Cars you have rescued, before and after.
Discussion
I've always enjoyed reading about owners cars and their projects. Thought it might be interesting to see what else is out there. So do you have a project that has taken up countless hours and way more money than it's worth just because it's your thing?
Was it a rusting heap at the bottom of someones garden that you've spent countless years welding back up? Or a chavved up mess that needed bringing back to its former glory?
To keep it fairly simple with 1 or 2 photo's from before and after you got your hands on it, Bit of an explanation would be goo too.
This is my effort
Before:
It had dirty great big stickers down the side, shocking front end repair following an offroad excursion, an anaemic 2.0L engine, dodgy syncros, busted drivers door from someone trying to break into it and about 6 months from the scrapyard/breaker. For some reason I choose it as my project
After:
Put in a 2 year old 3.5 V6, replaced every wearable item in the suspension, front end rebuilt, alcantara retrim and genuinely struggle to think of many things I haven't changed, refurbished, rebuilt or modified. I don't want to think how much I've spent, but it has been worth it (to me)
Look forward to seeing others
Was it a rusting heap at the bottom of someones garden that you've spent countless years welding back up? Or a chavved up mess that needed bringing back to its former glory?
To keep it fairly simple with 1 or 2 photo's from before and after you got your hands on it, Bit of an explanation would be goo too.
This is my effort
Before:
It had dirty great big stickers down the side, shocking front end repair following an offroad excursion, an anaemic 2.0L engine, dodgy syncros, busted drivers door from someone trying to break into it and about 6 months from the scrapyard/breaker. For some reason I choose it as my project
After:
Put in a 2 year old 3.5 V6, replaced every wearable item in the suspension, front end rebuilt, alcantara retrim and genuinely struggle to think of many things I haven't changed, refurbished, rebuilt or modified. I don't want to think how much I've spent, but it has been worth it (to me)
Look forward to seeing others
Edited by Ug_lee on Thursday 29th September 22:20
Edited by Ug_lee on Thursday 29th September 22:22
I bought this old Astra for £250 off an old chap. It was pretty tired & rusty & the old 1.2 lump was smoking pretty bad. I spent the next year restoring it & fitting it with a 220bhp Calibra turbo lump. Sadly sold it on a few months ago but it was such good fun!
Edited by 2thumbs on Thursday 29th September 22:42
My old integra the from the previous owners advert, I'd have never even bothered looking at it if it hadn't had been 10 minutes up the road
and a couple after I'd put it back to standard remove chrome wheels, badges, steering wheel, replace drivers seat bolster. Nothing major and luckily picked up good condition parts at reasonable prices
and a couple after I'd put it back to standard remove chrome wheels, badges, steering wheel, replace drivers seat bolster. Nothing major and luckily picked up good condition parts at reasonable prices
2thumbs said:
I bought this old Astra for £250 off an old chap. It was pretty tired & rusty & the old 1.2 lump was smoking pretty bad. I spent the next year restoring it & fitting it with a 220bhp Calibra turbo lump. Sadly sold it on a few months ago but it was such good fun!
Holy mother. Now that's a fun sleeper.zaphod42 said:
2thumbs said:
I bought this old Astra for £250 off an old chap. It was pretty tired & rusty & the old 1.2 lump was smoking pretty bad. I spent the next year restoring it & fitting it with a 220bhp Calibra turbo lump. Sadly sold it on a few months ago but it was such good fun!
Holy mother. Now that's a fun sleeper.2thumbs said:
I bought this old Astra for £250 off an old chap. It was pretty tired & rusty & the old 1.2 lump was smoking pretty bad. I spent the next year restoring it & fitting it with a 220bhp Calibra turbo lump. Sadly sold it on a few months ago but it was such good fun!
I hope you sold it for a fair price that looks fantastic!Paulm4 said:
Hi Lee!
Should have kept the TRD stickers, stickers add much more power than a v6!
Murf!! Took me a full day to get rid of the bShould have kept the TRD stickers, stickers add much more power than a v6!
ds! As with the Integra and mine it does make the mind boggle that previous owners do that to a car, stand back and think 'yeah, that looks much better'
I love build threads, and love the 'rescued cars', great thread! Thinking of doing a few projects myself in years to come...
Love the work with the v6 MR2,ave read your build thread...
I'm in love with standard dc2's atm, so thats just fantasic. (Thank you for keeping them that way for future owners
)
And that Astra's great, - think i've seen it in the decently modified cars thread at some point iirc.
Keep it coming guys.
Love the work with the v6 MR2,ave read your build thread...
I'm in love with standard dc2's atm, so thats just fantasic. (Thank you for keeping them that way for future owners
)And that Astra's great, - think i've seen it in the decently modified cars thread at some point iirc.
Keep it coming guys.
Not the most amazing resto ever, but I had a hankering for a Corsa B with a 2.0 16V engine in after buying a rotten Calibra for peanuts. Found this example local on eBay and won it cheap:
Black Corsa 1.6 Sport, facelift with (dead) air con. It was tired, you can just see the rusty front of the bonnet, the ride was horrid due to the knackered Koni lowering kit, which resulted in far too much camber. It had a big dent in the rear nearside quarter and horrid lexarse lights. But it had nearly a years MOT and 6 months tax and a brand new exhaust and cat!
After managing to crack the block of the donor engine (engine stand mishap) I decided just to tart the Corsa up a bit.
I managed to push the dent out, fix a few broken and missing bits in the interior, even got the A/C working with a new condensor. Fitted a new set of coilovers, new aerial and wheel bearings and bigger front brakes and fitted a rare set of Mk3 Astra alloys. Then a mate managed to fix the bonnet to a very high standard. The car was a lot of fun and drove superbly. Even took three damn good thrashings round Caslte Combe.
But, last in first out, so it had to go. Made a little profit, and the lady who bought it begged me to keep it for her till she could travel the 100 miles to come get it. She was very pleased with it and I was quite sad to see it go.
Hopefully it's still doing good service now.
Black Corsa 1.6 Sport, facelift with (dead) air con. It was tired, you can just see the rusty front of the bonnet, the ride was horrid due to the knackered Koni lowering kit, which resulted in far too much camber. It had a big dent in the rear nearside quarter and horrid lexarse lights. But it had nearly a years MOT and 6 months tax and a brand new exhaust and cat!
After managing to crack the block of the donor engine (engine stand mishap) I decided just to tart the Corsa up a bit.
I managed to push the dent out, fix a few broken and missing bits in the interior, even got the A/C working with a new condensor. Fitted a new set of coilovers, new aerial and wheel bearings and bigger front brakes and fitted a rare set of Mk3 Astra alloys. Then a mate managed to fix the bonnet to a very high standard. The car was a lot of fun and drove superbly. Even took three damn good thrashings round Caslte Combe.
But, last in first out, so it had to go. Made a little profit, and the lady who bought it begged me to keep it for her till she could travel the 100 miles to come get it. She was very pleased with it and I was quite sad to see it go.
Hopefully it's still doing good service now.
Edited by Astra Dan on Friday 30th September 00:03
Edited by Astra Dan on Friday 30th September 00:05
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