1985 Restored Red Mk1a MR2 (now with pics)

[Lauren]

When did you get rid of that? Remember you bringing that to the lakes run ages ago

Sold it on in erm, 2006 I think.

@OP, yep, I really like the contrast of red and black and it's very 80's, plus I like the car in it's original incarnation. I bought this after I had two MK1b's.

[craig]

When did you get rid of that? Remember you bringing that to the lakes run ages ago

Sold it on in erm, 2006 I think.

@OP, yep, I really like the contrast of red and black and it's very 80's, plus I like the car in it's original incarnation. I bought this after I had two MK1b's.

looked ripe for a 1.5

[Lauren]

Nah, 4AGE is where it's at. I kept it on original wheels, A539s and tracked it all over the place, including Spa and the 'Ring.

All it had was Koni's and Fensport Springs, Magnex Exhaust, K&N filter and Sparco wheel. I still have the K&N and Sparco wheel on my current car.

[jimi]

Can't see your pics, because the MK1 club site took so long to load I gave up.

Loaded pretty quick for me

Here's a couple of your pics








You've done a fine job, car looks great

[Lauren]

Ooh it was rotten!

Looks like a nice job.

[craig]

Nah, 4AGE is where it's at. I kept it on original wheels, A539s and tracked it all over the place, including Spa and the 'Ring.

All it had was Koni's and Fensport Springs, Magnex Exhaust, K&N filter and Sparco wheel. I still have the K&N and Sparco wheel on my current car.

Agree with everything, but I'd have ripped that 4AGE out and stuck a 3SGTE in there. Now we're talking!!

[craig]

Can't see your pics, because the MK1 club site took so long to load I gave up.

Loaded pretty quick for me

Here's a couple of your pics








You've done a fine job, car looks great

WOW, nice job! That's the worst I've ever seen MK1 arches!

[seankenyon]

Thanks it was left abandoned for 4 years!

Pics Before:







After:

[craig]

That's one hell of a restoration! Well saved

[Lauren]

Great work, Sean, that really was a mess, a lot of people I guess would have broken this.

Well done on saving this one. How was the chassis? Was that rotten too?

[seankenyon]

The interior was mint which meant I could see the potential, there was alot of small aesthetic jobs that needed doing which aren't obvious to the eye.

The chassis was fine but front and rear bumper reinforcement bars were really badly rotten!

resprayed the alloy wheels myself, as well as the black trim pieces, hardest work was cutting away the arches and sills and having to build some areas up with fiberglass, just time consuming, but worth the effort.

Needed a new ECU to pass its MOT because of emissions that was all.

Polished up the original exhaust tips too

[SuperRedMR2]

Where did you get the car from? The number plate looks very, very much like my old 1985 Mk1a!

[seankenyon]

A farm in Warrington, Cheshire.

[SuperRedMR2]

Ahhh cool I've just found an old photo of mine, plate no. C236 GMB

[seankenyon]

Cool forgive my ignorance but what is the significance of GMB?

[SuperRedMR2]

Sorry I couldn't remember what my old one was. Yours is GNB

[kevin..in]

Cool forgive my ignorance but what is the significance of GMB?

the MB in this plate means it was regd. in Manchester/Merseyside
NB is North/Newcastle

[seankenyon]

Wow that's good to know, the reason i don't know it's history is because the previous owner lives in Germany and the documents are in a loft of the house he rents out in Warrington he's never shown any sign of getting them for me when he comes back here, im going to badger him again

[elbon50]

Wow that's good to know, the reason i don't know it's history is because the previous owner lives in Germany and the documents are in a loft of the house he rents out in Warrington he's never shown any sign of getting them for me when he comes back here, im going to badger him again

You could contact DVLA & get the full history of the car Sean

I've done that with several cars in the past

Writing to previous owners rarely produces replies though in my experience

Peter

[seankenyon]

Thanks Peter, what i need most from the previous owner is service history log book and anything that helps me know more about the car I.e. Receipts, not that there is anything to complain about