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Hello what's a car/shell like this worth? Genuine 66 S original paint except left fender. Surface rust at back seat base seam, Thats it! Needs new front panel but original body number present. Someone had cut the nose to remove engine.. no engine/trans or front seats thanks

id run that as it was

looks great

I know!! The red will polish up too. But yes its genuine this way not hiding anything. A fellow has shown some interest in it but I'm not sure where to start. Hard to find in this condition right?

Now that is a lovely car and it looks so right!

Value even without engine and transmission or seats has still got to be circa £6500??

Cheers. Tim

Wow, original battery terminal(s) too.

Al

Does it have original chassis plate ?

Rust free Californian cars! - sooo not fair!

251 ENG wrote:Does it have original chassis plate ?

Yes May 66 and body tag too

I'd say with prices as they are now that £10,000 was closer to the mark that the £6,500 quoted above.

But as with all these things it's worth whatever someone is prepared to pay.

M

depends if it has its original BMC wrapper

mk1 wrote:I'd say with prices as they are now that £10,000 was closer to the mark that the £6,500 quoted above.

Wow, at those sort of numbers, I'm seriously considering selling my 'S'. Mine has had the steel arches added and 70's black-out paint, but it's equally rust free, and also has the correct block with std bore, correct head/crank/rods, and a pair of 12G333 gearboxes. All body tags in place, as well as 2 sets of carbs and air filter assembly.

Any ideas on a fair price?

I would've said it's worth a bit more but it's not toilet trained it wet it's self in the driveway

66S wrote:
Wow, original battery terminal(s) too.

Al

Know of a guy, who has a lowmailage / one owner car (very rare model)

It had both its original terminals, he chopped them off, a few months ago.

Goldbrocade_62 wrote:
it's not toilet trained it wet it's self in the driveway

guru_1071 wrote:
id run that as it was

looks great

Hear hear, cant put a price on that condition awesome.

Hard to believe anyone would do this to it ......



I presume original shells are so common out there that it matters little, bit like here in the 60's ? A note for the restorers out there, note the black paint under the grille.

At least they left the slam panel with the body number.

Pete wrote:Hard to believe anyone would do this to it ......

I would imagine that was done in the 70's.....like when they used to cut the transmission tunnels out of E-types to save a few hours on a clutch change. Practices like that haven't gone on for a long time.

And, no, nice original shells are not common here, they still just turn up from time to time.

From what I have noticed the values in the states are about 50-60% of the value in the UK or Japan. So I would say Tim was not far off the mark with his value in my opinion. And would also need be be the case to make it worth while importing from the USA.