The dream is over.
Well, I say ‘dream’, but I mean unholy nightmare of having cars and bits strewn everywhere. And OK, I say over not in the sense of any sort of finality, more of a page-turning en route to The End. But it’s getting closer!
I have a pair of back lights and the rear bumper to take off (easy and may come in handy) and my work here is done. Then I just have to figure out how to lift it up high enough to get the trailer underneath and it goes to Smiths in Bloxham – have promised to take the kids down to see what a scrapyard looks like. I expect them to back out of coming, but you never know with young ladies on school holidays, especially when they know I will go via a favourite coffee shop of mine.
I paid £500 for this 1983 944 Lux from my buddy Geoff, and so far it has cost me zilch bar the fuel to drag it home. The original idea was to rehabilitate it, but with some proper rot in the battery tray, a fuel leak from split lines over the transaxle, crappy paint and a pretty rotten interior due to water ingression, there was no point going there. But I do need a few more bits for the white one, so I broke this, chucked some parts of it on eBay and so far have had the following results:
Engine: £160
Wheels and Tyres: £100
Seats: £60
Front spoiler: £50
Rear undertray/spoiler: £40
I make that £410, less the eBay & Paypal fees is about £375 or so. So was worth doing, and there is more cash to come from the carcass; there is still a good bit of weight in it, and now it is almost totally stripped, so should be worth a bit more than a still-together car as scrap. I have more 944 eBay to list also.
This red car also had a fairly trick immobiliser and power steering, so both those can go into the white car, which should make a really nice job of it. And it has lots of other stuff that will be required, such as a one-small-crack dashboard (black not brown), a recently replaced ECU, the airflow meter, 4 unseized calipers and good rear discs, all with excellent pads, complete front suspension with hubs for the VW boys, front bumper lights and nudge pads, good exhaust, battery and alternator, complete heater matrix, window motors, radiator and other bits and bobs – a garage full of them. I have also disassembled the wiring loom and put all the cable into stock, not to mention topping up my nuts, bolts and screws stockholding with the bits that have come out of this.
Once this is gone, I am bringing the Turbo over for the engine install and whatever else it needs, and then it’s the white car’s turn. And then it’s camper time!
