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hi, got a few questions really for those in the know.. don't post on here often but do my fair share of browsing it i've been looking for a good rot-free 205 gti to drop my gti6 engine into. finding a rust free one is proving hard and the only one i'd seen recently sold on ebay and had bad faded paint on it (but turned out to be a 1.6 rather than the 1.9 it was advertised as..) luck has it that my mum's got a 205 champagne automatic Gentry, with an original 50k on it, and it's immaculate inside and out, and 100% rust/rot free. seems a shame to waste it, but i'm going to use this and start again using its bare shell (it's got intermittent starting issues and she's had enough of it). i'm guessing the shells are pretty much the same on the GTI's and the Gentry's? i'll obviously have to replace every single thing in the car from the interior panels and dash to all the wiring and literally reshell a 205 gti into it, but it's not too much of an issue in my mind having done this to 306's in the past. my main concern was the fitment of things like manual parts which i'll replace the automatic bits with. engine wise, it's a standard GTi6 engine (with a 5-speed box) going into it. a couple of things i've noted from here are maybe the subframe difference, also the wiring internally somewhere relating to the reverse lights? but if i completely replace the looms throughout i shouldn't be having issues should i? and rear arches requiring cutting.. not to mention it'll be being fully resprayed in another colour, but i shouldn't encounter any issues really should i doing the above? i've been given a lot of info on the GTi-6 site off someone (who's on here no doubt) but just wanted some clarification before i butcher a lovely Gentry i'm sure it'd be easier to just find a decent GTi but the opportunity of a free Gentry which is rot-free seems too good to turn down cheers