Hi I'm looking for a bit of advice on buying a turbo 2.
Here's the scenario, I've got a mate who's had a red turbo 2 for about 8-10 years, he bought it in standard' ish form apart from it having a right hand drive conversion (gtt bulkhead and gordini dash).
3 years ago he decided to restore it back to left hand drive and give it a full respray. He stripped most of the exterior and interiortrim off it and tried sourcing a turbo 2 front end. He found a guy who had a decient t2 shell who needed the back and and agreed to cut and sell the front end to my mate. The guy with the spare shell had sent my mate a pic of the spare shell and it all looks ok but he's been fobbing my mate off for for about a year saying he's not got round to cutting the shell. Personally I think he's already sold it.
So my mates t2 has been sat stripped for 3 years now and his personal circumstances are changing his gf wants a wedding, house family etc and with money being tight his gf isn't going to let him Spend the money on the t2 that it needs to finish it. Apparently he's already spent a bomb on new parts like wishbones etc. The shell is solid no rust at all and engine ran fine before the strip down.
So I'm thinking of making him an offer but don't want to get myself into a money pit where everything I buy for it is either custom made or extorsionally priced.