found this in a garage near to me. its a local car & has been sitting in someones garden for over ten years. the owner has now decided he wants it rebuilt & restored, so he has taken the car to people who dont know anything about cosworths let alone rs500's the pictures dont really do it justice, it really is much worse in real life. every panel is either rotten, dented or both. there's not much floor left. rear chassis rails are just crumbling away in your hands & floor to sill both sides are non existant. dont know haw someone let a car of this value get this bad. people have been knocking on his door for years trying to buy it off him but he just wont sell it. i rember him taking his daughter to school in it when i was at school (13 years ago) & it was always caked in shit & neglected then. good luck to them rebuilding it, there gonna need it

 

loooool lovely.....thats going to take yers to sort out

 

its a shame and now it will cost a lot to get that back to good condition.

 

theres no need,what a plank,i cant understand people who dont sell them if they cant afford em

 

not worth it imho!

 

problem is, the type of garages he's taking it to, its just gonna be mot standard work. ie plated up schultz'd & painted. it'll probably look nice but wont ever be a good car or worth much

 

thats what i thought. fair enough if you was gonna be doing the work yourself for the love of the car it'd be worth it. as it is though, reaisticaly its probably gonna cost over Ł15k to get a half descent jobe done, then it never gonna be worth that

 

he deserves a bloody big slap

 

cheaper to re shell it.

 

to think there are guys on here that would chop off a limb to own a car with that history and clean it so you could eat yor dinner off it..........

 

he would make more from breaking it i would say!

 

theres more that 15K of work needed there i think, wat a waste !!

 

So sad....

 

What a shame.

 

Not sure but was this the Cat D one left on the driveway for years???

 

not sure. where is the cat d one?. think there was a story with this car but i cant remember what

 

What a real shame

Find out who owns it and tell him i will buy it , lol,

 

people have been trying for years & he wont. also he apparenty thinks it'll be worth 40k when its done

 

Good luck to him

 

poor sierra

 

Its a project all right - for the right price it could be done of course... Paul cud do couldn't you boss?

 

Take it he works for jnc28 then?

 

x2 cheaper to reshell,still what a shame left in the garden

 

I would love to get that in my workshop Andy and restore it for the owner ,

as you say tho it wont be cheap

 

That would love a Boyd Coddingtion restoration...

Whoever watches American Hotrod on Sky will know what i mean

 

i know what you mean mate.. wonder what you would do to it :S

 

mate dont get me started il get all anorak with you lol

 

what a waste

 

Fucking hell, it looks like it lived at the bottom of the sea for a few years of its life.

 

As sad as it seems,if the majority of RS500's were used daily from day one by any member of joe public,they would be in pretty much the same state(OK maybe not as bad,but pretty ropey!) today...as sad as is it seems!
I know all us RS enthusiasts think as these cars as some of the better models to grace the RS world,but fact is there were plenty of non RS fans that brought RS's back in the day. My neightbour had a new S1,3 door,RS500 and saphire..and they didn't know didley sqwat about its worth or shall we say importance back then!
These posts bring back the reality of the RS brand to me,fast cars which joe public can afford to buy and out perform many a dearer sports car at the same time!!

Still a shame though...and i'm sure its the same for it's owner...but hindsight and all that!!

 

I'd buy it and have it turned around in less than 3 months looking mint, but i doubt they would let it go for the cash i'd offer.

Shame.

 

what a bad building team that cuts LOADS of corners?...i'd rather have Chip Foose do it!

 

haha dont worry mate iv seen nearly every episode... dont really watch many different channels

 

You forgot to add all because of some fuckwit and his monkey setting unrealistic time frames, only to blame it on the work force!

 

what a shame

 

poor car!

 

It's sad to see it in such a state but at the end of the day it's his car to do with as he pleases. It'll be interesting to see the quality of the work when they're finished with it.

 

must have been well hid up to survive in yarmouth without bein towed off :blub:

when i worked at pertwee the parts guy in gorleston said he'd go bid em for me but wouldnt tell me where it was

 

apparently it's considered bad taste to take the piss out of someone who's dead

 

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.

Cheers