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well ive been offered an interesting GTE project my mate started and now stopped. he has stripped all the interoir out, found all the rust, bought an XE for it and now asked if i want it...and for £200 i snapped it up.
question is...if the rot isnt too bad, do i restore it to a 1.6 or XE it. i would fancy a nice standard lookin gte.
should be picking it up saturday if i can get hold of a trailer and will get pics up then :D
brainsnova
01-12-09, 12:34 AM
id keep it 1.6 and challenge Bigs lol
pics robbed from facebookings any wonder he got it for £3
http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs223.snc1/7035_279983250074_576660074_9174050_8382837_n.jpg
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Chassis legs are mint! standard gte's are rare, i'd be tempted to keep it original and make it mint.
Chassis legs are mint!
Solid as an egg fried rock them things.
brainsnova
01-12-09, 01:19 AM
if he got it for £3 why are you paying £200 lol
He made £197 profit from removing things?
Tbh dude thats well past it, so far past it infact that its not IMO a viable option to repair it, i wouldnt even call that scrap, and thats being nice
Don't know why, but gte's seem to rot worse than any other nova, even mk2s aren't that bad! lol
That is past saving, and you mk2 hater steve lol, You know my mk2 is near perfect lol
brainsnova
01-12-09, 02:04 AM
back in 2000 when my 1.3sr was mint on an f reg there was a gte on a g plate that had rotten rear arches,doors and wings and the boy was sooooooooo jealous lol
LEWI007
01-12-09, 08:02 AM
Wanna sell that backbox in the picture ?
Also what i would do is just buy a decent cheap shell from somewhere and put the GTE I.D on it and all the parts.
or fix the chassis leg, theres a guy on here with a GSi that was worse than his and he made new chassis legs for it.
Aragorn
01-12-09, 08:46 AM
Your advising him to ring the car on a public forum?
Well done!
Imo, its scrap. Either break it, or find another shell and transfer as many bits over as you can. Keep the new shells ID though, unless you want to end up on a Q plate.
LEWI007
01-12-09, 08:49 AM
No, if you own both cars then you can swap the id over.
like what people do to nova sports.
Aragorn
01-12-09, 08:55 AM
You cant "swap the ID over"
The monocoque chassis constitutes part of the vehicles ID, the VIN is a reference to the monocoque and by "transferring" it to another car you've just rung the vehicle.
If you were to inform the DVLA of this, it would end up on a Q plate, after having been thru an IVA test, and by not informing the DVLA your driving around in an illegal vehicle.
The only way you can legally reshell the vehicle, is with a NEW unregistered shell (or chassis if its seperate like a landrover or whatever), and then you need to keep a certain number of components from the original vehicle. You also need documentary evidence that the chassis it new, if you want to retain the original numberplate etc.
Southie
01-12-09, 08:56 AM
No, if you own both cars then you can swap the id over.
like what people do to nova sports.
FAIL.
LEWI007
01-12-09, 09:01 AM
meh just ring it and get some bodge a round the welds lol
joke.
Well i guess i thought wrong.
But im sure i saw a reshelled nova sport that wasnt a brand new shell and wasnt a Q reg..
It may well be a little dodgey, BUT loads of owners on here have done it.
Fact.
Not good to chat about it on public forum tho.
Edd
Well i can get any shape n size of steel/stainless from wher i work. So welding wouldnt be a problem. Its how much id have to weld up. I could rob the shell clean and try and find a cleaner shell.
He paid 3quid for the shell and 250 for the xe. He is in theory losing 53quid
brainsnova
01-12-09, 10:42 AM
ah i never realised the xe came with it.
Hell yea. Worth it just for that, the spares and the gte lump.
Well if you can weld and have all the tools why not do that? Its whether you want to restore it to keep it original, or just put all the bits on another shell and make it a gte replica.
Not again. 'Ringing' FTW. What you are doing in this instance is hurting nobody. Only reshelling a better spec car.
Fcuk telling the DVLA. There's no reason to involve yourself in all of the VIC check hassle.
If reshelling legally it won't always end up on a Q. They use a points system to judge how much of the original car, running gear etc has been transferred.
There, I said it. many will agree also.
DAFTJOHN
01-12-09, 01:12 PM
Not again. 'Ringing' FTW. What you are doing in this instance is hurting nobody. Only reshelling a better spec car.
Fcuk telling the DVLA. There's no reason to involve yourself in all of the VIC check hassle.
If reshelling legally it won't always end up on a Q. They use a points system to judge how much of the original car, running gear etc has been transferred.
There, I said it. many will agree also.
I agree too in general - as long as if it's sold you tell the buyer it's history.
Not again. 'Ringing' FTW. What you are doing in this instance is hurting nobody. Only reshelling a better spec car.
Fcuk telling the DVLA. There's no reason to involve yourself in all of the VIC check hassle.
If reshelling legally it won't always end up on a Q. They use a points system to judge how much of the original car, running gear etc has been transferred.
There, I said it. many will agree also.
i agree totally. as long as you keep it underground so to speak no one will ever know. as long as you do it well so to speak.
i dont see a problem. if you have bought both cars legally and have both V5's why you cant reshell one with the other.
Agreed lads. I'd tell the buyer but not every random person.. All they would care about is that the numbers match the log book and the shell is clean IMO, well that's all that would interest me.
I'd much rather be buying a reshelled pov spec than a patchwork GSi etc.
As we know, ringing gets a bad rep as a lot of unscrupulous w@nkers reshelling stolen cars/parts, cut n shuts etc.
There is a good side to it also. In some cases the DVLA will make it difficult for you to follow their own legal process and you end up thinking what's the point in telling them!
Don't. :)
Aragorn
01-12-09, 02:11 PM
All it takes is one jobsworth copper to notice its been fiddled with and your in for a whole pile of hell.
Ok you might come out the other end unscathed and still have your vehicle, but that all depends if you can convince the right people at the right time that its all genuine, and not a stolen car thats been given another cars ID, which is exactly what it looks like when numbers have been ground off etc.
All it takes is one jobsworth copper to notice its been fiddled with and your in for a whole pile of hell.
Ok you might come out the other end unscathed and still have your vehicle, but that all depends if you can convince the right people at the right time that its all genuine, and not a stolen car thats been given another cars ID, which is exactly what it looks like when numbers have been ground off etc.
It would take a good policeman to notice if it has been fiddled with.
If you have the floor number of the original, cut it out and weld into donor shell - no ground off numbers etc.
As said I'd rather have a car done like this properly than one that is like a patchwork quilt........
OR i could just get a 3dr shell...and make a rep, no stupid ID swapping. as it seems like a rather confusing and grey area. but then again...how much is a clean shell now a days
vaughanmc
01-12-09, 05:36 PM
OR i could just get a 3dr shell...and make a rep, no stupid ID swapping. as it seems like a rather confusing and grey area. but then again...how much is a clean shell now a days
Pretty much what I've done with the old Sport of mine
Sold the shell on but I'm going to use the engine and interior and just make something up - Going to be based on an Opel anyway :thumb:
and its not like anyone would notice, unless they saw the log book.
vaughanmc
01-12-09, 05:37 PM
Exactly :thumb:
LEWI007
01-12-09, 06:13 PM
The way i see it its killing another GTE though and there isnt enough of them around these days.
so its nice to save a proper GTE i-d while you still can.
Casn we have no more talk of ringing cars please, if you want to do it then thats up to you, it is however ILLEGAL and do not discuss it on a public forum!
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