Dilemma - 180SX / Chaser / Mark II
I've been trying to work out what to do with the 180SX for a while now and really struggling. So thought I would ask for some opinions!
Currently my 180SX is sat on my drive with no engine and full of its own bits. I would dearly love to get it back on the road now I've decided to part company with my V8 conversion but, for the same reasons I'm selling the V8 fixing it will prove tricky. I've got two young girls now so finding the time to really get stuck into it is not so easy unfortunately.
I am really liking the look of Toyota Chaser's / Mark IIs in JZX100 flavour. They tick the box for fun potential and with 4 doors I can take the family out and about at the weekends rather than having to rely on my partners car for everything family related.
Problem is that I love the 180SX to bits and I kinda hate seeing it sat there in bits looking sorry for itself. Condition wise it's in very good nick. I stripped the front cross member down a while ago expecting to see it needing loads of work and it was absolutely spotless. I poke around it periodically and the money I spent getting it protected 4 years ago seems to have been worth every penny. The bodywork is a little beaten here and there but this is largely due to my somewhat careless elderly neighbour :smash: I miss driving it an awful lot but at the same time it's been off the road for nearly 2 years now!
Question is, if I were to move it on how much is a good rolling shell worth these days? Might it actually be more cost effective to try and spend some money on it getting it into a running condition by sourcing a red top SR etc? I'm not particularly in a hurry to make a decision but I've been wrestling with this one for a couple of months now and no closer to working out what to do. All I know is that I would love to drive it again but it's pretty impractical to use with a young family and I don't get a huge amount of time to myself to go and just drive it these days with work commitments etc. It seems like a waste to hang onto it just for the sake of it if you know what I mean when it could potentially be in someone elses hands getting used. At the same time the kids won't be little forever but this circles back to just having it sat there doing nothing for years.
As far as the car goes at the moment:
93 180SX chassis
OEM Kouki bodywork with Fibreglass front lip
OEM Kouki rear lights
Bushed alignment arms front and back
Solid riser bushes for the subframe (not fitted yet)
R33 brakes front / back
I've rambled a lot :wack: Probably without really getting any kind of point across :wack: Thoughts? Ideas?