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| By May 1992 I was becoming bored with the power of an 1100cc Fiesta & considered my options.An XR2 mk2 would be ideal but insurance was very expensive at that time.I considered a 1400 Sport but thought I'd never really be happy with that as it would be a poor substitute in standard form (sorry to any 1.4S owners reading this!).I also considered a Supersport but couldn't find one in the right condition & price. Then I made a huge blunder.A couple of friends owned MG Bs & persuaded me to buy one.Unfortuanately I knew nothing about them & bought a rotten one which cost me over �1000 in new panels & welding (I couldn't weld then).It did me one favour though & taught me how to spray paint. BBJ was sold to my next door neighbour for �1000 with 99000 miles showing,so it continued to haunt me during my MGB catastrophe.Finally in December 1992 I decided to cut my losses with the MG,borrow some money & buy the car I really wanted...a Fiesta XR2 mk2 in red.So on December 19th the MG was part exchanged for C25 BEX,which you can read about elsewhere on this site. |
| 1999 |
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| My neighbours sold BBJ in around 1995 to a friend of theirs but it still haunted me in the local car parks,looking worse each time I saw it.Eventually in January 1999 I approached the owner & enquired about buying it.Luckily they were thinking of replacing it as the MOT was almost due & it stood little chance of passing. In March 1999 I bought BBJ back for �125.Its final journey was 3 miles long with me behind the wheel.The odometer was showing 62000 (add 100,000).It was a far cry from that day in September 1983 when I drove it on the road on my 17th birthday. The intention was to restore BBJ to its former glory,it even still had its original engine fitted,but once it was stripped I realised the only sensible option would be a reshell & I couldn't do that as I'd know it wasn't the car I'd known all those years.I finally decided to scrap the car,but not before I transfered the registration number.BBJ 769Y would become MY cherished number. |
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| A scrap Fiesta shell was worth about �3 so the shell suffered the indignity of being cut into small sections & taken by me to the scrap metal skip at the local refuse site. |
| So what was..is..BBJ 769Y today.... |
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| ...BBJ 2 was the family Montego estate which I "liked" so much I only took 1 picture of it......... Since March 2000 BBJ 3 has been the family Astra estate.It will end up on another Fiesta..one day! |
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| Me & the original & best BBJ 769Y in summer 1986...where did I get that shirt...& what a hair cut! |
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