now it's time to say hello here.
My name is Alex[ander] and I'm living in good old Germany near Stuttgart.
I drove in the past a sport-sidecar powered by a tuned Suzuki B-King with the Hayabusa engine.
After 7 years lot of fun with this great sidecar I decided to built a new one but much more harder and faster. The problem was that my builder did not want to built what I want to have.
The short story is - sh1t happens I buried my sidecar project and sold the sidecar at summer last year.
For the new AA 3.5 is no way to get a German registration. So I had to find an used LHD Ariel Atom 3 best with a German registration.
After months of search I found an orange One near Papenburg with less miles and built in 2010 in good condition. But my stomach fells not good because I had to pay the deposit to an other female person - so I made a phone call with the German distributor Steffen Queck, one day before pick up, and I tell him the VIN and ask for problems with this car. He looked in his computer and tell me that this car had a heavy frontal crash years before and the frame must be not ok.
What a nightmare.
So I cancelled the buy.
Btw, one or two month later the same seller offers this same car and it looks like that he found a buyer. This seller is to take too court.
No Ariel's on market with good conditions.
I searched over an half year and in January this year my wife found one at internet.
In the evening, I came back home from working, she present me the link but the link was death now. The car wasn't available on mobile.de anymore. My luck was that my wife wrote down the phone number of the seller. Immediately I made a phone call with him to ask whether this car is available and YES it was.
Hurry up - two days later I see the car first time. It is a AA 3 300, looks like new, built in 2010, no rust, no scratch and only 406 miles on the steedo. Very best condition.
The first owner was a British gentleman who lives in Monaco and he is a car gatherer with more than 35 cars in his garage.
Cash money on the table and the car was mine.
The last owner made in November 2015 a car assay, we call it in Germany "Einzelabnahme gem. § 21 StVZO" and so I had no problems to get a German registration.
At home my first work was all plastic covers to remove and make a exact look unter the hood. All fine.
So, now I want to change the engine oil, oil filter and the brake fluid. Maybe the gear oil too, but I had never done this - so I don't know how to do this.
Furthermore I want to buy a second transponder because I got only one - I will ask in the clubroom for help.
The brake light is without function but the sensor is ok, I have tested it - so maybe the break pressure is not correct on the left master cylinder but this car have no brake bias.
But my biggest problem is the speedo because he don't show me the correct speed. When I drive 30 miles he show me 10 miles, at full throttle he show me 70 miles. I must find here a solution urgent.
When the weather is more comfortable where you can find me?
I like curves so much, so my play ground is 'Schwäbische Alb', the black forrest and the french, and italian alps (dolomites).
Race tracks at the moment - no - but maybe in the future for learning to bring the car and me to limit and learn what to do.
So that's my story and I hope I get here good conversations and get to know the one or other personally.
Do you have questions - don't hesitate and ask.
Alex
- never, ever for sale
