What good alternative donor cars are there?

[rpjg1975]

Hi and welcome to the mad house. I am using a 1.8 cvh sierra which cost me £270 including some fiesta zetec alloys which were already fitted. Mine came off ebay but i also had to do a fair bit of watching and waiting to find it.
Possible alternatives seem to be mazda mx5 or various bmw models but both of which appear to need extra work to use. I believe there are some members on here who are using both and there are a couple of threads with some more exotic donor possibilities.
For what it's worth my opinion would be to hold out for a sierra if possible as there appears to be more using them and more help and knowledge available but it depends how much of a challenge you are up for.
Happy building
Russ