GRUNT
Well-Known Member
Dunno but I was thinking along the same lines but having a series 2 or early 3 or lightweight given or as cheap as chips, I was offered a lightweight for 400quid the other day but I'm skint at the moment. Any how getting a fooked donor vehicle and using the VIN number for registration and DVLA stuff, and all the daft bits or repairable expensive bits like axles for the "new" Vehicle, Bunging a diesel engine in but keeping the rest as standard as possible. I reckon it'd cost no more than two or three grand, it depends on how far you go with the new bits. I'm sure as a money making excersize it's a non starter but as a means of getting a decent landie that'll last as long as me an longer it's not a bad way of going about it.
owning LR's and money making is an oxymoron ain't it?.......if you say it really quickly 2/3k isn't much?.........think thats they way i will go.
tom69
New Member
i had similar thoughts about this time last year and i costed that to build a 2a/3 with galvy chassis 200 tdi, recon g/box new push button doors moulded mat etc.. etc.. would cost about 7.5k. but that was with everything. i later decided not to because with that amount of cash you could buy an immaculate 300tdi station wagon but without the hassel of building the thing!
GRUNT
Well-Known Member
Two or three grand will get you a half decent 90, but what price do you put on building/restoring your own to what ever level you want, that you know inside out and you know is as reliable as it can get, rebuilding it int a hassle it's a plus factor. Buying a vehicle for 7.5grand and having it depreciate to 2 grand in five years then have to rebuild it is hassle.
Pikey
Dummy Ejection Facilitator..
A brandnew Galv 88" chassis is about £650 +vat if you can rebuild your own engine & use old body panels then £2500/£3000 is plenty of cash for a rebuild. If your gonna buy everything in brandnew/reconditioned. Then it would Probably cost more than £7K
I'm with you on this one, having paid out 5k to a supposed 'professional' restorer on top of the original donor vehicle costs, I was not really expecting to have to replace door tops which were only fitted new 4 years ago. Incompatability of metals used in construction and subsequent corrosion problems are well known, building from scratch would at least provide the opportunity to utilise the latest materials technology to reduce the risk of say the bodywork becoming sacrifical simply because somebody used some odd nuts and bolts or skimped on the rust prevention.
