It will be interesting to see what it goes for :?
"six-o-one" wrote:
Yes.
Lee a car like this is ideal. It has lost its floorpan and identity at some time in the past which is a shame but there are plenty of others that have been lost to this entirely. So it lends itself to being saved and restored by whatever means possible! If you can find a driving MOT failure pre-63 bug with bad rot, so long as the outer edges of the pan with the boltholes to the body are still good (this part usually survives without rot) even if the floorpan halves need replacing its a cheap and easy way to get this body back on the road again 😃 (pre-63 will give you the pre-reg no. plate on re-registering so it will look perfectly acceptable) Then you can indulge your bodywork skills on the shell, which looks to be in super shape!
The only problem is that so many other people would also like a '49, but with the availability of a donor split floorpan and running gear slimmer than slim jack McSlim during Lent, you could bypass all the primitive early mechanicals with zero guilt.
Sadly it is floorpanless bodyshells that often end up as racecars, and with an ever increasing number of egotistic numbskull pratts using splits & ovals in this way, more and more are going to get rolled and irretrievably trashed like the brown '50 UltraVW Dec'05 cover car below! :cry:
So even restocal is far far preferable to that!
Welded in rollcages disturb my karma far more than a chewed up front beam and road scrapped and scuffed floorpan and front wings! :lol:
Incidentally playing devils advocate regarding the current UltraVW cover split rod car thing, I know that bodyshell was seriously butchered and I doubt would have ever been restored back to stock or concours. Similarly my own which although IS going back to stock has dents on every panel including the roof which would be impossible to ever get straight ( so mine are staying! My most favorite part of the car actually :wink: )
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"it'll wreck the patina you haven't worked so hard to create" - 50Karmann