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 MOT failure, and maybe getting a few hundred quid back; breaking her for spares, and maybe getting a bit more than that; or hanging onto her pending a complete restoration that may never happen. In all honesty, I doubt that I will ever gain the requisite welding and bodywork skills to do the job myself, and I know that the cost of paying professionals to put a car like this right is going to be approximately the same as buying a perfectly-restored car. Ideally, she would need a new chassis, a new body shell, new doors, new boot lid, and a new bonnet.
However, I am currently in denial, and am finding it really difficult to accept that my beloved Spit is scrap. She can sit in the garage for a few days while I try to come to terms with this, and then I will probably take off the (near-perfect) hard-top and sell it, as the first step on the road to saying goodbye.
:-(((
ATB -- Mike Ellie - 1963 White Herald 1200 Convertible GA125624 CV Connie - 1968 Conifer Herald 1200 Saloon GA237511 DL Carly - 1977 Inca Yellow Spitfire 1500 FH105671
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