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1st September 2009, 17:28 | #41 |
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That's a nice old thing mind Alan well done
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1st September 2009, 17:52 | #42 |
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Thanks for all the comments! I´ve paid a deposit and will probably pick it up at the weekend. Its about a 3 to 4 hour drive from here, one way. So will make a day of it. It seems to be very well cared for. The mats at the front look like IKEA. (didn´t want to mess up the originals probably) The switches and things I will leave alone - keep it as original as pos. Funny, the one the back door is wood but not on the passenger front door . -Kalle- wasn´t at home so I won´t get the reg nr till later. Will post it up as soon as I get it:lol: Alan
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Hi there from the pics it looks more like Arden green than BRG, but may just be the light, it looks lovely :lol:
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It is a lovely looking thing and the chassis number means it becomes the oldest car in the club. Congratulations!:lol: However, the passenger door window switch and the airbag cover do raise a question and I hesitated whether to raise this point or not? The airbag cover looks like the later plastic version and I wondered whether, with the door switch as well, there has maybe been a front impact at some point and the airbag deployed and the door was damaged? When the repair was done they maybe couldn't source the walnut dash kit or the original real wood airbag cover? I noticed the light switch, centre console and rear window switches are all covered. Is the driver's door window switch still walnut? Just a thought and I hope I'm wrong Derek
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1st September 2009, 21:06 | #46 |
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This is great news - from initially believing we had found the oldest surviving example we now seem to have the earliest one overall along with the earliest RHD model.
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Thanks for the observations. Could well be as you say, the air bag logo looks like the one on my 2005. If it has been repaired then maybe they thought that they could go the whole hog and put in the sat nav as well. Don´t think it has happened since beeing imported, I´m sure the owner would have said. Probably happened in the UK. Will try and find out the whole history. Cars have history just like anything else. All the incidents go to make up the car as an -individual- so if it has had a prange then it doesn´t distract from the whole. The uninteresting cars are usually the ones with 5 miles on the clock and a life in a museum! I will post up what I can find out Alan |
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Thanks for the pictures Lewis, did any of you buy any bits from them? I just wondered if they are greedy profitiers, or might accept reasonable offers.
Also, were you able to crawl all over the cars there, or like the scrappy near me, do they remove the wanted items and present them to you not allowing you to get near the car? |
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