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deimantukas · Post by **deimantukas** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 11:09 am

Hi!

I m happy to find you again

.Its fine.

martyn · Post by **martyn** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 1:12 pm

Hi Deimantukas, glad I could help you back

Martyn

Timmo · Post by **Timmo** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 4:04 pm

martyn what the hell happened to your car mate??

Gary C · Post by **Gary C** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 4:34 pm

Hope that is the damage the car suffered some time back and not a new knock.

martyn · Post by **martyn** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 6:25 pm

Not to worry boys it's all fixed up now an' looking gooood. I used this old shot just to set the avatar size, I'll change it for a current one as soon as I've cleaned it.
Believe or not but that was a "carpark incident ", daft woman reversing, foot slipped off the brake, floored the accelerator, paniced and froze, must have hit me at about 20 mph and wrote both cars off. I eventually got £700 + 4 week car hire + car back, cost twice that to repair though

....but it looks a lot better than it ever did before.

I bet she didn't have to repair hers

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Cheers

Martyn

MoRtYMer · Post by **MoRtYMer** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 2:29 am

I think i've killed someone if i saw my car like that...

Timmo · Post by **Timmo** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 9:12 am

i htink i would have been alittle 'off my head' had i hads that happen to the car!

martyn · Post by **martyn** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 1:16 pm

the upside was

that it made me have all the little things done that made the car look dowdy. The window surrounds were reblacked, new headlights & fogs, new wiper arms & the front bumper had a missing towing eye cover & splits everywhere as did the rear. I also had the cambelt, waterpump, tensioners & FDV replaced while it was away.
So with the new paint and an all over machine polish quite a few people thought I had replaced it.
I am now proud of it so something positive did came out of it.

Don't think I'll be quite so philosophical if it happens again

Post by **Mike P** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 3:43 pm

Good work there Martyn, nice to see somebody commited enough to restore it back to it's glory

We've seen ones scrapped for a lot less

Mike P.

martyn · Post by **martyn** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 6:34 pm

Thankyou Mike, and all the essential parts and labour where provided by club members

Towing eye cover ........................yourself
Complete Door & wheelbox trim...Gary C
Bumper, indicators & labour.........Thatorangething

Had I not found this club there would have been 1 less 16V in the world

thankyou all

Martyn

P.S got your PM

deimantukas · Post by **deimantukas** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 6:30 am

martyn wrote:Hi Deimantukas, glad I could help you back

Martyn

Thank you,martin.

tim leech · Post by **tim leech** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:15 am

Ouch, min dyou if it looks better now then its worked out ok!

Daniel B · Post by **Daniel B** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 8:38 am

Christ on a bike, fair play Martyn - that car was a total mess, but good job on getting it back on the road, not many people would have taken the time.

Looking forward to seeing the new pics

Dan

martyn · Post by **martyn** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:02 pm

fresh from the car wash

just noticed the nearside bonnet alignment...damm

ed_straker · Post by **ed_straker** » Thu Aug 17, 2006 9:06 pm

WOW

I have an objective...

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