I took a trip down to Devon to collect her a couple of weeks ago:
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1993 S-Special; 1993, approx 100,000 miles, bilsteins etc, K&N, some random mazdaspeed bits and some chrome style-bars. Piles of paperwork and history including recent rolling road results, sills and arches seem clear and recently treated underneath. Also came with a hardtop.
Previous owner was a young lad who'd added an expensive DVD Player (not the most sensible idea in a convertible but there we go) and 16" Eclipse alloys. Then had her SORN for 6 months before needing to sell her.
Alloys:
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Bay :
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There's a few bad bits to fix / straighten out but fundamentally she's a sound car. The paintwork a little tired - a some trolley dinks, some badly touched up chips on bodywork and hard-top (it's also had a proper cage mounted at some point so the catches on the hardtop have been cut-out on the large flap so as to fit), interior needed a damn good clean and tidy ie. drivers seat stained from a water leak:
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..., mohair roof has a couple of what look like cigarette burns, and the previous owner had stuck some daft stickers (turning it into a "John Player Special" on as well as adding a gold detailing stripe using sticky ribbon stickers:
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He'd also removed the electric aerial so the radio had 0 reception on his DVD Player and the shift gaiters were shot.
In the engine bay it looks like someone has tried to manufacture some sort of scoop out of flexible piping that pulls air from underneath the car and routes it to the air intake (you can just see it in the pics) and there's also something funky going on with the wiring on the rad fans (shorting across TFA/GND points on the diagnostics box turns on both fans where i think it should only be one).
So I've made a start: last weekend I sorted the shift and replaced the stereo with a £10 ebay special, retro-tastic cassette player (with all important AUX-in), added an internal aerial to the boot, gave the interior a damn good clean, fitted my JDM knee pads and removed the stripes and stickers from outside as well as a simple clean and wax:
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to get to:
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and
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Then got round to fitting 14" OEM Mazda wheels (I think an option on a 1994 version). They need to be properly stripped and given a refurb but budget dictates that this'll have to wait. They're stupidly light and hopefully a little less harsh on the bad roads we have around here:
Corrosion:
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Yesterday I gave them a good clean and fitted them to the car, along with some clear side indicators. So the car currently looks like this:
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I'm going to give her a good clean today and take some proper pics from different angles rather than just grabbing a shot when she's just sat on the driveway.
1993 S-Special; 1993, approx 100,000 miles, bilsteins etc, K&N, some random mazdaspeed bits and some chrome style-bars. Piles of paperwork and history including recent rolling road results, sills and arches seem clear and recently treated underneath. Also came with a hardtop.
Previous owner was a young lad who'd added an expensive DVD Player (not the most sensible idea in a convertible but there we go) and 16" Eclipse alloys. Then had her SORN for 6 months before needing to sell her.
Alloys:
Bay :
There's a few bad bits to fix / straighten out but fundamentally she's a sound car. The paintwork a little tired - a some trolley dinks, some badly touched up chips on bodywork and hard-top (it's also had a proper cage mounted at some point so the catches on the hardtop have been cut-out on the large flap so as to fit), interior needed a damn good clean and tidy ie. drivers seat stained from a water leak:
..., mohair roof has a couple of what look like cigarette burns, and the previous owner had stuck some daft stickers (turning it into a "John Player Special" on as well as adding a gold detailing stripe using sticky ribbon stickers:
He'd also removed the electric aerial so the radio had 0 reception on his DVD Player and the shift gaiters were shot.
In the engine bay it looks like someone has tried to manufacture some sort of scoop out of flexible piping that pulls air from underneath the car and routes it to the air intake (you can just see it in the pics) and there's also something funky going on with the wiring on the rad fans (shorting across TFA/GND points on the diagnostics box turns on both fans where i think it should only be one).
So I've made a start: last weekend I sorted the shift and replaced the stereo with a £10 ebay special, retro-tastic cassette player (with all important AUX-in), added an internal aerial to the boot, gave the interior a damn good clean, fitted my JDM knee pads and removed the stripes and stickers from outside as well as a simple clean and wax:
to get to:
and
Then got round to fitting 14" OEM Mazda wheels (I think an option on a 1994 version). They need to be properly stripped and given a refurb but budget dictates that this'll have to wait. They're stupidly light and hopefully a little less harsh on the bad roads we have around here:
Corrosion:
Yesterday I gave them a good clean and fitted them to the car, along with some clear side indicators. So the car currently looks like this:
I'm going to give her a good clean today and take some proper pics from different angles rather than just grabbing a shot when she's just sat on the driveway.
