Did someone say 'Barn find'?
(I didn't put the crap on the roof or against the front of this one)
Still, they're sharing good company
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Actually
the back end of that Maser gives me an idea... @Ted? 
First one uncovered
This one is rot free, but badly dented and scraped all round. I've never had it on the road since I acquired it.
Next one uncovered
This one I had on the road for a short period of time.
It is definitely NOT rot free, because it has the one option you REALLY didn't want on a CX
(The other side is worse, incidentally
)
You can't see it well because of all the dust, but yes, basically that's a big hole where only the paint is stopping the rust collapsing in
Last one uncovered;
My dad had this one on the road for a number of years and then I ran it for a good couple of years myself (perfect car for a skint student to run while at University!
)This is under the bonnet of the blue one (that's the first one, for those that can't tell through the dust)
I found that last time I visited a couple of years ago. Nesting and eating through the wiring looms
Fortunately nothing seems to have been majorly eaten since last time, although the little bastards have decided to turn them into toilets
Gave them all a good check over. All needed topping up with coolant, header tank on one looked sludgy so I took it out to clean. Turned out it wasn't actually sludgy and it was just the light that made it look that way, but I did notice one of the hoses looked a bit cacky!
A metal feeder tube from the header tank corroded and snapped off, stuck in the hose. Removed that and everything hunky dory again.
So after that, I chucked some petrol in them all and tried to start them all in turn.
Result? Spectacular failure on every one!
Ok, wasn't actually that bad, 2 of them fire ok but don't hold.
On the blue one, that'll be the usual thing where the main fuel injection relay is priming but not switching over to full run. That will probably be sorted by a bit of relay fiddling/connector cleaning.
The green one has exactly the same symptoms, but the fuel pump is running permanently as soon as the battery is connected. That's NOT RIGHT and I couldn't even get it to stop by unplugging all the fuel injection relays, so god knows what's happening there
The grey one wouldn't fire, but I think it's just because I didn't stick enough fuel in it and I also couldn't access the battery properly to get a decent connection on it. That one should have the least problems of all, because I basically rewired all the fuel injection stuff under the bonnet to get rid of long time intermittent electrical gremlins it suffered while my dad had it.
So, I'm optimistic there should be no major show stopper to getting them running when I can get over there with a trailer for the move...
'course I've no idea if any of the hydraulic pipes will burst when they charge, but hey, I'll just have to play that one by ear
EDIT: After that I went over to the new barn to investigate the hydraulic leak the other CX had sprung while being moved and to wash the 3g.
I forgot the keys
so the 3g wash was out. Fortunately keys not required on the CX though, so at least I got to suss out what's up with that.
