Need opinion

[vanak60]

All,

I've tried to work on the car, fix the car, sell the car. Quite frankly, now I have an option for the following:

1. Spend money to buy replacement parts which will include lots of welding (check out my prior post for Pictures below)

http://www.e9coupe.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2598

2. Coupeguy (Dan) has a shell which according to him has minimal rust and I can transfer everything from my car to this car (I wonder what costs would be)
http://www.coupeguy.com/apps/photos/photo?photoid=11851040


I would appreciate any guidance you can provide.

 

[abe3.0CSi]

Be very careful with coupeguy rust free cars...
I bought one of those and take a look at COUPEKING under projects the chamonix 555. Take a careful look at both chamonix sections there.....this rust free car was full of RUST, front collision, rear collision, differential falling off...NONE WAS DISCLOSED even when asked. Furthermore, coupeguy took that car off his website as cars he owned/sold so it could not be traced back to him. If you are going to buy that "shell" pay someone who knows alot about these cars to do an inspection.
COUPEKING may have a shell too and you know you can trust him. Frankly, it may be cheaper to just buy a restored car...and with this economy you may find what you are looking for. Recently there was a CSI in the high $30s....cheap compared to a restoration.
abe

 

[vanak60]

coupe guy

Thanks for the comment. Unfortunately, my budget is really tight and I'm trying to maximize on my spendings. You're absolutely right as I'm not going to make the same mistake buying a rusted shell.

 

[dang]

Typically, I would say that's its much easier to buy a good solid chassis and make your existing car a "donor" car. I've done this a number of times with 2002's. But, finding a solid CS that's not going to be somewhat expensive will be very hard to do. That's along the lines of finding a nice CS with a blown engine. Okay, I got lucky and found one of those once, but I haven't seen another one in ten years.

If you can find one, do a swap!

Dan

 

[Erik]

Seems like the race-rod would take extra work to make it look correct or even decent compared to a stock shell.

Have someone look at it for you if you like the look of it.


Or maybe the coupeking shell here if it's in your budget:

http://www.coupeking.com/product_main.php?product_id=432&image_id=1217432353

And there's got to be some tired but dry cars in SoCal for not huge money, - and if you have the parts... Good luck in your search.