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I really don't get it.. Why don't you sell your rusty car and buy an import then give it the once over so it's mint?

All that time and money spent fixing a rotten shell seems nuts to me.. have you nothing better to do :mhihi:

I do kind of agree, once you have to cut out bad bits of metal etc it never right again and not really worth the trouble when other shells are readily available all tho saying that can't knock a mans work. Keeping eye on thread tho mine VII isn't looking the best underneath now all tho prob wont ever do anything with it

 

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It always makes me laugh the clowns who think there is an endless supply of Red TMEs in Japan.
Got news for ya, there aren't any left.

They only made 212 to start with, and around 50 stayed in Japan.
By the time you subtract those crashed or broken, and the majority of the remainder that have since been exported over seas (most to the UK), you should understand why I have only seen 2 others since 2009 when I got mine. Workshops say the same, they never see them.

On the very rare occasion they pop up on any of the For Sale websites, they are either dogs (and still tend to be at least £7000) , or if decent are at least £8300+.

They still surface in the Auctions very occasionally (pretty sure the supply all but dried up last year though) but anything left are generally cars that were collected and are now being sold off due to the bad economy over here (thanks Obama).

When I bought mine I paid £9,992 for it. The fairly mint V GSR I had actually gone in to buy was only £3,070. I thought about it for 5 minutes. I couldn't afford the Tommi at all but knew I would never get an opportunity again.
The company I got if from was a specialist Evo dealer, he'd been trying to find one for years. It was on the lot for less than a day.

lol there's an Egyptian dude I know who exports cars to Middle east countries for a living. Every time he sees me he pesters me to sell my car. He has offered me as much as ￥3000000 (£16752) for it :mhihi:

Red Rooster's car really doesn't seem that bad at all compared to some on here. And you can still get all of the body shell parts from Mitsubishi if needed anyway so there is no reason that it couldn't be repaired perfectly if the need arose.

Geez considering how much effort people go to restore old granny cars like Escorts which are as common as bums

You do know that some MK1 and MK2 Escorts are worth more than a Evo don't you, there classic's You can paint a car red btw or is that also "rare" now days :shake:. How you planning on striping the underseal etc I was thinking of getting a little soda blaster

 

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Haha I knew someone would bite. That was quick John!

I know what people pay for Escorts :rofl:

They are still heaps easier to find than one of these hence the reference.

Lol its all good mate I respect your views even tho I must say don't share them myself.Tbh I think you can probably build a Escort from ground up with everything thats remade and market so big for them its a safe job to repair them. Was a Twim Cam MK1 up for £68k little while ago