Well after searching for a suitable wagon for work for a fair few weeks, I found one which was perfect!!! GV1124 with 120,000km’s, one owner well looked after, etc.
The car was fairly expensive, but I was prepared to pay for the condition it was in. I was about to leave home after agreeing on a price to give her a deposit, then she called me to tell me she wasn’t going to sell it anymore as it was just too good of a car.
Not long after, I saw another one for sale in Sydney. Same colour, same model, same features. For those of you playing along at home, it is a maroon GV1124 estate, with 15” alloys as standard. But at $4000 cheaper than I was going to pay!
I spoke with Striker who owns a 626 turbo and asked him to have a look at the car for me. He mentioned that it needed a few thing such as front and rear bumper and a grill. The interior was pretty good and the car needed a bit of a tidy up.
So I decided that it was worth a flight up to Sydney to purchase the car. I had Jesse come along for the ride. On first inspection of the car, I was fairly impressed with the car. Looking closely at the damaged body bits, it was obvious that it wasn’t going to need any structural repair work. All it needed was the bumper skins and the brackets.
The car drove very nicely on the way home with no real issues besides a poorly fixed exhaust gasket blowing out and the heater controls getting a bit funky with selecting. After helping the selector get into position, it seems to have held up ok.
The car had an alarm fitted, alas very poorly. It would auto arm 30 seconds after start up! There was also some other funky wiring with a household switch to turn the air-con on….. Anyway, I picked up a bumper and grill from an import Telstar nose cut, pulled the headlight brackets back into shape. I chopped out the Ford badge as it looked very dicky. I also pulled out the dodgy alarm and the air-con switch/wiring.
Next up I fixed the exhaust gasket leak, with a new gasket, but it would stay put due to the thread in the manifold being stripped. So again it blew out the side. So the easiest option is for me to get another manifold from the wreckers. Less hassle than a redrill and tap.