20 years old and still looks cool!
i used to love these so could not resist it! cheap as chips
20 years old and still looks cool!
The Toyota looks nice but what's the motor in the seven? I can count five headers on it
I always liked them. A bit of t-cut and that paint should look really good. Seems to be missing the rear air intake though
V10 
Great little cars, vastly better to drive than it's lardy Mk2 brother. Sadly the tin worm also likes them...
I'd have one in a heartbeat if I had the time and space!
From a mate who has one (a good one at that...) it seems that the first thing to do is replace every suspension bushing. There's apparently a
lot of movement otherwise, which can be "interesting" with a 20 year old mid-engined chassis.
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Originally posted by wacomuk
i used to love these so could not resist it! cheap as chips
20 years old and still looks cool!
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Originally posted by idl1975
From a mate who has one (a good one at that...) it seems that the first thing to do is replace every suspension bushing. There's apparently a lot of movement otherwise, which can be "interesting" with a 20 year old mid-engined chassis.
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Originally posted by MikeRJ
Great little cars, vastly better to drive than it's lardy Mk2 brother. Sadly the tin worm also likes them...
Ummm bushes. I had one of those as my second ever car and I loved it to bits. Sold it for the same price I bought it for 12 months later (£1500) and
it only cost £1700 to insure! and it only cost £600 to pass the MOT, that was only bushes and drop links. I have also had a rev 1 mk2 3sge (rear
suspension geometry was very close to the mk1 (lots of sideways action)) and a rev2 turbo (altered rear geometry (very sticky but boring)) and neither
came close to the pure handling of the mk1. Also when you get into the mk1's its like getting into a little Toyota fighter jet! I loved my mk1
but it started to rot . Mine looked a lot like yours including the sunroof (much better that T bar) looks like its in good nick. What are the rear
arches like? I got the some of those abrasive wheels for the drill and removed all of the paint and corrosion from the face of the wheel and then
polished it up with autosol and a buffing wheel, looked just like the supercharged wheels and tidies the car right up, only cost me about £20 and a
Saturday to do (and no I did it way before Edd China).
Dave
BTW Harris' breakers yard near Portsmouth always have 1 or 2 mk1's in their yard, I got a full magnex stainless exhaust system for mine for £60!.
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Originally posted by hicost blade
it only cost £1700 to insure!
Yeah I know, the stupid things you do when your young. You only live once!!
insurance will be £150 for the year 
41p a day lol
Drivers side rear has some rot in the sill
i cut it out last night
tacked a piece in
The rear quarter is a bit out shape so it got the 1st fill
