The Invisible Car Part II

[Relentless Rob]

36 hours to go.

[majic79]

teach the fecker to watch out, it's not as if the car wasn't bright enough to begin with!

Was in a rental on thursday (handled brilliantly I hasten to add!) and going right at a roundabout, nearly got T-boned by a golf, was funny watching him stamping on the anchors. The day previously, I turned into a junction and nearly t-boned a guy pulling out of his drive - he never looked once before pulling onto the road

What's wrong with people not paying attention? It's not difficult!

[McVities]

playing devil's advocate - wonder if the other drivers are blinded by the fog-lights

......either that or it might be the driver of the small Italian cars

[Relentless Rob]

That's the thing about the invisible car theory. The brighter the colour the less drivers can see you.

I think the problem is.......



...drivers of certain cars are cretins.

[Renrut]

Possibly the best scene of father ted. That or the drilling holes in the walls one.

So have you now got the car back? And will this be a £999 contender? You know a 16V turbo engine will fit...

[Relentless Rob]

£150 down and she is M.O.T'd until October.


Wnere'd I put that purple paint.

[owelly]

And with the famous 'click click click' soundtrack only found on a Sony Ericsson Satio.........

[fha772]

We do 15-20,000 miles a year in our Cinquecento, and in the 18 months we've owned it, we've never had a bump, or even a near miss.

[Relentless Rob]

What colour is yours?

[Renrut]

£150 down and she is M.O.T'd until October.


Wnere'd I put that purple paint.

Forget the paint - you need this:


and some nitrous too.

That should give a good 14s quarter and at under 800kg be very nimble in an autotest.

[fha772]

What colour is yours?

Red

[Relentless Rob]

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Shockingly bad on the outside...

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....disgusting on the inside (smells like someone's urinated on the back seat).

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The car's been used a little person transport from the clutch smell under the bonnet and the way the head gasket blew I'd say a woman driver as well. The hazard lights don't work because of the way the stereo has been ripped out and the engine oil hasn't been changed since the head gasket so the oil pump is probably full of emulsion.

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M.O.T standard repairs?

I'll rip the interior out tomorrow so I can see how bad the floor is and get rid of the wee smell.

Do I buy a new set of chevrons for the tailgate?

[Relentless Rob]

This works out £3.19 cheaper than my local D.I.Y store (including postage) and I still have two sheets of Polycarbonate left from last year.



Been thrown the gauntlet to get the car ready for Malory. So while no strictly a £999 project the car will be on a budget.

Who know's I may sell the car to fund the £999 build (still looking for something tax exempt).

[Relentless Rob]

To be completely honnest (I usually am to the point that it annoys people and my sisters now refuse to go shopping with me) I have only recently understood the point of concourse. A well documented case was a guy who had spent years and a shed load of money restoring his pride and joy Citroen DS. He then drove to a competition in France only to come second to another DS that had one less dead bug on the grille.

To make "The Ultimate" version of a shopping trolley just highlights the fact that the motor industry is full of bean counters and lazy gob shites in factories. All cars that roll off the line should be as good as the ones that have been polished to death and trailored from one contest to another. Having said that the cost and time that goes into concourse cars would be impossible to achieve on a production scale so corners are cut for the sake of being able to produce a car for £15,000 Would you pay £40,000 for a Ford Focus? That's how much a concourse S1 RST sold for recently.

Sorry about the rant, but the invisible car was minging!

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Gloves, mask, gogles, hat, industrial congealed Jelly Tot remover, vacum cleaner, upholstery shampoo, febreze, updated will and two hours later the car is almost bearable.

How can anyone drive something like that let alone have a child festering in the back in beyond me.

I've taken the parcel shelf out and looked at the hole where the stereo was ripped out.

Stereo + Speakers + cables = balast

So the hole may be filled with one of these.....

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...plenty or room for a boost gague there I think.

[Relentless Rob]

New oil and filter today and the filter remover actually fits! Should be emulsional.