Appeal: Anyone fancy a mk2 ranger?

GroovyCarrot · Post by **GroovyCarrot** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 11:35 pm

Get on a train over to birmingham, walk to the scrappy, buy an engine, use my sheer musclepower to singlehandedly carry the engine back onto the train, bribe a few conductors to ignore the mess I'm making of their nice new seats, get off the train this end and once again use my Heman status to carry the engine for the 2 1/2 hour walk to my house from the station...

Or I could just drive over

Sadly though, engine conversions have got to wait until I've cleared..

Insurance
MoT
New windscreen
New alternator
New exhaust mid section
New brakes
New wheels/tyres

Maybe next summer after A2 exams etc.. although, I want enough money left for a road trip round europe at the end of the summer as well...
We'll see

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 11:49 pm

if your carb's fixed you could just get a towbar/trailer hooked up and tow it home

fix whatevers wrong on the rangey with bits off of yours (or do a full scale bits transplant into the white car). sell the remainder as spares/repairs... or parts and a frame.

GroovyCarrot · Post by **GroovyCarrot** » Tue Dec 14, 2004 11:54 pm

I'd be so tempted, but my parents would have none of it.. drive's too full, they don't want yet more bits of volkswagen cluttering up the garden

Plus, I think towing a car with a 19 year old 1 litre hatchback 200 odd miles is pretty much bottom of my list of fun things to do

It's a shame though, I would do that kind of thing but I just don't have the space really..

Gareth_GT_Hatch · Post by **Gareth_GT_Hatch** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 12:29 am

engines arent that heavy. take the gearbox off and plont it in your boot. simple. Why I had a gt engine in the boot of my mk2 just the other day. As long as both of you are able-bodied you could put the engine in the boot just the 2 of ya.

bstardchild · Post by **bstardchild** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 8:02 am

Gareth_GT_Hatch wrote:engines arent that heavy. take the gearbox off and plont it in your boot. simple. Why I had a gt engine in the boot of my mk2 just the other day. As long as both of you are able-bodied you could put the engine in the boot just the 2 of ya.

I seem to recall driving from Norfolk to Manchester - picking up a 1.4 engine and slinging it in a Polo MKIV 1.4 Boot and driving back from Manchester no probs

Cheapest way to get it home IMHO

Gareth_GT_Hatch · Post by **Gareth_GT_Hatch** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 5:55 pm

bstardchild wrote:
Gareth_GT_Hatch wrote:engines arent that heavy. take the gearbox off and plont it in your boot. simple. Why I had a gt engine in the boot of my mk2 just the other day. As long as both of you are able-bodied you could put the engine in the boot just the 2 of ya.
I seem to recall driving from Norfolk to Manchester - picking up a 1.4 engine and slinging it in a Polo MKIV 1.4 Boot and driving back from Manchester no probs

Cheapest way to get it home IMHO

Yes I wonder who you got that off...?

bstardchild · Post by **bstardchild** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 6:13 pm

Gareth_GT_Hatch wrote:Yes I wonder who you got that off...?

I dunno - someone with a real passion for squareback GT's and engine transplants - ring any bells with anyone

Gareth_GT_Hatch · Post by **Gareth_GT_Hatch** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 7:10 pm

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 2:13 am

correction - GC is able bodied and good at ripping things apart

GroovyCarrot · Post by **GroovyCarrot** » Fri Dec 17, 2004 5:08 pm

Nah, no backing out now, you've been volunteered for the dirty work

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 3:56 pm

b*tch

well you'll be pleased to know ive finally rooted their phone number out, at 3.55 on a saturday

what can i say, it was works ball last night, my heads minging

edit: i called them right after putting the keyboard down. no response. guess they shut early saturdays. i've got monday afternoon off work though, to get christmas shopping (what i've already got

)... that and gsf im thinking

genesisGT · Post by **genesisGT** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 9:33 pm

I'll join the squareback appreciation society as well please!

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Tue Dec 21, 2004 1:12 am

Blimey some folk dont hang around do they, and get a bargain out of it to boot.

Started asking the guy about it and he said little other than that it sold - as a complete, running, perfectly good nick car just with a "little scuff" (!!!!) over a front arch.... for Â£250!

gutted! and this was AFTER i'd been to gsf as well (like a tool, forgot to ask guy if he had any more polo aerials about)