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Hello, my name is Grant and I have a problem. I like old cars. I have bought several and taken them apart. What I have not done is put them back together again. About 25 years ago I bought a basket case MK2 Sprite with the intention of rebuilding it into a working car. I stripped it down and assessed what needed to be done. Then I bought a near basket case Elan Plus 2 and started taking that to bits. Then I bought an Eclat, which was on the road! Keeping the Eclat on the road required a fair commitment of time and nothing was done to the other cars.
I was happy driving my Eclat. It was occasionally unreliable, a wishbone collapsed, and the brakes caught fire, but would rebuild it and I was happy. Then I bought a basket case Europa, and then I bought a written off second Europa for parts. Eventually the Eclat developed more significant issues that I did not have time to repair and now I have a double garage (full), and a large shed (also full) of bits of cars. Everything is so full that I can’t work on any of them. You may be thinking that I am an idiot, you may be right. I also developed a young family and a busy job twenty years ago, time passed and cars rotted.
Over the last few months my thoughts have returned to the Sprite. It’s sat on its side in the shed. It shouldn’t be. Admittedly the other cars shouldn’t be where they are either, but one thing at a time. The Sprite has been on my mind though. Two things have triggered this resurgence, a friend of mine decided to have a bucket list, and I realised that the Sprite has a significant date coming up. My friend’s bucket list made me ask myself what I would want on my own bucket list, the answer was I wanted to fix up one of my cars. The anniversary is that the sprite was first registered in 2022; I would love to be on the road in it by that date. I know my history indicates this to be unlikely, but I am trying.
Thanks,
Grant.
I was happy driving my Eclat. It was occasionally unreliable, a wishbone collapsed, and the brakes caught fire, but would rebuild it and I was happy. Then I bought a basket case Europa, and then I bought a written off second Europa for parts. Eventually the Eclat developed more significant issues that I did not have time to repair and now I have a double garage (full), and a large shed (also full) of bits of cars. Everything is so full that I can’t work on any of them. You may be thinking that I am an idiot, you may be right. I also developed a young family and a busy job twenty years ago, time passed and cars rotted.
Over the last few months my thoughts have returned to the Sprite. It’s sat on its side in the shed. It shouldn’t be. Admittedly the other cars shouldn’t be where they are either, but one thing at a time. The Sprite has been on my mind though. Two things have triggered this resurgence, a friend of mine decided to have a bucket list, and I realised that the Sprite has a significant date coming up. My friend’s bucket list made me ask myself what I would want on my own bucket list, the answer was I wanted to fix up one of my cars. The anniversary is that the sprite was first registered in 2022; I would love to be on the road in it by that date. I know my history indicates this to be unlikely, but I am trying.
Thanks,
Grant.
