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I guess its about time I started a thread, I've been lurking long enough!
My names Ellis I'm 21 I'm from Cardiff, I have a vehicle restoration company.
As you might've guessed my car is a Merc W114. 1971 to be exact!
I bought it about a year ago for the pricey sum of £500 with a full years mot and ££££'s of receipts for work carried out to the car (incidentally the work was carried out by my previous employers)
To date i have spent about £200 on it...
I hadn't seen the car for about two years and he rocks up to the workshop in it, the paint is flat, few rust bubbles, interior a bit worn and running on 5 cylinders.
He tells me he's got no space for it as he's just moved and he wants to sell it as is but he doesn't know whats its worth. Asked us to look over the car to see what it would need.
I didn't even look at the car and made him an offer later that day and the rest is history!
Now ideally the car needed painting! however i wanted to get some use out the car so i just machine polished the paint and brought it back to life.
Then to sort out the running problem, it was a suspected burnt out valve from the noise it was making, but turned out to be a duff spark plug! Lucky me! no head rebuild necessary!
Since then the car has had a few services I've done around 15,000 miles in it, used it as a daily most of the time in all weathers too, she's not a garage queen!
Me and the girlfriend decided to road trip through france and along the south coast in her too, we had a few hiccups along the way but nothing major!
New battery failed at the first services on the auto route and then the top hose blew in St Tropez, and some front tyres was needed! nothing major to report though.
But less talk more pictures!!
The day I Bought it
Roof Bars and steels! (took it upon to the snowboard centre in milton keynes so had a board on top!)
Sat in the grass at volksfest
Bone Stock in the main hall at Cwmbran Cruise show
Broken down at french services... trying to find someone to help jumpstart!
Might have been a bit too much camber...
More France
Valet Parking at the Hotel De Paris in Monaco
They left it out front too! okay not quite the front but it wasn't put round the back!
Found a french mechanic to buy a piece of hose from to replace the split top house!
And I shit you not the guy on the right was italian... there was a welshman, a frenchman and an Italian in a garage...one says to the other...
And then once i got back i did the thing i said i would never do to it.. Modify it.
so thats where we are at!
Okay the wheels are a marmite thing, i wasn't sure at first but they have definitely grown on me!
My names Ellis I'm 21 I'm from Cardiff, I have a vehicle restoration company.
As you might've guessed my car is a Merc W114. 1971 to be exact!
I bought it about a year ago for the pricey sum of £500 with a full years mot and ££££'s of receipts for work carried out to the car (incidentally the work was carried out by my previous employers)
To date i have spent about £200 on it...
I hadn't seen the car for about two years and he rocks up to the workshop in it, the paint is flat, few rust bubbles, interior a bit worn and running on 5 cylinders.
He tells me he's got no space for it as he's just moved and he wants to sell it as is but he doesn't know whats its worth. Asked us to look over the car to see what it would need.
I didn't even look at the car and made him an offer later that day and the rest is history!
Now ideally the car needed painting! however i wanted to get some use out the car so i just machine polished the paint and brought it back to life.
Then to sort out the running problem, it was a suspected burnt out valve from the noise it was making, but turned out to be a duff spark plug! Lucky me! no head rebuild necessary!
Since then the car has had a few services I've done around 15,000 miles in it, used it as a daily most of the time in all weathers too, she's not a garage queen!
Me and the girlfriend decided to road trip through france and along the south coast in her too, we had a few hiccups along the way but nothing major!
New battery failed at the first services on the auto route and then the top hose blew in St Tropez, and some front tyres was needed! nothing major to report though.
But less talk more pictures!!
The day I Bought it
Roof Bars and steels! (took it upon to the snowboard centre in milton keynes so had a board on top!)
Sat in the grass at volksfest
Bone Stock in the main hall at Cwmbran Cruise show
Broken down at french services... trying to find someone to help jumpstart!
Might have been a bit too much camber...
More France
Valet Parking at the Hotel De Paris in Monaco
They left it out front too! okay not quite the front but it wasn't put round the back!
Found a french mechanic to buy a piece of hose from to replace the split top house!
And I shit you not the guy on the right was italian... there was a welshman, a frenchman and an Italian in a garage...one says to the other...
And then once i got back i did the thing i said i would never do to it.. Modify it.
so thats where we are at!
Okay the wheels are a marmite thing, i wasn't sure at first but they have definitely grown on me!
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