Am I taking on too much for my 1st project???

new2sat

Lads,

You know how I was looking for a project vehicle to bring to back to former glory, well I think I might have found it.

I was out for a spin yesterday and stumbled across this beaut.

It’s a one owner, lady driver with full service history.

Now the tax is out and she has been parked up for a little while but sure I could negotiate that in the price.

Please let me know your honest opinions.

Thanking you in advance

:D

mustang68

Hmmm, probably a good starter project, offer the owner between 6 and 8k (think that would be a fair price). From the pics I'd say that the rust is only cosmetic.

Dades

Nothing a bit of T-Cut wouldn't sort out.

Sids Not

I'm guessin they came to fix the roof and were never seen again....:eek:

antodeco

It looks like the air-con model too!

carchaeologist

Might help a bit if you turn the mig welder up to 11....

Lisnagry

Where is the challenge in that?

carchaeologist

Looking at it again,i really like the two tone paintwork.

Sids Not

Seriously though..all you need is a decent set of rims......:p

chiefwiggum

project????? im getting it hard to see what needs doing........good wash should do it

Run_to_da_hills

You can purchase locktite rust converter in any good factors that would turn those panels back into good metal.

dutchcat

LOOKS LIKE A NISSAN 'VANNISH':pac:

2.8trooper

battery,diesel,key go for it

BluePagoda

Is she a genuine Irish van or was she brought in and re registered?

Max_Damage

How in the hell did that happen to a 21 year old vehicle? Did they pull if from a lake or something?

carchaeologist

Max_Damage wrote: »

How in the hell did that happen to a 21 year old vehicle? Did they pull if from a lake or something?

I would take a bet that its near the sea somewhere,it has that kinda look about it. Nothing rots steel better than salt water....

new2sat

carchaeologist wrote: »

I would take a bet that its near the sea somewhere,it has that kinda look about it. Nothing rots steel better than salt water....

And the winner is..............

Yes west Clare, v close to Loop Head.

Could not believe the way the "tin worm" had attacked it.

carchaeologist

new2sat wrote: »

Could not believe the way the "tin worm" had attacked it.

The sea breeze is merciless,i know a guy living near enough to the sea who had an 89 Sierra. He always parked it at the same side of the house facing the same way,when he got rid of it the side facing the weather was rotten and the other side pretty much ok.

It sounds silly to say but theres lots of different kinds of rust.The example about is most definatly sea air rust.

I would have hated to have owned a japanese made car in the 70s/80s in somewhere like that. Unless it was inside and washed regularly it would have had no chance.

Max_Damage

I'm glad I keep my Micra and the Escort Mk3 in Westmeath! So far away from the sea!

Ali Babba

You think that Vannette's bad? Take a look at this VW van dumped in a lake in 1974.........

carchaeologist

Max_Damage wrote: »

I'm glad I keep my Micra and the Escort Mk3 in Westmeath! So far away from the sea!

It was noticable (well,i noticed:rolleyes:) too 15/20 years ago how much older the cars were near the midlands.
Theres a Datsun 140j on the beach near me,only recogniseable from the plastic left from the dashboard. Probably all washed into the sea by now..

Max_Damage

Well, the Escort did live most of it's life in Waterford and Cork. And it has nearly no rust holes at all.

And the K10 in Dublin.

Hifive

I remember being in Strandhill Co. Sligo back in the day when I used to surf. Strandhill is one of the best surf spots in the north west and has a row of houses/shops facing the Atlantic. Salt spray regularly covered everything.

One of the local shop owners, who was right on the sea front had a 4/5 yr old Fiat Ritmo and a Lancia Delta which was maybe a couple of years older.


Oh dear!!

Both were held together with duck tape and body filler.

I was back there a few years later, and the Ritmo had literally rotted into the ground. There was no sign of the Delta, although there was a brown stain on the path outside the house:D

Max_Damage

You'd have to clean up your car with a mop!

carchaeologist

Can you guess what it is yet....

Ali Babba

Datsun 100 AF11 or Sunny?

carchaeologist

Ali Babba wrote: »

Datsun 100A F11

Indeed,possibly past restoration too..

storm2811

theres a VW mini van just wastin away in the field,plan on doin it up someday..once i know how:pac: