What's your best bargain?

[PhoenixCapri]

So having got a pretty good bargain today, I wondered what everyone else's best bargains have been?

And because a thread is nothing without photos, here's the one that got me thinking



Hydrovane compressor with a big tank and filters, far more capable than I'll ever need - £50!

So what's you're best bargain?

[Mercdan68]

Best bargain I had? A 1974 scimitar gte bought off a local man who had it sat on his drive after spending a fortune on it then getting bored, I bought it for £500 used it for a summer and sold it for £1700

[newscuttlepanel]

E30 M3 for £3920!! That was 10 years ago mind.

[messenjah]

completely original and remarkable un rusty ford capri thats spent 18 years in a garage for £100

[86mike]

A Honda Legend 3.2 with 12 months MOT and Tax for £50 at the auctions.

[sweetmk1dub]

Over the years,
scirocco storm with 59k miles £150.
Low mileage g60 corrado £500.
Massive 240v hydrovane compressor £free (wasn't working, took 10 mins to fix)
I'm not saying what I gave for my oettinger mk1 but it wasn't expensive

Mostly vw related bargains here.

[composimmonite]

MG Midget 1500 for £175. Nothing wrong with it. Owner bought it new for his wife but she didn't like the colour. It was stripped at 3 years old for a comprehensive respray but owners garage business commitments overtook the plan. Fast forward a few years and business was being sold so I was offered it for what I paid as workshop needed clearing. Broke for bits and got £1700.
Another time bought a 1964 Sunbeam Rapier MKIV that had done a genuine sub 20,000 miles from new. 10 months MOT but seized. Seizure turned out to be a jammed starter ! Paid £10 (this was early 80's)
Was asked to clear out the huge underhouse garage of a property in Antwerp. Story is previous owner had asked to leave some of his possessions there for a few weeks until he managed to arrange alternative storage. Few years later he still hadn't collected them nor was traceable so new owners solicitor said safe to dispose of them. We went with van and took away clothes, CD's, kitchen goods, furniture etc - all in perfect condition. House owner was away so a neighbour had let us in. When house owner returned he said "what about the car - aren't you getting rid of that as well ?" And that is the story of how I got a BRAND NEW Lomax 424 kit car for free - seriously. Bought body back on the roof rack of a LDV van with chassis and running gear inside ! Sold it for £1500 a few years later.

[swampy76]

Ford sierra 2.0 gt
A bit rough around the edges but it was only ever meant to be a stop gap
6 monthes t and t
Three quarter a tank of fuel
Full scorpion stainless exhaust
K and N 57i kit

Blew light bulbs like they were going out of fashion until I cleaned all the earths up

Drove it till the mot ran out, stripped it down for bits and made a very tidy profit

[Little eddie]

Oh ive had some good ones......

Went to a scrap yard to buy a couple of metro 1275 engines, watched a kid DRIVE a 1971 beetle up to the scrap yard, i stopped him at the gates and asked him what the yard was offering (50 quid) i gave him £100 quid and drove it home.

There was my old 3 door 1983 honda accord coupe that i got for free off the mrs mom.

And then there was the penultimate...... 3 bmws (a 1987 E28 5 series, a 1990 E36 estate and a genuine 1986 E28 M535i manual dogleg........... And all legitimate before you ask and all for the princely sum of a crate of lager. Yes a crate of lager.

[kevfromwales]

Got a lovely old epco press a while back, a really big one

Asked what they wanted, 70 quid, by the time I got to go and collect it, they'd forgotten so got it for 50

[Dez]

ive done some ridiculous deals in my time, anyone who knows me knows I'm always wheeling and dealing

i tend to steer clear of full cars these days for my own sanity as much as anything else. but i once bought a rotten as hell '50s homebuilt 'special' off a guy for 100 quid and sold the inlet manifold and carbs (aquaplane) for 3 times what i paid for the car, back before they were repopping them.


ive pulled some mega-deals on parts though.

most memorable recent one was a pair of rough series 1 E-type seats i ended up with by taking them as a £50 trade-in some other parts a guy wanted. i had no idea what they were worth so i stuck em on ebay, thought if i was lucky i might double my money. two scottish guys got into a bidding war over them and i saw a profit of around 1100%. i'll let you figure that one out

[MonzaPhil]

This was cheap at £170..



This at £150



Both taxed and ticketed.

This is still the best though..



£100 and this is what it looked like when I got it. Returned nearly £4k just not my thing really.

This it the Saab handbook think. Look in the background....







Monza GSE. There's a sign if ever there was one.

This was a couple of hundred quid if I remember. Sold it to someone who destroyed it sadly.



This was cheap to buy and sold cheap.



£500 GSE



£250 and I should not have sold..... well swapped for a Nissan 300C.






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[hak074]

Best bargain was this thing:



Paid $20 ozzy dollars for it, but that was for the Toyota gearbox he chucked in.



Its now my old track bomb.

[PhoenixCapri]

Wow there's been some good buys out there

And I thought my Superminx for £100 needing nothing more than the clutch freeing off was a good one!

[Deleted]

94 Xantia l brought for £102 wit suspected HG failure, pushed our from his drive and called the AA said my car had broken down, AA patrol guy turned up and with a jump and some easy start it fired up and drove it home used it for a year until it became difficult to start from cold so put it on ebay and sold it on for £102 quid, free motoring

And then the car l've got now 94 Audi coupe 350 quid, driven to Germany and back loads of times and hasn't missed a beat, and as l was able to claim my travel mileage though the company l was working for l made 1400 quid out of it profit motoring

[adam73bgt]

I've managed to get a couple of bargains for the MG in the time I've had it

Got the Leyland special tuning style front valance (in good condition all primered up) for the princely sum of £1.70 when they usually sell for around 40 quid

Also got the set of 4 wheels, 2 of which had never been fitted to a car, for £30

[dbizzle]

This. When I bought it (in about 2004-ish) it was fresh from a full ground-up resto - perfect rust-free bodywork, resprayed Cayman Blue, blueprinted V6 with 181bhp, new Revolutions, new LSD, custom exhausts, custom stereo, shark grey Recaro interior, the whole thing was mint. Cost me £1550.

cf12capri-1flat by dbizzle_, on Flickr

I miss it. It was awesome.

[Fungus]

Last summer I bought a Mk2 polo for £200, sold the wheels, exhaust, stainless manifold and camshaft for a total of £500.

I put it all back to standard using bits i had laying around and sold the car for £700. Pretty good going but nothing compared to some of the stories here!

[deanflowers]

Just bought this 2003 4.2 Supercharged Jag for £1100 and it only needs an 02 sensor

[JC]

Picked up a mint, brand new in bag, chrome bumper for Capri Mk2 for the grand sum of £5 - was well pleased with that! Can't think of anything else!