Fazer Owners Club - Unofficial
General => General => Topic started by: mr grimsdale on 30 September 2011, 02:05:20 pm
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prob been done before but as we now have a "new" forum lets do it again. I`ll start.
My first car was a 1968 Ford Cortina 1600 GT that I bought from a scrap yard two weeks after passing my test, paid £50 for it, put a set of wings on it got it sprayed red with a black roof....all the rage at the time !. :o
Got it MOT`d kept it for about 6 months then sold it to a boy racer for £200 who then decided to wreck it after having it for a month. Was a great car loved it so much I then went and bought a 1600E. :)
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1972 Vauxhall Viva HC, racing green brought for £300 in 1983 1 month after I passed my test.
Ended up being written off when I stuffed it up the rear of an ARC Conbloc 6 wheeler in the M40 Stokenchurch cutting about 5 am one Monday morning when I was on my way to my T.O.PS course in Slough :'(
The Diver of the Conbloc lorry said he felt a bit of a bump,
and my Beautiful Viva looked like somebody had grabbed the front of it and screwed it up like a tissue :'(
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two years ago - vauxhall corsa '98
mum's old car she couldn't get rid of - cat c written off at some point
first car and first experience of getting somewhere and not having to take of an extra skin of motorcycle clothing...
Gave it to my friend for scrap value who gave it to his sister when he realised just how bad it was.... mould growing over the rear seats (him, not me!), no interior fan, had to rev the engine when starting. I called it character, he called it annoying and bought a brand new suzuki swift...
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1973 Austin All Agro 1500 Super.
Wrote it off by reversing into the neighbours daughters MG Midget. All it did to the MG was bent the tin badge on the bonnet!
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Held out till 22 years old before turning to the dark side and passing my car test.
First car was a MK1n blue 78 Cavalier 1600 with vinyl roof ,had a tooth missing off the flywheel so sometimes you had to rock it in gear before it would turn over
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I've never owned a car :D
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My first car was a mk2 ford cortina 1300 in beige. I ran this for 3 years while at the same time I had a yamaha rd250.
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My first car was a 1984 astra estate which my dad bought me in 1995.
His deal breaking selling point to me was 'its just been resparayed beige!!'
Beige? Beige for focs sake, why not respray it a different colour instead, I thought at 18.
Loved it though, I was in a band and it was perfect for getting around.
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Opel Ascona 1.6s in hideous pale blue. B series of course, none of this FWD C rubbish :D
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(http://images.classiccars.co.uk/c/388/270//classifieds/0/e/0e46cbe2554d8ca24f776e4da6f0ba18.jpg)
1972 Triumph 1500 in Blue LLL87K
Must have done all of 70mph :lol
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Mid Sixties MK1 1600 Cortina estate, bought as a non runner for 40 quid in 1978. Cam timing was 180 degrees out (guy had had a go at rebuilding engine) and both halves of the carb needed lapping flat so they would seal together. Wrote it off when the steering broke and it turned right into front garden wall when I used the brakes, happy days.
Spent 45 quid on a late sixties 1700 V4 Ford Corsair, which I sold for 150 about two years later.
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Talbot Samba in appropriate sh1tty brown colour - not all of it was rust - just most of it!
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1969 Austin 1100. Wow :lol
Was British racing green though :oops
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1978 Reliant Robin 850 super, tipped it onto its side at20 MPH, 2 of my mates climbed out through the passengers window and flipped it back onto its wheels, took it home and filled the door pillar with P40 and was back on the road an hour later, got it free off an old uncle, ran it a year and sold it for £500. :rollin
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My first car was a 1949 Vauxhall Wyvern (if anybody remembers the Heartbeat series its the same as the Taxi dopey David drove) what a heap of shite that car was, still i suppose i couldnt complain for £20
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First car was a 1964 Ford Anglia 105 Deluxe in light blue with white stripe. Bought after a vist to the Isle of Wight.
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a 1968 austin 1100, twas 1976 i was 18 cost me £140
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1971 vauxhall victor 2.3, got it of a neighbour fast back then, but body was rotten
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A ford sierra 1300. Kept it for a few years to get the no claims, sold it to a Friend of the family. Then went and got an escort rs turbo :lol
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Hillman minx ........ deluxe :rollin
had been parked in a farmers field for a few years, i got it for a bit of work on his farm at 17. used it for a couple months then decided to stick with bikes till i was in me 20's when i finally passed my test and got a Mk 1 1600 escort, ex rally car. was awesome.
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H reg hillman minx 1500cc of sheer hell, seized & been standing 18 months at the back of my uncles .Bought it off him for £50 unseized it ,got it through an mot 17 years old... downhill....off the clock......blew it up.......end of.
