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Anybody have experience living with a high mileage (140k) Sierra cosworth?

I’ve been offered one at a stupid low price and it’s a car I’ve always been interested in but I still Can’t really afford to buy it.

Isn't it quite hard to buy a car and drive it around before export if you don't have an address there?

It's something I'd bloody love to do, would have to be an ae86 or rx7 for me.

Innit, think I'll have to get rid of the scoob and all. Finally gets childhood dream car...

I'll just replace it with a mk2 escort and do protest skids every chance I get...

Nice, is yours LHD or right?

I've got this little VZ21 turbo lying about that I'm seriously considering making work when it's on the road.

Well I made it back to the UK with my fiat!

It currently feels incredibly unstable and wobbly whenever going over bumps or cornering. It wasn’t great to start with but it’s gotten much worse and I reckon it’ll have to be sorted for MOT.

I’m gonna be treating it to new suspension bushing, shocks and probably abarth springs alround as well asgearbox mountings as there’s a bit of a lurch when I take off.

I’ll be doing a bit of paint and bodywork and then going to chrome bumpers because I ant stand the faded plastic ones.

I’m flying back tomorrow morning with some tools in an attempt to extract the stuck exhaust studs and loctite everything back in place in the hope it doesn’t shake loose again.

With any luck I’ll leave Berlin before evening rush hour and press on to Amsterdam if the car runs well, if I’m tired or not happy with how it’s running I’ll stop in Hannover for the night and re-evaluate.

That’s what I thought, will just get a checked bag.

Has anyone gotten away with bringing power tools on a plane in their carry on luggage?

I’m going to rescue my car from Berlin tomorrow and it’d be a bloody great help if I could bring my own drill, grinder and socket set.

It’s an Autobianchi Bianchina, shares the fiat air cooled twins cylinder with the 500 and 126.

Had to fly back to London for the weekend because my GF was visiting. In the meantime my mate mad it back with his 126 and we went to visit the other little Italian cars

Truck, as interesting as the cars are I find them a bit ugly.

We were looking at the zuk polish military army trucks to drive back but decided that was a bit too big of a commitment for this trip. I do fancy a tatra diesel at some point though.

After leaving Warsaw at 18:30 I finally crossed checkpoint Charlie at 04:17 and managed to grab a room in a hostel at 05:00.

The journey was quite eventful, I got passed by everything from artic lorries to mopeds... first the car decided it didn’t want the rocker cover to stay on and after 100ish KM it’d lifted up and sprayed oil everywhere, tightened that down again and it lifted a few more times.

It then decided to delete its exhaust manifold bolts, one hit the top of the belt or one of the pulleys and shot against the engine cover and out at the rear glass giving it a decent chip!

I had to continue to the journey with a massive exhaust leak. The muffler then decided to come disconnected and one of the studs retaining it popped out and turned into a new crankcase breather spraying oil everywhere so I had to keep stopping to top that up all the way to Berlin.

I think I used about 2L oil per 100km and 5L fuel. Sorry if all this is eve harder to follow the usual, I’m tired and my brain is all shaken about... and I can’t hear anything....

It doesn't appear to be that hard but I guess we'll have to see.

Running super late on our trip, my car is running mint but Marek’s seems to have lost compression so he’s got a local old boy looking at it. We went for a hoon around some estates last night trying to find the smallest gaps we could fit through. I also discovered just how underbuilt these things are.

Nope, GPS confirmed it.

Yeah I’m gonna keep it a lot slower on the way back, we’re gonna try to avoid to autobahn.

I don't know that it did but it started leaking oil badly when I was sitting on the motorway not realising how fast I was going, apparently I was sitting at 110-130.

Lemme know if you need on bringing over for less than uk value.

Thanks very much, we'll need it!

After over heating the thing on the motorway and leaking oil EVERYWHERE, we finally got to Warsaw, some snow drifts happened (in a private car park...), some understeer happened and some dents happened. Should pop out though. Pre bump.

So, we drove to the ass end of nowhere to pic up a fiat for me. Got there and on the test drive it didn’t want to go into 3rd or 4th gear, decided to take a gamble and offer 1200 PLN as it was advertised for 2000, we eventually settled at 1300 or around £270.

This model has different seats and my head doesn’t quite touch so that’s a bonus.*

On the drive back I realised if I push Down on the gear lever like I would for reverse I could get it to go into 3rd and after a while I was brave/stupid enough to try for 4th which worked intermetnatly. Currently 1/3 of the way back to Warsaw where it will sit tonight for us to look at the shift linkage tomorrow.

*but the seat doesn’t go back far enough and in 1st the gear knob hits my calf as in second my thigh!

Edit: had a bit of a scare on a roundabout where my right foot was a little heavy, the back end skipped out quite beautifully. bloody hard to drive these things wearing boots...

I’m not really sure, maybe a couple of CM taller. I hit my head on the unpadded reinforcement bar on the roof.

We test drove this one today, my mate is going to buy it we think. This drove back is gonna be real uncomfortable, my head is in constant contact with the roof. Might try pick up a bucket seat and bolt straight to the floor.

Tried to fit my replacement downpipe yesterday, turns out it doesn’t fit. Anyone know why the one I bought has a kink but the one I have currently fitted is straight?