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Essentially I am shopping around for a new car (AGAIN, it appears I can't keep a car for longer than ten minutes sometimes. Unless I end up loving it of course, cause then it ends up in the shed being resprayed.... Nevermind...) and this time after seeing a few different cars in the flesh and driving a DR30 I have started looking for one.

Wogboys HR31 is an inspiration I have to say.

Found a HR31 however while it looked great on the right hand side, wandering around the other side greeted me with more damage than I thought would be possible without the car being completely structurally destroyed. 

That said I'm not looking for anything expensive, not neccessarily turbo, essentially not that rare, firstly to bring the price down and secondly because I love swinging spanners on older cars. Thats not to say I wouldn't love a DR30 with an FJ20ET, they sound great.

Considering ebay/trading post/carsales has failed me I thought I should post it up here in case either a) I am blind or b) am looking in the wrong spots altogether.

If anything comes up shoot me a PM. I am willing to wait in order to find something cheap enough - which you have to do when your on something approaching a budget. Prefer something that drives and is at least capable of having a trade plate strapped to it in order to get it onto the spirit and back to tasmania. Body damage/rust is fine. I can fix that easily enough as long as its not chassis rust - gotta stay legal.

In the meantime I will just keep working on some other projects, that XB won't finish itself and if I get bored with that I could start on some '38 ford stuff I suppose... I'm not in a hurry.

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I'm doing something similar with my DR30 but not sure what your definition of cheap is.

Mine is almost on the road but owes me $10k with

Minor chassis rust repaired and fully proofcoated underside

Seatbelts rewebbed

A/C unit converted to new gas

WRX interior

Nolathane front end

New lower control arms

Koni Shocks

Momo Sports steering wheel

Autronic ECU and boost controller

plus plus plus it all adds up

But hopefully mine will be a better example

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Well I have seen poor examples in the past go for sub 5k.

I don't particularly care if the body is poor, or even if the mechanicals or driveline is poor because most likely it will end up all changed anyhow.

I imagine it would be a good 10k spent to get one on the road stockish from that kind of state, or I could spend a touch more and build a dream car.

Honestly though I could bodge it onto the road on the cheap and engineer any modifications from there with the contacts I have.

As I said I'm patient. If something turns up it turns up.

Good luck with your project, sounds like it will be a hell of a car when its finished.

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