Hi, just joined up

[Banishit]

Hello mate and welcome, nice to see the old RS's still turning up after years of non use

Brian

[Frosticles]

Bloody Hell, Raunds.....One of my old stamping grounds. Used to play in a band called Sick On The Bus from there 10 years ago.

[lar]

Hello ben. Welcome to the site.Go for it man

[SIGYELLOW]

Sick on the Bus - I have heard of them, weren't they of mid/late-80s manufacture??? I had a few Grebo type mates in the late 80s/early 90s who I recall mentioning that band - wasn't my thing though I'm afraid, too busy chasing trains or crashing 2000s....

BTW anyone: I had an RS 2000 in late 1990 that I bought cheap (£600 stolen/recovered) it's reg was WLB 965S and wait for it........it had at that time got 13 previous owners, don't suppose anyone recalls it??? It was a real Friday car and I ended up scrapping it for all it's Gremlins and faults...

[Frosticles]

Did you ever know Ian Smith (Biff) Doug Eales or Brian Ansell??? I used to drive round there in my old sig yellow mex in the late 80's very early 90's

[SIGYELLOW]

Nope, but as I say I'm not actually from Raunds, just live close by. Used to drink on the very odd ocassion in The World Upside Down pub (though very ocassionally!!). As I say though, I wasn't really into the local band scene, so wouldn't have bumped into any of you. Were you originally from Raunds then???

[Judge_Fudge]

Welcome, glad you found us.

[vinny]

hi and welcome m8 , good luck with the rs2

[Ben Allen]

Yeah we'll get somethijng sorted out. As it happens my best mate lives in a village called Orlingbury near Wellingborough and another in Finedon - not far away at all!

You'll have to pop over if/when I get this RS aswell and have a butchers at it!

[dasadrew]

Hi Ben and welcome!

Regarding the car - I wouldn't even touch it with YOURS! It's got rust where I didn't even know RS's rust!
Engine inside will be completely rusted and pitted - maybe not saveable
Carburettor can be forgotten
Just look at that rust on the boot lid! Mine was stored uncovered outside for 10 years in German winters with salting and gritting going on a couple of metres away from the car and it doesn't have anything like the rust on that white one!
Assume that EVERY panel on that car will need replacing!
Even "goodies" are missing - the door cards have got holes, the steering wheel is mildewed to an unrecoverable state, the nice vinyl roof has got a sunroof hole. (just remove those Vinyl roof rear pillar finishers - they're rare as rocking horse manure). On your way out of the barn, open the doors so that the pigs have got somewhere warm for the winter!

Start doing some serious calculations on bits and time and aggro and nights spent googling or on eBay and you'll find you could EASY buy a TVR yourself!

I reckon the words "BARN FIND" are working their magic here!

[Banishit]

I have to agree on some of those points you made there Drew

The front end , from the pics does not look good under the bonnet, a boot lids easy one though, we really need to see the sills and floor pansand wheel archs/wells too, just the front end will be quite an expensive rebuild to do it right

you are probably looking for around £1600 in panels for the front alone. thats new old stock Ford ones! would be good to see in the boot and under the carpets by the sills

steering wheel another £15, the engine who knows until you take the head off, I have taken 20-30 year old engines apart soaked them in penetrating oil for a few days and got them turning and then working again ? pot luck on that

[Ben Allen]

Oh dear this doesn't sound good. I suppose I'll have to go over there all tooled up and drag the thing kicking and screaming out of the barn and find out what it's really like. If it's going to be a total arse to do then I suppose I'll have to keep looking and hopefully find something a bit more solid.

The rust on the bootlid is just on the edge, not really bad, I reckon that could be ground down and resprayed

Think I'll do some reconsidering!

[Banishit]

Hey Ben it all depends what hes going to charge you for it ? theres quite alot of bits there ripe for dismantling

What are the bottoms of the doors like too, wing drip rails bulkhead heater bulge is it rotton at the bottom, the bulkhead seams, bottoms of the inner wings where the anti rollbar connects too

Brian

[M11RF]

Hey mate.

Welcome

[lee bishop]

i didnt think it looked too bad........ needs a good wash and a reassessment, most bits would come up with elbow gease, except the wheels possibly..... i'd still be tempted, it probably wouldnt happen over a weekend though, i'll expect to see it in 'unfinnished projects' in 18 months