Eunos Chump

 It was on a knife-edge there for a while when the ABS light came on, but 2020 finally delivers some good news.

  Will this pass an MOT today?

Visited Norfolk for the first time in months, and was reunited with my GTV. I'd forgotten quite how tatty it is... it'll take more than repairing the lacquer to make it look even half-decent.  It started immediately though, and moving it backwards and forwards a bit confirmed the gearchange, clutch and brakes are all in excellent order. Interior has got a bit mouldy. I've lost my rubbish-car mojo at the moment so didn't start any work on it, but do plan to come back to it at some point, when I can think of a use for it.

 Lockdown has made me realise I don't need all these cars and I want out.  147 is currently roffling on the Autoshite...  CLK up for sale there too, CHEAPY CHEAP @ £1500 You'd better like wood. I'm going through another monkeybike-desire phase, it happens when the sun comes out. I want a tiddler bike to roam local lanes on, but they're not a cheap toy and might be hard to sell on (insurance group is surprisingly high).  So what about a WK Scramber?  Chinese but less than half the money.

Social distancing, honest. 

Have had Mrs Maimboy's CLK up for sale outside the house, as we get a fair bit of foot traffic now. Had a few folks having a look around it, dunno how I'd actually sort a test drive though... but that could be academic anyway, 'cos I've discovered my tatty CLK has holes in the inner wheelarch and won't see another MOT without welding.  Given the other faults it has, I'm probably going to sack it off and maybe keep this one instead.  Or try to get through the winter in an Alfa GTV.

Used a Holts headlamp restoration kit for these, it worked pretty well but basically it's some 800/1000/1500/3000 grit wet''n'dry paper, some fluid which I'm sure is T-Cut, and some polish which looks and smells suspiciously like ordinary furniture polish.  Rotary polishing mop is good though. Finally refurbished the silver CLK alloys, saved £200 doing it myself but it was extremely laborious.  That car is being prepped for sale, it looks bloody good after many hours of cleaning and scrubbing of the interior.  Pale grey interior + dogs = nope  sorting the rusty panel on the VFR too.  I'm even tackling the oil leak on my CLK - it's the rocker cover gasket, easy enough just never been arsed.