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1967 Singer Vogue bought from a chef at the Albany hotel Glasgow I only met the guy the once but remember his name was Keith Luck (Kluck to his mates!)
Bought it in 1980 while also being the owner of a CB250T both were considered outmoded...both were quicker than the unitiated may think
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brown austin allegro 1750 HL with a full length windey vinyl sunroof :lol it used more oil than petrol. it rotted so badly underneath that the drivers seat went through the floor one day when i sat in it. my uncle managed to bodge it with some steel plate from work. when i eventually scrapped it for £20 i bought a brown datsun 120Y. a little belter it was too!
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X reg Corsa 1.2. Was brand new as they had a decent finance package and the first years insurance was free. Sold it after 7 months as I'd gone from young free and single to married with children and needed something a bit more family friendly :)
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Rielly Kestrel 1300--all rosewood veneer on the inside and boy could it shift.
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1984 Vauxhall Cavalier 1.6 as a back up to my then commuting tool of a Honda CB250 Super(wet)dream
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1991 1.6 metallic blue Ford Escort, was a Ghia so had leccy windows and a large dent covered in primer on the front wing. Got it free when my old man got a new car, insurance was over a grand but still worked out cheaper than buying and insuring a 1 litre Clio/Punto/106 like my mates had. Had to scrap it when I went to uni cos I couldn't afford to run or insure it and the repairs would have cost more than I'd have got selling.
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Maroon MkII Cortina 1300; this was in 1974 eeek then I jacked it up 'til the headlights only lit up the floor under the bumper... what a pile of shit. HTM991F where are you now? Probably recycled as a coke can and all the better for it........................................
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K reg blue mini clubman estate, the one with the 4 inch wide wooden strips down the side!
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A white Austin Allegro........with the square steering wheel!! :o
I'm sure one day it even reached 80 mph (downhill with the wind behind it)
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XR3i 8)
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An Orange 1978 Opel Kadett 1.2
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A silver A reg Vauxhall Nova, cost me £40.
Comedy gold, dubbed her the Mystery Machine as it was a mystery how she kept running.
Fuel filler had a huge crack running down it so couldn't have the tank more than half full or fue pished out every time I went rounf right handers.
Front shock spring cracked, rear panels more rust and filler than anything else, cut out every now and then due to a dodg fuel feed...
Man, I LOVED that car.
:D
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Is it just me or have most of us had shitty cars in crap colours?
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Is it just me or have most of us had shitty cars in crap colours?
Let me put it this way.
It's not just you! :lol :lol :lol
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1973 1300 m1 escort
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1965 Austin Minivan DEX 174C with wide wheels,big-bore exhaust, twin spot & fog lamps in grille, all held together with lashings of rust under the blue paintwork and black roof. This was the dry sprung model not hydrolastic and drove like a go kart. Paid my mate Steve £100 @ £10 a month. Steve passed his bike test before me in 1966 and had a Villiers powered Norman 197cc two-stroke single. I was riding a Lambretta TV175 with polished ports , Ancilloti exhaust, and I could usually beat him from a standing start although eventually he could pip me on top speed. Although slow by modern standards I seem to remember we overtook a lot of cagers. Cars began to get better(quicker) with the crossflow engine Fords. Steves brother had a Janspeed conversion Morris Minor convertible with twin SU carbed 1275 tuned engine. Looked shabby but it shifted! Petrol was 6 bob a gallon in 1965 (30p in modern jargon) Happy days!
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1983 Y Reg Volvo 340 GL 3 dr in Baby Blue. My folks couldn't see past Volvo's at the time & were mega safety conscious.
It's was immaculate to be fair. At least when I got hold of it
It died an undignified death heading thru a hedge backwards, before smashing into a tree.
I did buy a scrap 340 & kinda rebuilt it, but it was never the same.
Sold it & bought an XR2. That was truly awful!
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Fuel filler had a huge crack running down it so couldn't have the tank more than half full or fue pished out every time I went rounf right handers.
Front shock spring cracked, rear panels more rust and filler than anything else, cut out every now and then due to a dodg fuel feed...
Man, I LOVED that car.
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Sounds a bit like your last bike :rollin
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1980 Mini 1275GT, in black and rust, bought for £750 and sold for £750 a couple of years later. Great little fun car, replaced with a 1984 Jaguar XJS 5.3 V12.......
