Year 2 - Joy
It is not all sad stories.
Fun and pretty bits added!!!

Year 2 - Pain


With JR 5839 being munched away by the tinworm, namely the LHS A-pillar, both the A-panels, both the door skins and the welding seam at the LH rear. I decided to go for the big one and that was to have the munched away bits welded and a complete respray of the body. It was painful to see and pay!!! But look at it !!!!

(Year 1 - Part 2 of 2)

Just as I was happily showing off my new pride and joy to my mates, the nightmare of owning a Mini Cooper began.........the tinworm was on the loose....!!

One evening after dinner, I went to the car park and silly stared at my new pride and joy. I then discovered a bit of rust on the underside of the driver side. So being smart bum myself, I began banging away the rust lightly with a rubber mellet. The initally thought surface rust patch became ................. Mum ................. I then jumped back inside the car and pulled up the carpet....I could see the ground. I could not believe my eyes (and myself now), I actually looked from below to double confirm I can see and touch the carpet. The freaking hole was at least 60mm diameter.

No................what have I got myself into...I bought a 4 year old rust bucket!!!!! Mum............... Mum then said to me "Told you to keep your Corolla,a complete waste of money. No eye see you!"


By the way, if you look closely to the photo the horrible looking chrome eye-lids and purposeless of the head lamps came off after a month.

I should have spent my on some other thing.

A bit of An Intro (Year 1 - Part 1 of 2)

Hi everyone, this is a little story (on going) of my life with JR 5839, I shall begin my little story from Day 1 and all the way to date to share my experience and my love/ hate relationship with her. I shall also slowly and painfully go through my repair and parts order receipts to disclose my secrets with her history, too.

First of all, this was how JR 5839 looked like when she first joined my family in August 2000. She was such a cute and lovely Green and White 4 year old innocent looking thing.