Alfadog Posted October 15, 2005 Share Posted October 15, 2005 This is my parts car I got about 2 months ago but then went on holiday for a month and stuff. Anyway, got around to taking pics finally. It's a beast and really dodgy, don't be deceived by the pics. It's utterly covered in bondo. I picked this up at about 1am on a Thursday night. I left for Ireland on Friday. So I really didn't have any idea what I paid for until I came home a month later. It's alright, it runs. It's just rusty and uncared for. Not beyond restoration, but you'd have to be pretty dedicated. It was apparently bought by his father in 1979 (2 years since new) and kept in the family all these years. For a car in this condition it's not exactly a selling point as it just shows the family suck at basic car-care rather than bringing forward a sense of trust. Anyway, why did I buy it? Well, scroll and find out Again, don't think the paint looks nice and metallic like Kyteler's and don't think that it doesn't look rusty. It's bad. The front left stainless trim was held on by a lump of BONDO. Real pity about the smashed in rear. The boot trim looks reasonably straight apart from that... that's one part I'd really like. The boot is full of crap. The badges look like they would crumble into a thousand small pieces upon the lightest drizzle of rain. See in the first picture from that lot all the cracked paint, and spray paint down near the bottom? That's all bondo under there I guess. Has the original stylish (cough) steel wheels though. The spot just behind the side glass on the right was no more than a bubble when I first attacked it with a screwdriver. 3 minutes later I decided to stop before I start peeling the side of the car off. The inner skin appears reasonably solid though. All the scratch marks on the bodywork are not from my mad hacking away at the rust hole (which was incidentally not without a strange sense of enjoyment), they are just bad preparation with the bondo. In fact, the hardest part of making that gash was getting through the inch thick layer of bondo. It's the same all along the side gutter. Weird place for a car to rust I would have thought, but perhaps it has just been sitting collecting crap in there for a few years at some stage. Bonnet isn't too bad, reasonably straight, but who knows how much of it is metal. By the way, all that light brown on the bonnet, roof and glass is just dirt. washed on from being under a car cover and being rained on. Onwards!... The interior stinks like petrol. The cause of this I took a picture of and will explain in a moment, but basically after taking these pictures my eyes really sting and are starting to go red. If you hit the seat, it will expel a cloud of dusty smoke that has an odour not dissimilar to my grandma's (rest her soul) closet, except about 50 times as concentrated. When I got the car, there were floor mats (3 of them on each side) and a small collection of shells. Also a rather large collection of beer bottle caps. I have since thrown this all in the bin. The mats made an odd squelching sound when I peeled them off the surprisingly decent condition floors. The dash looks as though it may have been an attempt to model the Grand Canyon. Luckily it has a blue mat to cover it. Yes and the seats you may have noticed... well yes I can now confirm that the seats from a Clown Car do fit the seat rails of a 240K. No but seriously, they're just recovered originals. The seats had 2 seat covers on each. I also took these off and into the bin, as they felt like you were sitting on a stray cat while driving. The bits of broken shell underneath the covers acted as the cat's claws! I have not been so brave as to take the second cover off the rear seat yet, because frankly I am scared. The seal between the side windows has deteriorated and some Einstien decided to seal it with silicone. Or snot maybe. Oh yeah, and it's manual! Haha! That's the reason I bought it. Engine bay shots! Yes under all that dust, mud and oil is a fire breathing monster. Actually the car doesn't run all that badly. It just makes you cry from the fumes. It is bodied KHGC110-015654, which is about 12,000 cars after the other one. Just goes to show what a bit of continuous care can achieve. It's four years newer. I included a picture of the fuel pump just to show the amount of crud in the engine. I'm not sure but I think there may be a stalegtite forming there. Oh and make sure to click on the second last picture - that's the exhaust system there and a clue as to why the text looks blurry right now. Later models have all this pollution control stuff you see including a tube from the exhaust coming back into the inlet. I have a feeling the guy who had the snot idea came up with the idea of disconnecting that. Oh yeah and the radiator... hey, what radiator?? OK that's all for now. It's probably not as bad as I'm making it out to be, but it's pretty f#^*ing bad. I'll be hopefully swapping the transmissions, and then trying to sell it to someone with a better tolerance of petrol fumes than me. If I can't do that for a decent price, I'll part it out (oh boo hoo) and give it to a wreckers. So, anyone collect beer bottle caps? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfadog Posted February 3, 2006 Author Share Posted February 3, 2006 So many bloody changes between the old and new C110's. So many random bits just wont fit. Anyway, new pic. Car is now missing a heap of stuff including but not limited to: All side glass Centre console Headlights & headlight buckets Indicators & repeaters Windscreen wipers Random bits of the dash (steering wheel is no longer secured) Rear seats & seatbelts All badges Glovebox Lower front valence Gearbox, clutch etc. Driveshaft (that's what's on the ground there ha) Plus random bits of metal here and there (hammer-happy friends) I no longer need it, so yuh I don't care. Scrap metal? Friend is thinking about taking the whole thing for his project. He helped me heaps with the manual conversion on my other car so I would just give it to him. Kinda a pity - I reckon there's still about $100 worth of parts I could sell haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfadog Posted May 27, 2006 Author Share Posted May 27, 2006 Car is now GONE!! Will have a few more bits picked/cut off it, then sent to wreckers. 'Tis a sad day... nah, I'm happy the POS is out of the driveway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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