Re: low appetite for plus 2 - or poor appetite for mods ?
Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 8:54 pm
I paid $14K for a 1966 Mk1 Cortina GT, replaced the drivetrain with something more modern while retaining the outward appearance and sold the car for $31K some 5 years later.
As for "updating" the drivetrain in a Lotus while retaining the overall appearance etc...I would do the same in a heartbeat.
I am not a purist.
Clearly not.
Why didn’t you just buy a proper kit car?
Or was it more of a hot rod?
How much did you spend on it? Maybe you might have made more of a margin by keeping it original? Presuming that’s what it was when you bought it?
On a different tack. I think it’s great that owners want to totally change these old cars. I reckon it just increases the value of the diminishing number of more original ones!
What’s not to like??