Areet folks? Haven't posted in a while, been hyper busy with day to day rubbish.

A while back when my daily metro expired (bought as a stopgap while I tracked down parts for my lovely 30k Vario), I thought "bollix to this, I'm sticking to 340s".
So it was onto ebay and shock horror, there was one about 10 miles away. Off I went for a look, and it was rough, really rough. But I bought it anyway because it had a year's MOT (blind/bribed/pikey tester) so I thought I could just run it until that ran out. Sorry about the low quality pictures, cameraphone and various challenging light conditions.

So I did, until a spring cup failed:


Then as soon as I'd swapped a strut in, the other side went, and after inspecting it some of the subframe metal was paper thin. I just stripped the bugger, here are some shots that you may find distressing (if you're distressed by rust).






Arches:






Winscreen surround:







Holes (some with things through them):


Where's the other end?

Here it is:





Then I wanted the transaxle out, last time I did this it was a massive pain due to restricted space. I had a cuppa and a solution hit me:







I've got a lot of spare parts now, this bugger donated its passenger side window and whole lock set when some lovely person took my CD player:




Anyhow I weighed it in for nearly £100 and with all the spares I think I've come out on top.

Holy s**** that thing has some extra ventilation holes

I wonder how that thing has passed MOT, your guesses are probably more than correct on that one, incredible

Even with Finland-standards in amount of rust, that is a lot of rust.

How on earth did that get 12 months

I reckon a lot of people here would like to know who test it so they can use them

Fuse wrote:Even with Finland-standards in amount of rust, that is a lot of rust.

Agreed. That is probably the most rusted car which i have seen which still has mot...

Is the reg number of that red car YRH or YRM???

I have never seen a 300 quite so rotten - pretty bloody awful! It's not even *that* old imo!

That should never have got an MOT!!

I think VOSA would be very interested in those pictures and the test stations details ,


that would be enough to get any teater struck off

redline wrote:
that would be enough to get any teater struck off

Was that an intentional smelling pistake?

I only ask because the guy that gave that car an MOT is obviously a [three letter word for mammary glands]

Thank you ,yes its an abbreaviation for

teatastingtwattyteeteringtitheadedtester

which sums the guy up pretty well

Tourinki wrote: Agreed. That is probably the most rusted car which i have seen which still has mot...

Did you see pics of one Japanese car in Finland that got mot, even car's structure below was so rusted that one could easily make holes about everywhere ?

I don't remember details, but I think it was going into court and mot station was drawn into it too as well as car seller

jtbo wrote:

Tourinki wrote: Agreed. That is probably the most rusted car which i have seen which still has mot...

Did you see pics of one Japanese car in Finland that got mot, even car's structure below was so rusted that one could easily make holes about everywhere ?

I don't remember details, but I think it was going into court and mot station was drawn into it too as well as car seller

I'm not sure. If it was long ago i have been too young to remember it.

retrocool73 wrote:Is the reg number of that red car YRH or YRM???

YRH, why do you ask?

OMG Frightening pictures.

What did the previous owner do to it to get it that rusty? Rub it in salt every evening?

Tom

Clearly a blind tester! I didn't realise they rotted quite like that! And I thought by AE86 rotted!