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Hi all, saw this on ebay 30 minutes after the auction started and after a very quick call to the seller I hit the “buy it now” button and she was mine. She’s a 1970 KE17 Sprinter, owned by only two owners for the last 20 years. In the 7 years the most recent previous owner had it it’s been almost completely restored, with a bare metal respray and completely retrimmed interior. It has KE20 disc brake front end and KE20 full height seats which have be re-upholstered to suit the rest of the interior. Unfortunately the paint prep wasn’t the best, and there’s a few bubbles/humidity blisters coming through. The doors and guards have been pretty extensively repaired so I'd like to replace them at some stage. The bonnet and bootlid are rust free, but have a few little dents that will need to be tidied up. The engine bay was left untouched during the re-paint and then sprayed rattle can black afterwards, so it could use the engine pulled out and paintwork tidied up. Wouldn’t be any fun if there wasn’t anything for me to do though! Here a few of the features from the previous owner’s ebay ad; Engine - 3K stage 2 cam, 40 thou over rebore, flat top pistons, double valve springs, fully worked head, 2 x 40mm webers, extractors, electronic dizzy, electric fuel pump, all work done 4yrs ago, only done 5000kms since rebuild. Body - Back to bare metal respray and all rust removed 3yrs ago and painted in Polar White, small bubbles in paint above drivers door otherwise in very good condition. Interior - New carpet, new hoodlining, new doors rubbers, all seats and door trims re-upholstered in Black vinyl, CD player head unit fitted inside glovebox with amp and 6 stacker in boot. Wheels - Brand new Superlites with near new tyres, front 13x5.5 rear 13x7.5. Gearbox - Split case Celica 5 speed, rebuilt same time as engine rebuild, new clutch fitted with lightened flywheel. Suspension - KE20 disc brake front end with coil-over shocks, new ball joints and wheel bearings, rear suspension standard with heavy-duty shocks. Now hunting for an undented KE1x front bumper, a tacho cluster, centre console and an original steering wheel if anyone has any of these things for sale Here's some pics