Sell, or Scrap?

Hi all, my first post here.



I've had my 2001 Rover 45 Impression S 1.4 hatchback for over 3 years now (78k miles on it in total), and it's been unbelievably good to me, until a couple of weeks ago when the gearbox gave in. I was over two hours away from home when it happened and managed to get it all the home mostly clutchless shifting.



Took it to an engineer who confirmed that it wasn't the clutch bearing and that the gearbox needed overhauling. I figured it would be easier and not much more expensive just to buy another car, which I'm picking up Wednesday.



I figured it would be better off just to scrap the Rover for a quick £100, but looking through it's service history I came across an invoice I'd never properly looked at before, stating that one of the previous owners paid £1200 to have the engine replaced in 2007. So it turns out it's got an engine that's only 7 years old with only 40k miles on it (I'd always wondered why it had held it's performance so well, hah). I'm wondering if this is a game changer for this old Rover's future.



So I'm stuck between getting the car scrapped or selling it. On the one hand, I could sell the car with a relatively fresh engine but a bad gearbox and a disconnected radio (I can include the original radio, but don't have the connections the reinstall it after taking my one back out). Maybe I could get two or three hundred, not sure.



On the other hand, it may just be quicker, easier and just make more sense to scrap it after removing and selling the unused spare tyre, jack and radio (and maybe anything else that isn't too hard to remove). I just think it's such a waste to let a good car with a newer engine go to scrap just for a bad gearbox.



So I'd like some opinions; Is it worth selling, or should it be scrapped?



On a side note, it's got half a tank of fuel in it. I've tried siphoning it but can seem to get the pipe all the way down into the tank to draw out the juice. Does the Rover 45 have one of those ball things at the bottom of the tank to prevent siphoning, and are there any other ways to pull the fuel out? I don't mind leaving it for the next owner to make good use of if I sell it, but I just think it's a waste letting it go to scrap with a half filled tank.



Thanks in advance.

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