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Offline Arthur Dent

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Re: $50 buys you ...
« Reply #20 on: June 26, 2008, 12:51:00 pm »
My parents had a red Tempo when I was in high school - my friends and I nicknamed it Tempon ... not sure what this silver one could be called.

There is a surprisingly large number still around - odd how you don't notice them until you get one of your own.

Here some of the repair notes written in the engine bay


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Re: $50 buys you ...
« Reply #21 on: June 26, 2008, 01:42:09 pm »
260,000 km
Plugs
F**k! @#*&!
Waterpump

Must have dropped something.

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Re: $50 buys you ...
« Reply #22 on: August 18, 2008, 12:15:46 am »
Well as some of you might remember I bought a Ford Tempo mostly before it was cheap - $50. Well some junkyard parts, cleaning and some dirt cheap rust repair I'm now $80 total into it.

the rust hole



Canadian Tire wanted $9 some for a flat piece of metal. Hmmm that is almost 20% of my purchase price - won't do. Found a scrapped furnace and this access panel provided the metal for free.



Repair panel welded in and bondoed over - then primed. Not a good job but its only a $50 car. Oddly the primer is very close in colour to the paint.



Painted. Not great but good enough to stop it rusting and now its structurally solid.



Weather Strip glued on



yeah I know the rear tire is on its way to flat.



Cleaned the interior - its was filthy with dog hair everywhere and sticky surfaces. Worn but clean now.



engine before



cleaned lightly



and here it sits at $80 all in


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Re: $50 buys you ...
« Reply #23 on: August 18, 2008, 09:29:24 am »
Sweet.  I would have used pop rivets (or fibreglass) as I do not have a welder.  ;D

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Re: $50 buys you ...
« Reply #24 on: August 18, 2008, 10:49:29 am »
Hahaha, that is some pretty bad bondo work, but if you did it better it would have cost you more in Bondo than the cost of the car ;)


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Re: $50 buys you ...
« Reply #25 on: August 18, 2008, 02:44:09 pm »
 ::) Pop Rivets...is that yer GrandPaPa.............Mr T???,......


   Tempex fugit......time O' tha month ta get that thing a Taxi licence and earn some real money.... ;D...or is it seize tha Carp.....????
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Re: $50 buys you ...
« Reply #26 on: August 18, 2008, 05:27:11 pm »
Is the goal not to spend over $100?  :)   Nice bondo work.

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Re: $50 buys you ...
« Reply #27 on: August 18, 2008, 09:56:23 pm »
no particular goal except cheaply as possible. I suspect it will now pass a safety inspection and run for a least another year.  ;D

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Re: $50 buys you ...
« Reply #28 on: August 19, 2008, 12:25:53 pm »
260,000 km
Plugs
F**k! @#*&!
Waterpump

Must have dropped something.

???  Fuel Filter...