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I'm not really good enough to look after it

I bought it with my stepdad to do up and maintain but he passed away a couple years ago and I've neglected it since

the guy who bought it runs a bodyshop though so I'm sure it's gone to a good home that will get it looking perfect again

Seems fair

https://imgur.com/gallery/uA4R3Lm

not much left to sell now, I have an old honda cb200 that was bought yesterday and is being collected on the weekend and a ford focus that needs a cam belt

what do you make of that?

It's got the engine out of one of these

https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fbestcarmag.com%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2F26128761990-vauxhall-calibra.jpg&f=1

I've always liked the manta a

personally though I wouldn't use the calibra engine in one

the manta a has a huge engine bay, you could probably cram in a nice ls, but I'm a jap engine fan so I'd probably go the sr or rb route on one

the sr20 can be got cheap enough and the rb25 is still reasonable for now

on a semi related note, I actually like the calibra but there's barely any left on the road, it's sad, kinda like the sierras they've all ended up scrapped

though a lot of sierras got picked apart for the gearboxes

I wish capris and mk3 2dr cortinas were affordable

Capris aren't that bad las time I looked

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iovohEChv10

capris in half decent condition are a lot of money really

5k+ unless they need welding and/or bodyfiller

that's a lot considering the price of some of the jap turbo options

https://i.imgur.com/NFsvBrV.jpg

damn

it's weird how most girls are just complete garbage when it comes to maintaining vehicles

Maintaining anything mechanical

I dunno, my ex looked after most of her stuff just not her car

I think part of that was down to her dad doing a lot of the regular stuff for her though, I'm really not sure

then again she also gave me her old car cause she'd left it decomposing for like 2 years and I got it back on the road

It's a tool

it's no different to a washing machine

it's a thing

OR they give it a name and treat it like a pet

but most blokes think of their car as an extension or expression of themselves

I mean I don't really see my car as a pet or an expression, but I don't see it as a tool either

my car for me is a source of pleasure

thus I look after it to maintain that

even the cars I've had that were boring to drive

they still provided access to things that were otherwise prohibitively expensive or difficult without a car

and so I made sure I looked after them