Hello
Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2017 9:41 pmHi
Thankyou for accepting my membership into this forum,I'm looking forward to speaking and learning from the members on here helping me to keep my viva in good order.
I have a 1977 viva hc 1300 in white,58,000 miles ,it's been in storage for about 5 years after failing it's mot on a few things ,at this time it was within my sister's ownership but from the day she got her first viva hc(my grandad passed it onto her when he passed away) sadly the car after a few years was in to much of disrepair for them to keep it on the road ,however a gentleman chased them down whilist they drove the old blue hc to see if they where intrested in purchasing his vehicle (the one I now own),I pestered them for quite some years to pass it onto me and finally they crumbled and I began the work to get her back on the road.
Whilist in storage my father and a few friends who helped, worked through the issues of the fail sheet , some of the work was:new brake lines,brakes,new sill's,suspension,removal of rust,new tyres, respray amongst other things,the car is a completely standard example.
I recently acquired the car and pulled it from storage ,the car sadly would not run without choke ,so we rebuilt the carb finding that the needle locating screw was missing! Which had caused damage to the jet and also the fuel bowl had worn and was leaking ,after lots of back and forth we got her running and she went into MOT today and went straight through bar needing a set of wiper blades! (This truly shocked me).
So she is now taxed and mot'd ,however I do have a question for the final piece to get her back on the road ,I was wondering which insurance companies the members on here recommend to use?(I'm 35 with full no claims bonus).
Wow I've waffled on ,sorry!
Any help would be much appreciated, I look forward to finally getting her on the road!and maybe one day meeting some of you.
Thanks again Chris.
Thankyou for accepting my membership into this forum,I'm looking forward to speaking and learning from the members on here helping me to keep my viva in good order.
I have a 1977 viva hc 1300 in white,58,000 miles ,it's been in storage for about 5 years after failing it's mot on a few things ,at this time it was within my sister's ownership but from the day she got her first viva hc(my grandad passed it onto her when he passed away) sadly the car after a few years was in to much of disrepair for them to keep it on the road ,however a gentleman chased them down whilist they drove the old blue hc to see if they where intrested in purchasing his vehicle (the one I now own),I pestered them for quite some years to pass it onto me and finally they crumbled and I began the work to get her back on the road.
Whilist in storage my father and a few friends who helped, worked through the issues of the fail sheet , some of the work was:new brake lines,brakes,new sill's,suspension,removal of rust,new tyres, respray amongst other things,the car is a completely standard example.
I recently acquired the car and pulled it from storage ,the car sadly would not run without choke ,so we rebuilt the carb finding that the needle locating screw was missing! Which had caused damage to the jet and also the fuel bowl had worn and was leaking ,after lots of back and forth we got her running and she went into MOT today and went straight through bar needing a set of wiper blades! (This truly shocked me).
So she is now taxed and mot'd ,however I do have a question for the final piece to get her back on the road ,I was wondering which insurance companies the members on here recommend to use?(I'm 35 with full no claims bonus).
Wow I've waffled on ,sorry!
Any help would be much appreciated, I look forward to finally getting her on the road!and maybe one day meeting some of you.
Thanks again Chris.