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£20 , Kadett C - was 14 years ago.. still got it though ! Needed wiper blades and a number plate to get through an MOT. £150 , Cavalier Sportshatch , oh yeah , still got this too ! :
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G reg Nova 1.0 in the early noughties for £90. After a respray it fetched £750.
Also got a free Bluebird estate when I bought a Mk2 Golf Driver off a colleague around the same time. Left it on the verge outside my olds' and, sure enough, a banger racer knocked on the door not very much later and gave £10 for it.
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G reg mk2 Polo Ranger, paid £150 for it with a bit of MOT off an old fella.
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1993 Mercedes-Benz 190e LE in Azzuro Blue.
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Ratchet
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The user formerly known as Thomas
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had so many 'cheap' ones, although they often end up not beign so cheap... first car i deve after passign my tst was a £50 1.3 Austin metro, had a bit of tax and test on it, i ended up selling it for £30 a few months later with a month or two tax on it
i did get a 1.6 mk2 golf for free, had been sitting idle for almost a year and had 300k on the clock (!) passed its mot after i spent about £30 on it replacing a suspension bush and adjusting the back brakes, and i sold it for 200, wish i could find bargains like that all the time.....
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Competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization.
1971 vw beetle 1200 1978 international loadstar 1700 4x4 1987 landrover 110 1994 Yamaha FZR600r 2010 honda CBF100GT
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A Skoda Favorit with a brand new test for £50. Drove it for about 7 months and gave it to someone I worked with who ran it until the test ran out.
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ford corsair auto, £50 mot failure,
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Brian Damaged
West Midlands
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I've got a good few years on most of you guys. I'll be celebrating 30 years of driving (legally, anyway...) next July so what appears cheap now wasn't necessarily so at the time. I'll try and stick with the cheapies though for this, which could be quite a long post.....actually I'll divide it into decades I think, otherwise it'll read like War & Peace!
First up, a 1967 Triumph 2000 bought just before I passed my test with 55k from new and a year's MOT for £110. I'd love to say that it was my introduction to Classic Car ownership but at the time (like most of the stuff I've owned over the years) no-one wanted them. I thrashed the living daylights out of it, going through two 2-litre and one 2.5-litre straight-sixes and a couple of gearboxes, as well as countless pairs of back tyres ;D in about eight months. I bought a Mk2 2000 Auto as a spares car from my local car auctions, which cost me £10 with tax/MOT. Both cars ended their days on the oval....
That was replaced by a 1975 Cortina Mk3 1600L in glorious Sahara Beige which cost me £40 as it had been accident-damaged. It ended up wearing 1600E Rostyles colour-coded in the same Sahara Beige (this was the 1980's...) with no front bumper, a huge pair of spotlights and a 'Lombard RAC Rally' sunstrip, as was the fashion back then. I managed almost two years out of that with a LOT of welding and thrash-related repairs (I even managed to snap the clutch pedal in two one night whilst racing someone...)
By this time (early '86) I'd moved up in the world and bought myself a '73 Capri 1600XL (Mk1 facelift model) for £65 but absolutely hated it, and sold it on for £150 after only about three months. I replaced that with one of my favourites, a '71 Mini Clubman in Teal Blue....which cost me £45. Again I bedecked it with spotlamps/buckets/dropped steering column, fitted gennie Cooper S reverse rims (which were as common as muck back then) and a Lucas death-ray spotlamp on the bootlid. That one lasted about eight months until I split the floorpan from gear lever to A-post one night jumping a hump-backed bridge.
Fast forward to late 1987 and after a brief dalliance with a £200 '77 Chevette hatch and a year with a fantastic rally-prepped Hillman Avenger which cost me £700 and I sold for £850, I bought a one-owner from new 75,000m VW Type 3 Fastback with a fuel-injected 1600 in it. With a year's MOT. For £200. I was no VW enthusiast, but I knew a bargain when i saw one. It did 12 months chasing rallies all over Wales, got thoroughly abused and then sold on for £500. It was on 'the scene' for a while in 1989/90 as the guy who bought it off me sprayed it in grey primer, retrimmed the interior in various sick-inducing flourescent 'surf' materials and dropped it on the deck.
In late 1988 I replaced that with a '79 Peugeot 504 1.8 saloon which cost me about £80, again from my local car auction. I put about 20,000 miles on it in 18 months but never bothered with any boring stuff like servicing. Bloody thing NEVER broke down!
Anyway, we're in 1990 now, so more later........
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I dunno how you guys have blagged so many freebies.
The one and only cheapie I had was a case-of-beers '96-ish Rover 414 from a mate at work. The head gasket had gone and he just wanted it removed from the car park at work. It still had some MoT left.
I spent £400 on it, fitting a low mileage replacement engine, tidied it and sold it for £670.
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Not really retro but, Got a '97 E36 318is M-Tech with T&T for €380, Brought it home, Washed/Polished and Valeted.... Sold 2 days late for €980
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qwerty
Club Retro Rides Member
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Club RR Member Number: 52
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My first Polo was Coupe S that me and a mate went halfers on. Cost £22.50 each! GT interior lowered on baby G60 steels. Loved it and will build a replica soon!
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£56 from ebay with about 8 weeks t+t.
