Thanks for the welcome guys
I have to say, I'm glad to see that you're all here, first gen knowledge was looking like being the one thing I'd miss about *cough* a certain other rotary site
In fact, believe it or not, there was actually a point when I thought "Bummer, how will I know whether my car's on Dave Nock's FB register?" Since I'm assuming that's you, "codge"? it's happy days haha.
Got a few pics here, I visited the car today. It's currently owned by Jason from Super 7, who bought it from apparently the archetypal little old lady who drove it once a month to church. Always thought that was an urban myth, but apparently it's true. Only in this case she drove it to the hairdressers once a month. Evidently it was her husbands who'd owned it from new, and he was clearly a guy who knew how to look after a car. There's vestiges of waxoyl all over the place. She eventually had to sell it on because she couldn't manage the non-PAS on it. The mileage is genuine, apparently at 55k
What we thought was incipient water seal failure turned out to be a corroded union on the rad hose stopping it from sealing, so that's my kind of easy fix. Pretty much all it needs now is a starter motor and a weld repair to the N/S sill in front of the rear wheel and it's good to go. Hopefully pick it up next week. Anyway, here's some pics for now, albeit not the best
Needs a good clean
It'll be living on the road, so I intend a full "detailing" sesh (God, I hate that word. Used to be called cleaning when I were a lad :grumble), claybar, scratch remover, polish, wax... then smother everything metal in ACT50 cos America hasn't given the world much that's good, but North Atlantic-proof metal preservative is one thing they have
Interior's lovely, and even the upholstery is nice, given how errr,
of their time some of the colourways were
First thing to do in here is stereo. Lovely and original-looking though it is, I threw all my cassettes away last year when we did our loft conversion cos I thought I'd never need them again.
Curses. So a new stereo it is then.
Genuine mileage 8)
Under the bonnet's where it really shows how well this car was looked after. There's still traces of waxoyl everywhere you look, and other than a weep from the beehive (which hopefully won't live here too much longer) everything looks almost showroom new
Exhaust hand-made my a Rolls Royce engineer. Looks utterly fantastic and should outlast the rest of the car. Plus it means all the emissions stuff has already been deleted
Never had one of these before. Used to one number and one letter higher
And the wheels... again, almost a shame to drive on these through winter, never seen a set in this good a nick before
TBH, I'm already having fantasies about Minilites and deep dish offsets. Don't hate me
That's it really, thanks for looking
I certainly know a good find when I see it, and I couldn't believe how good this car was. How the old boy kept it so good through 55k miles I've no idea, he must have been one of "that" generation of gentleman motorist... y'know, the sort who would have bought a Ghia Granny or Cortina if he hadn't bought the RX, cleaned it every Sunday whether it needed it or not, had reciepts for every windscreen wiper he ever bought, etc.
And maybe some wheels... Hmm, and lower it just a bit... and...
