cav gsi restore or break?? thoughts?

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to be honest bud id keep it, an work on it over the next few months

theres been alot worse brought back to life

would be a shame to break it as theres to many being broken, an have the engine no doubt end up in another corsa!!!
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Looks from your pics that there may be a fair bit of work there, but nothing that hasn't been attempted before, I guess if you really want one, then you will do it :thumb
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seen a lot worse !!

repair it n enjoy it
My valver brings all the boys to the yard, dam right its cammed and carbed, dam right it pops and farts, I would show you but the fuker won't start!
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Always looks worse with the car being white. Fix it
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I've taxed worse.... Definitely repair it, it doesn't look too bad mainly.
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The rust looks superficial to me; no big gaping holes as far as I can see.

Restore it. Too few of them left to let it go down without a fight.
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im with troy

whiite cars always seem to look worse with rust :lol:
My valver brings all the boys to the yard, dam right its cammed and carbed, dam right it pops and farts, I would show you but the fuker won't start!
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Rust stands out more on white cars because white naturally reflects more light, hence it's a bright colour and any imperfection in the paint shows up more than on any other colour I'd imagine. Especially where you have water dripping from a rust patch and it leaves a trail, making the situation look worse than it is.
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fix without a doubt
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nothing to bad there, defo fix it, a wire brush and rust killer will sort most of that. Ads
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thanks for all the replies, right then heres all my spare time away to be used up then...
can any one help me work out how to upload single picture that i can comment on out of photo bucket? cheers
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M8 im fixing one up as we speak, keep it, dae a wee bit at a time that way you wont get scunnered wae it, that what im doing, mines is worse than that I think, ive renewed inner outer full sills -subframe -crossmember and arches inner wing at battery tray, the floor and chassis is really good cond, anyway keeeeeeeep it :-)
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