So I have been looking for a slightly interesting or different MR2 for a little bit.
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.slightly restricted budget due to the ever devouring GTR, but I was desperate for a bit of
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'top off' action for the summer too.
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I thought I was going to get a Roadster!
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That was the plan.
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Then I looked at Chris's t-bar turbo
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(lovely car) and a gold rev5 turbo up in Bradford
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(clean and straight, but somehow didn't tick my boxes).
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Out of the blue on Friday night as I was pondering, I saw a post in Spotted about a Mica Orange T-Bar for sale on the Classics website.
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One that I just hadn't thought of looking at, so despite trawling ebay and autotrader for weeks I had completely missed this car.
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.
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I rang the guy up immediately and arranged to view the following day.
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On the trip over I was thinking
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'is it really only 65K miles',
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'I bet it's got rust in the usual places, and if it has I am walking away' and I knew from a reg check it was all clear so was not the Cat C I'd spotted last year.
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When I got there, I knew I was going to buy it!
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Mica orange is amazing in sunlight.
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The car was immaculate, one stonechip on the bonnet but otherwise unmarked.
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The sills are complete and unrusted!
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Even the jacking points look unmangled.
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Took it for a drive, well the handbrake is too high, and the brakes were a bit spongey.
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Nothing a service and but of Rogue love won't sort out.
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It's got MOT until February 2013 and tax
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'til August.
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.
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.so now it's mine.
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Unsunny picture, but it's hardly been sunny since I bought it.
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General warning to you all, last time I bought a convertible it rained the whole summer.
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I never thought I'd buy a stock standard Rev5 UK NA.
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.but there it is.
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Obviously I am a colour chick!
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So do I keep it 100% standard or do I do nasty things to it.
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.at the moment I am thinking standard!
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(But maybe a Beams at some point
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