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Re-Carbed
Posted 23/12/2015 11:54 PM (#720664)
Subject: First Metro since 1987
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In 1987 I bought a new Austin Metro in red - a city model with a 998cc A+ engine. Well now I've just bought another! It's a Rover Metro 1.1 1993 model with a carburettor! It's done just 24k miles, is blue and has rusty rear arches. It ran very badly and was very smelly and fumy on running. This was due to a previous owner's efforts at drilling out the mixture screw cover and failing, just enriching the mixture. I've put this right and it looks to me like this car has stood somewhere for about ten years if the algae on the passenger's window seal is anything to go by. It is fun to razz about in, and feels light. Let's see how it goes....
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Posted 24/12/2015 11:02 AM (#720665 - in reply to #720664)
Subject: RE: First Metro since 1987


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111Sli
Posted 24/12/2015 1:14 PM (#720668 - in reply to #720664)
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Location: Bromley, Kent		Welcome to MP mate! Start yourself up a journal and keep us posted with lots of pics as you go. You'll appreciate it later. Often look back at mine lol
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Posted 24/12/2015 4:04 PM (#720669 - in reply to #720664)
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Posted 24/12/2015 4:40 PM (#720671 - in reply to #720668)
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111Sli - 24/12/2015 1:14 PMWelcome to MP mate! Start yourself up a journal and keep us posted with lots of pics as you go. You'll appreciate it later. Often look back at mine lol

The place will be dead very soon so why bother? No one on here will see it

Best stick pictures on that facebook shit for all of you numpties to see on there with your status about having food or that your watching eastenders or some shit

Welcome btw

Re-Carbed
Posted 24/12/2015 6:18 PM (#720674 - in reply to #720669)
Subject: RE: First Metro since 1987
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DotMatrix - 24/12/2015 4:04 PM

Welcome. Any pics from back then?


Sadly not. And I remember that, as one who had always tinkered with old cars, having a new car made me feel a bit "redundant" - I'd open the bonnet, have a look at all the new stuff and close it...
111Sli
Posted 28/12/2015 6:44 AM (#720694 - in reply to #720671)
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ding - 24/12/2015 4:40 PM

111Sli - 24/12/2015 1:14 PMWelcome to MP mate! Start yourself up a journal and keep us posted with lots of pics as you go. You'll appreciate it later. Often look back at mine lol

The place will be dead very soon so why bother? No one on here will see it

Best stick pictures on that facebook shit for all of you numpties to see on there with your status about having food or that your watching eastenders or some shit

Welcome btw



Well I thought it had improved slightly on here recently, so just trying to help that trend. When people log in and see no threads it's a spiral then they don't bother. Lots of new threads should busy the place up a bit lol
Re-Carbed
Posted 29/12/2015 6:45 PM (#720706 - in reply to #720694)
Subject: RE: First Metro since 1987
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111Sli - 28/12/2015 6:44 AM

ding - 24/12/2015 4:40 PM

111Sli - 24/12/2015 1:14 PMWelcome to MP mate! Start yourself up a journal and keep us posted with lots of pics as you go. You'll appreciate it later. Often look back at mine lol

The place will be dead very soon so why bother? No one on here will see it

Best stick pictures on that facebook shit for all of you numpties to see on there with your status about having food or that your watching eastenders or some shit

Welcome btw



Well I thought it had improved slightly on here recently, so just trying to help that trend. When people log in and see no threads it's a spiral then they don't bother. Lots of new threads should busy the place up a bit lol


I agree. I'm new on here and driving a Metro for the fun of it. The above post was a bit surprising as a greeting to a newbie although I do agree about Facebook as I'm not "on it" myself and do not feel the need to broadcast what I've had for dinner with hundreds of "friends" I've never met or even spoken to!
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