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Bashaben

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  • Birthday 03/27/1984

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  1. this is fantastic any updates? interior looks like its heading in a great direction
  2. thats one SUPER straight car looks awesome, nice progress too
  3. awesome start cant wait to see what you do to the interior, your works fantastic!
  4. "donotwant" quality car looks awesome and i love that colour
  5. Bashaben

    Oh hai

    couple moar pics [had to spray the backs of the seats, they were pretty well scratched] so i've pretty much finished cleaning it, washed it today even though it was raining had some crap in the front so not got any decent pics of that yet only got friday left to play [im a work thursday then its going in our garage and havin the head off]
  6. Bashaben

    Oh hai

    hi and thanks for the pleasant welcomes got a fair way to go still before it's ready for the road
  7. Bashaben

    Oh hai

    the red lupo was Iain bazeleys. He sold it a little while ago was such a nice lupo He did all the work himself too was wondering if it was still about took a few pics ages back... gonna have to save my pennies, bodywork on mines lookin used and abused God i shouldn't think like this. Still need to get it on the road first
  8. Bashaben

    Oh hai

    thanks for the nice welcome and i see my fame proceeds me I' am that ben but i got warren to change the name tho, didnt think it'd be 'Bens nce car thread' THAT long been thinkin about puttin my Ps on for a bit but they haven't been looked after, a mate told me to paint them black and d the P's green but i think i'll polish them up and sell them once i get some space back in the garage the amount of dents/scratches is fairly disheartening also not sure if i'd have picked that colour [but its growing on me] the price was the selling point before i went to see it i checked around and couldnt even find a damaged one under a grand there was always the thought that if things dont work out, seling it on shouldn't be too bad [financially] but i hope it doesnt come to that, i've gotten fairly attached to it already
  9. Bashaben

    Oh hai

    oppps forgot to say it's a 1.4 16v
  10. Bashaben

    Oh hai

    as you'd guess by me posting here i'm new. Hello, I'm Ben [if you're wondering about my name on here its from when i worked restoring historic porsche rally cars, i was a fabricator/welder and got to bash things and make loads of noise ] i've been driving for seven years and for that entire time have owned this... very recently i was offered a Lupo. The guy my uncle works for also sells cars and thats how i heard about it, i wasn't really looking for anything at the time but have lost motivation with my polo all i knew was it was green and smokes a bit so couldn't get through its MOT went and had a look the day after My dad started off his working life with VW and then switched to Audi later on He said it was worth a punt cos even if we couldn't fix it [which he thought we could] we could stick it on ebay as 'spares or repairs' The best part of the deal, and reason for us buying it, was the price. £250 brought it home on the 26th of october [i've been lurking since that point cos i know very little about these little cars] I've spent most of the time since then cleaning and fixing bits of it. It's had two previous owners [grandmother and grandaughter] and i think this is the first time it's EVER been washed I've been swearing ALOT while doing this.... "eeeeeewwww scruffy *&%^*&!?" i wanted to really blitz it so took most things apart to give it a MUCH needed clean here's a few pics... was told the pass. side window didnt work. found this.... one of the clips that hold the bottom of the glass had fallen off inside the door, took bout 5 mins to fix... must've take sooooo much longer to bodge those bits of wood together to hold the glass up [if you look close you can see that it rained JUST after i washed it ] you know how you sometimes find money in a car? i found half a brownie ..... scruffy *&£$%^£$ some before and afters for comparison.... i got all the interior back in yesterday but loss of light meant no pics but considering how it looked im pretty happy. on sunday me and my dad spent most of the day on the engine We've replaced the valve stem seals, done the cam belt and replaced a joint in the exhaust as it was blowing gonna have to take the head off tho =[ [you'll have to excuse me for I am not technically minded] <nOob> when doing the valve stem seals my dad borrowed a adaptor from work so we could blow air into the cylinder to stop the valves falling down while taking the springs and seals off. when doing this, on the second and third cylinder you could hear some air escaping through the throttle body so next task is to check the valve seats anyone else had a smokey car and got advice? cheers I'm thinking about the future tho and all the shiney bits i can buy for it when its on the road if anyone knows any cool sites for parts i'd love to hear about them got a small wish list atm which just consists of.... cambridge rear lights coilovers and RSL Cults ok last thing the bodyworks pretty nailed tbf if they could hit it, they have [another thing to curse the previous owners for] but my old friend said that he could prolly do me a good price on the bodywork i stole him a computer chair and did his maths key skills exams while at college so think he owes me and he knows his way round a lupo tho, this was his old one... but that wont be for a little while thanks [and sorry if this is too much info for an introduction]
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