alas I do not have the tools the space or currently the knowledge to go to quite the extents that you guys do but here goes.
Bought the car for mum's 50th birthday which was this February just gone. I wish I had got some earlier photos when it was at the garage but the floor pans and everything look pretty solid after we had removed hideous mishmash of floral carpet off cuts that had somehow made their way in to replace the original carpet.
It looks like the car has been kept pretty well in all fairness the underside doesn't seem anywhere near as bad some of the moggies that were just full of filler and such.
So before we could stick a big bow around it for her we had the dilema of where to spend our first bit of money so that went on new carpets a marina disc brake conversion for the front and seatbelts. We also had a new chrome blade on the back because somebody had decided to put a towbar on the moggy somewhere along the line and an overrider was missing from the rear so that's where we are currently at.
Being a solid reliable car for all intensive purposes she is now my mums daily run around and the old hyundai has gone to the scrapper which actually had more rust after 13 years than Dorris does after 50! I'm only 28 but I can see where the "they don't make 'em like they use to" saying comes from.
My focus now turns to what can I do to get Dorris back to her full gleaming glory in my spare time so some little projects I'm looking on doing are things like referbing the number plates replacing bits of cracked glass and placstic and attempting to fix some of the electricals.
Regards
Mark
