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Polarbear wrote: | Go watch a few episodes of 'Shed & Buried' to see how quickly some things can deteriorate. |
In my follacious youth, I built a kit car. Despite having access to a garage and a fair amount of free time (stuuuuudent), things went wrong with it while it was just sitting there. It was like painting the Forth bridge just trying to get it to an MOTable state.
In the end I actually gave it away "90% complete" when I moved house, and thought that was a bargain.
All that said, it was enjoyable and educational, so I would suggest looking into kit cars if you want a project, rather than starting with a rusted out beetle shell. ____________________ Biking is 1/20th as dangerous as horse riding.
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Sounds like you're bored outside of work Sammy. Maybe a mechanics course evening classes at the local college?
It will all come in handy and you'll start to develop a social circle away from work. Alternatively, go on the pull.
Once theres a woman involved you'll be saying goodbye to any hobbies you might have, in my experience they
don't like competing for your attention against things you actually enjoy doing. I was in a band when I met Mrs grr.
Was being the operative word. It's been 17 years now since I was in a band, pretty much long enough to have
forgotten how to play. ____________________ Currently enjoying products from Ford, Mazda and Yamaha
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Agree with pretty much all that's been said here.
Smiler, if you have a written off K100 then consider building a Grinnal scorpion with it, at least you'll have a starting point parts wise. Kit cars are less and more of a pain in the arse at the same time.
On one hand it's all new panels, and it should be thought out already for things like engine mounts, wiring loom routing, holes in the tub for pipes and cables etc.
Its more of a pain trying to build something to pass the SVA/IVA though, and you'll end up doing it differently to how you wanted, or else building to suit the regs, and having the expense of more parts and accessories after to make it how you want it to look.
Forget cars for other people and profit. And forget an old car resto as a learning project or just something to take up your free time. It'll never get finished if it's a (just summat to do for a laugh) project.
It's only worth having and fixing up an old car if your daft and sentimental like me, and won't ever need to rely on it as a daily hack, or need the space or money it's taking up, for more useful stuff in life. Like wise it's OK building a deliberate track day or competition rally car etc, if it's not even your second vehicle and won't need to be driven to events on the road, with all the compromises that entails. ( You look much more serious anyway if you turn up with it on a trailer)
I'm into 1980's-90's Coupes, as a general rule of interest. My 94 Rover was an ex track day car that was put back onto the road, and im still finding out things that arnt great about it for road use. Its always going to end up as a sunny day summer car, and to take to a few owners club meets or car shows. Its got no more use than that, and can't ever really be a good daily hack, unless it was put back to standard.
If you want an old car to work on/maintain or modify then as people say start with something that's got a solid rot free body. I know thats a contradiction in terms in a 70's-90's car, but buy something that someone else has spent the ££££'s saving and repairing the body and painting etc.
Also as said average Joe in the street can't do a car resto realistically even if they wanted to. You need the tools, equipment and car lifts, trade rates and access to machine shops, trimmers, auto electricians, panel beaters and spray booths etc.
A guy with a garage business, or in the trade has access to some of the above easily compared to you or I, and has contacts, mates rates and bartering of trades to help him out.
I can't weld except pigeon poo Arc, can't do bodywork or make panels, or paint a car well. I have no access to machine shops or specialised equipment like engine cranes, wheel alignment jigs, body shell rotisseries etc etc.
All I can do for myself is unbolt stuff, refurbish smaller parts and bolt them back on. I don't have the space or facilities to build an engine, and I wouldn't attempt it now unless I lived next door to a machine shop/engine services place. You need to be able to shim things up, or shave a few thou off here or there or skim mating faces as you go along. I've known too many people send engines away for machining work, and expect a nice simple bolt everything back together job after, which fails straight away as something doesn't fit, or has the wrong tolerances etc. You want to be able to solve those problems on site, not wait weeks for stuff to come back from a shop and still might not be right.
I've come to the conclusion that working a full time job and having other demands on my free time means I won't be able to learn all the skills to restore an old rotten car, let alone ever find the space or cash to get all the equipment to do everything myself, even if I knew what I was doing. You can't use your pride and joy project as a learning curve or to gain years of experience enough to confidently tackle a restoration yourself.
I accept this and will always if I want stuff done like bodywork, re-sprays, re-wiring or re-trimming upholstery pay out for a specialist to do the job for me. If you can find the cash to spend on getting stuff done, it'll be way quicker and more likely to get completed and finished than you trying to do everything yourself, not to mention cheaper. If you have to buy welders, sheet metal forming tools, presses etc and learn how to use them properly and get the results you want, that's years of time gone that most middle age working people will never have.
