sean b
New member
Thought it was about time I started one of these, so hear it goes.
I bought my puma a little under a year ago; to replace my rover 216i...the puma was not an obvious choice at first but remembering my brother had once owned one I decided to give it a look. For the cash I could not find a better looking car. After viewing a few very bad, and suspioucs examples in the south it was decided I would take my search northwards where I found the car I would eventually buy. An unmodified 1998 1.7 in black with 65,000 on the clock for £1700.
the car has a full service history made from a mixture of ford and other main dealers, though the garage I bought it from assured me it had had a cam belt change, they had no receipts to back this up and thus I booked it in at tremona to get the cam belt done 2 weeks after picking it up.
I had not planned to modify the puma at first but after a month my fingers were twitching and the following took place;
1 ) LED panels fitted in the boot
2 ) HID kit fitted
3 ) Upgraded to 258mm brakes after finding a bargain pair of drilled and grooved disk in Halfords
4 ) Go faster stripes (not sure what I was thinking hear) NOW REMOVED :-D
5 ) Scorpion cat back exhaust, eBay bargain
6 ) White mk6 RS2000 wheels
7 ) Powerflex bushes all round my road legal go kart
8 ) New track rod ends, bottom ball joint, steering arm
9 ) Air box modification
10 ) Various interior mods
What the future holds;
around august of this year the puma will no longer be my daily driver and with having longer stints at home with idle hands I have decided to turn it into a project to play with, plans are to do a complete bare metal rebuild, cage and lighten the shell, coilovers, remove abs and servo assistance, upgrade front and rear brakes. This is a very brief overview from a rather long list, i know the puma is of very little value, and doing any of the above will add little if any value. but i just want something to play with
Cheers
Sean
I bought my puma a little under a year ago; to replace my rover 216i...the puma was not an obvious choice at first but remembering my brother had once owned one I decided to give it a look. For the cash I could not find a better looking car. After viewing a few very bad, and suspioucs examples in the south it was decided I would take my search northwards where I found the car I would eventually buy. An unmodified 1998 1.7 in black with 65,000 on the clock for £1700.
the car has a full service history made from a mixture of ford and other main dealers, though the garage I bought it from assured me it had had a cam belt change, they had no receipts to back this up and thus I booked it in at tremona to get the cam belt done 2 weeks after picking it up.
I had not planned to modify the puma at first but after a month my fingers were twitching and the following took place;
1 ) LED panels fitted in the boot
2 ) HID kit fitted
3 ) Upgraded to 258mm brakes after finding a bargain pair of drilled and grooved disk in Halfords
4 ) Go faster stripes (not sure what I was thinking hear) NOW REMOVED :-D
5 ) Scorpion cat back exhaust, eBay bargain
6 ) White mk6 RS2000 wheels
7 ) Powerflex bushes all round
my road legal go kart8 ) New track rod ends, bottom ball joint, steering arm
9 ) Air box modification
10 ) Various interior mods
What the future holds;
around august of this year the puma will no longer be my daily driver and with having longer stints at home with idle hands I have decided to turn it into a project to play with, plans are to do a complete bare metal rebuild, cage and lighten the shell, coilovers, remove abs and servo assistance, upgrade front and rear brakes. This is a very brief overview from a rather long list, i know the puma is of very little value, and doing any of the above will add little if any value. but i just want something to play with
Cheers
Sean
