Originally Posted by
Shings
I fail to get your point.
Ringer or re shell... how do you know???
Plenty of people re shell their cars into good 2nd hand shells and use the 'better' cars id.
To that point why would you ring a none RS Mk3 Escort into a S1 - that doesn't make sense.
Isn't a ringer supposed to be where you take a stolen car and change the id - so in this case it would need to be a stolen Mk3 escort that got rung as an S1.
It happens all the time on RS's because they're worth more than the equivilent standard car and people want to keep their cars alive.
So... if you know that its re shelled and it makes sense as to why and its priced correctly what is the problem?
In my eyes this guy has been as honest as he possibly knows how to be, the advert is poor and he obviously cant spot a good interior from a bad one but the car appears to be priced about right so I'd happily buy it if it was something I was interested in.
Its illiegal to change the id from one shell to another unless its a new service shell for repairs.....unless he has a receipt which he almost certainly doesnt, then thats a ringer and ilegal. Its not even a good one as the shell is clearly the wrong one. The car IMO would be nothing but trouble
Ringing is just hiding the true identity of a shell with another id, simple as that.
I agree its worth the sum of the parts maybe, and obviously fine for a track car, but all it would take is a nosey MOT man with a bit of knowledge and it could ( not would ) get reported/seized/crushed etc. Is it worth the risk when theres plenty of others similar?