Purchased April 2004...Sold June 2005 / Check out my other cars!

Wow, what can I say about this car, I loved it so much, it started out completely standard and then came pay day!. Well... I started with a set of uprated gmax lowering springs to fit a 190 Cosworth... Myself and Tim a good friend decided that it�s an easy enough job to-do ourselves on a Sunday afternoon...When we put them on the front of the car sat ridiculously low compared to the rear. We put this down to the fact that my diesel engine was considerably heavier than a Cosworth petrol engine, so what we did was... decide that to chop a couple of coils off of the new springs would solve our problem!... We chopped 1st time, but we wasn�t happy, the car was still too high at the back, so we jacked the back of the car up again, got under the car and looked at each other and started rolling in laughter.. The bloody springs had fallen out when we jacked it up. So didn�t chop them again, we just put the springs back in, and I invested in a bag of sand for the boot so it leveled it out. Ha-ha. And before you ask the questions, yes it rubbed and scrapped everywhere. We beat the arches with mallet to fit the roads we traveled on.

Other things that were done to this to personalize it was sprayed the grille black, added a set of Granada Cosworth Alloys to give it the fat boy image, then blacked the windows up, de-badged it, had a huge ice install in it.

Now your probably thinking that it wasn�t much of a fast car... well let me set you straight on a few things, racing isn�t just about going fast, its about preventing the other cars from passing you, and that�s exactly what we did, we took the wide line everywhere it was more technical than just positioning the Mercedes star in line with the white lines on the dual carriage way! We didn�t like braking much because the most majestic precious thing about driving a 190D is called "momentum" Keep it while you got it!

The car only ever had a few problems, the prop shaft doughnut shat its pants and snapped the bolts, so I replaced them myself (so proud) the heaters packed in, but I couldn�t find the fan to replace it and it suddenly lost 2nd gear but it wasn�t too much of a problem, we were never rushing anywhere in it.

The car had an accident on its own in the car park at work. A chap who worked for us drove down the side of it... in a VW Transporter T4. So the car was wrecked, I never declared it though and carried on driving it for a while, then we went to a go-karting circuit in Wombwell and I sumped it on some gate posts, the car sat on the drive for ages as I couldn�t find a sump anywhere. Eventually a family member offered to take it to his scrap yard, so I got everything I needed off it and watched it leave. I was gutted and would have another one in a heartbeat!