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Rushingphil

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Hi Roger,

Welcome to the forum and good luck with your search.

I see that you have owned a 260 and a 280 previously, but take a good look at some of the restoration threads on here to see how bad things can get! Many are hiding all sorts of nasty secrets !

I paid £15k for my restoration project, which was probably a little high; but was keen to get an original RHD UK one. Take a look at my thread! Patience is your friend.

Phil
 

Roger S

Club Member
That’s amazing it’s just what I was looking for, didn’t think I was going to have to pay that much but now I have a real clue. On a scale of 1 to 10 value for money ?? In perfect nick that would be £ ? Please let me know if you see anything coming up. Many thanks.
Hi Roger,

Welcome to the forum and good luck with your search.

I see that you have owned a 260 and a 280 previously, but take a good look at some of the restoration threads on here to see how bad things can get! Many are hiding all sorts of nasty secrets !

I paid £15k for my restoration project, which was probably a little high; but was keen to get an original RHD UK one. Take a look at my thread! Patience is your friend.

Phil
I’m finding thing all over the place and still not sure which message I’m replying to. £15k for a project !!!! I will try and find your thread. Thanks. Rog
 

IbanezDan51

Well-Known Forum User
Hi Roger,

Welcome to the forum and good luck with your search.

I see that you have owned a 260 and a 280 previously, but take a good look at some of the restoration threads on here to see how bad things can get! Many are hiding all sorts of nasty secrets !

I paid £15k for my restoration project, which was probably a little high; but was keen to get an original RHD UK one. Take a look at my thread! Patience is your friend.

Phil

IMO your car was worth 5k more to the right person. You can't really put a price on these anymore to be honest. If you find the right one you just need to be ready to fork out whatever for it they're just getting too rare in your condition.
 

SacCyclone

Club Member
Hi Roger,

If you decide to maybe import a car from the states:
I can send you some pics and a price on what I currently have OR we can discuss the pros and cons of a car you locate in the states via E-mail.

Cheers,
Mike
 

uk66fastback

Club Member
I think S2k_adz on here had a project - and this most definitely WAS a project - not a driving fixer-upper - that was RHD, but I seem to remember it might have gone on ebay a while ago. I'm wondering if it sold ...

I've seen Rushingphil's car as I was close by a few months ago and it's as good as it looks in the pictures. 99% all there and untouched for many years (and stored inside thankfully).

You'll find a RHD one in time I'm sure but be prepared for the wait. LHD might be a possibility. Lots on here have done the conversion.

Oh, and another recommendation for Saccy - he'll sort you out if you wanted one from the US.
 

yellowz

Club Member
Plus 1 for working with SacCyclone in the States. I'm working with Mike at the moment to bring a car over, although due to the current situation it is going to take a bit longer then expected!
 

Roger S

Club Member
Very mixed about which way to go on this project so I'm considering all options. And still trying to navigate round this site. trying to enjoy the threads but I get lost what's going on. Will keep trying.
 

AliK

Vehicle Dating Officer
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Club Member
What are you finding hard to navigate dude? Give us some feedback in case we can help.

Best advice ever given about Zs is to find the least rusty most complete car your budget allows for. You will otherwise spend the same as a sorted car in the long run.

Mechanical stuff is generally easy to source / fix but body panels are a different story.

The trick to Zs is patience. Don’t jump at the first one you see without a proper going over. All things being equal and COVID willing, they do come up, but just not as often as an MGB or other popular classics.
 

Roger S

Club Member
What are you finding hard to navigate dude? Give us some feedback in case we can help.

Best advice ever given about Zs is to find the least rusty most complete car your budget allows for. You will otherwise spend the same as a sorted car in the long run.

Mechanical stuff is generally easy to source / fix but body panels are a different story.

The trick to Zs is patience. Don’t jump at the first one you see without a proper going over. All things being equal and COVID willing, they do come up, but just not as often as an MGB or other popular classics.
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What are you finding hard to navigate dude? Give us some feedback in case we can help.

Best advice ever given about Zs is to find the least rusty most complete car your budget allows for. You will otherwise spend the same as a sorted car in the long run.

Mechanical stuff is generally easy to source / fix but body panels are a different story.

The trick to Zs is patience. Don’t jump at the first one you see without a proper going over. All things being equal and COVID willing, they do come up, but just not as often as an MGB or other popular classics.
I can see now I’m replying to you aliK then I get lost in everyone else’s chat. But I’m trying. I even enlisted the boss last night and she got lost. Yes your right there’s no mad rush and it wants to be the right car. I can also see things devaluing for people. Stay safe.
 

AliK

Vehicle Dating Officer
Staff member
Club Member
So my friend I spend 99.9999% of my forum time using the Tapatalk app on the iPhone. I find it much simpler to navigate but I’ve never liked forum software / navigation so I’m a bit of a Luddite! ;) try Tapatalk and see how you get on.
 

toopy

Club Member
Very mixed about which way to go on this project so I'm considering all options. And still trying to navigate round this site. trying to enjoy the threads but I get lost what's going on. Will keep trying.

Once you've had a good browse through all the threads on the main forum page, when revisiting the site most people would go straight to the new posts to see, well, whats new!

Click on community, and above the main forum listings you will see a 'new posts' tab, everything listed in there is new since you last visited the site. Either new threads or new posts in existing threads you haven't seen yet. Once you've read something you can click on new posts again and the list will now be one item less, as you've just seen it, if you click back in the browser instead the list will be the same, so once you've seen a few threads you might want to click on new posts anyway, so as not to get confused with what you have and haven't seen.
Also while on the 'new posts' page over on the right you should also see 'recent posts' if you click on that it lists everything on the forum in time order, newer at the top. Anything in bold means its a new thread and you haven't looked at it yet, or you have but there's a new post within it you haven't read/seen yet.
Not bold simply means you've already clicked on it/seen it.

Hope that helps ;)
 

toopy

Club Member
Forgot to say, in 'new posts' it takes you to the new post when you click on the thread, or approximately to it, in 'recent posts' it doesn't, it just starts on the first page of that thread.

When looking at a forum list, you will see the Avatar of whoever started the thread, and if you have commented within that thread, your avatar will also be displayed about a third of the size on top of there's to signify that fact.
 
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Roger S

Club Member
Once you've had a good browse through all the threads on the main forum page, when revisiting the site most people would go straight to the new posts to see, well, whats new!

Click on community, and above the main forum listings you will see a 'new posts' tab, everything listed in there is new since you last visited the site. Either new threads or new posts in existing threads you haven't seen yet. Once you've read something you can click on new posts again and the list will now be one item less, as you've just seen it, if you click back in the browser instead the list will be the same, so once you've seen a few threads you might want to click on new posts anyway, so as not to get confused with what you have and haven't seen.
Also while on the 'new posts' page over on the right you should also see 'recent posts' if you click on that it lists everything on the forum in time order, newer at the top. Anything in bold means its a new thread and you haven't looked at it yet, or you have but there's a new post within it you haven't read/seen yet.
Not bold simply means you've already clicked on it/seen it.

Hope that helps ;)
 
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