ontrack2
1st November 2008, 12:43 AM
Hi everyone!
Its been about 10 years since i owned my last 81 Beta Coupe and over the last few years I have had this thought that one day I would get another one.
Well The time has come. So today we went out ot look at a 1976 2L Beta Coupe.
http://tempmort.com/d/5891-1/5a69_1.jpg
It was on ebay for an opening bid of $500.00. Its a bit of a rust bucket really and really quite rough, but it is complete. The good news is that all the rust is basically body panels and nothing structural. Well as far as you can tell without stripping it apart.
So after a couple of hours going over it and a bit of a chat to the guy, he is delivering it tonight to us (its about an hours drive away and he has a flatbed tow truck)
Total cost, well more than $500.00 - $850.00 including him delivering it to us. Considering it would have cost us 100.00 for a trailer or over 200.00 for a tow , so I cant complain too much.
What are we going to do with it..well both my wife and I wanted a track car and were originally looking at 2-door Mk 1 Escorts (used to own a Lotus Twin Cam and a RS1800 BDG) but this came up and i sort of could not help myself.
So its going to be stripped and turned into a track car, probably take a while but will be a fun project.
Tomorrow we start to strip it and probably ebay or list here all the pieces (ie seats, guages etc etc) that we dont need for a track car for sale.
Its been about 10 years since i owned my last 81 Beta Coupe and over the last few years I have had this thought that one day I would get another one.
Well The time has come. So today we went out ot look at a 1976 2L Beta Coupe.
http://tempmort.com/d/5891-1/5a69_1.jpg
It was on ebay for an opening bid of $500.00. Its a bit of a rust bucket really and really quite rough, but it is complete. The good news is that all the rust is basically body panels and nothing structural. Well as far as you can tell without stripping it apart.
So after a couple of hours going over it and a bit of a chat to the guy, he is delivering it tonight to us (its about an hours drive away and he has a flatbed tow truck)
Total cost, well more than $500.00 - $850.00 including him delivering it to us. Considering it would have cost us 100.00 for a trailer or over 200.00 for a tow , so I cant complain too much.
What are we going to do with it..well both my wife and I wanted a track car and were originally looking at 2-door Mk 1 Escorts (used to own a Lotus Twin Cam and a RS1800 BDG) but this came up and i sort of could not help myself.
So its going to be stripped and turned into a track car, probably take a while but will be a fun project.
Tomorrow we start to strip it and probably ebay or list here all the pieces (ie seats, guages etc etc) that we dont need for a track car for sale.