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So since a couple of months a certain Finn (PUBLIC) has been bothering me with cheap German cars.
Luckily, I always managed to dodge the bullets....then this car popped up 5 minutes from my appartment in Munich.
Shit.
So I went to look at it, asking price was 999?. SADLY, the rear window broke when I looked at it (wasn't me), so I smiled and offered 700?. Bought it for 770? with a set of summer alloys too.
So what are we looking at here?
It's some kind of bathtub on wheels with POP UP HEADLIGHTS!
Yes it's a Miata NA. What did you expect, a BMW? Come on. 85kW, something around 170k km done.
What's the plan?
I bought it, put it on export plates and insured it, Beni will collect it on Monday, drive it home, work a bit on it, give it to the Hobbit for temporary abuse, then fix whatever Loose_Unit broke, drive it through countries not known for stealing cars (Latvia, Poland, Lithuania) to Finnland, where it will go sideways a lot during our Finnmeet and then be sold to Mr. Public.
It needs some work..has dents, sparkplugs and timing belt need doing, roof is cracked, mirror fell off (we have it!)....but all in all not too bad. What really annoyed me is that it was a smokers car...needs new ashtray and venting ASAP!
Images:
First impressions:
a) My legs are too long.
b) which IDIOT put the fuel cap unlock in that spot? I looked like an idiot at the petrol station. Also, how tiny is that tank? I put 20? of fuel in and filled the car up 3/4....I put 110? in my 7-series today...
c) When the owner said "battery might need replacing" he wasn't lying.
[video=youtube;-oQe8NdTAOU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oQe8NdTAOU[/video]
d) This thing is FUN. I can see why people love them. You cannot go slow in this....it's like a little terrier. Engine always screams for more revs, makes really nice noise, gearshift is short as it gets....sadly, I am too tall for this car, can't enjoy it as I sit "suboptimal".
Oh yeah.
Luckily, I always managed to dodge the bullets....then this car popped up 5 minutes from my appartment in Munich.
Shit.
So I went to look at it, asking price was 999?. SADLY, the rear window broke when I looked at it (wasn't me), so I smiled and offered 700?. Bought it for 770? with a set of summer alloys too.
So what are we looking at here?
It's some kind of bathtub on wheels with POP UP HEADLIGHTS!
Yes it's a Miata NA. What did you expect, a BMW? Come on. 85kW, something around 170k km done.
What's the plan?
I bought it, put it on export plates and insured it, Beni will collect it on Monday, drive it home, work a bit on it, give it to the Hobbit for temporary abuse, then fix whatever Loose_Unit broke, drive it through countries not known for stealing cars (Latvia, Poland, Lithuania) to Finnland, where it will go sideways a lot during our Finnmeet and then be sold to Mr. Public.
It needs some work..has dents, sparkplugs and timing belt need doing, roof is cracked, mirror fell off (we have it!)....but all in all not too bad. What really annoyed me is that it was a smokers car...needs new ashtray and venting ASAP!
Images:
First impressions:
a) My legs are too long.
b) which IDIOT put the fuel cap unlock in that spot? I looked like an idiot at the petrol station. Also, how tiny is that tank? I put 20? of fuel in and filled the car up 3/4....I put 110? in my 7-series today...
c) When the owner said "battery might need replacing" he wasn't lying.
[video=youtube;-oQe8NdTAOU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oQe8NdTAOU[/video]
d) This thing is FUN. I can see why people love them. You cannot go slow in this....it's like a little terrier. Engine always screams for more revs, makes really nice noise, gearshift is short as it gets....sadly, I am too tall for this car, can't enjoy it as I sit "suboptimal".
Oh yeah.