£8000 budget for Mk2 did not work - so plan B but need help

[jamrock]

thats crazy mate!! w have the maintance board to help.

anything else just ASK, so many helpful folk with plenty of knowledge

[j_jza80]

If you have an £8000 budget, & intend to do a restoration, the colour is surely irrelevant? 

 

Does it not have a colour code on the VIN plate?

[Thom89]

Is this thread about building a really good Oak green Valver, or about building something that should be considered to be concours?
they are 2 entirely different things and can be thousands of £££s apart....
Thom

[danny_p]

Is this thread about building a really good Oak green Valver, or about building something that should be considered to be concours?
they are 2 entirely different things and can be thousands of £££s apart....
Thom

well said

[Wayne]

Is this thread about building a really good Oak green Valver, or about building something that should be considered to be concours?
they are 2 entirely different things and can be thousands of £££s apart....
Thom

well said

+1 spot on

[Bieldside]

Its about having a genuine Mk2 16v in Oak Green to keep - as yet I am undecided about having a faithful restoration or having a wolf in sheeps clothing version

Depends on the money over and above cost of donor car

But externally it would be a standard car as it was leaving the factory - but internally plus engine

[Gloves88]

Its about having a genuine Mk2 16v in Oak Green to keep - as yet I am undecided about having a faithful restoration or having a wolf in sheeps clothing version

Depends on the money over and above cost of donor car

But externally it would be a standard car as it was leaving the factory - but internally plus engine

I'm guessing the idea of all this is to have a car that you can keep for a VERY long time, something that would be worth a lot many years down the line?

If so you want everything to be standard, interior, engine and exterior I'd have thought.....I think I'm confused at what you're aiming to achieve here lol....I think its the £8K thats doing it....that thought of having that much money to put into a mk2 effecting my ability to think straight lol

[danny_p]

sounds to me like you need to go out and spend 1500  on a reasonable oak green valver then.

spend 4500 grand overhauling it

spend 2000 having it painted   

[Bieldside]

I may have sourced a donor car - 3 door 16v in Oak Green with 178000 miles

No service history at all + no MOTS - but does that matter I ask myself if the objective is to "gut" it and start again

My objective is to have a standard 16v externally as it left the factory with leather interior but pondering whether to have a modified engine dropped in so it becomes a wolf in sheeps clothing , Feel the latter is more fun and as the car is only for me it may justify spending £000's

Any recommenadtions on engine choices?

[gavL]

Well then your completely differing from what you said originally. Your either going for an original looking Mk2 or a modified Mk2...

For 8k you can pickup a 1.8t Mk2 with very very tidy body for a lot less than that and have plenty left over...

You need to decide what you want write it down and go for it