I knew the owner of this M3W well.
He attended Goggles and Gauntlets, Shobden in 2015, had cam belt failure close to arriving.
We towed him in and Charles Kirby ( remember him ?) fitted a new belt.
On his way back home from the event to Dorset he was forced to stop as the engine was running bad.
He checked oil and it was very low and literally boiling.( as reported by others with him )
He put in some oil at the M4 services by the Severn Bridge.
The engine ran badly all the way back to Dorset.
The owner said it was an oil pump issue at the time and due to personal circumstances he left it parked up. It never ran again.
Prior to auctioning it he offered it to me for £15,000.
I declined, 10 years sitting in a damp shed had taken its toll and in my opinion the engine is not good at all.
I warned the Auction house at Buxton about the engine prior to auction, they said that was the potential buyers problem.
Ian Parkinson.
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