I'm currently renting a place in the middle of nowhere and will be for the forseeable future (at least 12 months) so I have no place for the Toy, he is sitting on the drive of a neighbour of my parents, who allows me to rent it for a box of chocolates per year. Cant really afford to run it as a second car at the moment so it sits unused and unloved.
He needs some work (sills need welding, ECU needs a few tweaks but otherwise is in fine fettle, body is a little tatty (dinks and scratches thanks to car parks)). Its currently insured as off-the-road and SORNd, totally disabled (a fair amount of kit taken out of the bonnet for security and because I was mid tweak when I had to leave, including water pump renewal). So my choices are:
1) Sell either as parts or whole - will cost a £500 to get it roadworthy and minty body again, £250 just roadworthy.
2) Strip the beast of all excess weight and clutter, turn it into a competition car over the course of the next year or so.
3) Keep it as-is, under a car-cover, and hope its not rotted away by the time I can afford to play daily again.
I dont know what to do with him. I like the idea of stripping it and going all-out competition (its never going to win but taking part will be fun) but it seems sacrilegious to take a perfectly neat and tidy interior and get shut, when it could be returned to a classy car given time.
Its had an AWEFUL lot done to it - whole rear end was stripped, bushes replaced, under body de-rusted and repainted. All fluids regularly changed, plenty of mods, MHG and possibly forgies from the previous owner as far as I can tell. Spent a lot of time and effort fitting and tuning the megasquirt, replacing exhausts/manifolds/turbos etc etc and will never get that back if I sell whole.
No real rush on the decision, he'll just sit on the drive gathering bird poo, but I feel sorry for him every time I go home.