Thought I should start a progress thread for the track car project I picked up Sunday.
What an eventful day it was. After looking around recently for a 106 xsi 1.4 as a track project I finally found one local to me, 18 miles away. I went and viewed the car Saturday and fell in love with it. I knew the gearbox had some problems with it so decided to go away and think about it.
After much thought I decided to go for it, I asked my dad to tow me the 18 miles back home in his civic type r. So Sunday morning at 9 o'clock I was being towed away in the 106 xsi, after about 4 miles I was fed up of being towed so thought I would try my luck at driving it.
I managed to get about 1 mile down the road of grinding and the wheels locked and left me stranded in the road unable to get out of 3rd gear, clutch was stuck too. My dad managed to tow me about 100 yards after freeing the car, was towing me with the clutch down and bang the car locked up on a nasty bend in a national speed limit!
This is when I remembered I was a member of the RAC so got on the phone and a van came out to me within 20 minutes. After him messing about for 10 minutes he came to the conclusion "its knackered mate" so I asked if he could recover me home (14 miles away) he said he would and could only tow me 10 miles and that would cost me £150!!!!!! So I was slightly worried how I was going to get the car back home at this point, until I asked how much he would take to get me back home, his reply "make me an offer?", so I was cheeky and offered £20....................he accepted!!! So that was that I would finally get the car back home!
Anyways enough of my guff, here’s a few pictures I took of the car dumped on the drive:
Think I will need more than this........
Ste
Badgersport 106 XSI 16v (Cams, Polycarbs and bits #383)
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