Getting a friend...

Poppy now has another friend!

We already had Scarlett, the red '00 Mk2.5 MX-5 (Tom's) and Gladys, the red '94 Peugeot (Tom's) and, technically, Little Em, Tom's '73 Mini...although she's not starting, so doesn't really count, and we'd been idly discussing a track car. Had we got the Mini started last year, that would have been our track car but, as we didn't...

He may have slightly bought a very cheap Blue Mk1 MX-5 on eBay.

Ahem.

She was picked up last night from Milton Keynes, which was fortuitous as I'd been in MK with work anyhow, and ferried home (via the chinese for his birthday dinner!) and, except the incredible amounts of oil burning due to a leak, she seemed ok. She's pretty solid and very pretty. Lovely white alloys, too, which will be being swapped for my scratched original 'daisies' - after all, she is a track car. Track days only for now but maybe a racer in future! Needs some work on the body to avoid any more rust and remove some badly done filler, as well as sorting that oil leak, but she's our project car. Just need to think of a name now!

Pictures to follow :-)