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Another one... 1982 343...

Post by SteveP » 14 Oct 2007 06:14 pm

Just been working on the new 300 I've bought today (m4rtin's old car)... hasn't been driven for a while and needed a new radiator and the tyres were crap. So with some decent 14" tyres I had to put the GLT wheels on really that I bought from Hugh last year...

So the radiator is all in... seems to be running fine, and it'll be MOT time shortly. Here's a few pics ;)

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Post by V6 Man » 14 Oct 2007 06:35 pm

Phase 1 mk2 eh? the best of the 340's.

Shame it's in a 'runny poo' colour.....
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Post by SteveP » 14 Oct 2007 06:37 pm

V6 Man wrote:Shame it's in a 'runny poo' colour.....
What?! Yellow ftw... :D
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Post by classicswede » 14 Oct 2007 06:47 pm

Nice Steve :D Me like

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Post by Ronnie » 14 Oct 2007 07:54 pm

Beautiful Steve - and a hatchback this time!

And I quite like the runny poo colour to be honest :D
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Post by J340GLT » 14 Oct 2007 09:36 pm

So this is long awaited 343, very nice dude.

Like the rims on it, shame the centre caps aren't on it though :lol:

Any future plans for it?

Manage to get rid of the 940?
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Post by SteveP » 14 Oct 2007 09:48 pm

Yeah, I'm respraying the centre caps and putting new badges on them - and they're not finished yet :roll:

Plans so far are to get it back on the road, MOT'd and test out it's reliability, other than that it's most likely to be my daily driver. Got a Mk2 GLT spoiler and GLT front splitter to fit too.

Still using the 940 as my daily driver... 360 downpipe turned out to be faulty (leaking around the 2-1 join/weld - wtf?!), so it needs another one and the supplier is getting another in at the moment.
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Post by sven360 » 14 Oct 2007 09:53 pm

Very nice-wanna sell it?
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Post by trabitom99 » 15 Oct 2007 02:10 pm

Aaaah, a MkII "343", that brings back memories ...

Looks a 1000x better than my old one ever did, that turned from shiny red, to reddish brown, to flaky brown in a very short space of time :cry:

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Post by Ricatron » 15 Oct 2007 09:06 pm

looks good man 8)

love it but i want those wheels :(

we should get the 343's together so good luck with the MOT
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Post by SteveP » 16 Oct 2007 09:43 am

Haha definitely... gotta love yellow 343's :D
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Post by foggyjames » 16 Oct 2007 07:22 pm

Looking veeeery nice there Steve :) I think the colour is great.

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Post by SteveP » 26 Oct 2007 11:23 am

MOT today.... faaaaillledddd....

Some brake pipes corroded, one binding, osr low effort - as expected really from sitting since 2002 :shock:

Will be 343'ing it next Friday :D
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Post by Frits » 26 Oct 2007 11:38 am

You'll get it fixed quick enough :]

Nice car! Looks very good. Its a special colour, but hey, I do have a shitty red one :]


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Post by SteveP » 26 Oct 2007 11:44 am

It's actually really nice to drive other than the obvious brake issues - smooth and quiet suprisingly... seems to be a little perkier after a mild italian tune up and some super unleaded :D
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