Ricky352
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Registered: 6th Apr 07
Location: Lisburn, N.I.
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Had thread a few weeks ago on here asking what to look out for when buying an old Corsa. Well, after looking at this one I decided it needed work, but wasn't too bad, and after agreeing a suitable price, I bought it.
Needs tidying and I hope to get the engine rebuilt and outside tidied up with a respray etc. Anyone know how much an engine rebuild would be? My aim is Billing 2017.
The car was originally from England, then in Northern Ireland, and recently it's been in the South of Ireland as you can tell by the plates. I'll be trying to get it back on the English reg.
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Ian
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Registered: 28th Aug 99
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Looking good mate.
Original UK reg was M263TNU.
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Ricky352
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Aye, I have the old tax book, cheers Ian. Think I should be able to transfer it to an English reg for no cost, and hopefully I will get the original one. Have a lot of paperwork regarding this at the house to look through.
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Ian W
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Looking good  Get a proper project thread up 
Be good to try and get a few together at Billing, there was only 3 GSi's in the whole show this year 
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Tiger
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Bet you're looking at £4-5 for a rebuild and respray depending on level of job you want doing and how much work it actually needs.
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Ricky352
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@Tiger - If I could spend £4-5 grand and it would be sitting mint I would do it. Bought this car to keep it.
Yeah Ian, will have to start a thread over Christmas. There was probably more Nova Sports than there were GSi Corsas at Billing lol
[Edited on 22-12-2015 by Ricky352]
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Ian W
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quote:
Originally posted by Ricky352
@Tiger - If I could spend £4-5 grand and it would be sitting mint I would do it. Bought this car to keep it.
Yeah Ian, will have to start a thread over Christmas. There was probably more Nova Sports than there were GSi Corsas at Billing lol
[Edited on 22-12-2015 by Ricky352]
There certainly was 
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basslinecorsa
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Registered: 15th Jul 09
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Nice, another red one looks to be in pretty good shape.
I thought that southern Ireland hate the English .... would an english plate not encourage vandalism etc?
I will have to get mine ready for billing 2016
Project Scarlett - http://www.corsasport.co.uk/board/viewthread.php?tid=661417
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Marc
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Oooh a red one.
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VegasPhil
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Nice one. Looking forward to seeing progress.
Corsa 2.0 16v Vegas - Sold
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Ricky352
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quote:
Originally posted by basslinecorsa
Nice, another red one looks to be in pretty good shape.
I thought that southern Ireland hate the English .... would an english plate not encourage vandalism etc?
I will have to get mine ready for billing 2016
Not really, a Southern Irish plate in Northern Ireland would be more likely to encourage vandalism, but not really worth worrying about these days.
Cheers folks.
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deano87
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Depos 
Obviously no sun in Ireland, as that's red and not flame pink 
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Roffo
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Registered: 17th Feb 07
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YES. looking forward to the build
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