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Got a little crazy and Sold this nice solid 1302 which had been in the same family since new. Not my own family, but a car with a good history!
Realized after a while, that I missed getting my hands dirty messing around with some old car again.
Found this abandoned 1973 1300 cc. 1303 project and couldn’t resit the temptation.
The car has had a fair amount of work done to it, not everything up to my standard. The PO had disguised some bad welding jobs with filler and seamsealer and some of the mechanically work is done with a paint job.
Nevertheless I got the car for a fair price and not everything was that bad. Most of the front of the car, bulkhead and forward, are new panels..
The last 10 weeks I have been removing filler and seamsealer. Has corrected the worst fuckups and done some of the remaining welding jobs. More details in the following posts.
Where is this going to end?
At the moment I am thinking a GSR theme, like the one below, with a sporty ride and a lightly upgraded engine. Not heavily tuned, but maybe 1776 cc with a stock carburettor and a homebuilt / modified exhaust system.
Or maybe a German look light.
BUT.
All this can change along the way!
I don´t have an immense amount of money, therefore the resto will have some limitations, and my first priority is therefore a solid mechanically running car, which I have started collecting parts for.
Progress will bee as fronds allowing it ...
For now I got all new bushings for the wheel suspension and I got a nice set of Bilstein dampers for the back at my birthday.
Realized after a while, that I missed getting my hands dirty messing around with some old car again.
Found this abandoned 1973 1300 cc. 1303 project and couldn’t resit the temptation.
The car has had a fair amount of work done to it, not everything up to my standard. The PO had disguised some bad welding jobs with filler and seamsealer and some of the mechanically work is done with a paint job.
Nevertheless I got the car for a fair price and not everything was that bad. Most of the front of the car, bulkhead and forward, are new panels..
The last 10 weeks I have been removing filler and seamsealer. Has corrected the worst fuckups and done some of the remaining welding jobs. More details in the following posts.
Where is this going to end?
At the moment I am thinking a GSR theme, like the one below, with a sporty ride and a lightly upgraded engine. Not heavily tuned, but maybe 1776 cc with a stock carburettor and a homebuilt / modified exhaust system.
Or maybe a German look light.
BUT.
All this can change along the way!
I don´t have an immense amount of money, therefore the resto will have some limitations, and my first priority is therefore a solid mechanically running car, which I have started collecting parts for.
Progress will bee as fronds allowing it ...
For now I got all new bushings for the wheel suspension and I got a nice set of Bilstein dampers for the back at my birthday.
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