MG Metro 1300

1983 A.   I bought this car in April 1989, and sold it in September 1990.  It was bought off of a back-street car dealer for £2450.  It had covered about 68000 miles and was in generally good condition.  As always for a first car I loved it.   During the time I had it the wheels became quite corroded, so I re-sprayed them, and also the front wings went rusty (common problem) so I re-did those too.  I put a fairly crappy Sparkrite remote control alarm in the car (as if anyone was going to nick it).  The Metro was traded in against the Citroen AX GT in September 1990.  I can't remember how much I got for it - I think that it was about £1450.  I hardly had to spend any money on servicing the Metro, and sold it at 88,000 miles.

The above picture was taken at the Pepper Pot at Blackgang, Isle of Wight.