Purchased Austin 1100 for £140 - Help

[greggy50]

I have just for some reason purchased an Austin 1100 I have seen on facebook for £140

Don't know much about these cars own a mini and led to believe they are quite similar?

I know it is an 1100 A Series so will get it all running again nicely as have a few spare bits and pieces lying around buy in terms of welding will get help.

How much are these cars worth sorted as had it as a sort of project to sell on when sorted and hopefully learn more about bodywork in the process

Led to believe the whole floor and doors are in good order however subframe mounts, wings, and bonnet needs work the suspension is meant to be okay and then obviously brakes and stuff will need some work doing as well

Few pictures I have atm

[Raize]

If you get it to perfect condition it will be worth just over £1,000. Scrap it now and cut your loss.

[greggy50]

Raize said:

If you get it to perfect condition it will be worth just over £1,000. Scrap it now and cut your loss.

Don't want to scrap it would rather rescue the car as it was destined for the scrap heap when I purchased it...

[530dTPhil]

Automatic option isn't the best or most popular of specifications.

[richs2891]

Evaluate the car to see if its worth repairing or you can do the work your self else break it for spares. Could be some good learning in breaking it down, with the cost of welding gear

[rallycross]

It looks to be quite good from those pics
I learned to drive in one of these on an airfield when I was 5 (in the 70's) they were already rusty mot failures by then, your one looks to be a 1968 model it must have been stored in a dry garage to survive all this time !
Must be worth saving but has little or no value (yet).

[interloper]

How bad can it be? At least it was cheap!

Get over onto the Classics and yesterdays heroes forum and see what the collective wisdom is. Personally if I had just "accidentally" bought that I would be trying to work out how cheaply I could get the old lump through an MOT and back on the road.

[TheRealFingers99]

I'd think there are very few left. I remember my sister getting one airborne over a humped back bridge.

Crack out the MIG and away you go.

From memory, they handle pretty well -- as you'd expect -- like a big mini.

[greggy50]

I think my option is to see how much it will take to get the thing through an MOT

If costs appear to be very high will consider breaking it for spares but don't want to resort to that if I can...

[J4CKO]

Getting these running is easy, just needs a small tree branch.

[greggy50]

This seems like one in usable condition as you say worth about £1100 and would not call this concourse looking at the description

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Austin-1100-Mk2-2-Door-S...

Its quite a sweet little thing

It just depends how rusty it really is and what is missing to be honest...

End of the day if it is pretty fked will break it down and then scrap it as should easily get my money back and more

Hopefully I can save it however!

[Zyp]

J4CKO said:

Getting these running is easy, just needs a small tree branch.

'I've laid it on the line to you time, and time again...'

[750turbo]

J4CKO said:

Getting these running is easy, just needs a small tree branch.

How many youngsters will get that!

[greggy50]

750turbo said:

How many youngsters will get that!

I am 22 and even I know what Fawlty Towers is!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78b67l_yxUc

[Zyp]

It's on Dave most weeks

[Gareth1974]

Zyp said:

'I've laid it on the line to you time, and time again...'

"...You vicious bd"

[soad]

Gareth1974 said:

"...You vicious bd"

"This is it! I'll going to give you a damn good thrashing!"

[moleamol]

Fit a nice little 1.3 to it. From a Hayabusa.

[s m]

When I was small we used to go on holiday to Spain in one of these...albeit the 1300 version. I had some plastic colouring felt tips, left them on the back parcel shelf and they melted in the heat of the sun.


Salad Days, salad days......

[greggy50]

Had considered engine conversion but first thing first is to see how much of a state it is in... I am sure a vauxhall lump would fit under the bonnet quite easily

Have a mate who has restored a few cars so he can give me a realistic view of whether to break if for bits or fix it up