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Jenko_Sport
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   24th Nov 09 at 08:12   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Bought it like this:


Had some fun on track with it like this:


The spent about a year doing this to it:




Going to its final resting place tonite as its going in towards scrapage sceme so my gf can have a new car
FlamingCorsa
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24th Nov 09 at 08:25   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

seems real shame that :-(
lee_dodd
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24th Nov 09 at 08:25   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

such a shame that is a really nice car
chloe16v
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24th Nov 09 at 08:25   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

car over gf any day, whats wrong with you man
Jenko_Sport
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24th Nov 09 at 08:43   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

What i havent told her is im going to build another one, bigger and better.

Got alot more experience from building this one from ground up sonext one will be even better.
Joe-Tait
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24th Nov 09 at 08:49   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Easy on the fibreglass next time
Jenko_Sport
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24th Nov 09 at 08:52   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

quote:
Originally posted by Joe-Tait
Easy on the fibreglass next time


Reason?
Jakey
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24th Nov 09 at 09:45   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Jenko although as you said, onwards and upwards
Chris x
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24th Nov 09 at 10:16   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Get some pics up of whats wrong with it!

Im intrested to see how bad it is as you said you PS the missing bitts on the bodywork!
Daimo B
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24th Nov 09 at 10:38   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

quote:
Originally posted by Jenko_Sport

Reason?


Its a trend growing a slow death, spend more on going faster
Cosmo
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24th Nov 09 at 10:40   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

tbh use a bit more fibreglass next time so the front bumper ends up in line with the sideskirts.
Jenko_Sport
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24th Nov 09 at 10:43   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Ill be getting some pics just before it goes
GF-91
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24th Nov 09 at 10:47   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

quote:
Originally posted by Jenko_Sport
What i havent told her is im going to build another one, bigger and better.

Got alot more experience from building this one from ground up sonext one will be even better.



Yay!
Jenko_Sport
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24th Nov 09 at 12:18   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Just need to find a good shell and somewhere to do it
CorsAsh
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24th Nov 09 at 16:15   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Is it only me that sees that as a waste of time and effort? Everything you've done and all the polluting chemicals to make it, and now just scrapping the car?

Fair enough you probably wouldn't get £2000 if you sold it, still seems bonkers. Especially as new car prices have generally gone up about £2k anyway
SVM 286
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24th Nov 09 at 16:40   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Scrappage scheme is precisely that. A scheme.
All Torque
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24th Nov 09 at 16:56   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

I'll dig up so more pics I have of your car later Jenko, I wanna see Matt's pics too.

Our scrappgae scheme seems to have worked well, not seen many horror stories of minters going to heaven. The American 'Cash for Clunkers' scheme bought a tear to my eye when I researched what people had traded in, such as a 2005 Harley Davidson F-150 for $2,000
SVM 286
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24th Nov 09 at 17:32   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

It's basically a confidence trick though Pete.

Retailers have stuck a couple of grand or thereabouts on the price of any car likely to be eligable, so...

1) you lose your car.

2) You get naff all for it.

3) Potentail future classics are obliterated from existance.

4) UK dealers get to sell more foreign car brands and boost the economies of other countries.

Have a look at the price of a Citroen C1. The last time I checked, they had mystically shot up to over eight grand. The thieving lying wankers.

They were £6,500.00 about two or three years ago before any kind of discount and the quivalent Toyota and Peugeot were no more than seven grand. It's a farce.

What's all this about the Yanks pete? I'm not familiar.
CorsAsh
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24th Nov 09 at 17:39   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Exactly Jim.

There was a Panorama type program about it, apparently dealers "had to increase prices in line with inflation", must have been coincidence that inflation caused a £2000 increase on the price of any eligible SS car.

Hmm, I meant scrappage scheme, not "SS" as in staff cars with flags on.
Matt L
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24th Nov 09 at 17:41   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Pete I havent taken any pics of it for ages last ones i have are in a thread somewhere.
All Torque
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24th Nov 09 at 17:58   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

quote:
Originally posted by SVM 286

What's all this about the Yanks pete? I'm not familiar.


Watch this vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2bwgmyua2g from about 1;00 onwards.

[Edited on 24-11-2009 by All Torque]
Phi
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24th Nov 09 at 18:25   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

i cant believe you scrapped your car for a g/f!!!
mikenoncorsa
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24th Nov 09 at 18:31   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Was she the registered owner of the corsa then? Reason is i know that at vx dealers the registered owner of the scrappage car must be the registered owner of the new car. We got pulled up on our sales audit for this.
Jenko_Sport
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25th Nov 09 at 06:50   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Car needed ALOT of work doing tbh and was time for me to move on from it.

Shell had done about 150k so not realy a low miler either.
Jenko_Sport
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25th Nov 09 at 06:51   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Her new car is in my name until the log book arive and its then being put in her name.

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