Hi All
Hope you are all well, I thought i would share with you my latest project, not delorean related but i thought it may interest some of you.
So what is Project Poirot i hear you say, well for a while I've had an itch to get myself some open top motoring fun, in the past I've had a couple of spitfire's and very briefly an MX5 all be it an auto which is definitely not right for an open top B road blast.
So I started looking around to see what was about and the search soon lead me back to the MX5s, the criteria was simple, it had to be as cheap as possible, not completely rotten but a project car would be fine to keep the price down. So the search went on and on until i found the following... (these are the pictures from the Ad...
So as you can see from the pics it needs rescuing, it has some questionable mods (more on that later) when i found it it had about 6 days left to run in auction so like many others i stuck it in my watch list and kept checking it every so often until it got to the last day, based on all of the many others I had watched i thought its bound to shot up in price right near the end, however to my surprise it didn't and with less than 20 secs to go i put in a bid and won it !
Now the MOT has run out in August so I'm now thinking how am I gonna get this back from Marlborough just past Reading to my house in Romford... In steps Mr Dan Stacey who I had been speaking to about the car a couple of days previous to the auction end, he said "my mates got a car trailer we can borrow" I said really superb !! so Monday Last week we set off around 4pm In Dan's trusty Audi A3 with the trailer on the back ...
Just after we arrived the heavens opened and it continued to pour down all the way home so it was challenging conditions, however about 15 mins into the journey home Dan realized he had left the trailer tool bag at the side of the road where we loaded the car so we unhitched the trailer with the car still on and Dan raced back to get it..
We then stopped for a cheeky Burger King
and carried on
arriving back at mine around 10.30pm
So a long day but I'm pleased with my purchase, i will continue with the progress made since last Monday in the next post
I have to say a MASSIVE thanks to Dan for all the help and giving up his time to come and pick it up, it was a proper road trip