Well I've been on the forum for a little while now and I thought it was about time I posted up my build thread. Some of you have probably seen this build on another forum but for those who haven't here she is.

The story starts with the purchase of the Sprint. At the time I was working in Dampier as a Trainee fixed plant operator for Rio. I was just browsing eBay and come across a Cobalt Blue Sprint for $7500 opening bid or buy it now for $8000. As you can imagine I was on the phone to my then wife straight away and we finalised the purchase the next morning.

When then had her shipped all the way from Sydney NSW up to Karratha, the cost wasn't too bad but the freight company was nice enough to break the passenger side mirror, which I claimed under the transport insurance. The cheapest quote I could get in K-Town was $540. The quote was for a new Ford mirror (didn't know you could still get them in 2008), remove the old mirror, then paint and fit the new one.

This is how she arrived in Karratha, a bit of a sorry state really.





The broken mirror


And this is how it sat from most of the time while I was in Dampier/Karratha. It only got the odd drive every now and then and a wash.