Ok, I had just sold the Lada Samara to my sister and my Student loan had not come through to buy my ideal car, a Ford Sierra Sapphire. I needed some wheels to fill the gap..
Me and My m8 Ian abz-zero Till went to the Maidstone car auctions to find a CHEAP set of wheels. Lot’s of crud went past with no MOT. I bought a pice of Crud with a fairly long MOT (8 months)..
Somehow I decided to bid on a Nissan Sunny, A reg in RED. The bidding started at £50, and went up dramaticaly with me putting in the final bid at £50… Add sales charges and I was £62.50 lighter!! It ran prety well, and appart from the front and rear valances it was bodily not too bad.
The brakes felt a bit dodgy..
A week or so later the starter motor started to play up. but I had made a half decent job of sorting the valance.
The breaks were BAD! I ended up slewing sideways on the motorway under heavy breaking, and then later the friction surface departed from one of the front pads. new pads were fitted and I tried to repair the rear wheel cylinder that was leaking. That was a bad idea as I lost all pedal preasure during the test run, down a steep hill!! I managed to pump the pedal and make it back to base. A new wheel cylinder was purchased to fix the problem.
The car lasted about 2 months and 1200k.
It was then put in the garage and left ( I was to own 2 cars!! ) Ian put it in the garage for me, but managed to totaly miss seeing the HUGE capstan lathe into which he reversed, smashing the tail light.
The car languished in the garage for a few months before being towed away be and engine rebuilding company..
And she was gone.
I have one crappy picture somwhere which I will find at a later date.