Dear All,
Thank you very much indeed for your sympathy and advice. It seems
clear that most of you believe that just repairing the present problems
is not a sensible option (regardless of whether I intended to sell the
car or keep her). That leaves me with the options of selling her as an
M
My sympathies. I went through this 12 years ago with my first spitfire and
it's still
tucked in the garage (luckily I have garage space) awaiting a restoration.
One other option: teach yourself to weld and do the work yourself. That's
how
I keep my current spit road legal. And I don't mean wi
..."look around for a physically sound car that has mechanical problems"...
Joe, Mike is in Bedfordshire (a bit north of London) in England, not
Arizona. It rains a bit more around there! Inadequately maintained cars
that nevertheless have a sound body are pretty much non-existant in these
parts
Michael,
There is another option you have not listed and it might be the best one
of all.
You could look around for a physically sound car that has mechanical
problems and merge the best parts from two cars' to form one very solid
car. It will not be an overnight fix but in the end it could possi
Hi Michael,
so sorry to hear about your misery. Not good news at all.
As you may know, body work is what Wilf and I do best and we sooo
often see people pour a lot of money into mechanics, parts, interior, without
realizing that the body/chassis, the structure of the car, is falling apart
f
Bummer about your bad news, Michael. For my tuppence-worth, I would say take a
bunch of photos of you smiling in the car and sell her as an MOT failure /
project car.
If she does need a body-off job, making the repairs now isn't going to change
that, so I'm guessing MOT isn't going to make much d
Mike,
Very sorry to hear of your problems with Carly. I know just where you are -
this is exactly what happened to Carly's identical sister Daffy, about a
year and a half ago. Heartbreaking.
One idea I toyed with was a Hurricane body:
http://www.caburn.demon.co.uk/Contents/CaburnEngineering/Hur
