'scrapper', but it wasn't what I thought it was going to be. Given your excellent (and clearly deserved) reputation, I was expecting 'the best one you'd seen' to be something rather special, and when I turned up it just left me cold. Maybe that's the problem, most of the Mk1's you'll see are bought to you requiring work. Most of the ones I see are at car shows and are very clean. You did tell me that if the car wasn't accident recovered, then you'd be asking £3k for it, so I wasn't expecting to see any problems.It didn't help that the car was still covererd in cutting compound or similar, and there was some overspray from all the undersealing that you'd done.
I never said the rear arches needed replacing, but they did need
'sorting', which you've said you've now done.Sorry, I was over the top on the interior comments, but to get the interior to what I wanted, I would have had to re-trim both seats
(otherwise they wouldn't match), and a few other bits. Again, it was hard to tell at the time, as the car needed a good valet.Now you've sorted those bits, and presumably polished the car, I would probably have a different opinion on the car, but when I turned up, I could see things that were going to cost me a fair chunk of money to get to the standard I wanted.
I don't think I'm overly critical, I just pick up on basic, easy to spot problems that I know I'm going to have to fix, an I know roughly how much they'll cost me.
To you, sorting the rear arches, fixing the door post, sorting dents is an easyish job, to me it's £600 - £800.When I bought my car, I paid
£2k for it, and it had no visible rust, the interior was mint, but it was high mileage. I think I paid too much for it, but I didn't really care. A lot of people are picking up clean cars for around £2k max. I'm happy to pay £3k to £3.5k for a proper minter, but there aren't many about.Best regards,
Jon
