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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22779 Location: UK

Mmmmm lots of work required here, plus I'm not sure about buying cars that others have (part-) dismantled already. Still, it'd be a looker once restored.

http://ebay.to/1UGrap8

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Rootes75 · Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 11:29 am Post subject:

Lovely looking cars, always pricey. Would this be a cheap way into them?
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Ashley · Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 1426 Location: Near Stroud, Glos

Rootes75 · Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 4:15 pm Post subject:

Looking at the advert properly I would have to agree, not a cheap way into these cars!
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PAUL BEAUMONT · Joined: 27 Nov 2007 Posts: 1281 Location: Barnsley S. Yorks

I agree with Rick on the buying dismantled/partly restored stuff. Usually find expensive bits are missing or you need to undo what has been done because the previous owner either short-cutted or got out of his depth.

7777 · Joined: 21 Aug 2015 Posts: 24 Location: peripatetic

Absolutely not a cheap way in.
There were two chassis available not so long ago which were the cheapest way in. They were both just the metal, nothing else...a cheap way in, an expensive way to find your way out.

There was also a fire-damaged vehicle that was horribly overpriced considering the damage, not sure of the exact model now. Put it this way, though, the fire damage was so intense that the [cast?] engine block itself had melted.

Having said that, it's Dead Man's Boots with this sort of thing. You either do so, and do up, or you pass.

Personally, I would only go for a complete and provenanced car. So many small parts get put into parts bins or boxes and then lost, you would not believe...