Anyone know what kind of ballpark money the Westfield lot tend to pay for their MX-5 donors? The mrs stuffed hers into the armco coming on to the M25 this morning, I'm trying to weigh up whether to repair it or not.

It's only cosmetic damage, will need a new front bumper and o/s/f wing, and one of the running lights in the bumper. Even if I can find panels in the right colour off eBay (and there's not much of any colour on there at the moment) or a breakers i'm probably looking at £200. In good nick I don't think I could sell the car for much more than £1200. It's a '91 1.6 Eunos if that helps.

We were going to sell it in the next few weeks anyway (as soon as the sun comes back out really), now I just need to work out what's the best way to get rid

Build an MNR with it!

Alright, give me £7000 and I will

I'd say strip it for it's parts - someone loking for a donor for a westy will probably only give you 750 for it if it's a bit bashed up, but save them the time of stripping out the donor parts, and you might get a faor bit more than that (Westfield use a lot of parts from the donor though, so it may take some time to do).

You'll be able to sell all the other parts too.

I hadn't realised that MX-5's had gotten so cheap! Bad news for an owner, but good news for me. I've fancied doing something based on the MX5 for yonks.

I've got a couple of chassis jobs on the go at the moment, but when I've finished them I know what I'm going to be working on!

I wonder if I can adapt my 1.8t engine to fit the MX5 gearbox?

John

I did think of stripping it, people seem to be buying 'donor kits' of the parts for over a grand. I can't really be bothered though, the SDV kit uses so much of the thing it'll take ages to strip it all out without destroying bits of it, and my build is going slow enough as it is. I don't think I'll make enough extra by doing it to make it worth the effort

Might have to just put it up for sale on the westy forum and see what i'm offered.

I managed to buy a 90 and a 91 miata for £175 each, one was a runner

I was lucky though I think

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Originally posted by liam.mccaffrey
I managed to buy a 90 and a 91 miata for £175 each, one was a runner

I was lucky though I think

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yeah building in Ok, i got the cars for $700 and converted it back

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Originally posted by liam.mccaffrey
yeah building in Ok,

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I will be building mine based on an mx5 donor car. for 1200 you can buy one that won't be damaged. I have found several damaged one, even repaired that didn't go over 700.