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Sounds a bit like your last bike :rollin
:rollin :rollin
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1978 Reliant Robin 850 super, tipped it onto its side at20 MPH, 2 of my mates climbed out through the passengers window and flipped it back onto its wheels, took it home and filled the door pillar with P40 and was back on the road an hour later, got it free off an old uncle, ran it a year and sold it for £500. :rollin
Mine was a Regal saloon, early 70's and I made it outta 3 scrap Regals, one with a good engine, one with a solid chassis and the other with half decent bodywork, Jeez, my Mum hated me and Dad fixing that up, what a mess, but it got me going. Well, other peaople did actually 'cos it always needed pushing to get fired up :lol Slept in it too overnight at Oulton Transatlantic Races with three mates, we we're a lot smaller then, but even so I ended up just lying underneath the drivers sill 'cos the glove compartment was already full of someone elses feet. :lol Wot a grin, great car on two or three wheels and real fun in the snow, always had to make my own tracks. :rollin
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A 1982 Caprice 2.0S, black with white go faster stripe, recaro seats and alloy wheels. Paid 1175 cash. It was later stolen from Nottingham City Hospital where I worked. When it was found it had no seats and odd wheels!
Anne
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What car? Never owned one! :)
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Showing my young age here,
A white 1993 renault clio 1.2. I was great until i grew up and part exchanged it for a Audi coupe quattro 20v. that was better. :D
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1984 Ford Capri in british racing green. Twin headlight one like bodie and doyle's in the professionals :D
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S reg' Morris Marina coupe 1.3 Racing green when I bought it for £350.00 in 1988. Me & a mate sprayed it satin black one Sunday afternoon for something to do. Sprayed the dash & head lining too so had to drive with windows open for a few days until the fumes cleared. Had I kept it to this day it might just about be worth what I paid for it by now? :rolleyes :lol
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D Reg Ford Sierra 1600L In black, it was 8 years old when I got it. Was given it, sold it to a mate for £200 a year later and he donated it to another mate a year after that. It died an honourable death as a banger racer!
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Back in the mists of time I remember it as being a white Austin 1100.
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paid £50 for an old Xreg terracota red (brick brown lol) MkI 950cc Fiesta
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E reg Mark 2 Cortina 1500 GT.
What a piece of junk, couldn't trust it to the end of the road, let alone work and back, still it did have all those dials on the dash.
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89 Ford Escort. Got it new. Didn't know any better at the time.
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1954 Wolsley 4/44 £15.00 from Rock Ferry car auctions in 1968.
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1947 Austin 8 bought it for £20.00 in 1963 but it smoked like a good ' ern. and was the first engine that I completely rebuilt, striped it and sent away the block for a rebore with new pistons and the crank for a regrind, when rebuilt I sprayed it gold like the Austin gold seal recon engines that were available for the sixty's BMC cars of thouse days.It looked a treat and could out accelerate a basic Mini in first and second gear. :lol
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A red Renault 5 which was a bag of nails, clutch was on the way out so sold it to a women who lived over the road. ( i then moved house)
recently started working with the lady by coincidence....she wasn't too happy when she found out it was me who sold her the car :lol
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Mine was a 1980 Volkswagen Passat in "frog green" as I liked to call it.
Very similar to this one:
(http://www.histomobile.com/histomob/internet/73/359401.jpg)
It featured a sensational 55 horsepowers that was with replacement engine for the original 85hp engine. The gearbox was still original so you can figure the acceleration it produced ;-)
I spray painted a huge Red Hot Chili Peppers logo on the hood. This car was my pride and joy. Spent a lot of time in it, even only listening to music. *sigh*
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1983 - Y reg VW Polo 1 litre, black. I put a new stereo and parcel shelf mounted speakers in her and wired up a CB radio with an aerial attached to the roof gutter.
We did many miles together visting friends at various Unis and some travel for work plus traveling around away for football, it was the start of my freedom.
I live in Kent and we went to Cornwall, York, Lake district, Derby, Peak District, Manchester, Ipswich, Leeds, Silverstone for the British GP....
I remember almost getting stuck up Wrynose and Pass in the Lake District one february when I decided to pull over and admire the view. The hand brake hardly held and when I got back to start the car all the petrol had gone south and as darkness was starting to fall, along with the snow my car just about coughed and splutterd into life after several minutes of trying. 8)
Happy memories :-)
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Biggest majority of us on here going by the age of some of the cars must be over the 40 mark ! :eek
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A 1977 Duck egg blue Ford Escort mk2 1.1 pop plus with a 1.3 cross flow engine in it. Pretty reliable. Parents bought it for me, ran it for a couple of years then changed to a 1983 Nissan Stanza!
