Danny2009's Metro

[Danny2009]

Thought i would put up a progress thread for anyone interested ?

Plan was find a cheap car to run around in through winter until i get it the derv back on the road.

So i set about trawling through ebay, ad-mag, auto trader, swapz, gumtree basically anywhere i would find a cheap car.

I was on gumtree a week before xmas when i found this.





Poor advertisement but it was local, so i went to view it, the dashboard wasn't bolted in just hanging there the clocks hanging there not being able to see the speed i was going. Lifted the clocks up and it read 54k mot cert and 3 owners seem to back this up.

4 month tax and 10 month mot sold it to me, this and the fact i could flog the seats and harnesses and get my money back. so i parted with £200 and drove it back home.

Next day i bolted the dashboard back together and the clocks secured in and it was driveable.

After a quick wash before the North Xmas meet it didnt look that bad for a 16 year old £200 car.



Few weeks later brimmed the tank all of £30 and drove to bristol never missed a beat covered 550 miles in 4 days.

After remembering how much fun these cars are to drive and how reliable it is this is staying and the derv will be for sale

A friend of a friend had crashed there car and selling all there parts off it. Got some 6000k H4 Hi-Lo beam HID's only a week old £20



Old



New

When i got it i found there was no backbox just a straight pipe so i purchased a cherry bomb.



The jack wouldnt fit under the sill so with help from a curb the jack was under





Old and new



Bread, milk, eggs, flour.



Off comes the shopping list, much cleaner.

Also ive removed the sticker under the rear window the stars off the side and the sticky glue that held badges on the bootlid but got dark so no pictures of this

Currently have a nice OEM spoiler that im prepping and painting ready to go on.

C&C welcome