Hello all at club 126
I have recently purchased an air cooled '87 126 who is known on here as Beryl. I don't think it had been on the road for a while, dash was dismantled and the engine ran as lumpy as a sack of potatoes. The rear half of the car was excellent and shiny, but the bonnet had been either over T cut or had just been made patchy by the sun. There was a fair bit of corrosion to passenger front wing which required welding, and I did the battery shelf while about it. The car has now been stripped and rubbed down/filled etc and went to the spray shop (man in a shed) yesterday. The car will return red (on orders of Mrs ).
The car had been fitted with a new starter motor of the cable pull type, but has replaced a turn key one so I have had to disconnect the hot air lever from the vent and put the starter cable to that. I am now scouting around for a small lever/knob assembly for the hot air vent.
The doors were not aligned when I picked it up (7 hour round trip from Bournemouth to Southend) and I have had a look at them but can not quite work out how to line them up, currently they hang down by about 22-25mm on the closing side, any one have advice for putting them right? I have bought new carpets and badges and am on the hunt for some chrome mirrors (the bullet ones that were fitted have rusted through the chrome and you can not use them as they are not visable from inside the car).
I am glad to have joined the fraternity of 126 owners and I suspect will be on here a lot trying to get advice on how to do things right.
Tim