yep, ive bought a Magna. LOL

well, it only cost me $100 off my mate. plan is to make it so it looks good and drives good so i can take my EL off the road.

its a 1989 TP Magna, 2.6L Carby model.

got it yesterday, they thought the headgasket was gone, i thought otherwise... the water pump was gone too, pinched one off another magna and bolted that up, and it ran fine..... *cough*

took it for a blip on the highway, 10 min later, look out the rear view mirror.... WTF is all that smoke???!! stopped right away, motor stopped itself..... opened the bonnet up, oil EVERYWHERE and the exhaust manifold was on fire well this was just f**k, i was 10k from home

anyway, heres some happy snaps:







its actually not too bad apart from the paint and rust problems, ive already gotten another boot for it, so theres no rust volcanos in it anymore and i can get all the parts i need cheap.

anyway, got it running again today, although the engine bay fire melted the accelerator cable .... then i checked what oil was left in the sump, was a nice white colour if the headgasket wasnt gone before, it certainly had now

anyways, il post up more as i do more to it.

Its a beast!

I'll give you a race in the astra one night when I am in Lincoln

What is it about these things - I bought one a few years ago for $100.00 - it lasted about 9 months until it snapped a timing chain and made a loud crunching sound. Went to the scrap merchant after that