Todays Barn find. Updated

[Savvi]

When we were racing at Silverstone the weekend we got chatting to a guy who told us of a car in a barn locally, the lad has owned it for 25 years been sat for the last 20 years and needs to sell it.

 

 

So we arranged to go and have a look this morning and found this :

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pics are not great as it there was no lights in the barn.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We snapped his arm off and are going back tomorrow with the trailer

[Vista]

Nice find

 

Go on, how much?

[evil knievel]

 

permission to be bloody jealous???

[Savvi]

Im not sure i can say

 

It wasn't silly cheap, the guy knew what a genuine unmolested Mexico was worth but i think it could be Mot'd by the end of the week if he wanted it to be.

 

It's Top Gear Steve who has bought it, he owns the Tvr V8 engined Mk1 in one of my other post's.

 

 

He was going to prepare it for track racing but i think i've talked him out it, if he can find a standard shell to build another race car for a customer.

[whitey]

Nice to see that there are still a couple of cars hiden away waiting to be discovered. ideal!!

[marky4]

nice find

 

i can't believe the amount of cars still in barns, garages etc.

[mk2 stu]

WOW! what a find! Get in there!

[tim]

dont cut it up sell it to make so i can have twins

[Savvi]

dont cut it up sell it to make so i can have twins

 

 

 

The chairman of either the Rs or Avo club, just bought the roof off the last Mexico he bought. He had the car blasted and found there was nothing left except the roof

[Slammed]

i am jeolous

 

good find

[bigglesmk2]

Why arent these barns anywhere near me

 

I live in the sticks so trust me i have looked

[tim]

dont cut it up sell it to make so i can have twins

The chairman of either the Rs or Avo club, just bought the roof off the last Mexico he bought. He had the car blasted and found there was nothing left except the roof

 

chairman of the avo lives in oxford and chairman of the rsoc has a mk4 escort turbo

[lotusless]

what lottery numbers are you picking wednesday???

why is it never me

[Savvi]

dont cut it up sell it to make so i can have twins

The chairman of either the Rs or Avo club, just bought the roof off the last Mexico he bought. He had the car blasted and found there was nothing left except the roof

 

chairman of the avo lives in oxford and chairman of the rsoc has a mk4 escort turbo

 

 

 

That's what he was told when it was collected, said he was localish ? has quite a few rs1600's ?

[tim]

dont cut it up sell it to make so i can have twins

The chairman of either the Rs or Avo club, just bought the roof off the last Mexico he bought. He had the car blasted and found there was nothing left except the roof

 

chairman of the avo lives in oxford and chairman of the rsoc has a mk4 escort turbo

 

 

 

That's what he was told when it was collected, said he was localish ? has quite a few rs1600's ?

 

think he was havin his leg pulled abit then

[Savvi]

dont cut it up sell it to make so i can have twins

The chairman of either the Rs or Avo club, just bought the roof off the last Mexico he bought. He had the car blasted and found there was nothing left except the roof

 

chairman of the avo lives in oxford and chairman of the rsoc has a mk4 escort turbo

 

 

 

That's what he was told when it was collected, said he was localish ? has quite a few rs1600's ?

 

think he was havin his leg pulled abit then

 

Dont know then, he sold it via Ebay for silly money, i think it should have kept it.

[RWDmad]

ya lucky b*****d!

[J_mk1]

savvi if you know steve do you know matt clark? big fella, i work with him he is in some of your pictures of the v8 mk1 lol

[Savvi]

The guy leaning on the car ?

 

I met him for the 1st time on Sunday

 

 

 

I only know Steve as his workshop is local to me and a supplier of mine

and we both love Mk1's

[Guest cortinamad-gonetoo]

nice one do we get to find out how much

[Savvi]

Perhaps we should do a guess the price thread ?

 

TBH it's not me that bought it and although it wouldn't bother me, i'm not sure if he would like me telling everyone ?

 

I'll ask the question ........................... in the meantime if anyone wants to have a guess ?

 

When Steve spoke to me this morning, he had spoke to the previous owner who says that the low mileage is genuine ? ,

[countrybumpkin]

on the crazzy world f ebay it wuld have probably been about 5-6 grand but i would think your mate probably payed about £1000 for it

[jaymk1cossieestate]

ya lucky b*****d!

just what i was going to say?

[bigglesmk2]

i would think your mate probably payed about £1000 for it

 

Im guessing even less then that ?

[Savvi]

Was much more than a £1000, as i said it wasn't what i'd call cheap, it's the fact that's it's a genuine car and has very little, work done in the past.

 

Lets face it how many Mexico's has had from what we can see no welding underneath it looks like it's had new wings and the front part of the wing rails and 2 patches on the bonnet slam panel. The top plates are original and have the chassis number stamped into it.