Let's just let that sink in for a minute - 396 out of more than 23 million vehicles on the roads in the UK. (for the arithmetically minded amongst you, this is <0..01% of cars on the roads) so it is little wonder we don't see them very often, is it?
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Anyway, I'm getting close to the point where I will be able to get my own passion back on the road. A great leap forward today was the welding to the offside rear wheel arch.
![Image](http://i1333.photobucket.com/albums/w636/mmcare00/20160726_144853_zpsjskzrqww.jpg)
So far, I've come up with a replacement for the DRL driving light:
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After
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![Image](http://i1333.photobucket.com/albums/w636/mmcare00/IMG_20160525_160332_zpseiu6c11w.jpg)
Still to do: 2 new tyres, repainting the repaired wheel arch (already filled and primed) perhaps the windscreen (which has 2 cracks but not within the prescribed area for MOT) , cambelt and tensioner (quoted £200 by local garage) and then the MOT itself. I may send off the instrument binnacle to Brinkie, as there do appear to be issues in that department,,
All in all she has come a long way since I took delivery last October - she was a pig to start, now a dream, she belched black smoke, now purrs like a cat and she was as dirty as a dawg, now she is polished and pristine. This is her before I got started, the day after she was delivered...
![Image](http://i1333.photobucket.com/albums/w636/mmcare00/IMG_20151209_153409_zpsusq8icnf.jpg)
Hopefully she will be back on the road by August... then the fun will start.
I'll post some pics of her pristine interior soon - she has only done 45000 miles and the interior is almost unworn.
bells
Oh, and she is a 1994 (registered 95) 480S 1.7 fuel injection. No sunroof, no front fog lights, no bells or whistles, but I love her to bits and back together again!
Wish me luck!
Martin