ORIGINAL: vic cohen
I believe IRO £40k ...................i saw it when it was 1 owner , did lots of checks and found plenty of cross references, the mileage was to the mile, identical to what it read abt 10 years ealier, only from memory i think its actually less now ! ..................there was NO substantive history and 1 MOT ..............perhaps all these have been, er, found ? It had had a good frontal impact and was very shiny but many coloured , with interesting door alignment , i knew nothing abt the g/box needing repair since the guy who bought it from the Greek owner would nt let it be taken out of the yard ................i still wanted to do a deal , its one of my favourite colours and seemed pretty sound , all the expensive bits were there! I did not want to pay the asking price and called in an expert who after exhaustive inspection confirmed it was worth a lot less than the owner was asking, for example it had new calipers but the rest of the suspension and underneath were a real mess..............if one allowed for the cost of restoring to AVERAGE , not concours or something special ,it would have been alot more than £12k of bills it seems to have acquired ...............as luck would have it i found an all matching numbers S for abt £20k and as Mike rightly infers u can spend loads ............i shall have it finished in the next month [its taken a year] i know the full history and most importantly exactly where i stand ..........................Total cost i admit over budget ! Mike ur not wrong ! Almost too good to use daily but thats what i am hoping to do .................... By the way bodywork on mine done by same shop MW used for the silver one ur quoting from abt 2 years back