Who sees the MP in the street, even more when it is parked, invariably he hear this question: - How  much does MP lafer cost?  It is difficult stipulate value for some what is not manufactured more, that presents certain difficulty to find, mainly in being a matter of a car with sporting characteristics, whose kind of use may have influenced straightly his present state.  For it begin a possible evaluation is good that him know that a MP Lafer when sold news was a car with value elevated.  Leafing through a magazine specialized of 1982, I could establish, in the there existing new vehicles Prices Table, that his value was over the car of luxury of the epoch (Opala Diplomat 6 cylinders), and also over that of the two picapes diesel existing in the epoch (Ford F-1000 and Chevrolet D-20). 

I remember myself that in my adolescence (I am 36 old years), the MP was a car reserved to the who had a boa count banking, with perhaps others two or three cars in the garage, what certain was not the my case (and is not him still today).  Here in the city where do I reside (interior of São paulo) there was a MP 1976 that was bought news by a lawyer and I remember me that, still adolescent, "drooled" upon seeing read (the MP, not the lawyer!) parading for the streets of the city.  Past some years that MP disappeared and recently I found him in a garage, perhaps already having passed by several holders, the which, without give a lot value to the car, were barely using him, without any worry with a lot, electric, and mechanical maintenance less esthetics.  I initiated the contacts that led, some two months afterwards, to the purchase of the trolley.

There it began to "trabalheira" for the restoration of the trolley, that consumed several journeys, many hours of dedication, countless gone to the mechanic, electrician, painter, glazier, cabinetmaker, etc, etc, etc.. And the trial is complex: itself something could present more problems than I imagined, that certain and fatally happened.  After ten months, the car is ready and can be observed in the pictures of the page (is the MP green with roof and interior beige) and the result stayed very good.  It is necessary now walk with him for go
correcting details, settlement of rubbers, reaperto of bolts, some miserly little noise, finally, do end adjust him for be able to enjoyed-read in his brilliance of once upon a time.  How much order the car now?  It continues being difficult say, but the pleasure of to have saved from the iron-old one a car that was part of my life is somewhat that does not have value, somewhat that will be eternizado in pictures and film that pretendo a day (who knows?) show for the my grandsons.  The pleasure that the trolley provides is also somewhat that alone who had OR HAS one of them is capable of evaluate. 

Relation of the work performed Barely with the intuito of inform those that are going to restore one of those 
cars (there are companies specialized in that kind of service), account, even if superficially, the work that 
was carried out in the MP green/beige of the pictures.  The car entirely was dismantled, restored and mounted new. 

Mechanical

I brake: changes disks, drums, canvases and pastilles, as well like all the encanamento and reservoir of hydraulic oil: Suspension: replaced feixe of front springs, the four shock absorbers and rubbers of the "facão".  Motor/change: Motor rectified completely (change of screens, change of baquelites and joints of carburetors, change of bomb of gasoline), with substituição of the change by the of the VW 1600 1996, more "long".  Clutch: put news, complete (inclusive I fit original) Direction: changed box of direction and shock absorber 
of direction.  Exhaust: Kadron new.  Change / embuchamento of all the hinges new Tires, with complete alignment/balanceamento. 

Electric

New battery new Installation, with confecção of new electric whip Change of all the lightbulbs, relês and fuses front Lighthouses: changes the Sealed Beam (new) and the of mile (also new).  The lighthouse of the environment was bought in the market of fleas (is the Carello original) and restored, with cromagem new.  Lighthouses buns: replaced the flashlights.  Change of the machine of the wiper of windshields. 
Installation of lavador of electric windshields. 

Glazing

They replaced all of the bottles by others in the green color.  It adapted machine for hoist/abaixamento.  Despite of it to have been acquired "machine" original (system of springs and press), this is guarded for who be interested.  All new rubbers.  Front hoods and bun, doors, bottles and roof.  Canaletas and new wood

Body

Esthetics (fiber, painting, cromagem, tapestry) : Decapagem of all the old painting, to itself reach the fiber Finish with "gel coat" integral Painting in PU imported new Floor Change/embuchamento of all the hinges Cromagem of all the pieces originally cromadas, beyond other, as some of the motor, bears of stop-shocks, hoods, hinges, covers of valves, grelha of the hood bun, lever of him I brake of hand, etc..  Zincagem of all 
of the bolts Jateamento of painting of the framework of the roof Recuperation of the tank of gasoline 
Change of the panel, in wood, beyond the confecção of the cajados (rests-arms) of the doors in solid wood.  Faces of the panel in white bottom.  Buttons of the panel and lever of change in wood.  Change of all the woods of the roof Banks and lateral of door in beige leather, with the symbol MP Lafer embroidered in 
green and red.  Carpet and belts of security in beige tones.  Tapestry in the trunk in beige carpet.  It 
overturns new beige.  Beige breaks-sun.  Change of the front grille Change of pára-shocks
and "bonecas".  Placement of you blink front of the old VW.

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