I,ve been into old/classic cars all my life but I was sick of the high costs involved to do them up, I,ve had mini,s beetles,kitcars allsorts of cars but it was just getting too expensive. My brother in law and I heard about a car in a garage from a friend of ours who does house clearences and he asked us if we were interested saying it was just a little red car, thinking it was going to be a mini we went to have a look,when we opened the garage to great suprise it was a 126 biz, (I know I didnt think barn finds exsisted and ive waited 21 years for this) imediately fell in love with it and remembered them from back in the day,but brother wasnt too impressed but I managed to persuade him to buy it for £350 it had been in the garage since 1996. It then sat on his drive for 6 months until he agreed to sell it to me for £350 as he couldnt be arsed with it.
this is were the cheap as chip resto begins, iam a great fan of wheeler dealers and ed china makes it look so easy so here goes
after cleaning the doghair and sand,the mechanics begin
new sparkplugs,ht leads,electronic fuel pump,fuel hose,brake switch,brake servo,1 brake line,total clean and flush of coolant(blocked hose and thermostat)points clean .
spent about £45 part worn tyres £80 she now runs and ready for the mot, passes the mot no problem and makes it on a 300+ mile trip to shelsby walsh for retro rides without a hitch(well bad wine from hub bearings)
Secondhand hubs with bearings £40
Debumpered side plastics,holes filled , there was hardly any rust just a bit around scuttle,so rubbed down again again again, £120 on rattle cans
