New to the world of Corsas until I bought this.
I was just going to flip this for a quick profit, but I started to quite like the little thing while I was cleaning it today. A nice reliable and economical car would be kind of useful right now.... Can't leave it standard though
So it's a 1996 1.2 LS. Belonged to my neighbor who was an old dear who only stopped driving it because she only used it to go to church and it was cheaper to use a taxi for that, so when the T&T ran out she just left in in the car park.
It looked a mess after 18 months of sitting, but at 150 bones I wasn't really taking much of a risk.
It's one owner, always serviced at Vauxhall but she says she lost the service book
Did find a notebook with the details of every petrol stop it's ever had in it though, so every cloud!
Needs an alternator as this ones seized (got one?), but otherwise it runs well and stops as it should. I'll give it a service and a bit of a check over before I bang it through an MOT and see what happens!
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It has 81,000 on the clock and I bet it's never been above 60mph! Interior is on good order, just needs a really good clean.
It's an eight valve which I'm hoping is going to be pretty reliable and cheap to run. While I'm replacing the alternator and belt I will drop the oil and change the filters, give it a bit of a service and check over. But it runs sweetly enough and drove on trade plates a couple of miles to free the brakes off without issues. Exhaust does sound like it's blowing a bit.
First thing to do was give it a bit of a scrub to see what it's like under there.
It's actually very clean indeed, nearly mint! The front has no stone chips, and there isn't so much as a parking ding or repair to be seen anywhere. It will polish up really nice when I get chance to mop it
Only defects I can find are, small scuff on the rear bumper, very minor and on the white lower edge. 5mm rust bubble starting to show on the rear wiper area, same on lower rear l/h arch, but it's only paint so I'll take care of that before it becomes anything. Plastics need bringing back. Otherwise it's absolutely mint! Very happy
So the modifying plans... No valver going in or anything, I'm keeping it stock engine wise for simplicity. I'm going to start with some unusual rims I've got in mind and a set of coilovers to get it low. Real low. And a nice clean body with some very subtle mods here and there.
Cheers and hope you like!
i have the same engine in my more door and they ain't to bad on fuel. Looks like some good plans for it and cant wait to see future posts and end product 
