I had hoped it wouldn't come to this but due to work going tits up - redundancies, hours being cut etc etc, my beloved Trophy is going up for sale.
Anyway enough of the sob story and a bit about the car:
2005 / 05 reg
I'm the second owner - I bought it at 5 months old with 1800 miles on the...
Apart from the odd one or two hooning around the midlands on Sunday afternoon :), did anyone heading back up the M6 spot the Trophy heading south at 4.30ish?
Why weren't you at the meet?!!
05 plate driving through Congleton at around 3.00pm Sunday.
I was in the White Lion - spotted you going past the town hall.
Don't think I've seen this one before.
As 196 is coming up to the annual Permagard top-up I thought I'd get the stone chips and the tiny dent on the bonnet sorted before getting the treatment done.
Has anybody used Chips Away - if yes - good or bad reports?
Cheers
All bar three of my wheel nuts have started to rust!!
Anybody else had this problem?
It looks a total mess - surely they shouldn't be doing this after only three years?!!
Popped to the newsagents yesterday morning.
As I was about to pull away a mate of mine's wife walks around the corner with their dog. I wind the window down to say hello,the dog recognises me,breaks into a sprint (it's a greyhound, so pretty fast) then tries to jump through the window, misses...
Saturday, around 12ish.
I waved but you wouldn't have spotted me as I was in my Mothers banged up old Volvo estate taking the parents to the airport - there's not enough room in the Trophy for all my mothers suitcases!!
As 196 won't be going anywhere near a track and I'm not really into "modding" I was planning on leaving everything standard (apart from the Permegard).
However after seeing various 182's with aftermarket exhausts and thinking what a difference a proper pair of tail pipes makes to the backend...
Took 196 in to have the water leak fixed under warranty last week.
Three days later got the car back - leak fixed ok.
However she's come back with more wrong than when she went in!!
They've scratched the the plastic strip inside the passenger door sill - which they are denying!!
There's now...
Noticed the car seemed to steaming up over the last week or so - didn't think too much of it because of all the wet weather.
Just gone to give the mats a bit of a clean and discovered a puddle under the mat in the pasenger footwell!!
Booked in at the stealers for a water check next week, they...
Private reg, around 4.30pm - rather attractive blonde driving!!
Reversing out of The Farmers Arms car park.
Not seen this one before - do we have a replacement for nickb's to keep the Congleton Trophy club at 3 members?
With me being a lazy so and so and not having a clue about polishing cars I've been phoning round a few places trying to find someone to do it for me. Found a place in Stoke that's offering a full valet,polish andl Diamond brite treatment half price - is this Diamond brite stuff any good? Looked...
Took the Trophy out for her first blast on Saturday and even though the roads were a bit greasy had great fun around the Derbyshire hills.
One thing that stood out apart from the handling was that the engine seemed to be a lot stronger than the one in my old 182 cup - It seemed to pull a lot...