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A new member, Lane, posted about buying a disassembled Mini. I got a disassembled MkI Jag for Father's Day last year. We can't be the only ones to have purchased disassembled cars.
A) What did you buy?
B) When did you buy it?
C) What's the status of the reassembly?

I bought a disassembled:

A) 1956 MkI Jaguar Saloon
B) Father's Day, 2008
C) Waiting silently and patiently for our garage to be built.

Who's next?? :smile:
 
Not one, but two!

The TR3 was in pieces, but ~sorta~ running.

The MGB was all over a guy's shed!

They both ended up being all there.

Did manage to complete both of them.

The TR3 is in California now; the MGB's in our garage.
 
HA!!!

Several...biggest puzzle I ever bought was '53 TD....I took it down from the rafters of an old man's single-car garage piece-by-piece....took me 12 years to get it fully assembled again!

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A friend bought an XJ150 that was apart but had been completely painted and powder coated. Just assemble. Took him 3 months and it is gorgeous!
 
The ol' rustbucket was partially disassembled when I got it last summer. It's now disassembled a little further.

On the plus side, the new diver's side floor pan arrived today, and the rocker panels are on the way. (Birthday presents. I have the greatest wife in the world!!!)


Now I just need to finish the drywall in the garage , so I can get back to work on it!
 
You mean there are cars that come PRE-ASSEMBLED?!?!


WOW!!!


:jester:
 
I have two cars in boxes. I told my wife it's like cracker jacks. She just called me cracker...

My TR3A is in pieces and slowly being restored. Then, I found a MGA Coupe that has been in pieces for decades. Needless to say, I like puzzles and 1:1 models.

Next?
 
never bought but sold a dis-assembled MGTC. Don't know the outcome of that though.

Jim
 
bgbassplyr said:
never bought but sold a dis-assembled MGTC. Don't know the outcome of that though.

Jim
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Wish I'd known you back then!
 
Bought a 1980 280Z--it came in 28 boxes. Paid $300 spent six months reassembling it and sold it for $3600.

My latest car- a 1979 MGB is presently disassembled in about 12 boxes in my dining room. (Shell is on the trailer..not sure whether to take it to paint, or paint it ourselves)

I love buying them in boxes, its like a real life jigsaw puzzle!
 
My car was slowly and methodically disassembled by the tin worm. When the car arrived at my house, the exhaust system had fallen off and was laying on the flatbed.
 
Healeysince59 said:
How's this for a basket case? Before and after - about 4 years.
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Looks like a plastic kit! Nice photo of the "pre-assembled" car.

We bought a '53 MG TD that had been rear-ended at a light and pushed into the car ahead. It wasn't completely apart but enough so that 5 bushel baskets (a true basket case!) and several boxes were full of pieces.

Picked it up in the fall and drove it to Lime Rock the following spring. Sold it after a couple years & bought an Alfa.
 
coldplugs said:
Healeysince59 said:
How's this for a basket case? Before and after - about 4 years.
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Looks like a plastic kit! Nice photo of the "pre-assembled" car.
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Looks like My Big Healey too, just it's in a lot better condition... I had to cut mine even more apart for a new chassis....

5+ years down another two (or so) to go I reckon....

It IS like a kit, but without the instructions... or a lot of the pieces... or with some of the wrong pieces, even. :devilgrin: :hammer:
 
I've never purchased a disassembled car, but I've certainly bought an intact one, completely disassembled it, and rebuilt it.

I'd assume most of us here have done that at least once. :lol:

Nowadays, I seem to be gravitating toward LBCs that are already restored. I'm more into the driving part, rather than the wrenching.

BTDT. :yesnod:
 
1938 MG TA, not only disassembled but just for fun, incomplete. But at a price I couldn't walk away from. Haven't reassembled it yet but I've been tracking down all the missing bits and I'm nearly there. It was in storage only about 5 miles from my house, considering how few were made and fewer still imported, what were the chances of that.
 
"Wish I'd known you back then!"

Tony,

1969. You were probably just a kid then. Paper route money would not have bought it.

Jim
 
1969.....A year out of Vietnam with deep pockets, I was!
 
54 TR2,
came in lots of parts. it's in even more parts now, waiting for me to fall into a pit full of money so I can do some work on it.
 
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