A Street Sleeper is reborn! THE END

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well lads We are back from gaydon! it was like a full blown metro forecourt! We had time warp classics, Proto types, vans and a barn find! There must have been well over 80 metros there!
Here is my car on the time line! She done us proud! 444 mile around trip with out a bother! ( there and back)  
check out the twin sister! that one won best mk3!
   

We won the most distance travelled too! We beat the two other lads by nearly 20 miles!
Prize was a mug!





Now I have been saving this for a little treat for you lot! Two Hard core metros were there too! and I MEAN HARDCORE!

 

Yes I sat in one! like it was made for me!

have a look at these!

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check that out!!



not bad eh!!

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I had a bit crac on with the two lads who owned these, the yellow one is a prototype works one! the other is a clubman one,
The lad with the white one is the founder of the metro owners club! ( only found that yesterday!)
Very friendly lad! We chatted about mine, and asked him if you can see if there is anything wrong with mine, So we walked over, and i told him to have a look around, i told him to look at the back, He noticed the 1.1s, then i said check open the bonnet, So he did and he pissed him self laughing! It made his day that! He said that's a hell of a sleeper!!
later on, we young back for a " little photo shoot"





He took me out in it!
I tell you what lads! They say these are an animal, and i tell you what, its not an animal its a f*cking vicious animal!! and i mean f*cking vicious! He warmed the car up ( got the engine up to temp) and he gave it f*cking some on a straight! right up the box! I tell you who every ralleyed those in the 80s must have been on acid!! The acceleration i tell you made your eye sight go blurred, the f*cking roar of that V6 in the back was out of this world! you would need a radio to talk to each other!
The full blown Raw power of that V6 powering through the 4x4 system, makes my VVC metro like a 1.1, compared to that!
After that, i took him out in mine, as he never been in a VVC metro before at all, and he said how refined and well behaved mine was, and loved it when i gave it beans. He said that's a cracking car! and a massive credit to me! he said i wonder what would have happened if an old dear bought one of these, if rover had put this engine in as standard!! Be a few frighting moments!
Even though these two are very much related, in a lot of ways, they are very much worlds a part!
He needed some gauges for it, and i said i have a pair here, and they are yours for the gift, He wouldn't take them for free but gave me a £5, So my old gauges are going in a 6R4!