A bit of Eunos advice please...
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Hi All,
My Dad has an 'H' plate, V Spec Eunos Roadster that he has owned since 2001. I got it for him for £2,500 when I worked in the trade and it came in as a PX.
He had many happy years of fun in it but it hasn't been driven for the last 3 years and we have been advised that to get it back on the road, it will need at least a new battery, brakes all round and some welding. The hood has also seen better days so would need replacing ideally, though it is water tight.
We had talked about me having the car to turn into a track day toy for a bit of fun but I'm not sure I have the time (and certainly not the mechanical skill) to actually make this happen, I am very tempted though.
For the last few months, the car has been sitting at our friend's local garage waiting for Dad to make a decision on which direction is best to move forward and over the weekend someone has offered him £300 to take it 'as is'. Although I am realistic and know that a currently un-roadworthy car has minimal value, I have no idea if this is a fair price or not.
Part of me is reluctant to let it go for such a small amount of money when it is ultimately a cracking little car with a great engine having only covered 124,000 km.
My rough calculations tell me that to do the welding, brakes, battery and hood would probably cost me around £750 and the finished car would probably not be worth much more than that so maybe not cost effective but I'm torn and would appreciate some advice from some of the experts on here.
Apologies for the long winded post!
My Dad has an 'H' plate, V Spec Eunos Roadster that he has owned since 2001. I got it for him for £2,500 when I worked in the trade and it came in as a PX.
He had many happy years of fun in it but it hasn't been driven for the last 3 years and we have been advised that to get it back on the road, it will need at least a new battery, brakes all round and some welding. The hood has also seen better days so would need replacing ideally, though it is water tight.
We had talked about me having the car to turn into a track day toy for a bit of fun but I'm not sure I have the time (and certainly not the mechanical skill) to actually make this happen, I am very tempted though.
For the last few months, the car has been sitting at our friend's local garage waiting for Dad to make a decision on which direction is best to move forward and over the weekend someone has offered him £300 to take it 'as is'. Although I am realistic and know that a currently un-roadworthy car has minimal value, I have no idea if this is a fair price or not.
Part of me is reluctant to let it go for such a small amount of money when it is ultimately a cracking little car with a great engine having only covered 124,000 km.
My rough calculations tell me that to do the welding, brakes, battery and hood would probably cost me around £750 and the finished car would probably not be worth much more than that so maybe not cost effective but I'm torn and would appreciate some advice from some of the experts on here.
Apologies for the long winded post!
Thanks for the replies. I tend to agree that the perceived value for the seller will always be greater than for a buyer. Ultimately, everything is only worth as much as someone is willing to pay for it. As I said, the car only cost £2.5K fourteen years ago and has been thoroughly enjoyed so owes him absolutely nothing.
I will be sad to see it go though as it was my first introduction to rear wheeled drive motoring and I well remember the embarrassment of ending up facing the wrong way, coming off a roundabout when I thought it would be a great idea to see if the back end would step out at a relatively low speed... It did, I looked like an idiot and I had an irate father in the passenger seat who thought I was going to kill his new pride and joy within day's of him buying it. Taught me a lot about car control though... or rather the lack of it that I possessed back then.
I will be sad to see it go though as it was my first introduction to rear wheeled drive motoring and I well remember the embarrassment of ending up facing the wrong way, coming off a roundabout when I thought it would be a great idea to see if the back end would step out at a relatively low speed... It did, I looked like an idiot and I had an irate father in the passenger seat who thought I was going to kill his new pride and joy within day's of him buying it. Taught me a lot about car control though... or rather the lack of it that I possessed back then.
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