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Oh wow, that is excellent.
In other news, we binned the Terios.
The steering was juddering at 70mph (balance/rack);
It hated going 1st-2nd/3rd-2nd and jumped out of reverse when shifting from 1st or neutral (gearbox/linkage);
The rust on the chassis;Spoke to my van mechanic after and he said he would have given us a second opinion, it could have been the ball joints on the end of the linkage. I wasn't convinced because in 5th at >60mph I was leaning on the gear stick and could feel it vibrate like the dog/fork was rattling.
Shame too. Otherwise it was a totally ideal fake jimny.
Talking to the mechanic one of his workers has a '99 Renault Clio with 80k on the clock for £800, pop a new cam belt (where it's sat a while) and good for a thrashing. Very tempted. (Edit: tempted if I can beat the price down)
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Oh, it's even cooler... it's for his brother's birthday, and his brother is an F1 car designer and the 3 model cars this wind tunnel is being built to accommodate are all cars that he has had a hand in some part of the design of. It has a lot of deep personal meaning to the recipient of it, in addition to being very unique.
It's also super cool my colleague is doing this, considering his brother wrote off his McLaren. But as my colleague said, there's no point having these cars if you're not taking them to tracks and pushing them to the extreme, so the risk of bending them is part of the deal. That car is getting a full rebuild, the cost is eye-watering.