Disaster!!! Side walls/sill collapsed in - corrosion + bodge job

[DivineE]

ORIGINAL: Outrun944

Hi DivineE - thank you for that ... so yes I take it he works for a company / garage / scrapyard and he won't be 'who the hell are you?' if I call his mobile number? []

He is a company I just don't know the name of it. I think he's even on PCGB somewhere but not a regular 944 forum contributor and I don't know the username.

 

[sulzeruk]

I have a 1984 Lux Automatic here with a perfect shell (DivineE has seen it). Needing the space at my garage so you can have the shell with most of the running gear for £500 if interested. Wings and sills are perfect, not a mark on them at all! Chop out what you need and bin the rest, you can even use my ramp if you want.
Alasdair

 

[Pastry]

forgive my potential ignorance but wouldn't it be better to use a sound shell intact and transfer the mechanicals rather than chop it up to fix a rotten one?

 

[ChasR]

People get very irate about reshelled cars, claiming they are not original and that it signals something sinister. A mate of mine had a 1980 Dolomite Sprint which despite being slightly tatty cosmetically (bubble rust in a couple of places (doors) the frames/sills, inner sills etc. were all mint and nothing on the car had been welded. This was down to the car being on a early 1850 shell (circa 1973: Before BL used the appauling steel that gave BL cars a bad rep). Almost everyone tore that car for not being on an original shell even thought it was probably one of the better shells out there (I remember people paying more for 'original' Sprints with 'only a few patches to the floors and sills') OK maybe it's a grey area but I know which car I'd rather have gone for.