will try make the story as short as i can, was looking on ebay at cars like normal and ame across damaged clio 197, borther has tweeked 172 so quite liked the 197 after seeing them on a renault day at olton park!
so anyway few phone calls latter and i bought the car without seeing it, bit silly maybe but hey was impulse buy! latter that week i went to pick the car up, on route bought a door of a clio 200 for £80!
got the car, was in beta condition than i expected, but didnt start and side air bag had gone off:-( which they did not say in advert or on phone! they agreed to sourse me a seat air bag but came back with car a non starter!
here are pics when i got it home!
that was 3 weeks ago now! spend around 1k repairing that includes, genuine seat cover, abs module, new badges for door and sill, new rear 1/4 panel( expencive) and few other bits and pieces! i have done all the work myself!
and this is how it looks now........
http://www.corsasport.co.uk/carimages/1094/clio197_004.jpg[/img
[img]http://www.corsasport.co.uk/carimages/1094/clio197_006.jpg
picking up cut splitter in next few days and coilovers are on order with spacers to follow!
really pleased with it and its just gonna be a nice practical normal car!
being generally a vauxhall man my other toys are :-
290hp vx220 with is pretty heavly modified, these pics were from just after i painted it, got compos on it now and 888's coming!
other toy is the van
had this on one track day and did well, its running mk5 astra vxr engine with 6 speed box and all totally stripped so weight is down to 1200kg! power wise its just again around 290 now its had 3inch exhuast on it
looks like a good site, just thought i would say hi and share they little collection, hehe
so anyway few phone calls latter and i bought the car without seeing it, bit silly maybe but hey was impulse buy! latter that week i went to pick the car up, on route bought a door of a clio 200 for £80!
got the car, was in beta condition than i expected, but didnt start and side air bag had gone off:-( which they did not say in advert or on phone! they agreed to sourse me a seat air bag but came back with car a non starter!
here are pics when i got it home!
that was 3 weeks ago now! spend around 1k repairing that includes, genuine seat cover, abs module, new badges for door and sill, new rear 1/4 panel( expencive) and few other bits and pieces! i have done all the work myself!
and this is how it looks now........
http://www.corsasport.co.uk/carimages/1094/clio197_004.jpg[/img
[img]http://www.corsasport.co.uk/carimages/1094/clio197_006.jpg
picking up cut splitter in next few days and coilovers are on order with spacers to follow!
really pleased with it and its just gonna be a nice practical normal car!
being generally a vauxhall man my other toys are :-
290hp vx220 with is pretty heavly modified, these pics were from just after i painted it, got compos on it now and 888's coming!
other toy is the van
had this on one track day and did well, its running mk5 astra vxr engine with 6 speed box and all totally stripped so weight is down to 1200kg! power wise its just again around 290 now its had 3inch exhuast on it
looks like a good site, just thought i would say hi and share they little collection, hehe
