Hi Just joined the club, brought a 1988 T bar white a few months back. It had been standing in a mates garage for 10 years rotting away. So I brought it. My wife had one 20 years ago when I met her, it was one of the attractions.
It's been on the road for a two months now, and I have been doing bits as a running restoration. Wheel arches were shabby but not rotted through, so they are done, it needed a new lower rear panel on the passengers side, brought the panel on ebay and had it done at a local body shop professionaly. Wish my spraying was as good them, as they did it on the whole rear wing.
Bonnet is rotten at the front around the latch, so that's next, if I can find a good one. I repaired the outside and re sprayed so looks Ok but you hear the rattle of falling rust when you open the bonnet.
Just keep going round finding small rust spots and treating them ,but have not found anything major yet, Dreading taking off the side skirts as I can see some rot on the sil at the rear may be not that bad as it went throught the MOT, thats a winter job, it's coming off the road, as an Aberdeen winter would see it off, to much salt on the roads.
Mechanically everything seems Ok so far, small leak of oil to investigate, and need to change the coolant and flush it out as it's a bit brown.
Will take a look at the forum and pick up some tips, one thing, I've re built a few motor bikes Jap Classics and spares are easy to buy online with full parts list and references. I cannot seem to find anything like this for new parts for the MK1 MR2 any advice on resources would be greatly welcome diagrams with part number and alike.
Used ebay for some replacement second hand bits that where fine. So it looks pretty good so far will post some pic's when finished.
Enough waffel for now
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