Not quite the real thing... EE80 liftback

[EE80Liftback]

Hey guys.

Despite the fact that my car is wrong wheel drive and underpowered I thought I'd set up a project topic anyway...

These photo's where taken by one of you guys during the BBQ :-)




I've owned the car for 4 years now. Of these 4 years the car has been in storage for 2,5 years. Since it came out of storage last Februari it is officially registered (and sometimes even used) as my parents' second car. Since I don't live with my parents and my parents hardly even use their first car this means it's still not moving most of the time.

The storage hadn't done it much good either. It passed MOT directly apart from a leaky exhaust but it wasn't running to good and the alternator was broken. It took quite some effort to get it running nice and properly again since gaskets and rubbers had gone dry and dust had made it's way into everywhere.

Then once the engine ran fine my father was happy to drive it for a couple of hours and after that the brake callipers where stuck and I needed to rebuild those...


And then there's rust of course. I want to have the car restored and resprayed some day in the future so I don't realy care about the looks of it but I was getting quite worried about structural damage to the rear wheel arches. Last weekend I went to my parents place (first time since bringing it back after AEU86 BBQ) and stripped everything from the boot to inspect them on the inside.

And it wasn't to bad!



The brown stripe on the last photo rusted because it was repaired just before storage and I had to paint it from the inside someday while in storage... which of course I didn't do and "forgot" once I took the car back on the road...

It was actually quite a nice repair once ;-) (at least after sanding it down)


Unfortunally I did find a small rust hole last weekend just below the seat belt mounting. I've "repaired" it with rust converter, filler and some primer which will at least for now stop dirt and moisture from coming in. I've covered the rust on the rear of the arches on the other photo's in rust converter and primer also. No structural repairs but this way structural repairs will still be feasible in the future I hope...



I'm still happy with the car even though I can't afford to drive it, it's sort of ugly, and it's not a hachi :-)