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Hi all,
New to the forums, i recently adopted a barn find maestro! I was looking for a project to help with my mental health and she came up at just the right time and the right location. Shes a bit dirty and has some issues but she runs pretty well (even on 12+ year old petrol) and drove onto thee trailer to get home!.
I grew up in a village called Littleworth just round the corner from the cowley factory and had some of my extended family working in the plant. I remember the demolition of the factory parts on the inside of the ring road and them taking down the car tunnels that went over the bypass, my mum took me just to watch the demolition because i was big into construction and demolition at that age!
One of the earliest cars i remember we had was a red maestro but my dad swapped it for a Mitsubishi turbo galante when the opportunity arose.
Anyway long and short of it is i now have a car that was born up the road from me and is the dame age as me so it seemed like fate!
My first assessment is that she needs a lot of sil work and inner rear arches, she spent some 12 years in a barn before coming to me, some effort has been made by the previous owner already to cut out the rot on the offside rear but its quite extensive.
She needs full replacement of the outer sil and lower part of the inner sil for the full length of the drivers side as well as a new inner arch and fuel fill port and housing. on the nearside the sil.is.good.for.the front half but the rear half is almost completely gone. Theres patches needed on the floor and the spare wheel well needs replacing but all the pillars are solid and the suspension mountings are like factory new.
I plan to make an Instagram profile and some videos of progress for YouTube, mostly so i have a record of what im doing and when but also maybe it can help others if they do the same.
Anyway im glad to join the club, it will be some time until shes as tidy as most other members cars hopefully you are all interested in joining me on the journey!
New to the forums, i recently adopted a barn find maestro! I was looking for a project to help with my mental health and she came up at just the right time and the right location. Shes a bit dirty and has some issues but she runs pretty well (even on 12+ year old petrol) and drove onto thee trailer to get home!.
I grew up in a village called Littleworth just round the corner from the cowley factory and had some of my extended family working in the plant. I remember the demolition of the factory parts on the inside of the ring road and them taking down the car tunnels that went over the bypass, my mum took me just to watch the demolition because i was big into construction and demolition at that age!
One of the earliest cars i remember we had was a red maestro but my dad swapped it for a Mitsubishi turbo galante when the opportunity arose.
Anyway long and short of it is i now have a car that was born up the road from me and is the dame age as me so it seemed like fate!
My first assessment is that she needs a lot of sil work and inner rear arches, she spent some 12 years in a barn before coming to me, some effort has been made by the previous owner already to cut out the rot on the offside rear but its quite extensive.
She needs full replacement of the outer sil and lower part of the inner sil for the full length of the drivers side as well as a new inner arch and fuel fill port and housing. on the nearside the sil.is.good.for.the front half but the rear half is almost completely gone. Theres patches needed on the floor and the spare wheel well needs replacing but all the pillars are solid and the suspension mountings are like factory new.
I plan to make an Instagram profile and some videos of progress for YouTube, mostly so i have a record of what im doing and when but also maybe it can help others if they do the same.
Anyway im glad to join the club, it will be some time until shes as tidy as most other members cars hopefully you are all interested in joining me on the journey!
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