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Biggest majority of us on here going by the age of some of the cars must be over the 40 mark ! :eek
Yes. So? Any problem with that? (http://l.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/23.gif)
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mine was a Renault 5 Gordini! loved it did all the work to it myself
woke up one morning in '88 to it missing reported it to the law who took me to a bit of waste land where fire brigade were hosing down 4 motors! mine was one of them along with 2 x mk 2 escorts and a chevette! GUTTED
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First car was a Peugeot 106 (1996) 1.5 Diesel in Red - it had no power what so ever but the mileage was great! Sold now and was replaced with a Volkswagen Golf Mark II (1991) 1.8 GTI (8v) in Oak Green
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Beige Rover 2000TC, I can even remeber the registration number OAF435M
No comments about the "Oaf" please.....
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Mk1 escort 1100, totally rotten so chopped it up and put the engine and gearbox in a mk1 estate that I got for £30, didn't have engine but it had 6 months mot left on it :) , went on to pass another one too :eek eventually rebuilt a 2 door mk1 saloon and dropped a 1700 x flow in it, went like feck!
Went through loads of other heaps of junk in a series of swaps and cheap deals till finally got round to passing a bike test, even owned anal aggro estate with automatic gearbox once :o , it was the biggest heap of crap ever invented, I got conned into owning it by selling a set of electric windows for £50 only find out it was £50 and the car he was offering, still managed to sell it for good money though :) .
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Wot - no jap scrap. Mine was a 75 (or thereabouts) Datsun SSS. Think it was called a bluebird here.
Sort of like this but much more rusted.
(http://www.hobbylink.com.au/shop/images/99%200001607.JPG)
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Bit like this one
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Biggest majority of us on here going by the age of some of the cars must be over the 40 mark ! :eek
Try well over the sixty mark :'( :pc
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Mine was a 948cc Triump Herald Coupe, not a spelling mistake, but it was mising a small chrome H on the boot. :D
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Mine was a Triumph Vitesse 2 Litre which was a fast car for a 17 year old until i decided to take the back wheel off and the jack went staight through the Diff which was rotten,
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Why ?
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Bunch of old buggers on here then :D . '69 Mini 850, that did about 10 mpg, was rotten as anything and often wouldn't stop! but it was all mine :)
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1962 Austin minivan. green, go faster stripes, straight through exhaust and a mattress in the back. Ah those were the days :D . Just out of interest, my first memory of buying petrol was at 4/6 a gallon for my Triumph tiger cub :rollin
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Biggest majority of us on here going by the age of some of the cars must be over the 40 mark ! :eek
Try well over the sixty mark :'( :pc
You dont count............. :lol
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A Bond Bug. :lol
Well, I could drive it on my bike licence!
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MkII Escort estate, *read as 'in a state* :lol I paid £235 for it in 1990 and I loved it.
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No edit button again I see. Grrrr.
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That's not the actual one, I shared it with my Mum.
Dreadful thing. I spent every other weekend filling in the holes in it. Then I pranged it against a gate post damaging the drivers side wing badly. I drilled a hole in the side, got some wood in behind and pulled. Out it came, but when I looked under the bonnet the bulkhead seam had split as well. I, umm, just threw some more shit from the bulk buy tin of fibreglass I had.
I then eventually tried to kill it. I never changed gear till it revved out, but it just kept going, gutless but bullet proof 850cc engine. Top speed just over 60mph. Could get stuck on steep junctions with three passengers and caused tail backs on long hills.
It might have been dog slow but you could scare the shits out of folks with it. Super soggy suspension, fly down farm tracks or just stick it up on two wheels going round roundabouts.
I did see one that had been in a bad accident, it was spread all over the place. Scary.
But no the first car that was all mine, apart from buying it, was an Opel Rekord 2.0S. My Dad gave it to me, it probably had well over 120,000 miles on the clock (the speedo didn't work for a while), it was worthless but it went. I loved it, abused it and ran it into the ground. It was totally focced by time I scrapped it.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jk1971/4373773676/" title="Opel Rekord E 2.0S by jenskramer, on Flickr
Then I bought my Dad's old 1983 Cavalier SRi. I wish I hadn't. He been trying to run it on unleaded. And my Dad's never wrong. No it was him that burn't out the inlet valves it was me thrashing it. Aye right. So I learned how to get the head off and fix it. Then I learned about stretch bolts and did it all again. Then I leaned never to neglect cam belt changes, away we went again. I was tempted to stick that head on with wing nuts and carry a spare gasket in the boot. Anyway I wrecked that too eventually.
Since I've had a 1992 Cavalier SRi, scrapped that, and now on a VW Bora 2.0S
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Foccing no edit button :groan
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