It lives!

The 318 came back to life this afternoon with amazingly little drama. All it needed was a set of jump leads and it fired immediately and runs like a dream. Can't believe it as it's been sat since November.

We have now created a new hole where the front jacking point used to be so it definitely looks like needing welding for the MOT now. Given that it seems sound mechanically, it's probably worth the money. It's also edging us towards bringing it back provided it doesn't need too much welding.

Bit of a bummer too when bleeding the brakes. Did one wheel fine then found that the other three bleed nipples are a different size and I don't have a 6mm spanner. Can't believe that they don't match.

Also noticed today that there's a different registration etched into the windows but, given that we've about 10 years history for the current reg, the VIN matches the V5 and the VIN decoder that I found on the web matches I don't care.

How

It all started at an MX-5 Owner's Club meeting. One of the other members asked whether anyone would be able to help out with some welding on an old Saab that they'd bought for HomeToRome.

After he'd explained what H2R was, I thought "seems like a good crack". I was gutted to find that H2R was fully booked out and that the same was true of Staples2Naples. Just when I thought I'd missed my chance, up came CzechWrecks.

All that then remained was finding someone else mad enough to want to share the driving. Surprisingly, that took about 30 seconds the next morning at work and, after getting the necessary permissions from the "govenors", here we are.