Recent content by Wooticus

Red, Cherry, Thanks for the inputs! Liking what I'm hearing about the Sportex and the pricing of the base model so far. Anyone else lurking please feel free to throw in your two cents or pence.

Richard, Metal bonding is only done on aircraft skin and never on the actual substructure. Following the same principles with vehicles, I would never use it on a structural member. These instances where I could sandwich it between the sill structure and skin and inside the wheel well where...

Hey all, Bit of a language barrier here for the American and I've seen it called all three names, but as I've been tearing into my Puma, found the muffler was severely corroded and well... pretty much destroyed it getting it off once I realized replacements were easy enough to obtain. No...

Hi all! Not dead, just between working fulltime, going to school part time, and being a husband when my wife reminds me to be keeps me busy! Progress on the Puma has been steady. The left side turned out to be way more than I anticipated. That dark grey rhino liner crap ate through so many...

For sure! I am going to be building a grocery list of parts to bring back, as I am nowhere close to my allowed weight limit for shipping as it stands and I am also considering buying a second Puma to part out if the ends justify the means. I am trying to gather as much historical data from these...

Hey all, started a thread under the projects section "The All-American Puma" where I will be posting more about this one's future, feel free to check it out!

Hi all, As a brief recap from my introduction thread, I am American military stationed in the UK and I purchased this 97 1.7 Puma with the intent to ship it back to the states with me. As the Puma begins to enter the golden age of 25 for importation into the states, I am very curious to see how...

Hey all! Been a busy week! Just spent the better part of today putting up a shed so I can transport my storage from the garage to make room for the new Puma. Still waiting on a few extra bits to show up to start the restoration on the sills and the wheel arches, I will probably make a new...

grogee, st220kyle, Excellent question. Running joke in the USA is that a manual transmission is also known as the millennial anti-theft device as the overwhelming majority of cars on the road are automatics. Interestingly enough, our postal vans are RHD to accommodate the driver being able to...

yippeekiay, This is perfect, thank you! Believe it or not, very user friendly to navigate compared to the ones that we use for aircraft... :lol:

Love the shared excitement, I think even if I don't end up loving the car, this already beats the BMW community by miles, thank you all for that. Working on my grocery list of things I want to get done, what I have been unable to locate is an OEM parts catalogue, and I have been unsuccessful...

YOG, Thank you for sharing that story, it was a good read! mmc757, Solid thoughts, thank you. The military will indeed handle the shipment of the vehicle to my next base and I believe will store it for me if I pick up a tour somewhere else in Europe and don't want to bring it with me, some...

Much appreciated from both of you! Currently looking at 1998's (my tour here ends in February 2024) and also have my eye on a millennium. Biggest upside to the millennium is it has been well taken care of by the looks of things, biggest downside being the logistics of getting it back to the...

Hi all, I am an American stationed over here in England, and I have been looking into classic/future classic to take back with me. Been looking at various models, but it looks like the Ford Puma is not only approaching its golden years where importing will be an option, but they are also still...