Crashed GP for sale...

Luys · #1 03-11-2009, 03:32 PM

Hi NAM members, today I was searching for a Mini GP, I found this GP which got an accident in 02/09. It has lots of damaged parts, I was figuring out Can I repair and fix this car? or is it difficult to fix this car?
I will let you with the picture...

Deviant · #2 03-11-2009, 03:38 PM

Ouch, I'd say the car's beyond repair. That being said you could probably use some of the parts off of it to GP-ify an R53, if it were cheap enough I'd grab it up.

LüDICRöüS · #3 03-11-2009, 03:41 PM

I'm trying to figure out why it has xenons. The wing is nowhere to be seen... oh and the GP decal on the dash is missing too.

Luys · #4 03-11-2009, 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by LüDICRöüS

I'm trying to figure out why it has xenons. The wing is nowhere to be seen... oh and the GP decal on the dash is missing too.

It has the GP serial number.

Luys · #5 03-11-2009, 03:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Deviant

Ouch, I'd say the car's beyond repair. That being said you could probably use some of the parts off of it to GP-ify an R53, if it were cheap enough I'd grab it up.

He wants about $17K.

I think it is too much.

wildcrazy442000 · #6 03-11-2009, 03:51 PM

It's Toast. Even if you fixed it somehow as a salvage vehicle what would the value be?

LüDICRöüS · #7 03-11-2009, 04:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Luys

It has the GP serial number.

Can you ask him what the work required to get them working properly was like? AFAIK I've only read about one GP doing the conversion.

not-so-rednwhitecooper · #8 03-11-2009, 04:29 PM

Way beyond any reasonable repair. You would really have to love that car to repair it.

Deviant · #9 03-11-2009, 04:50 PM

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Originally Posted by LüDICRöüS

I'm trying to figure out why it has xenons. The wing is nowhere to be seen... oh and the GP decal on the dash is missing too.

Euro model?
I'm not recommending make a non-GP into a GP, just put the features you like from a GP into a regular S, at $17K though I'd pass.

iwashmycar · #10 03-11-2009, 05:14 PM

id say with having to find all those parts, it would be insanely expensive to repair. Then it probably would never drive right anyway. 17k is plain rediculous for having so much of it smashed up

PortMCS · #11 03-11-2009, 05:30 PM

Def not worth the hassle and energy. She's a gone-er

Jhud · #12 03-11-2009, 05:40 PM

17k???!!!! IS HE REBUILDING IT FIRST??!!! THATS ASSONINE!

**howsoonisnow1985** · #13 03-11-2009, 06:32 PM

$7000 at MOST. Not a cent more.

jonnieoh · #14 03-11-2009, 07:56 PM

Gotta agree; $17k is highway robbery for that pile of twisted metal. Run, don't walk, far, far away from this "deal"...

nabeshin · #15 03-11-2009, 08:35 PM

That car is toast. He should part it out and sell stuff, like... the seats. *want*

azminiman · #16 03-12-2009, 10:27 AM

Not sure if the seats are even good... driver side maybe.. the shot of the inside indicates that the floor may have twisted. I just want 2 of the wheels

But since the car is in Europe, not gonna try...

Gromit801 · #17 03-12-2009, 11:31 AM

Burnt toast.

My "in need of a complete restoration" 1975 MGB is worth far more than that hunk of junk.

Handsome Rob · #18 03-12-2009, 12:11 PM

Sad ending to such a wonderful Mini

Not worth $17K. If you really want it, offer him no more than $5K and I'll take those rims.

BlimeyCabrio · #19 03-12-2009, 12:21 PM

The list of what's NOT broken on that car is very, very short... wow...

Pretty good bet at least one of the seats is destroyed from the collision... plus all the stuff you can see... with the airbox and coolant tank crushed and the bonnet and radiator in that condition, I wouldn't have high hopes for anything under the bonnet... there aren't many things on that car left to salvage, IMO...

Luys · #20 03-12-2009, 01:55 PM

He told me you can fix it, but after all your posts guys I will not think on it more. I will try to take some parts from it. Maybe tomorrow I will go to see the car.

meadbar · #21 03-12-2009, 02:11 PM

you sure done a good job on her

nabeshin · #22 03-12-2009, 04:08 PM

Do you have a story or explanation of what he did to wreck it?

btw, how many GPs did Turkey even get? This would definitely raise the value of any that are left.

pmustang · #23 03-12-2009, 04:22 PM

Is it me or does the roof have some serious orange peel. already repainted once?

That car is well beyond economical repair, I don't know where you would start, You would invest more than the car is worth and certainly have more in the car than a solid used unmolested one would cost.

Peter

22CooperS · #24 03-12-2009, 04:27 PM

I noticed the orange peel, too. Odd!

I'd say run, too. Parts cannot be cheap and even then will probably never be like new. Maybe you could offer 2K for the engine if it's solid??

Luys · #25 03-12-2009, 04:32 PM

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Originally Posted by nabeshin

Do you have a story or explanation of what he did to wreck it?

btw, how many GPs did Turkey even get? This would definitely raise the value of any that are left.

20 GPs and this one has 6K miles.