ARGH WHY?!?

[JonT]

I think your over estimating the cost of the repair. Depends what you want to do. Matt is a perfectionist but the car can be repaired for much less. I had to do a lot of welding on my car, got a local guy to do it and it only cost £300. I would expect to pay £150-200 for what you need.

I have also seen a few imported cars now, and strangely enough they have rust in Japan too. A couple of cars have nearly been as bad as mine. If you fix your car up you will at least know where you stand with it. Changing it means that your selling the problem to someone else and your back to an unknown car with unknown problems. These are 20 year old cars, they will have problems. By a cheap run around so that there are no time pressures [fwd GT perhaps, very cheap Corollas] and learn about your car.