Psycho Warren

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you cant talk jay

RSandy

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i doubt at 11k, hes getting anywhere near breaking even on the cost of parts and labour involved in building this! lets face it, there arent exactly an abundance of mk3 escorts converted to cosworth and built to this quality, so nothing to compare it to in price terms.

personally i wud say keep it, even if u just store it for the short term until u get the love back for it. but i know what u mean beefy, i hate working on my car, and always say i want to sell it. i almost want sum1 to just finish it, and then i can love it complete, but in bits it just seems like a chore rather than fun

fingers crossed u see sense, but if not, some1 will be getting a lovely built shell at, in my own opinion of course, a very reasonable price

liammcl

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Beefy, i've done barely a thing on mine for the last 5 years having bought a house and our daughter is now 4. But I know if I was at the stage you are now, how much I would regret selling it in the future.

I'm not saying you dont have good reason to sell, but fast forward 3-4 years you'll have serious regrets mate.

lockie

i sold mine & was further then this with it, personally i havnt regretted it.

you have to either have:::

shit loads of spare money/or stupidly paid job to want/own a car of this value/age etc....
or
such a passion for old fords that your will never have a girfriend, house or anything of any vaule

i sold up, brought a 4k saff 2wd 340bhp, i can use it everyday without worring if it'll get scratched/dented etc..... still puts a massive smile on my face & beats allot of cars on the road

also its easier/cheaper to insure then somthing like this

imo this mk3 can never be used daily, its more of a show pony so yourll never turely enjoy it

for me i dont want a show car that sits in the garage while i drive something shite like a focus everyday.

all depends what u want & what you can afford mate................

xr2john

Can't believe our selling this beef

I sold off my project xr2 when I moved house and had nowhere to keep it and I kick myself for it now. But at the end of the day it's your decision bud.

If I had 11k I would break you're arm and out it in my garden lol

SiST

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Your mad! I felt the same way with my ST Turbo project a month or so ago. Get a couple of weeks off work and in the garage and the love will soon come back! After all the stress etc, at least finish it before selling it - you may get less cash but you can look back in years to come and say you actually did it

Glenn_

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Just get it finished beef.

BRAMMER

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Wow, really wanted to see this car complete but you must have your reasons Beef

BigChuck

Beefy you need a reality check, you and the guys have put so much time and effort into the car, get if finished and be the owner of one of the best mk3 escorts around, if you must sell, do it when its finished. selling it now would be a big shame. dont make this be another failed project car

take a break from it for a while. come back in a few weeks and hit it hard and finish it.

on the other hand if you really NEED to sell, good luck with it.

kosienutter

Go on go on go on go on go on. Finish it, you'll regret it seeing someone else finishing it and bezzing past u at a track day event

-beefy-

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its not as much the financial side of it making me sell , its the lack of enthusiam at the moment ,


missus has told me i have to leave it where it is , got to ford fair ( which i coulnt be arsed with either ) , and then see how i feel when i get bk


beef

bubs_rsturbo

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lack of enthusiam? surely this is something you always wanted? other wise why was it started!?

neilmanfocus1

Lack of enthusiasm?! Judging by all of your updates on the car you always appear to be buzzing and full of excitement!! I don't come on here often to post, I don't build my own project cars and I am also about to buy a skoda so am probably not the best person to comment,but, PLEASE don't give up with this car!! After following your thread you have come so far with the car that it would be crazy to give up now. Put a nice warm blanket over her, tuck her up for a month or two, enjoy the summer with the missus and your little one then come out to play with it after. Only my two pence worth, but more importantly it gives me a fantastically technical read every few days!!

THEDMAN

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Would the people that have gave you bits gratis and advice, labour not be a bit pissed that you are making money out of them?

T28 RST

Shut up and stop stirring shit

B19LRW

Your Lass has her head screwed on Beef... i have sold so many unfinished projects and then regretted it massively after!

Go ford fair, and then decide.... :0)

ted11

I have followed your thread from the beginning and is the first thing I look at every evening to see your progress, whenever I have had a loss of enthusiasm I read your thread again and im sure plenty of other members have done the same so I was stunned to see your car for sale. You are a larger than life character and probably the most known and respected person on pf and im sure there are lots of projects being done on the strength of your thread. Dont let yourself and k down finish the car and take your 15 minutes of fame when the car wins trophies and magazine features, you both deserve it for the effort and love you have put in so far. Any way if you dont carry on ill have nothing to read every night.

paprst

ohh come on

R4N SS

iTrader: (6)

if its not financial - i would just store it away and come back to it in a year or two down the line. Dont spend any money on it in the time its laid up and come back to it with a fresh mind.

