![]() ![]() The impact ejected the cassette I was listening to, which ended up on the shelf. ![]() The A pillar was bent, jamming the door shut and the envine and box were shifted at an angle, losing all gears and cracking the sump. The n/s wheel was moved back into the footwell about 6 inches, bending the subframe. ![]() Sadly this one was written off at 5 months old while coming down an NSL road and smashing into a VW Transporter van that was trying to do a U turn across the road. I had the alloy wheels swapped over from the previous car and fitted coloured bumper strips again with a small tailgate lip spoiler from Moto Build. I did lose the colour coded bumpers and remote locking of the previous car, but I was happy with it. Er yay!) I took delivery of N441 VPY, A Nightfire red 100 Kensington. So on August 1st 1995 (first and only time Ive had a brand new car for the new reg day. (Being only 20, with a nearly new car in a Dodge City postcode area, I was being insurance bum raped at the time). I could upgrade to the newer car and still pay the same without having to worry about insurance. When the 100 came out, I was wandering around the Rover showroom and saw they were doing 0% finance with 2 years free insurance. I kind of made it look like a GTa with a set of 5 spoke alloys, de-stickering and some coloured bumper inserts. 5 speed box, sunroof, radio cassette, colour coded bumpers and remote locking were pretty good for a 7 grand supermini back in 1994. I went for the Rio Grande as it had a lot of kit for the money. I thought they did a decent job of trying to cover up the mk1 Metro origins. My first brand new car! I was quite fond of the K series Rover version as they had just come out when I started my training course at Reg Vardy (spit!) Rover in Stockton-on-Tees. This was an Arizona blue Rover Metro Rio Grande. ![]() But eventually I got bored and chopped it in. I attended to the other bits that needed doing and managed to find a set of metric rims with nearly new tyres from a scrapper. Other than that though, the bodywork wasnt bad for a 9 year old, 93000 mile Metro. So it got a new drivers sill, floorpan and a bit of the rear valance replaced. It needed a bit of welding, mostly putting right what the previous owner cowboy'd up. It started as the pov-spec 1.0 not-even-an-L but by the time I got it, it had been slightly barried with MG stripes, spotlights and an MG interior. In the 1990s I was a bit of a serial Metro-botherer.įirst up was TRM 894X, my first car after passing my test. However he also span his Rover 100, 205GTI, his Mini, his Polo, his.you get the idea! The other story which seems not to have been a myth, was the petrol caps leaking onto the rear tyre & causing a spin, my dad span his MG a few times. I don't remember hearing that, my dads white one had the white alloys as well. When I finally got a go in a mate's I was surprised how much more refined they were than the Mini, whilst still retaining some of the fun.ĭid anyone else hear the urban myth(?) about the MG versions with the white alloys? Apparently if you braked too hard the tyres would keep spinning on the rims. The scrapyards were rammed with rotten ones so I soon had MG Metro front seats, rocker cover, electronic ignition etc. I must confess my main interest in them was which parts I could rob for my Mini. It sticks in my memory as it seemed to have huge leather armchairs in the front. One girl at college had an early Vanden plas (inherited from a grandparent I believe). Metros were everywhere when I started driving. ![]()
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