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General Car Related Discussion.To discuss anything that is related to cars and automotive technology that doesnt naturally fit into another forum catagory.
lets not go off topic now...BUT...its well documented from people that have ACTUALLY seen Boyd's cars in the flesh that they arn't actually"perfect" regardless of ANY imposed time frame/s...Foose,is on another level to Boyd...anyway back on to topic.....this RS500,its a shame but shit happens......i'm sure it will be saved or reshelled for some unsuspecting fool!
Thats a crime, knowing nothing about 3door sierra, let alone the rs500 just how much work and potentialy costs involved would restoring this actually be? To what you guys would call a decent standard.
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I would say with an engine / box rebuild and a body resto aprox 15k mate
that dont look to that bad to me
iv fixed and made mint alot worse than that
im sure you have done worse & made mint. trouble is this is probably (i cant say for sure but i do get the impression) is only gonna be trarted up. cant really see the welding being done to a high standard so you cant even see its been done. just plated to mot standard
would a welded shell be considered as"mint" anyway?...i know i'd be fucked off if i paid good money for a RS500 that i later found out had been welded in many places!!
I would say with an engine / box rebuild and a body resto aprox 15k mate
if it took 15k to rebuild it how would you break the cost down
10k body
4k engine
1k gearbox
what would a realistic resale value be ,i would say 15k max unless it was a real low miler
thats what id do. but would you carry on the chassis numbers to the new shell. i know i would. trouble is its always going to affect the re sale value. so its never going to be a 20k rs500
i think your about right there mate as that body would need around 6 to 7 month solid graft to sort it out and then there is the price of getting it blasted or dipped cos if its that rotten it would need it and as for the engine look at the state of the clutch it would need every senssor and absolutley everything stripped cleaned or renued
i mean just think how badly coroded things like the throtle body will be and the amount of work that one little part would cost to make good again
thats what id do. but would you carry on the chassis numbers to the new shell. i know i would. trouble is its always going to affect the re sale value. so its never going to be a 20k rs500
I cant understand ppl like this why let it go to ruin? maybe its just me i love all rs cars & if i thought i would leave one rotting like this i would rather see someone else with it making something of it..Hope it gets done right poor car
I cant understand ppl like this why let it go to ruin? maybe its just me i love all rs cars & if i thought i would leave one rotting like this i would rather see someone else with it making something of it..Hope it gets done right poor car
some people always plan to start it tomorrow but never quite get around to it.
carlo....i know what you mean..BUT,,,anyone could buy one of these cars in the day...it's not like an Enzo(if you know what i mean) and unfortunatly some did end up in less than caring hands....just like the reaction of a rusty Audi RS4 found in years to come by the Audi brigade!.....I remember that 500 that was dumped(or forgotten) in a field and a train driver found it and bought it after some investigation..anyone remember that?
Well i know for sure it would be hard to build back up using genuine parts as passenger wings are like hens teeth (apart from one advertised on here recently).
Jacko a train driver used to drive down this stretch of track(in the early 90 to mid 90's) and used to see this RS500 sitting in a field,and he was a RS fan(so he knew what he was seeing!). Well one day on his day off,he worked out where he had seen this car from his cabin and eventually found the car!.. It was totally stranded there and hadn't been moved in ages!....he then went through the labourious task of tracking the owners or tennants of this field. He finally found them and they turned out to be some telecomunications company that brought this car as company car and had actually FORGOTTEN about its exsistance.......anyway,he eventually brought the car for a very good price then sent it away to be detailed,and then sold it on from what i remember!!
reshell...wouldnt waste my time with that!, as foreveryone saying what a waste...remember you could score a 500 for around 6-7k back in the 90s with the insurance premiums, so the guy had a few quid and didnt give a fook about his old sierra