Ive put my 3dr away for a year or two until i can get it done how i want

BigChuck

i dont think anyone would say anything about the money side.

but you kind of do have a point, a lot of people have rallied round and put a lot of effort in because of who beefy is, its not the money, but they may be a bit disappointed and let down that their thier work for beefy is going to waste

M K

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I think you should store it away if it's not financial reasons for you selling it,

It's an awesome shell with some nice parts and touches but your never gonna get 11k for it as it currently stands, there's just not enough there regardless of the on paper costs,

Keep it, enjoy some time away with the baby and wifey and come back to it later when you get a but of enthusiasm back, it would be a shame for it not to be finished after all the hard work everyone has put in so far

You know it makes sense

RSricRS

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You can't let a shonky mk3 escort shell beat you! lol, i thought you would be over the moon now its all just been painted etc cant you be putting bits and bobs together on the shell? thats the best bit aint it? it didnt take long for karl to have mine built up from a shell roughly 3 weeks in total?

Can you imaging how a felt mate with what i went threw, SORT YOUR ACT OUT!!!!!

Consider yourself told big man

Northants Ford Fan

Beefy I wouldn't normally post on these types of threads, as in the end its up to you what you do, but get yourselve to ford fair with the lads and enjoy a break from away from the car, as the amount of effort and money you have put into this recently is huge and its not surprising your burnt out when it comes to the car, but beware you sell it before taking a break from it at the next show afterward I think you might get a cheeky slap of me

special-K

To say im pissed off you thinking of selling it dont come close beef i didnt spend all that time and effort for you too sell it to someone else to finish it. I built it for you so get ya head out of ya arse .....K

BARS789

go on beef go on beef

DazS1Turbo

Pop round with 2 Parmo's and a 4 pack of Stella and sort his head out!!!

Mr RS500

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Beef

you have hit the 70% wall

It happens to almost everyone who ever builds a car , you seem to be 70% there and then for no reason what so ever you just simply lose the plot and give up

I did with my Caltex car , I covered it over and left it for a few months then collected a few more parts and then as quick as i lost intrest it came back and i finished it

You see so many car builds for sale at the " shell all painted " stage and it always amazed me as all the hard work is done and i wondered why after all that work people just gave up , Now i understand as ive been there

Walk away for a few weeks , spend time with the Family and after a few weeks of them getting on your nerves ( lol ) you will be back at it

Paul

-beefy-

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appriceate the comments folks


spoke it over with anne marie and k , at this point its no longer for sale ,

the 1 offer i did get of 9.5 k just didnt justify selling the thing for that ,

as ive said its not the financial side , as the whole car stands it dosent owe anyone a single penny ......


off to ford fair with cutch, at the weekend , see if i can regain my excitement for the lump of shiny metal !!

scratch18

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glad to see your not selling beefy, you just need you enthusiaum back, ford fair will do that i hope. wait till you start building it back up, sit on it for a while. i had a three dr cossie with all the parts to do and i regret selling that. good luck with it either way

will keep an eye on it

YOREVOL

go away to ford fair with your mates, it might just rekindle your enthusiasm for the car. if not then LISTEN TO K!

JonnyBravo

Good to hear your keeping it but a offer of 9.5k was IMO a very good offer.

Its going to be ( and already has been ) a extremely expensive car to finish to a good standard, if you can afford to throw that sort of money around then get it done or this will only end up being back up for sale in a few months or a year.

Like others, been there done it, failing that sell it and buy something nearly ready to go that you can put your own name on

Northants Ford Fan

glad you have seen sense beefy

cossiedevil

Good to hear beef mate you will love it when its finished,i understand where you are coming from mate hard to see the finish and plus for me with family like yourself its hard sometimes to get the time needed to keep at it this for me makes the loss of interest from time to time,but it does come back plus like yourself i have a very good partner.

foci

Beef the moment you turn that key and hear it roar into life for the first time will make it all worth while. Please don't give up mate. You can do it

andy888

what was the point in this thread? imo you had no intention of selling it were u just wanting people to tell you its great and not to sell?

ive followed the full build thread and its a work of art and really hope you finish it whether its this year or 5 years down the line!

your pal karl seems like a top guy and has done 90% of the build and i would be pissed if i was him if you were thinking of selling at this stage! surely now it only gets better as you can start bolting bits on and it will start looking like a car?

anyway good luck with the future build it will be a top car when finished and you will wonder why u ever considered selling.

cutch

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Dont worry folks, we're getting the big guy down to ford fair so he can see all the pretty cars and get his head out of his arse! I want to park my mk3 beside my mates mk3 at the next ford fair! Oh and Special K is building me another one too! woohhooo

trossnova

mate i was at this point with my project but got back on with it and im so glad i didnt sell it
cant wait to see your next updates wen u finally get that motivation back .....