epipete wrote:dapinky wrote:
The really sad thing is that it will soak up more money than most can throw at it, and it'll still be a dog (It'll always be a previously written-off car).
Hang on, I realise that my car has been subject to insurance write off and I've spent a packet getting it back to where it should be (though less than I might of without Dave's largess!) and its value might be a bit compromised but to suggest that former write offs are 'dogs' is a bit harsh!
Not trying to start a big online argument at all .
Any car can be fully restored with deep enough pocket ..
Just like any painting can be restored after a fire with only a scrap of it left .
This car was bad 10 years ago . so unless someone has cared for it in the 6 years since i saw it ( then the last 4 years have been hard for it as it is now a track car with extra damage occurred)
Many many better cars have been scraped for less . ( does that make it right ?)
It starts a whole new subject of Originality V rebuild from other parts .
I hav no issue with a cat D car if it has been repaired properly . I would imagine many of our cars would have been labeled cat D if we hadn't repaired them lovingly ourselves . With Lotus prices it doesn't take much to make anything an uneconomical repair . But the nature of fickle people and cars will make any Cat worth less .
But this car really is a dog .. i assume that dave is talking about the facts he can see.
Once categorised it can never be anything else but that
no service history and pages ripped out the original handbook . it can never be re found .
high owners , it can never be turned back .
badly repaired and run like it for years can only harm the set up , geo ,
M100 SP is a marked car .. any credibility it ever had as a good car went years ago .
without very very deep pockets THIS CAR will always be a dog .
I think you may have miss read his quote ..
he is taking about this car not cars in general.
EDIT ..
And while we are at it .
We seemed to have talked s2 wheels up to £1500 .
The last set that sold for £1500 where pretty decent wheels with decent tyres from a fellow LEC member .
not a set from a track car ..
) and it's condition was poor.
), so we'll see.
