Here are some photos;

The car just before I got it, paint wear, bad CV joints, cracked radiator, home-made head gasket and a motor with 355,000kms (but still going strong):






Then my Dad's girlfriend (a Commodore driver who never learnt to drive a manual properly), drove it work, was speeding (over 110km/h) in 4th gear, and the motor started overheating, and she kept driving.

I don't have pics, but the end result was a cracked cylinder block, along with a blown head gasket, and a MELTED timing cover...

But it kept going until it could go no more...

My Dad (who lives at the top end of Tassie), rang me and broke the news, he'd already offered me the car...

We had two choices, throw it and look for another car, or get another engine...

Turns out Dad knew of another Concerto, sitting in the wrecking yard with a smashed front end, but a perfectly fine (and youngish - 180,000km) engine, ours for only $750...

So I decided on the engine change, here are some pics:

Old engine about to come out


And out


Me and my Dad with the engine


Empty engine bay


New motor??


And the motor in and car running