09-11-2014, 03:36 PM
My old phase 1, I only had that just shy of 2 years, It was a great car for about a year, then the horrors started to pop up! The roof was full of bodge, so when that started to fail, I got shot of it. But the horrors didn't end there! Some one bought it and brought it back to sunderland and decided to shove a nasty chav kit on and paint it MG ZR yellow!
I tell you every time I saw that car, I always said I should have scrapped the bastard! Anyway it was past on to a few more owners, I think it got to the point where it had 5 in the spate of a year, also it had another engine dropped in it at about 100k, I bought the car when it was 79k and got shot when it had 84k on, so I didn't clock that many miles on it. One thing I found, it was a very smokey engine at start up. It had been f*cked with pump and boost wise, but it wasn't done properly, as it would take off in reverse! I found that out the hard way when I put the rear quarter into a post!
But I did have a good year with the car mind, the kick off the turbo was pure additive! last time I saw the car was on Ebay, it was going for a 150 quid down wigan so it had moved well out of sunderland and out of the north east.
I think its now a tin of beans as it never sold, and the car looked well tatty. It was in better nick when I had it but it was a state still.
Here is a few photos of it, Procta back in the day you might aswell say.
![[Image: Picture019-1.jpg]](http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c138/pugboy360/Picture019-1.jpg)
the angel eyes, ( A bad upgrade that was)
![[Image: PICTURE028.jpg]](http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c138/pugboy360/PICTURE028.jpg)
![[Image: Picture075.jpg]](http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c138/pugboy360/Picture075.jpg)
![[Image: Picture074.jpg]](http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c138/pugboy360/Picture074.jpg)
That's the only photos I think I have on photo bucket of it, Would I own the car again, from what I know now, then yeah I would. But it would have be repainted a different colour!
I tell you every time I saw that car, I always said I should have scrapped the bastard! Anyway it was past on to a few more owners, I think it got to the point where it had 5 in the spate of a year, also it had another engine dropped in it at about 100k, I bought the car when it was 79k and got shot when it had 84k on, so I didn't clock that many miles on it. One thing I found, it was a very smokey engine at start up. It had been f*cked with pump and boost wise, but it wasn't done properly, as it would take off in reverse! I found that out the hard way when I put the rear quarter into a post!
But I did have a good year with the car mind, the kick off the turbo was pure additive! last time I saw the car was on Ebay, it was going for a 150 quid down wigan so it had moved well out of sunderland and out of the north east.
I think its now a tin of beans as it never sold, and the car looked well tatty. It was in better nick when I had it but it was a state still.
Here is a few photos of it, Procta back in the day you might aswell say.
![[Image: Picture019-1.jpg]](http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c138/pugboy360/Picture019-1.jpg)
the angel eyes, ( A bad upgrade that was)
![[Image: PICTURE028.jpg]](http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c138/pugboy360/PICTURE028.jpg)
![[Image: Picture075.jpg]](http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c138/pugboy360/Picture075.jpg)
![[Image: Picture074.jpg]](http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c138/pugboy360/Picture074.jpg)
That's the only photos I think I have on photo bucket of it, Would I own the car again, from what I know now, then yeah I would. But it would have be repainted a different colour!