As I've mentioned before, having been hurled around Knockhill in the BatOmegaBile a couple of times, I was bitten a bit and really fancied a go myself.
Although I really had something of a RWD disposition and around 200 BHP in mind, as luck would have it, my mate decided to sell his MOT failure Calibra. It has lowered suspension, big wheels and is generally very tidy, but he didn't have the time or funds to repair it, so I bought it with a view to stripping it out and giving it a good ol' hiding and who knows, maybe introduce some more pistons and some drive to the rear wheels at some point in the future.
FFWD two weeks and and MonzaIain decided to sell one of his cars for much cheapness, but I couldn't justify the outlay at the time.We struck a deal later however and I'm the proud owner of a Monza GSE that I still have to collect. (Working on it Iain, sorry for the delay!!).
Since then, and I think I've relayed the story to you I discovered that there was a slightly fire damaged ex-works Monza for sale including lots of spares such as a Bill Blydenstein head, foam filled petrol tank, fully caged with a 250(ish) BHP Swindon Engineering engine in it. So I went to see it on Sunday. Did I say it was slightly singed?
Let me say, that it's not beyond repair, but it'd be a gargantuan task to make it functional again.
Shame really, I'd managed to talk myself into taking it, but as I already have two wrecks coming to me I couldn't justify having them all lying around the homestead. Plus, I want some track day action sooner rather than later and as this would mean a complete stripdown, I feel it's a bit more than I can chew at the moment.
I'm going to see if the bloke will sell me some stuff off it for my other Monza though.
It wasn't just the Monza that got it either, to the left in one of the pics is an Alfa 75 in full rally spec. Apparently the gearbox in it alone is worth about £6k. I really feel bad for the guy!!
This time however the BiB's got the little scrote and he's awaiting sentencing.
