I can understand the reticence in selling the Belwood, the way I see it your choices are: 1) you may need to go down the path of sticking it up on bricks and holding onto it until you can afford to do a proper rebuild and buying a cheap second hand car to get you around in the meantime or 2) keeping it and getting it done up.
With option 1) you have the additional cost of rego for the car you have on bricks, unless you let the rego lapse. But to keep the number plates you would need to keep paying the rego so that is at least $400+/year that you could save by not having to do that
By the sounds of it and looking at the car recently, the minimum that would need to be done would be: - New or reco engine, anything up to $2500 - New suspension and steering rack or parts , maybe $1000 or a bit over - Transmission? If you are doing everything else then you might as well get that fixed or replaced. who knows could be another $1000
So for around $4500 you would have the beast back and roadworthy.
Could you get another car for that money?
As much as I am a revhead I know that a car is not much more than a financial arrangement. What can you afford, what can you afford to run etc.... Are you just going to be throwing good money after bad. There are lots of resources on the web oldholden.com etc... that have a lot of information to help make your decision but in the end it is down to you and Shaz as to what you can do financially.
I and by the looks of it a lot of your friends would like to see it saved and res erected but it is whether you could a) find someone reasonably local to do a good job of it and b) does it make good financial sense?
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What do you want? and how much do you want to spend?
Date: 2007-08-21 12:21 am (UTC)With option 1) you have the additional cost of rego for the car you have on bricks, unless you let the rego lapse. But to keep the number plates you would need to keep paying the rego so that is at least $400+/year that you could save by not having to do that
By the sounds of it and looking at the car recently, the minimum that would need to be done would be:
- New or reco engine, anything up to $2500
- New suspension and steering rack or parts , maybe $1000 or a bit over
- Transmission? If you are doing everything else then you might as well get that fixed or replaced. who knows could be another $1000
So for around $4500 you would have the beast back and roadworthy.
Could you get another car for that money?
As much as I am a revhead I know that a car is not much more than a financial arrangement. What can you afford, what can you afford to run etc.... Are you just going to be throwing good money after bad. There are lots of resources on the web oldholden.com etc... that have a lot of information to help make your decision but in the end it is down to you and Shaz as to what you can do financially.
I and by the looks of it a lot of your friends would like to see it saved and res erected but it is whether you could a) find someone reasonably local to do a good job of it and b) does it make good financial sense?