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@ CRX_IN_SCOTLAND
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my first car was a 6n2 polo for £60 fixed it up for about 200, gave it death EVERYWHERE and sold it for £400 a year later. was so much more fun than any of my mates newer far more costly things, tort me a lot about driving that car
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JohnK
North East
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My best one was this 1999 (T) Vauxhall Vectra SRi 140. I got given this for free back in January 2007, 110k miles with history, 9 months MoT and 2 months Tax at time of purchase. I ran it for 4 months, sold it for £1300! Other ones which spring to mind: 1995 (M) Ford Mondeo 1.8 GLX TD - I bought this in May 2007, to replace the Vectra above. I gave £70 for it with 2 months MOT, 128k miles. 2 owner car, the previous owner had it for 8 years. Needed taxing but apart from that it was fine, flew through the next MOT. Sold it to my mate 6 months later for £300 plus his Fiesta (which I gave £100 for) 1997 (P) Ford Fiesta 1.3 LX - as above stood me at £100 part exchange on the Mondeo. I took the alloys off before I sold it and replaced with a set of steels I had in the garage. I later sold the alloys back to the lad I got the car off, when he sold the Mondeo and bought an Escort to replace it with. He paid £65 for the wheels back... 1995 (N) Volvo 440 1.6i - bought of my mates dad - he is service manager at out local Volvo dealership and he had this for about 3 years as a cheap runabout. He upgraded to an S40 and wanted rid of it, so I bought it in March 2008 to replace the Fiesta, gave £100 for it with 6 months MOT. Taxed it, paid £25 for a waterpump and ran it for 6 months before selling at a profit. 1998 (S) Renault Clio 1.4 RT - This was advertised for £300 back in 2008 and ti was very cheap then, I remember looking at these on the 'Trader for about £1000. My mate spotted this, he drives Bin Wagons for a living and had seen it stuck in an alley. We both went up the next day, owner wanted rid because of a fault - he charged the battery up, drove so far and it would just conk out. I investigated on the spot and noticed the tensioner was missing from the alternator belt. I didn't tell the bloke, battled him down to £225, paid another mate £20 to take it home on his flatbed, sorted the tensioner and sold it to one of my other mates for £950. I took this one in as a debt. My mate owed me £200 and couldn't muster the funds, one morning I woke up to find the logbook, MOT and keys on the floor near my front door, with a note. The car was outside. Absolute bag of nails, I turned it back standard with some bits I had lying around (some cheapy Ford alloys in the garage and standard grill) i then got a standard second hand backbox for £10 from the breakers and standard light clusters for £20. I put the car to standard, sold it for £350 then sold the alloys, lexus lights and backbox seperately. I made about £550 in total. As bought: Standard lights looked so much better though: The guy I sold it to still has it now as well. I kind of went into more modern cars after that (big mistake really) although a drunken eBay search purchased this 1996 N) Peugeot 106 1.5 Diesel for £105 back in June 2010. The car had no Tax or MOT and I don't know why I bought it, but the lady had taken it for MOT and it failed dramatically. I had a look over when I got home at the areas it failed on and couldn't see the problem, so I banged it in my local garage and it passed straight away. Taxed it, ran for 6 weeks and sold back to the lady I bought it off for £350!
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Some of these bargains just beggar belief! Especially the freebies. jk667 got an 8 year old car with tax on it for free? Surely something odd must be going on there.
My cheapest car was my 1970 VW 1500 Beetle, which I got for $300 with no rego and bald rear tyres. Came with a few boxes of spares and a spare set of alloy wheels as well. It had been sitting disused in a driveway for a long while, but with a push start it fired right up and drove home. Desperately needed a tune-up though!
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JohnK
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Especially the freebies. jk667 got an 8 year old car with tax on it for free? Surely something odd must be going on there. To cut a long story short, a couple who the family have known for many years won some money on a syndicate and after doing the obligatory (settling debt, new windows and kitchen in the house) they bought themselves two (newish) cars. The family Vectra was surplus to requirements and it was more a case of being in the right place at the right time (excitement of actually having money etc). I think it stood them at £1400 when they had bought it 5 months earlier. They could probably have done with that when the money (quite quickly) ran out!
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------------------------------------------- 1999 'V' Rover 620Ti 1999 'T' Mercedes E55 AMG 1997 'R' Ford Probe 24v 1994 'M' Nissan Maxima 3.0 1992 'J' Honda Prelude 2.0iS 1986 'C' BMW 728i Auto 1985 'C' Talbot Solara 1.6 Minx 1984 'A' Talbot Horizon LE Ultra 1.3 1978 'S' Ford Cortina 1.6 GL
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chubz
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1985 mk3 ford escort for £80 in 2007, was going to make an S1 RS Turbo rep,,,, ... brakes failed at a corner and i went into a lampost
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my primary school laptop daimler sov, the laptop cost me 80quid,just needed a top up of the auto box fluid. sold to a french dude for 600 odd. merc 123 230e, think this cost about 200 two hours with tcut and auto sol, sold to a polish chap for 600 odd. and my t25 doka, bought for 300 looks terrible there,but she,s super solid and just needed a service and a bit of a run to put her right, looks a lot nicer now and is never for sale.
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"quote hairnet"
I'm not paying nine pound for a pi$$!
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Bought an Astra Van Mk2 with GTE body kit for £50 in the pub didnt even see it sold it the same night later in the pub for £300 not bad for something I never saw.
Bought the 106 van £130 needing gearbox changing but tax and test £30 gearbox and went straight through its test sold it to a mate.
My 205 gti was my biggest bargain thou £350 tax and tested for the year and it was pristine but me being young and daft meant I threw silly amounts of money at it and made it worth less but I still love it.
TBF most my cars are bargains or I wouldn't buy them as I am rather tight, hence why I keep looking at the £400 Jag on here going I don't need it and have no where to store it and its in Scotland but it keeps nagging me lol.
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Some days you just need to take a grinder to an inanimate object, just to make your day a tiny bit better!!
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