A certain chap who's car i happen to be in the possession of found a little something that i could be interested in, brought it to my attention, a little deal was done and.........
I ended up dragging this out of a disused garage where it has been in slumber for the last 6 years!
A 1971 2000 TC
Granted a little rough but complete. The brakes were seized on and I have had to smash out the ignition barrel due to the barrel seizing up but I got the old barrel out and wedged a socket in to stop it coming back on whilst being dragged home and the brakes freed them selves off after a bit of persuasion
So homeward bound
So with the car home it was time to find out exactly what was stopping it from running, turned out that the motor was seized :sad:
So out with the trusty WD40 and put it straight down the bores and left it for a couple of hours and also some fresh oit in the top just incase, By this point my mate Phil had arrived, we scratched our heads drank some tea and finally decided that we really should see if we could get it to at least turn over, so with a bit of rocking the car some more tea, some swearing some more tea we had a slight movement on the bottom pulley! Phil then decided that if we tried it in 4th gear we should get a better result so we did and.........., IT WORKED!!! now with the engine free the starter wasn't engaging, so with a bloody big technical screwdriver a slight adjustment was made (thanks Jim) and voila now the car turns on (whats left of) the key
BUT it turns out that it has a catastrophic fuel leak on one of the carbs so content with the progress we moved onto other matters
If your looks like a piece of shit
If your children run away and scream at the sight of it
If your neighbors are embarrassed that its near their house
Simply call dial a Ginger!!
NICE!
I wont be doing toooooooo much to this just yet mainly because Jim's car is controlling my life at the moment and I HAVE to finish my other car (its been 12 mths since i started it ) But rest assured it will get done
I ended up dragging this out of a disused garage where it has been in slumber for the last 6 years!
A 1971 2000 TC
Granted a little rough but complete. The brakes were seized on and I have had to smash out the ignition barrel due to the barrel seizing up but I got the old barrel out and wedged a socket in to stop it coming back on whilst being dragged home and the brakes freed them selves off after a bit of persuasion
So homeward bound
So with the car home it was time to find out exactly what was stopping it from running, turned out that the motor was seized :sad:
So out with the trusty WD40 and put it straight down the bores and left it for a couple of hours and also some fresh oit in the top just incase, By this point my mate Phil had arrived, we scratched our heads drank some tea and finally decided that we really should see if we could get it to at least turn over, so with a bit of rocking the car some more tea, some swearing some more tea we had a slight movement on the bottom pulley! Phil then decided that if we tried it in 4th gear we should get a better result so we did and.........., IT WORKED!!! now with the engine free the starter wasn't engaging, so with a bloody big technical screwdriver a slight adjustment was made (thanks Jim) and voila now the car turns on (whats left of) the key
BUT it turns out that it has a catastrophic fuel leak on one of the carbs so content with the progress we moved onto other matters
If your looks like a piece of shit
If your children run away and scream at the sight of it
If your neighbors are embarrassed that its near their house
Simply call dial a Ginger!!
NICE!
I wont be doing toooooooo much to this just yet mainly because Jim's car is controlling my life at the moment and I HAVE to finish my other car (its been 12 mths since i started it
) But rest assured it will get done 
