So, I've been stressing for weeks about how to sort my roof out without being able to spend fortunes on it and had pretty much come to terms with the fact that it's going to cost, but finding a donor car has been a nightmare. It got me thinking.

Now I have stripped the roof out and the sunroof assembly has all gone, I am left with a single skin with what is, in all honesty, a layer of surface rust over it, really nothing major atall, then half a dozen more serious rust patches very close to where the sunroof hole is, so could be cut back that far in my opinion. Could a decent bodyshop not weld a plate in and get the roof flat again with less agro than cutting the entire roof off? Let's not forget exactly how much work it is to replace the roof and it looks like I will need to spend £300-400 on a donor car to start with, on top of the cost of actually carrying out the swap!

This car will never be concourse, there's just no point, I do want it nice, but have to remain realistic about what it has to put up wth. Therefore it's just not worth a full detailed resto when I will just throw it down a runway as soon as its back on the road.