The one
that started the obsession: Family owned for a very long time. Came to me in 1986 in shockingly rusty
condition. I bodged
it up and used it as my first car.
It had a very hard life as student transport and then suffered more from
a continuous improvement program – all intended to make it go faster.
Eventually it ended up with a tuned 1500, overdrive, 3.89 diff and Vitesse
brakes, making it quite a rapid little car. During
this time it was used as support vehicle for friends competing in speed
hillclimbs and became know as ‘The Flying Toolbox’, partly as a result of
being loaded with tools but mostly because the tired bodywork rattled
horribly! It was
properly restored in 1990, then painted again soon after as the result as a
small mishap. Actually
still quite a good car but suffering from lack of use. History Restoration
