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by paulplom
Tue Oct 13, 2020 8:54 am
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Crash! Bang! Wallop!
Replies: 9568
Views: 2460430

Re: Crash! Bang! Wallop!

Where is he? I need my fix.
by paulplom
Tue Oct 13, 2020 8:02 am
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Pug 107 (currently kidnapped), citroen relay and '14 Vespa gts ie 125
Replies: 2622
Views: 237632

Re: Mx-5 NA

I've had both and this is my 3rd one of these. The vvc mg was a fair bit quicker but these are a better drive imo.
by paulplom
Tue Oct 13, 2020 7:25 am
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Pug 107 (currently kidnapped), citroen relay and '14 Vespa gts ie 125
Replies: 2622
Views: 237632

Re: Mx-5 NA

Here's a video of it in action where he compares it with the mk4.
by paulplom
Tue Oct 13, 2020 7:21 am
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Pug 107 (currently kidnapped), citroen relay and '14 Vespa gts ie 125
Replies: 2622
Views: 237632

Re: Mx-5 NA

Here's a link to the write up the garage made that did the work.
https://thrussingtongarage.co.uk/mazda- ... /#tab-id-1
It has full history and tons of reciepts from back in the day. Including the recent one for 80hrs labour!
by paulplom
Tue Oct 13, 2020 7:20 am
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Pug 107 (currently kidnapped), citroen relay and '14 Vespa gts ie 125
Replies: 2622
Views: 237632

Re: Mx-5 NA

It must have been. Theres a trick where you remove foam from the seat base and back which makes it into a bucket seat. I'm trying to keep this one standard though.
You're welcome for a blast if you're ever up this way.
by paulplom
Tue Oct 13, 2020 7:07 am
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Pug 107 (currently kidnapped), citroen relay and '14 Vespa gts ie 125
Replies: 2622
Views: 237632

Re: Mx-5 NA

I drove it around for a few weeks like that and I was loving it. It's all poly bushed with powder coated subframes and coil overs. At the time it was wearing a recent set of proxes and it literally handles like a go kart. The stance is quite low but it doesn't catch on anything and the coil overs ar...
by paulplom
Tue Oct 13, 2020 7:01 am
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Pug 107 (currently kidnapped), citroen relay and '14 Vespa gts ie 125
Replies: 2622
Views: 237632

Re: Mx-5 NA

I replaced the door with one I bought from Gm on the beige from a donor car he was breaking to make his kit car the exocet. I set about fitting it and it was fairly painless. About five months on I still haven't got round to swapping the lock barrel over and I'm still getting access from the passeng...
by paulplom
Tue Oct 13, 2020 6:56 am
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: Pug 107 (currently kidnapped), citroen relay and '14 Vespa gts ie 125
Replies: 2622
Views: 237632

Pug 107 (currently kidnapped), citroen relay and '14 Vespa gts ie 125

:!: I bought this little car from motorpunk on the beige. He'd owned it for 16 years but had been left in garage for the last year and a bit. I gave £750 for it, and I had world of ceri deliver it from Leicester up here to North Shields for another £250. So I had an unloved car with no mot sat outsi...
by paulplom
Mon Oct 12, 2020 5:04 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: What did you do today?
Replies: 15693
Views: 3244134

Re: What did you do today?

Point. I'd recognise it in a flash though.
by paulplom
Mon Oct 12, 2020 4:02 pm
Forum: Motorised Conveyances
Topic: What did you do today?
Replies: 15693
Views: 3244134

Re: What did you do today?

I do a lot of carbooting. It's surprising what you can pick up. I got a belter metal tool box for a fiver. Brake calliper rewind tools, left and right and brand new for £7.