So, the car has sat on my dad's driveway for a couple of weeks, but now he wants rid of it. He's going to sell the '666' number plate to some reg. transfer company for me, then the rest of the car gets scrapped.
Before that happens though, I'd like to offer it to anyone on here who fancies saving it one last time from the crusher.It's a 1989 360GLE, 5spd, 5door, silver/grey. Full details and LOADS of pictures in the "Beast up for grabs" and "More of the Beast" posts in this forum. MOT till december, and tax is current but I can't remember when it runs out. It starts, runs and drives fine, but to make it fully road legal you'd need 1 new tyre and to fix the speedo. And a new number plate, obviously! (See DVLA for cost, I have no idea!)
Since the pictures were taken, the aftermarket cruise control, rear 6x9 speakers and snooper radar detector have been removed and are not included with the car. The JVC CD player has been swapped for an Aiwa cassette player. Plastic floor mats and 2 spare wheels are included.
This is a tatty but reasonably solid car which served me well as a daily driver until I left the country. There's plenty of surface rust, but nothing structural and it should be good for a few more years yet. With a small amount of work and the price of new number plate it would be an ideal cheap runner for someone with a bit of mechanical knowledge, or could be broken for spares, made into a cheapo drifter / rally car, banger racer, etc.
If you think you can make use of the car, let me know ASAP before my dad scraps it, and it's yours to drive home! (I haven't worked out how driving it would work if the number plate is sold - I guess you could drive the car home before the number plate is sold, then my dad would post you the V5 forms to make the car yours after he's sold the plate??) It's located about 15 minutes from junction 10 of the M11, just south of Cambridge.
Sorry, but I'm not interested in breaking it myself because I don't want to give my dad any more hassle than he's already had to deal with, and he wants to drive it to the scrappy rather than pay to get it collected. It's all or nothing I'm afraid!
I hope someone can save this car, we have done many miles together and I'm sad to see it go! I'd rather see it given another chance to be a comfortable daily runabout for someone else.
If you're interested, pm me or email me at andytransam@hotmail.com.
Cheers, Andy.
I was using the digital speedo on my "safety" camera detector after the real speedo broke, but I made a mental note of the rough rpm/road speed comparisons. I used to go on 2000 rpm being roughly 10x the gear number, eg. 2000 rpm in 3rd = 30mph, in 4th = 40mph, in 5th = 50 mph. 60 mph was about 2500 rpm, and 70 was 3000 rpm. Not exact speeds, but close enough to slow down to them in case of police sightings.