HMT's Daily: the xero fux given 323

[HMT]

Thought I'd do another thread for my current daily.
Got it in 2017 to get me to work, carry the family around and transport some building materials for the house while retaning a fun driving experience for almost no investment.
Enter the 2000 BJ 323 Sportive, coming with free front impact damage. Still the best one i could find in a long time because chassis rust was minimal (most of these look like a swiss cheese by now).
Found it a couple of hours away at a very quistionable dealership where it was basically awaiting it's faith in Africa. Not on my watch!
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Paid 250 Euros for it but had to leave it there until I had worked out a way to get it back home.
Don't wanna go into too much detail here but I decided to drive it home, so got a head light to replace the broken one, persuaded a friend to get me there, brought along some spare parts, temporary plates and a lot of tape to hold it all together
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To make a long story short, the car had tons of issues. Spend about a month or two wrenching away in the evenings and threw a couple of grand at it until it looked like this and was just ready for it's first round of winter duty:
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It did it's job really well so I decided it deserved some treats the next summer...
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So it's currently sitting on KW V2 coilovers, 17x7" OZ Leggenda wheels with the Sport20 side and rear skits, some aftermarket front lip, Protege5 tail lights, original Mazda Sports Exhaust, Sport20 intereur (which made it to germany for a very short time period in 2000 and only in the 1.8 Sport; this car came standard with it), 01+ center console and door sill panels, Autoexe Carbon Fiber intake, 01+ Sport strut brace and some audio upgrades.
I've never been really into this model but it serves me quite well. Couple of months ago I almost sold it but it suddenly developed a few failures which I had to fix in the week before the deal was supposed to go through. Decided that it's not worth it to invest and then sell for the same price as before so decided to keep it and give it another round of love and wrenching. And because I'm stupid I decided to order some overlight parts from Japan again

Cheers,
Chris