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vantastic

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Saturday 3rd April 2010
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Just for those who dont do the alfa forums (tut tut)

Minty as its called will be back on the road this year time and money pending then a trip to Italy in June for the 100th year


Few shots

Its falling apart :lol:


quick spin round the block


tapes gone and proper lights


found this under the seat





Edited by vantastic on Saturday 3rd April 22:40

MarkwG

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210 months

Sunday 4th April 2010
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Nice one! Is it staying Clarkson Green?

vantastic

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Sunday 4th April 2010
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Will stay green complete with dents lol

Menguin

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Wednesday 7th April 2010
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Am I the only one thinking



hehe

The Riddler

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218 months

Wednesday 7th April 2010
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"You'd better set to work with the polish."

Shouldn't that be get? confused


MarkwG

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Wednesday 7th April 2010
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The Riddler said:
"You'd better set to work with the polish."
Shouldn't that be get? confused
Either get or set would be appropriate - set seems a little odd, perhaps, as it's already used earlier in the sentence.

S3_Graham

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220 months

Thursday 8th April 2010
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has it needed much to get it up and running again??

vantastic

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Saturday 10th April 2010
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S3_Graham said:
has it needed much to get it up and running again??
Engine is fine and still drives but gearbox will need sorting also some welding on the jacking points, had all the front end off yesterday and fixed all the brackets.

Its been shunted back abit causing the wheels to rub if you try to turn in anyway

how it was





as you can see its moved down and back.... was abit of a pain to get off due to all brackets bent snapped and rusty

here you can see the hole on the wing were the bolt has been ripped out and the 2 bent front mounts (one with the snapped mount off the bumper)



O/S seems to have taken the hit harder as bracket has bent and come out of its sleeve



after some work its back in shape



Had to do abit of work on the headlight mounts as the O/S light was about 15mm out which ment the grill would not fit
so after some more fine hammering it all went back together again and quite pleased..... its solid and almost straight but its hard to fix things without it looking to fixed :lol:




k-ink

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Monday 12th April 2010
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Why? Just crush it FFS.

vantastic

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Tuesday 13th April 2010
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k-ink said:
Why? Just crush it FFS.
lol ..... why? its a 75, its a alfa

trickywoo

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251 months

Tuesday 13th April 2010
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Guy Ritchie


OP

vantastic

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Thursday 15th April 2010
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rofl normaly get Location location bloke

vantastic

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Thursday 15th April 2010
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k-ink said:
Why? Just crush it FFS.
You want to crush a Alfa..... why! and this is a well known car it has to be saved I think

The Riddler

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218 months

Thursday 15th April 2010
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vantastic said:
k-ink said:
Why? Just crush it FFS.
You want to crush a Alfa..... why! and this is a well known car it has to be saved I think
I think its cool, it needs to be saved!

Look forward to the progress.

k-ink

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Thursday 15th April 2010
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It's an abused dog. Put it down hehe

vantastic

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Thursday 15th April 2010
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k-ink said:
It's an abused dog. Put it down hehe
It starts and drives and will be saved.... make take a while

HereBeMonsters

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Friday 16th April 2010
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trickywoo said:

Guy Ritchie


OP

vantastic

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Saturday 17th April 2010
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laugh


I do have a nice one to drive as well





Edited by vantastic on Saturday 17th April 22:43

smack

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212 months

Saturday 17th April 2010
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Where did you buy it from?

S3_Graham

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220 months

Monday 19th April 2010
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smack said:
Where did you buy it from?
an airfield in surrey... dunsfold perhaps? From some tall, balding bloke and his 2 floppy haired mates.