Quote Originally Posted by mickd1961 View Post
Not necessarily.

I’ve seen one with 13,800 miles from new that’s never been touched and is in mint condition.

As long as they’ve been garaged and not got salt corrosion in winter they can be okay.
It may look good Mick, but over the 30/40 years it has been around rubber bushes will have perished, diaphragms will have broken down, how often were the brake lines and fuel subsystem bled etc? I agree if it has done hardly any miles and been garaged and away from the winter there will be significantly less work to do, but as someone who has owned a classic for the last 25 years work will be there to do. Hence the type of restoration they do on car SOS for example leaves you with every nut and bolt inspected, every seal and hose replaced and the shell taken back to bare metal before being re assembled, this way you get a car as good as if not better than the day it left the factory.