looked 205 at it pics here, opinions?

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Chris don't buy it. The 6' was relatively an easy job and you soon gave up on that. We're just not talking about welds here it's been stood 3 years you can some rack the bill up replacing suspension brakes tyres etc etc.

If your really really thinking of buying it I don't mind coming along and having a look and show you what could need doing. seen a few 205's with mots that are rotten to hell!

I may take you up on that offer, i do no what your saying about the 6 but i just had no love for it several reasons i wouldn't be able to use it once it was done would use to much fuel and insurance be to much. So thats the reason i gave up with that, but with the 205 i can get insured (pretty cheap only £8 a month more than 106!) thats cheaper than what a 306 would cost me on insurance. Plus i would have the satisfaction of restoring a 205. Yer i think its not gonna be easy but got it all planed in my head.

Wanna completely strip it and weld every last bit of rust up and then under seal it all so its protected for time to come, if im doing the welding my self its not gonna cost massive amounts can use my dads welder just but the gas and wire and steel probably be £100-150 max depending how much more rust i find. Then yer all bushes etc are gonna want changing. I think it would be a labour of love more than thinking about money tbh.

BUT! as all you guys no me chances are i will buy it get fed up with it and end up selling/brakeing it just think theres less chance of that happening if i no i can use the car once its fixed up.

tbh chris, my rover metros arse end and rear inner arch was worse, than that. we managed to patch the boot floor and weld in a second hand inner arch. tbh i think mine would have been scrapped if it wasnt for what the model of metro it was.
you could get boot floor sections from a scrapper and weld them into place. or use the car as a donor and buy a better 205 and reshell it. at least you have the full lot and make one decent one out of the two.

You have a metro? You didnt mention it

yeah its red, and its rotten.

Yer if people dont save these old cars that are rotten there's gonna be no classics as they will all have rotted away.

more like most have been scrapped due to the stupid scrappage scheme!
my car, is getting rarer now. as these are or were the most scrapped rover at the time. as you say best to start saving a few old cars before they are gone.
you cannot really pick up a metro now for what I payed 5 years ago.
try 200 quid onwards! a rolling Turbo shell went for 300 quid! so this will show you whats going to happen to the 205s, if its not already happening.