Buying a race car

[charlie]

Like the title says, I'm trying to buy a race car to enter the Classic Touring Car's pre-93/83/73 season staring in April. But there's none around at the moment. I just missed out on a nice Sierra Cosworth. Anyway, being stuck at an airport (Singapore - land of the incredibly clean car) again I thought I'd post up a few pics of some cars that I've come across and prices.

Charlie

Fiat Cinquecento spaceframe, 4.2k


Porsche 356 (Ebay US) $31k (OOOOF!)



Camaro 302ci $40k


BMW E30 (lots of these around - afforable and eligible for Production BMW class 5.5k


Ford Falcon (expensive!)


BMW 3.0 CSL Batmobile (also expensive!)


Cheap Sapphire Cossie 5.5k


Winning Renault 5 2.5k (bargain!)


Nissan 240 (Silvia?) 20k!


Cute BMW 2002 25k

[CR500Dom]

There was a post up on Turbosport about some english guys that had bought a couple of well prepared and very very nice escorts from South Africa, they have a lot of Early escorts and cortinas etc race prepared out there and the prices are very sensible......
Dry and rot free as well

Pound strong against the Rand too ;D Its where I would be looking TBH ;D

[Mr K]

I'm liking the E30 and R5. isnt the nissan 240 a stagea or somthing? looks to be in the works rally colours / kit too.

[Nick]

stagea? wtf?

i'd go for the Chinesechento spaceframe thing at that price:)

[charlie]

cr500dom said:

There was a post up on Turbosport about some english guys that had bought a couple of well prepared and very very nice escorts from South Africa, they have a lot of Early escorts and cortinas etc race prepared out there and the prices are very sensible......
Dry and rot free as well

Pound strong against the Rand too ;D Its where I would be looking TBH ;D

Is there a South African classic car website? I need a reason to go back to Cape Town!

Charlie

[jettadeluxe]

Stagea are the estate Nissan's with Skyline running gear, IIRC.

Possibly a Leopard?

[datsfun]

nickyboi said:

I'm liking the E30 and R5. isnt the nissan 240 a stagea or somthing? looks to be in the works rally colours / kit too.

No its not a stagea . Its actually a Nissan Silvia s110 model. To be eligible for group B rallying, Nissan had to produce 250 of these in full rally spec ( think peugeot 205 and T16.) These were marketed as 240RS. And the Kit is factory supplied, but the colours are not works rally colours, but a similar scheme. The car is question is a geniune 240RS, just not in factory colours.

At £20K, its well priced, proper cars in full works colours etc have changed hands in excess of US100K

[grizz]

charlie said:

cr500dom said:

There was a post up on Turbosport about some english guys that had bought a couple of well prepared and very very nice escorts from South Africa, they have a lot of Early escorts and cortinas etc race prepared out there and the prices are very sensible......
Dry and rot free as well

Pound strong against the Rand too ;D Its where I would be looking TBH ;D

Is there a South African classic car website? I need a reason to go back to Cape Town!

Charlie

Not sure there is, however, what you need to do is find some SA tuners, and contact them. Landline phone calls from a BT line to SA is around 1p/min if you use www.niftylist.co.uk then chat to them to find leads, then follow it up.
Try www.frostbrothers.co.za or .com they specialise in finding stuff and exporting worldwide, will also do the admin at a price.
My feeling had always been that they made themselves good money, so beware.

[CR500Dom]

charlie said:

cr500dom said:

There was a post up on Turbosport about some english guys that had bought a couple of well prepared and very very nice escorts from South Africa, they have a lot of Early escorts and cortinas etc race prepared out there and the prices are very sensible......
Dry and rot free as well

Pound strong against the Rand too ;D Its where I would be looking TBH ;D

Is there a South African classic car website? I need a reason to go back to Cape Town!

Charlie

don't know but here one of the threads on TS about it:

www.turbosport.co.uk/showthread.php?t=114442

www.turbosport.co.uk/showthread.php?t=114599

[tigran]

Get your mits onto a copy of autosport there is always some tasty racing machinery in the back of that or borrow one whilst youre in the library Smiths

[qwerty]

Hmm I'd my an ex MG Metro Cup car!! Then develop it a bit more ;D

What bout this!!

A rare vehicle - a competition prepared Fiat Panda!! The car was a 'one lady from new' vehicle that was prepared for Sprints & hillclimbs in 1996. Over a number of years the Panda was Progressively modified and expenditure totalled £7000.00. The current specication includes Abarth A112 1050 cc engine with modified cylinder head,special inlet manifold, sidedraft 40mm Twin choke D'Ellorto carburettor, electronic ignition, race camshaft, side exit exhaust(rolling roaded at 88 BHP, Full roll cage with door bars,racing seat,full harness belt. LEDA suspension with adjustable ride height coilover front dampers and uprated rear springs with adjustable dampers. 5x13 alloy wheels fitted with new 175/60x13 Yokohama A048's Tarox front discs & pads Fibreglass bonnet, door skins and hatch. Plexiglass side and rear screens. body moulds included) Fire extinguisher, Benetton leather steering wheel, supplementary instruments,rev,limiter. Expenditure by MBG includes new water radiator,rear wheel cylinders,brake shoes, flexi hoses, full lube service, 10 months MOT and valuable registration included - all ready to go and have enormous fun.

£2495

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charlie said:

cr500dom said:

Pound strong against the Rand too ;D Its where I would be looking TBH ;D

Is there a South African classic car website? I need a reason to go back to Cape Town!

Charlie

Pound Rand equation ridiculously good atm. Don't buy from Cape Town - wet climate, sea air, salt etc = not a rot free as you'de want. Ditto Durban, buy from around Jo'burg.

Then hire a car and road trip down to Cape Town via the coastal route! Knysna George etc. Did this in an old LAndie when I lived in CT - joyous. In direct contravention of all common sense picked up every hitch hiker going and met some of teh weirdest people evar!

[HoTWire]

104zs said:

In direct contravention of all common sense picked up every hitch hiker going and met some of teh weirdest people evar!

And suprisingly lived...

[Bioshock]

Now this is rather nice.............

Cosworth Thunder saloon






ex Phil Libby / Kris Waite Sapphire Cosworth , RS 500 engine & gearbox , ZF plate diff, AP brakes , Remote canister Dampers, lots more £10k to clear or £8k less the engine etc..


Price 10,000
Location London & South East