Jezbraker
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Hello from soggy North Devon.
Just took on a 4200 as my "family motor" to replace a 159 wagon... bought her at the Historics auction at Ascot the other week. Only driven a few miles to date (awaiting v5 etc) - not got the feel of my Elise (hello selocers ) but it's one **** of an occasion... and the kids fit...
Got some oil on the way from Opie and first of what is no doubt many eurospares orders turned up today so about set for a service (last I can see in history was 2 years/700 miles ago at the Shed)
I looked at a couple of GS at around 20k and was a bit disappointed by the state of the underside of them both so I thought I'd go with the stock car that looked nice underneath for half the cost and bolt on a few upgrades - dependent on how much she costs to keep on the road
My logic is also at this sort of purchase price I don't need to care about resale values so the fact I home service etc really won't matter as I'm also planning to rack up some miles and she's got far from a clean service history!
Car seems to have lived up in Scotland for a while... where it ran through a big puddle in 2010 and had a 5k engine rebuild at Graypaul via insurance. No Clutch change recorded since 40k miles in 2007 - and now at 80k so I guess one is gonna be imminent!
looking forward to the adventure!
cheers,
jez.
Just took on a 4200 as my "family motor" to replace a 159 wagon... bought her at the Historics auction at Ascot the other week. Only driven a few miles to date (awaiting v5 etc) - not got the feel of my Elise (hello selocers ) but it's one **** of an occasion... and the kids fit...
Got some oil on the way from Opie and first of what is no doubt many eurospares orders turned up today so about set for a service (last I can see in history was 2 years/700 miles ago at the Shed)
I looked at a couple of GS at around 20k and was a bit disappointed by the state of the underside of them both so I thought I'd go with the stock car that looked nice underneath for half the cost and bolt on a few upgrades - dependent on how much she costs to keep on the road
My logic is also at this sort of purchase price I don't need to care about resale values so the fact I home service etc really won't matter as I'm also planning to rack up some miles and she's got far from a clean service history!
Car seems to have lived up in Scotland for a while... where it ran through a big puddle in 2010 and had a 5k engine rebuild at Graypaul via insurance. No Clutch change recorded since 40k miles in 2007 - and now at 80k so I guess one is gonna be imminent!
looking forward to the adventure!
cheers,
jez.