It’s an interesting pub question – do you know what ever happened to the first car you ever bought (not the first car you ever owned if you ended up with a hand me down)? My first ever car I owned was a 1989 Ford Laser, but the first car I ever shelled out my hard earned for was also from 1989 – A series 5 Mazda Rx7 turbo imported from Japan. And until recently I thought it had ended up as a pile or rotary parts in the back of someone’s backyard…
If your windscreen wipers are starting to look a little shabby (the whole mechanism, not just the blades themselves) then there’s a few options. You could buy a whole new assembly, go to the wreckers for a better-than-your-current-set from a similar model or do what we did: break out the tools and really get to work. (Note: there’s not that much work involved.)
What a terrific thing to face on a freezing Friday morning – the best eBay ad ever for a 96 VS Commodore!
Each week in Driveanotherday’s Bargain Bangers we shine the light on the best car we can find locally, within both our price and our range limits. Like our expectactions, both our limits for this challenge are very low…
Today we have unearthed…a pretty clean 1991 Nissan Pintara!
It’s always the way isn’t it? If it isn’t one thing it’s another – case in point for project WRX was just finishing up the pulley swapover when the Subaru power steering pump started to groan like a small business getting a massive tax bill. And here I was thinking that was the end of whining noises in the Rex’s engine bay…
We’ve already mentioned how much we enjoy casting an eye over eligible imports over at Iron Chef’s Facebook page and today was no exception as we came face to Facebook with the hilarious Mitsuoka MC-1…
Finally we inject some class into the ‘scraping the bottom of the car finding challenge’ this week – with a luxury $500 E230 Merc!
We were just going through our favorite classifieds at the moment (Gumtree for those playing at home) looking for a suitable candidate for our next foray into Bargain Bangers when this lovely example of 80’s Japanese motoring drove right in front of us – a first gen MR2 AW11. Continue reading…