[Des]

I've been rebuilding my car for the best part of a decade, or rather I haven't. Progress has been painfully slow. In about 2000-ish I sold my 401, it was in regular use but a shed, getting it nice would have needed a lot of panel fettling all over, the interior was awful, seats recovered in vinyl, no carpet, everything rickety, impossible to know where to start, but I kept busy with annual bouts of MOT work and re-bodging bodges to keep it running. I replaced it with a low mileage 403 as an easier option, this car was in good order from the radiator back, had taken a knock on the nose after an engine upgrade around 40 years previously, (upgrade brakes, then engine) previous owner cut off the front of the nose section, and laid a 401 nose cutting in place, he then bought a nice 400 and with no means of welding aluminum the car sat in this state while the decades rolled by.
My first move was to buy a complete nose from Mr. May in Birmingham, this panel has now sat on the car, retained by just a few screws ever since. Meanwhile I've carried out work, sporadically, random tasks such as the small amount of welding needed, overhauling some components, some chroming, a lot of gathering of parts, but time passes and I never manage to get properly stuck in. The car lives in a workshop a bit of a drive away so only gets seen when I have the whole day free. I have eleven vehicles in total, in various states, waiting for my attention but I don't really have the energy any more, and my poor management of celiac disease robs much of my time. Early this year I worked out a plan to trim my fleet down to four, one for work, one for weekends, one for fun and another for fun. More than enough really, two of these are on the road, the next is straightforward, leaving the 403 to concentrate on. Of the cull victims five would be easy to make road legal to enable easy disposal. Summer has come and gone and I haven't made any progress.
I can see this situation remaining indefinitely, the workshop where the 403 resides will be gone in a year or so, and now I must act. The unthinkable notion of moving on the 403 has to be considered, while heartbreaking, it would help make life easier. I should enjoy the variety of cars I have but in reality it's a liability, only two out of eleven are road legal, six could be back on the road with little work, but X 6 = lots of work.
If I decide to sell the 403, I'm out of touch with prices, not an easy car to value anyway, what sort of figure would be fair for a restoration project? About 50K miles, 100AB engine upgrade but still with long gearlever and no overdrive, other than the engine very original, has it's keyring from the 50's, still on its first carpet, all those little signs of an un-messed with car that warm the heart.
Do please understand I'm not offering for sale just yet, but an idea of value could help me decide what I do, will clear the others first, sticking to my four car plan, but 403 will either need to be road legal within a year or go, so I must work out how likely this is to happen. Bugger.