lots of crashing, a bit a bumping up and down then some scrapping, then put my indicators on and pulled over.

Doesnt seem to have done any damage. Had a good look over and its only caught the body work. Havent had a good look at the wheel, but that may well be shagged. Drives fine now though (doesnt shake any morw!)

You mean the sierra? Add a couple of hundred quid and you've got a deal :)

Oops... I had exactly the same thing happen, on the same road, only last Monday... except the tyre in question was one of the ones attached to my towing dolly, which happened to have the Prelude strapped to it at the time!

will the new owner become a member of IMOC or the MK1 club? he/she better! :)

A12? you round my way then? or past the dark side end that is essex :)

The new owner lives somewhere in the region of Colchester, and I was delivering it to him... so was 'just passing through' :)

The cost of a new tyre and tube for the towing dolly, is rather prohibitive!

I'll make sure he does (if he has it)

OK so to buy the new MR2 you're selling the MX-5 and the gold MR2?

AND it's that dark blue colour.

It's not a supercharged one is it??

Not quite no, the blue MR2 is replacing the MX5. I've sold my MR2 because I dont see any point in keeping a battered one when we have a mint one in the household. Now I'm on the lookout for summat else.

Well obviously

Nope, its for the g/f, she doesnt need a supercharger.

You're quite correct. She needs a turbocharger. A big one. : )

Fraser