I thought that I would just take the time to introduce one of my other 'projects'... My 1980 Opel Monza.
Personally
I have always wanted one of these, but sadly never driven one yet...
No, not even this one! I bought this as a "Barn Find" but to be honest
with the amount of rust that it has the barn must've been very leaky,
infact I reckon it might have faired better if it was just kept
outside!
But
with prices of Opel Monzas as they are, then I guess I probably did ok
buying it. Although, the more I look at it the worse it looks. Initially
I just thought it would need a fair bit of welding, but the more I've
looked the more I've found, and as bad as the bodywork looks, it looks far
worse underneath.
So as the bodywork is so bad, then the mechanicals must be ok, right?
Erm,
no, the transmission and back axle might be ok, but the engine is
siezed solid. Infact it would be better to think of the engine as one
solid block of iron rather than many peices of metal together! However,
it doesn't have many miles on it, and although it is very rusty, and the
engine is way past it's best, the interior has that look of a car thats
never been used!
The
front seats are mint, infact they couldn't be any mintier if they said
POLO across them! Even the drivers seat is in exceptional shape!
The
back seat is the same, absolutely perfect, infact the whole interior is
perfect, and this is why I bought the thing. I think that ultimately
this will donate its whole interior to my Carlton project, although this
will mean that the Carlton will get painted green rather than gold, but
that might be a small price to pay, besides, I like green!
Unfortunately however, what isn't minty is the smell of the interior. It
really does smell very bad indeed, but hopefully once it's all out and
in the fresh air it will smell better!
So
my Monza is a little bit frilly around the edges, and although I think I
should probably break it and use what I can for my Carlton project,
then sell of whats left, I've still really got no idea where I'm going
with this yet, or what will become
of it because as I said, I have
lost my storage space where I have been hiding it. Therefore I have put it on ebay as a project or for spares or repairs, if it sells great, but if not, then I'll rob the parts I need for the Carlton, and dispose of the rest! However I've not got much interest on flaebay at the moment, and so I have a
feeling that this will become one of the cars destined
to lurk in your kitchen cupboards masquerading as soup cans et cetera! I
know you may be looking at it thinking, it doesn't look too bad, but I
cannot emphasise enough how the photos make it look better than it is!
I think this is too far gone for WD-40 to help, good as that stuff is!
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