I've got plans for my car but stuff like fitting, wiring and mapping a new ECU is obviously going to be for a specialist. Those that think a job like this is a quick learn DIY process that'll have a perfect running car at the end of it are normally kidding themselves. I do know a few people that have had old cars and projects for say 20years or more unfinished, because they wanted to do everything themselves, and didn't have the time or skill or even the cash to do it once they had bought all the gear.
Have a think about what you want and go from there. If a 70's VW bug is your denied dream car that's a keeper for life come richer or poorer, then that's one thing, but it'll always be better to buy one that's nearer the dream car state than a rusty project.
Wanting to learn new skills or trades? Well don't start with your own car and tools, better to spend a few £££ or more on college or courses or get a job in the trade and learn on other peoples training vehicles stuff instead. |
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Not a car as such and no engine modification so far, other than doing the cambelt and a quick service, but I built this campervan from a VW Shuttle.
All interior was homemade on the drive with basic power tools and sprayed in 2Pac in the garden. I stripped it back to a bare shell inside, soundproofed, insulated, wired the 12V, added ply boarding and carpeted the lot.
I then fitted the usual side bars and roof bars before lowering it on Bilstein B14 coilovers and fitting AC Wheels alloys.
Still got plenty to do such as a lower front spoiler and a sliding and revolving double seat base, which will probably be done towards the end of the summer as cash allows. I also have plans for the Webasto Top C coolant heater to divert it to run a heat exchanger in the back to provide heat and hot water. It has a rear heating/AC unit, but this currently only works from the engine coolant and vehicle battery, through the normal heater fans.
It's good fun as a rolling project though and probably worth more than I've spent on it, even 3 years in.
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What a waste of 2 appreciating classics! ____________________ TZR250 2MA road, TZR250 1KT road, TZR250 2MA race, TDR250, YZF-750R Boost colours.
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Polarbear wrote: | Shaft wrote: |
What Morris, surely not the Marina? |
Moggy 1000 I expect although Marinas for some obscure reason are starting to get popular |
I think rarity value is the main factor, there's less than 300 on the road now, which is a pretty high rate of attrition, considering they made over a million of them.
To be fair, the Marina is a Moggy under the skin and, as such, can make a really good Q car, but before you can contemplate any kind of performance increase, they take some serious suspension and brake mods to make them driveable
Edit There's a half reasonable 1700 on egay just now, which could be bought for a grand - awful colour and the wrong bodyshell, but there's an opportunity for an O series turbo engine swap, which could be worked out while you're waiting for some decent replacement body panels to come up. ____________________ Things get better with age; I'm close to being magnificent........
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Okay, who bought it for one hundred pounds? |
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Jeez, when you said a bit more modern, I didn't think I'd be looking at a car that went out of production 65 years ago!
Thing is, if you like the look of the MO Oxford, why would you not go for a Minor, a car that has a huge parts industry around it, a raft of web resources and a long history of being modified, all the things the Oxford hasn't?
As a car modifying novice, one way or another you will need lots of help, something the Oxford will struggle with - the best bit is, a well modified Minor has a value at the end of it, the MO has no value, unless it's a sympathetic and standard restoration. ____________________ Things get better with age; I'm close to being magnificent........
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What you want there is a Riley 4/Seventy Two, that would turn heads anywhere. ____________________ Things get better with age; I'm close to being magnificent........
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Do you think they ever caught a thief in one? |
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Shaft wrote: | Jeez, when you said a bit more modern, I didn't think I'd be looking at a car that went out of production 65 years ago!
Thing is, if you like the look of the MO Oxford, why would you not go for a Minor, a car that has a huge parts industry around it, a raft of web resources and a long history of being modified, all the things the Oxford hasn't?
As a car modifying novice, one way or another you will need lots of help, something the Oxford will struggle with - the best bit is, a well modified Minor has a value at the end of it, the MO has no value, unless it's a sympathetic and standard restoration. |
The longer body of the morris oxford looks a lot better than the minor. The oxford base was used in a lot of cars in that time period none of them good mainly austin from what I've read so far. Value doesn't bother me it won't be looking shiny in the end anyway. It would be a matt black rat.
The only newer car that I actually liked with a similar body is the pt cruiser. Then they are just a mess when you acyually look into them. ____________________ CB125>CG125>GN125>ER5>K100RS>R1100RS>K100RS
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I'd love to have the facilities to build something like this.
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 6 years, 40 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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