A few people already know this car. It's a UK right-hand drive blood orange 1972 2.4T, originally from North Wales (first two owners), then taken down to London by a dealer and sold to the third owner. I am the fourth owner. I joined DDK after buying it in September 2006. It was laid-up in the previous owner's garage with seized brakes, a severely out of tune engine and only 41706 miles on it's clock. The only documentation it had was a load of tax discs, a V5, and an enormous bill from Autofarm for brake and service work carried-out in September 2003. I bought it not knowing what the hell I was doing, but luckily the car was in pretty good shape, minus some rust on the wings and passenger kidney-bowl.
After getting the car home on a transporter, it transpired the seized brakes were the result of a stuck pedal bushing (!), and once replaced and tuned, it ran pretty well. Here it is on a back road in Kent in January 2007:
I enjoy doing work on the car almost as much as I love driving it. Since owning the car car, I have done the following bits:
Fitted new bonnet lifters
Thatcham Cat 1 alarm
Re-finished the Fuchs with Wurths factory-spec paint
Restitched the factory steering wheel
... then subsequently fit a Prototipo
Painted and fitted a black and silver GB badge
Had new Dunlop 60-profile tyres fitted to replace the original 70-profile inner-tubed widowmakers
Fitted a period FM stereo
Replaced a shonky oil tube (thanks Alan)
Fitted posh mats from the US
Refurbed the driver's side door pocket
Tuned the carbs, about a thousand times
Fitted SSI heat exchangers
Fitted oil-fed tensioners
Fitted Spax adjustable front and rear shocks
Executed a ghetto slam
Fitted a new boot liner
Removed the auxiliary enrichment circuit from the Zenith carbs
Had two new front wings and kidney bowl rust removal and repair by Tuthills
Fitted a new rear screen seal
Fitted a new front screen seal
Fitted Pertronix electronic points
Stealthy Sony Ericsson bluetooth handsfree kit
Fitted a 15mm front anti-roll bar (rear to follow, pending arrival of mounting brackets from US)
Fitted Superpro bushes to the front strut mounts, lower arms and ARB. Superpro engine mounts (really nice). Rear trailing arms and ARB bushes to follow when I have time.
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