Here's a situation. Some people know about my purchasing of a white tourer in 2019. Its an 2001 diesel, was originally a club spec and had been bought by a breaker to strip and crush.
Now I got her home after shipping it from England and at one stage the car was in reasonable condition.
Everything is missing, the brakes don't even work, the engine suffers from turbo run away, and i've literally bought this car for the vin number, colour code and its in the £200 a year road tax diesel category like my saloon!
Now im saving up to do a complete rebuild on the car, I aim to do as close to a 100% strip and restore where possible, with the goal to make it not just a great tourer, but superior to anything that would have left MG Rover.
This is something that will be a very long term project, but I want it to be my family car if and when we are lucky to have children. So I also plan to do things like fit isofix brackets, sound deaden the entire vehicle and potentially convert it to diesel automatic with another car.
This will be a massive undertaking and my goal is to have it finished and submit it to be part of the club display at the NEC for 2024. A high standard I know.
So as you can imagine, im always on the look out for panels, parts and such when I was on ebay last weekend and found this........
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Which is now on route to Northern Ireland also! LOL!
Its a 2.0 v6 connie se, thats over heated. As you can see it looks excellent, so its on route to me now. having spoken to the owner at great length he's filled me with confidence about the car.
Now everyones thinking, ah thats a parts car. Well ideally no, i've been looking for a long time at a back up car for ourselves. So hopefully a few simple repairs will save it, a quick MOT and i've gotten a back up car we can use as needed. Additionally I promised that unless its going to cost me silly money I will save this car.
I'm hoping a thermostat and fan change is all it needs, otherwise I will swap another 2.0 into it, as it looks excellent and keep it as is.
Unfortunately this has led me to some pretty big choices about my fleet. Im moving on my track day 1.8t, my 1.8 auto and in the summer my streetwise as with two jobs, studying full time at university as a Psychotherapist and planning a family i've zero time to build and enjoy the cars in the same way, so streamlining the fleet is in order. The 1.8 auto especially is too nice to waste as I saved it from the crusher with the plan to mot and sell to a local enthusiast.
The only two projects I want to have that are "unfinished" by May is my white tourer diesel and my ztt rebuild.
That will leave me 4 Rover 75s and 1 ztt. My lhd auto 75 for our foreign holidays, my white 75 saloon which is purely for going to meets and shows in, my yellow zt-t 190 which will return only when its restored to my standard and not before, and then these two tourers.
So yes, I now own 2 of the 39 old english white tourers. And if all comes to pass in a few years, a matching pair as both will be restored to be identical bar the engine.