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post-26133-1169369675.jpgthis ad was in todays herald sun from melbourne but may be a national ad?

the price sounds ok i guess if you were looking for a 'builder'

http://www.j-spec.com.au/list/index.php?ID=5384

I went and saw that Series 2 yesterday night.

The guy wants 4.7-5.5 for it, I dont really want to pay over 2k but offered 3k for it.

He is reluctant because it is uninsured and any money out of his pocket is money lost (no insurance).

From a stripping point of view, its 100% not worth it if it costs me over 3k.

A crushed strut tower?

Wont be easy to come about the parts.

As far as repairing it, put it this way.

4.5k for the car

+ strut tower panels

+ picking the welds, removing old one, installing new one

+ front lights

+ grill, front bar

+ one quater panel

+ painting

+ front bar reo

+ bonnet

+ radiator support

+ fix front door

+ door hinges

+ airbags

+ one of the door trims is broken

+ windscreen

+ the time of f**king around to get it all fixed

+ upper control arms

+ lower control arms

+ brake disk

+ front hub

+ shock absorber

+ strut brace

+ intercooler

+ pipes

= just spent another 5-6-7k on it. So thats a 11-12,000$ car right there. Then you will struggle to sell it for much over 15k. Not really worth the f**k about and 3-5 months of repairing the thing to make 3k...or in my case 3k divided by 2 people.

And thats just the damage that I picked up on in the 10-15 minutes I was there looking over the car, I didnt have it on a hoist or anything to look underneath.

I was thinking more along the lines of

S/hand 1/4cut, door, door trim, airbags, smic, suspension, hinges, windscreen $2k

R34 front conversion $3.5K

Repair and paint $3K

Strip motor and box and refit along with new front yourself aprrox 3 weekends $Free

That's $8.5K plus $4.5K for the car, so $13k

Not too bad for a series 2 with R34 front if you wanted to keep it

(Note my experience is I have done the same type of repair on 8 other cars before)

But as you said, there could be addition damage a few pictures will not show.

On the other hand, if you stripped the car and could sell 90% of the bits it would return approx $8-9K

8-9K, dont think so

The big things,

Motor/Box/Ecu/Loom - 3k if you are lucky

Interior (seats and door trims) - 1k if lucky

Each door with glass - $400 each if lucky

Not much more after that that would sell in any respectable time. Like, who wants a stagea fuel tank?

This kinda makes it not a great stripper. But as you said it would be a decent fixer for a 34 front

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8-9K, dont think so

The big things,

Motor/Box/Ecu/Loom - 3k if you are lucky

Interior (seats and door trims) - 1k if lucky

Each door with glass - $400 each if lucky

Not much more after that that would sell in any respectable time. Like, who wants a stagea fuel tank?

This kinda makes it not a great stripper. But as you said it would be a decent fixer for a 34 front

Funny about all these damaged STAGEA's. Mine bit the dust on 5/12/06 and the insurance company has just returned it to me. I have attached a single photo, and will be taking more shortly. I am undecided at present but my preference would be to sell as a complete unit instead of stripping/packing and posting bits everywhere.

I suppose if any body has an interest they can pm me.

I have sent you a PM about buying the wreck.

It is pretty clear what my budget for buying a wreck is, plus I'd have to pick it up from Canberra.

A lot of people these days try to sell wrecks for too much IMO, but the person wrecking it still has to make some money for doing it, and like $750-$1000 doesnt make a few weekends worth of work + time to sell the parts worth it really.

Anyway, let me know.

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