Love it or hate it

TR8 with rotten sills?

Hmmm, probably, but only if *very* cheap.

Probably a TR7 with a V8 conversion I reckon

Ditto. A mate has one (although I think it's back to 4 cylinders now) and it does look a lot of fun. And sounds pretty amazing. It just ugly as hell. My sort of car ;)

Just been checking out the list of 'places to look' on these for tinworm.

It doesn't give me a warm glow of anticipation. For that reason, I suspect I'll pass.

My tinworm removal skills are not anywhere near good enough or my facilities at all suitable. Best if I stick with the Sylva I reckon.

I'd have one. How much have they offered you to trailer it away?

Dunno what they mean by that - it's the injection that really makes a Vitesse engine.

IIRC, TR7s aren't the easiest of cars to fix bodywork. But a decent one is a very pleasant thing to drive.

Hard top of soft top?

Fairy nuff.

I am sub novice level on things like sill repairs.

Nice.

Tacky.

Not so nice.

Probably, but then I'm a glutton for punishment.

How much?

David

The good side of a grand. The wrong side of a monkey

The engine and mods are probably worth that. IMO it depends how much work it'll take to get it back on the road again & MOT'd.

David

Nope. After meddling with bodywork on my Golf (and stripping another), I'd never buy a car with any rust again. And bear in mind that these were both cars that looked alright for their age. If you want it all gone, it's a pain in the arse. OTOH if you're going to run it as a competition car and finish isn't too important, you might get away with it without pulling your hair out. But my experience is that if there's a bit of rust you can see, there are at least 2 bits you can't somewhere else...

Bingo. Especially in old british cars.

Then you better get used to a new car all the time then.

Plenty of still mint MK2s around. I'd never buy anything modern that wasn't galvanised (or not made of steel). Ever. Even my bird's 95M 106 was galvanised FFS. The only way I'd be interested in something rusty is as a project car, knowing I'd have to spend lots of time and £ to sort it.

Why? My 405 was abused, had a dodgy accident repair, was 11 years old and

Did you look underneith at the suspension parts and carriers? It might not have had body shell rust, but somewhere something would have had some rust on it. And that can be sometimes where it is worse.

I stood underneath it when it was on the ramps at my local garage if that helps. It didn't show any rust anywhere, and I saw it about 6 weeks ago so it hasn't failed on MOT on it yet, and it's still not showing any.

Fair play then. Normally things like suspension arms aren't galvanised as they tend to get swapped with bushes anyway. So when they get chipped they surface rust. Even cars with a good oily coating end up with surface rust.

Couldn't said it better, only I would have mentioned 3 bits.

TDM