£3000 rebuild?

[NicBowman]

Anyone seen the £3k 'project S3C' in the Pistonheads ads. Does that sound expensive for stripped car needing major surgery to bonnet plus respray? What do you recon it is worth? Would the wife accept two TVR's in the garage!

Nic

[clive f]

depends how often you fund the clothes shopping trips!!

[Monkeylegend]

Seems rather expensive to me. Needs new bonnet, probably a complete respray, and while it is stripped down you might as well get the chassis sandblasted and powder coated/painted. When you have done that everything else will look wrong unless you refurbish or replace, Before you know it you will be spending much more than the car will be worth,IMHO. If you want to do it as a labour of love fine, if not buy one that somebody else has spent the money on.

I did the same with a TR6 years ago and never got my money back.

Mind you if you can get it for a lot less maybe!!!!!!!!

[Hoover33]

aint seen the add...but anything off that cost... stay clear..... residuals on cars are at a bottom.... and best spemdinding the money on something totally sorted or half sorted ..... unless under £1500

[19560]

Why not just offer him what you think that it's worth, even if that is less than £1500! If you don't think that it's worth that much then maybe nobody else does either. Sad story and comment about galvanising the chassis and thus risking distortion doesn't inspire confidence about the rest of the work. www.pistonheads.com/sales/detail.asp?i=42862&s=4 How about £6K finished less 1/3 no MoT/tales of the unexpected, less £2K no paint, less up to £1K repairs to bonnet and chassis, less £500 service = £500-£1K. Cheap car as long as you can put it back together for free. Hmmm

[NicBowman]

Would be good for that kind of money. Pity it's in Yorkshire, not easy to pop in from Cambridge. Prices do sem low for S's at the moment? I would have thought summer would have put them up.

Nic

[Harry Flashman]

What summer?