Well what a dilema to be faced with at this time of the morning! (thanks Dave
)
I had a similar situation two summers ago with an 1850 with rotten body but great engine.
My situation dicatated the solution and it was that I broke the car for it's engine/gearbox. It had been advertised locally to Triumph owners but no one took it up,
it could have been restored.
As I say my situation was
STORAGE, I only had an area at the front of my house and it meant the car was on full show to the entire street. I felt I didn't want to make the house look like Onslow's from
Keeping up Apperances with rusted car in the front garden.
I would have loved to have kept the entire car for either long term breaking (for mine and others benefits) or as to passing it on as a repairable item which could have been put to use as a car for the future.
In the end, I got so fed up with breaking the car (and myself as I ended up in A&E at one point) I was glad to see it taken away on the back of the scrapper's lorry.
Ideally, and when I win the lottery (positive thinking) I will buy cars of ebay, store them in the barns that I will have on the farm that I will own and there they will stay until someone wants to restore them. Well we all have a dream . . . . .