Hi all, just wandering how much did/will you pay for your donor car?
Just curious as to what the going rate is for a Ford sierra either with or without an MOT, guessing that without a MOT is cheaper.
Many thanks chaps.
Paid £80 for mine and the seller drove it to my place with no tax/mot/insurance/brakes
£75 and the seller drove it from Hartlepool to Washington Services for me.
And it had tax on it, half a tank of gas etc etc.
Mike
I keep watching them on ebay and they seem to make silly money!
a budget of £150 -£200 would get a pretty decent donor with an MOT
sierras are avaliable much cheaper (under £70 or even free) But its not nececarly a good idea as it may need lots of work to become a suitable donor
Its basically what ever you want to pay, ok you can get a dirt cheap car now but in the future you may have to shell out for keeping the drivetrain in
check wheras an extra £100 spent now could save lots of bother later
unfortuantley i cant give an example because i havent started building yet (if i had my way i would have started well over a year ago 
)
Try these for donors
Sierra Owners club
http://www.fordsierraclub.co.uk/forum
http://www.classifieds.com
http://www.swapz.co.uk
http://www.freeads.co.uk
http://www.autoexchange.co.uk
Bargains are out there, its just a matter of being willing to look for them
Edit to sort out links
[Edited on 30/1/08 by novacaine]
paid 155 for mine (BMW 316 not a sierra)but thats is basically going to provide everything, engine and gearbox diff steering wiring so well worth it
plus hoping to make the money back by selling parts im not using
£90 with 3 months tax, so £45 after I cashed it in. Again, seller drove it to me.
Stu
i paid (will pay) just under 500 quid for mine..
well saying that the owner is stripping it all down as the shell is pretty much unuseable anyway to make it easier for me to get the bits back
home.
500 seems a lot but it's a JDM Honda 2.2 VTEC (H22 - 220bhp) engine/box/loom/driveshafts/calipers/steering column/rack/hubs/handrake/etc etc..
practically everything except it's pre-stripped for me
[Edited on 30/1/08 by KevDo]
£275 delivered. No tax, MOT, drivers seat, seized brakes and rust everywhere.
That is how badly i wanted a manual jag engined locost 
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Originally posted by KevDo
i paid (will pay) just under 500 quid for mine..
well saying that the owner is stripping it all down as the shell is pretty much unuseable anyway to make it easier for me to get the bits back home.
500 seems a lot but it's a JDM Honda 2.2 VTEC (H22 - 220bhp) engine/box/loom/driveshafts/calipers/steering column/rack/hubs/handrake/etc etc..
practically everything except it's pre-stripped for me
[Edited on 30/1/08 by KevDo]
lol yeah well i've been there many times!..
one part of the process i can live without this time thanks
Thanks for all that guys, the main reason i'm asking is that i can gat a fairly regular supply of sierra's in good mechanical order but with panel damage for about £150-£200, so if anyone is looking then i may be able to help.
Scotty,
I'd be delighted to take a sierra from you for £200. I'm looking for a 2 litre pinto engined car. I assume looking at the other posts above,
that cars are usually deliverd by the existing owner to the kit builder. U2U me if your up for that and I'll give u my address
sure matey, should only take a few minutes.....both ways.
I got my donor car for free. But it is only a 1.6, and only got 28000 on the clock.
[Edited on 30/1/08 by stuart_]
We got a 2 litre sierra sapphire with MOT and Tax. Drove it back from the Lakes to Oxfordshire, sold the alloys and tyres for 90 quid
HTH
Vince
Hi I paid £275 for a sierra gt with 10 months mot 5 brand new tyres new front discs and pads ,radio cass face off , 1/2 tank petrol, stripped it all
down kept the bits i needed and sold the rest of it in bits and made over £500 back on it (what about that then ) right result i would say
£46 for a Azure 1.6, sold the shell for £30 after I'd stripped everything off
i payed £350 for my XR4X4 and ended up only used the hand brake lever off it 
on the up side i broke it for spares and sold the bit dead cheep and i ended up £5 beter off than i strated
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Originally posted by repper
i payed £350 for my XR4X4 and ended up only used the hand brake lever off it
i paid £75 at a breakers yard and that included him comming and removing the shell after i had stripped it
ditch
I paid about 500 in your money, $1000 in ours, for a 1984 Celica GTS that I used about two bolts off of, and that was ALL - couldn't even use the
handbrake. I also had to pay someone to help me strip it (I didn't have the room, nor the heated garage - it was minus 10 - 30 last winter when I
got the car), and had the tranny rebuilt. I also bought a whole gasket kit for the engine. All in, I have calculated about $2800 of unnecessary
purchases for a useless donor, not including the $100 I got for selling the alu rims to an autocrosser with a Corolla. So I have everyone beat for
biggest waste of money! Yes, I learned a lot, and I am sure it will all be worth it in the end. No, I don't know what I was thinking - my brain
froze obviously.
It does remain to be seen if I can get the engine and trans sold.
£150 off e-Bay, picked it up in Maidstone ran it for 6 months until MOT ran out. Stripped it and scrappy took shell.
And now you have a nice nissan 200 engine to put in instead of that Pinto!
Won a sierra 4x4 off ebay for £6.50, felt guilty so I gave the guy a tenner. Sold the engine and gearbox for £100.
best bit of locosting in the whole project!
Ouch... and Ouch, again! Interestingly, a lot of people on here think that North America has everything. Well, not what's required to economically build a 7!