- mARC

If u dont mind me asking, what do u do for a job ?

Sound like u know your stuff.

Hey Mate, I'm an accountant now, but my fathers been an owner operater of a Panel and Paint Shop for around 40years so I basicly grew up around cars, I did a panel beating apprenticeship when I was younger as well but got out of the industry as the fumes go straight through me.

I have been witness to a lot of jobs that my father has undertaken for people (where he wasnt consulted before hand), whom have bought wrecks and tried to piece them together for a quote unquote cheap vehicle (it rarely works out that way).

Also like most others was always pushing to buy a nice car as a wreck when I was younger to clean up for use, my father always made me see sense as we would sit down after spending a lot of time sussing out the vehicle and associated costs to just get it to roadworthy condition.

You'ed be suprised what unconscionable acts a wrecker will do with a gas axe for the right price

Sorry mate I'ed have to disagree with you. Its impossible to see the fully extent of the damage from just a picture, and its the damage that you cant see that'll send you into a tailspin

same iv had a few repairable right offs.

its the dents under the car that are the ones of interest. never had one with airbags. save for a running sti!

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What did it fetch? I'd expect $15k + for that car.

You wouldn't have a chance of buying that car for $10k! The gearbox and diff are worth that alone.

I would also be interested how much this went for. Considering the bugeye STI they had there a few months back with worse frontal damage than that got handed in at $8k.

That Bug eye went to over $11k and passed in the week I went there.
Last week at Pickles they sold a 2005 WRX (non sti) for $10,800 with similar damage, plus the roof was bent.

I think the days of getting a bargain at auctions are long gone...

Yep, blame the dodgy arabs who bid up the prices on the crashed cars.

when my old my00 went to the auctions that was hit in the arse pretty hard it had 86,000ks and that sold for 8grand and he was some arab bloke that drove a candy green coloured 350z with altezza tail lights, would like to no who he is where the car is as i still have a spare set of keys for it

ouch bit of racism there.