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Real gutsy move, i like it, i hope everything works out for you. You can get you a U-Tube channel and film what you fix, those are really popular right now and people are making their living doing only that.

All good Bro. I'm like you and have a wide skill base, all practical stuff, and work hard(well I used to), and I was invited to settle and live on someone else's land after I'd been living on my yacht for three years. They even offered to subdivide but I didn't need that so I just built a cabin and worked there helping out on the farm and mechanicing. Get a bus and go.. you'll fit in. Land.. It's not so much the distance from town, though the more remote the cheaper, but the ten to twenty acre blocks are the most popular with the lifestylers. I needed a through road so people could access me easily, and we found a semi cut over forest block, on a main through road about twenty minutes out of a small town. I'd had interest in forestry and knew the industry went in cycles, and that the loggers and truckers would be back in a few years. As it happened, about two years after moving into our new place the market came good and we sold most of the remaining trees for $38,000.. The land cost $25,000. Hope it goes as well for you. Get into the community, talk to people, take advice and offers of help. Be helpful.

I only repair

In my area i would estamate it selling for between 2000 and 2500 because its in good condition, i have seen them go for less but there is usually something broken on them or need something.

That is some thick paint, rim looks good, nice job.

Yes that why I say you have to be careful with eBay it has helped me with expensive Oem parts lately , you really don’t want to put a 600 carb on a 700 quad, you really have to pick and choose what is the most economical and still come up with the same good end result. But no not really a fan of eBay either.

I Can tell you what I did. Started with badly weather and faded looked like they had been sitting in the weather for years. I dont really have any before photos. I started out by spraying them down with Amour All to try and get some color back. I let it set on there for a couple of days spraying more on a couple of times a day. I wet sanded the panels completely with finer grit as I went 400, 600, 800, 1000, 1500, 2000, 2500, and 5000. It was very smooth, couldn't do much about the discoloration from abuse . I polished it using rubbing compound, Meguires swirl remover by hand and it did shine, but I wanted more so then tried machine polish, 3m machine polish compound with a professional polishing machine, didn't work well, too powerful and burned in a couple of places. I was going to try my random orbital polisher, but I count find it . I was fairly happy with what I has achieved, certainly looked a lot better than what I had started with, but after being in the rainy weather for a couple of days the oxidation came back in places, so I decided this wasn't going to work. I think its probably because the area it came back in were little nooks and crannies I didn't get to as well as others. I has some clear engine enamel I decided to try that, so I sanded the whole thing again only up to 2000 grit and went over the whole thing with a paint prep solution. I sprayed with the engine enamel and liked it very much, it gave the beige a little warmer appearance with a good shine. I sprayed it a little dry because I wasn't sure if I wanted a high gloss shine or not, you can definitely get high gloss if you prefer that. There was some discolorations of the plastic where it had been stressed from use, not much you can do about that but paint, I didn't want to paint it. Im not finished yet but I have got it good enough to put back together, I may wetsand the clear coat and polish it smooth and glossy , I haven't decided yet.