. Today it arrived, took a chance and bought it without viewing as it was nearly 200 miles away in Bath but was shown good pictures and had talked to the guy over the phone a few times. When the car got here I knew I'd made the right decision, everywhere seems nice apart from the normal places the rear arches which are only just starting but next to nothing and are better than the TD's. The end of the sills are not too bad either, the worst bits are the bits in between at the back of the door shut, as they could do with some work. The bonnet needs replacing because the inner skin is rotten in a few places.
Well here it is nearly ready to go on daily duties at some point soon:
It needs a drivers side rear light as it's been changed for a facelift one:
And one of the main purchase reasons:
Not much planned for this one, keeping it mostly original especially when compared to the TD, mostly just the radio, a full set of speakers and either a set of 14 steels or cavalier alloys, probably the 14's off of the TD when I get a replacement for the one that cracked as the 13's need new tyres anyway as they were advisories on the MOT that was done early this month along with an oil leak from the rocker cover gasket but I'm sure I've heard that this is common on the carb models?
but it's grill lives on at the front of my TD. I'll post pics on how bad the car was later in also needed a full set of doors as the originals were ruined.
