My good friend who owns the building where I work on cars has another R53 bought from BaT several years ago. It is an '06 MCS JCW with 40k miles, (28k when he bought it), that he drove for a couple of years as a daily and heavily modified until it was so powerful that I think it lost some appeal as a street car. Even with full Ohlins suspension and a better ltd. slip than stock, (Quaife?), it's sort of a beast.
It has been sitting in the shop unused for 4 years(?) and on Tuesday, I bought it from him. It was a "some assembly required" deal because he is from the church of lightweight and had completely removed the stock interior and put in light Recaro seats. All of the stock parts are on the shelf with even fewer miles on them than the car. I'm more of a "keep it stock" guy for most cars and want to return this thing to more or less original with the exception of some nice parts on it.
Here are some photos, kind of a "barn find" except it wasn't in barn but right under my nose for the last several years:
Looks dirty, (it is), but I started putting it back together and charged the battery, (took a charge!), gave it the first wash in years yesterday:
