Quote Originally Posted by ZEUS View Post
Not a stupid idea, but I think it will be hard to find a VX that has a body in better condition, than what you already have, for less than $8k. Also, you run the risk of damaging the fresh body parts when swapping them from one VX to another, aligning all the panels correctly, blah blah.
You have a good point there. One of the things that worried me, was that the body shop giving me the estimate was telling me they want to remove parts of the cladding to respray. That made me kind of cringe because I know all that double stick tape under there is no easy chore, and can easily result in making the VX worse off than what it is now. I think if I do go with body work, I will stick to getting my hood fixed and resprayed (my insert will come out anyway) and my tailgate. For starters, I may just have them do a really good exterior detailing, and then evaluate from there.

Quote Originally Posted by Ascinder View Post
Don't forget, you'll have me to help with the costs too. I think it'd be easier starting with a cannibalized VX for my projects than trying to screw with this one. You could have all the sheetmetal and pretty stuff you need, and I'll take the barebones frame and start modding the hell out of it.
Hmmm, that may be a good option for both of us. In thinking about a donor VX, I would have no where to store it anyway, so that would get tricky. I don't know if you or your dad has enough room to store it, but yeah, maybe we could double team this project. We'll see what we can find this summer.

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