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I thought it was about time that I showed you my car, the Clio Forum project car. We will be featuring the car a lot on the site, an hopefully using it as a test bed for products and ideas.

If you have anything you would like us to feature, or a guide that we could write to help you with your car, let us know!

I hope you enjoy!!

Before we can get cracking and show you the project car, I needed some space for it. This meant cleaning out my lockup garage, so with a little help from the oldies and there tow-bar equipped car, we had an early start one Saturday to collect the trailer and load it up, in order to get to the scrappy before closing at lunch!

We started our trip to a place near St Albans to collect the trailer, and then come all the way back around the M25 to West London where our garage is located.

After a lot of heavy lifting (the front end on the car we had to dispose of had been sold!) and pushing and shunting the car into position we go the shell onto the trailer. We were already behind schedule, but off we went to the local scrap yard. Its located 2miles down a lane next to our local rubbish dump. Just about to make the turn after charging down some back-roads, to make up time. We see the road is closed! We are diverted all the way around a rather large farm, to enter the lane from the other end. At this point we had 10 mins till the scrappy shut. I decided to make the sacrifice and ran down the closed road to try and stop them shutting the yard before my  mum and the car would get there! After she had completed the 30min detour i let her into the yard. The rest went pretty smoothly, drove up onto the weight bridge, then into the yard.

I was greeted by a Polish man who i asked if i could whip the wheels off the car after he had grapped it. He agreed and climbed into his grabber crane. Lifted the shell off the trailor, i pulled the wheels off, under a shower of glass from the rear windows…

I went to say thanks to the lady in the weigh bridge for letting up nip in. She insisted that we should get £50 for the car, i was shocked, but didn’t hang around long for her to retract the offer! Off we went to collect the new project car. It was located locally at one of my friends houses. I bought it off a friend who was only its second owner and i knew all its history.

More pushing and pulling, as the engine had broken in it and i had removed it to sell on, but at least we had 4 wheels and the ability to steer it. So using the winch on the trailor we were on our way in no time, after arriving back at the garage which would be its new home, we took a few pics of the car…

The trailor was a bit on the small side, i think next time i will get a larger one!

The car is a complete Williams rep. Wide track, wheels, engine and interior. The interior is a thing of beauty, as if it had come from a showroom. I cant bear to part with the blue dials, so they are staying, but i have sold on the rear seats, it is going to be a track car after all!

More to come soon, including build specs and some pics of engine components, so stay tuned.

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