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Originally Posted by Othen
I’m not sure about that Luke. It is really easy to get carried away with the cost of restoring motor cars that will never be worth anything like that much. 240s are nice motor cars of course (we all like them here), but they aren’t all that rare and some aren’t even 30 years old yet. 7/900 motor cars are generally a bit younger and less rare; sometimes it is best just to let them go.
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Alan
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I'm not talking about their value Alan, I'm saying that people are giving up on older cars too easily or are only seeing the quick buck to be had so loads of perfectly good or salveagable cars are disappearing and soon there won't be many left. I mean how often do you see a 740/760 turbo for sale let alone actually driving around? The 240 is more common and if you take the model range in its entirety when was the last time you saw one that wasn't yours driving around? I used to see 200's weekly a few years ago and now I think I've seen one on the road this year!
I do what I do because I enjoy it and want to see these cars on the roads in years to come
If you can do the work yourself then costs can be kept to a minimum, I restored my 360 (except for the paint) for less than £1000.
I've got my blue 760 turbo virtually ready for the MOT and it has only cost me a few hundred to do so. It was rotten so has been fully welded, painted underneath and even given a nice coat of rubberised stonechip to give it a factory finish underneath. It has had a full service, polybush spaceship bushes, new brakes all round, manifold gaskets replaced, turbo return seal replaced, cambelt and front oil seals along with V belts and a thorough clean. If you saw the rot on it you would have expected it to go for scrap but that would have been a complete waste of a perfectly good car.