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I love a bargain! Some of mine...
1.0 Corsa for my son last year £250 Mint 1 owner 1989 W124 230E - £500 (2005) 1 owner 1986 Bluebird ZX Turbo - £200 (2000) 1994 Alfa OC member's 155 Widebody 2.0 TwinSpark - £500 (2005) 1985 Scirocco GTi - £350 (1999) 1984 E23 728i manual - swapped for above Scirocco 1984 E24 635 CSi, 98k, FSH, manual - £900 (2000)
And in newer car terms my best saving...
Alfa 156 Sportwagon, 2.4 Mjet, Veloce spec, huge spec list, bigger wheels, premium hi-fi, climate, the works, ex demo, 8 months old list over £27k, paid 17k. Now I know you can blag a discount on Alfas but nearly 40% for what was basically a new car is unreal!
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FREE DRINKS GLOBE! acquired when i helped the landlord at my old local pack up to move and they ran out of space in the vans i basked in its awesomeness for a couple years before selling it for £200 my £300 variomatic volvo recouped its cost very well .... the variomatic unit and spare belts near enough cleared the £300 and iirc the rest made another £4-500 on top then the beginning of last year my 360GLT was only £201, then another £60 in bits to get in on the road they very breifly shared a drive, before the blue one met its maker
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I bought this last year for beleave it or not £2000
Its was being sold on ebay as a non runner spares or repair after being sat for 7 years unloved (there's still bargains to be had on the bay you just got to think outside the box)
Couple of hour with the hose and wax and it was looking like a different car
and the reason why it wouldn't start? The choke cable had seized.
I often wish I,d kept it a bit longer but I got offered a deal that was to good not to take at the time.
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Last Edit: May 5, 2015 18:53:28 GMT by bababoom
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MrSpeedy
East Midlands
www.vintagediesels.co.uk
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I've had many blinding good deals over the years (and many bad ones too), but one that sticks out is buying a Butters (pretty much at the top of the tree) 350amp Mig set, not very old, blind off of ebay for £112, about 8 years ago. Met the bloke in a car park in Coventry to fetch it, and it's been running faultlessly ever since.
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Last Edit: May 5, 2015 18:56:14 GMT by MrSpeedy
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Past: 2001 VW Caddy Van 1.9 SDI, £250, wouldnt Rev & no tax/mot, cleaned ECU, had £40 worth of welding - on the road for £600 including tax/MOT, Aloys & lowering kit! (This was in 2010) 1989 Suzuki Super Carry, paid £400 for it, £25 for new battery, £125 tax, used it for 11 months while I was renovating my house, saved me about £2k in skips/deliveries - sold it for £450 6 month old 8x4 roof rack for a escort van, ebay bargain 99p - 10 minutes with a drill & it fitted the Suzuki (2009) Recent: Current daily (CRV) bought it last September with 24k on the clock and FHSH - not saying what I paid as it will be for sale soon lol Set of 18" BBS reps with tyres (wheels need refurb really but meh) got them 2 days before Christmas for £150 just put them on the Golf yesterday as I didnt want to kill the winter tyres Some racking for my garage £Free Future: Have been offered a 2010 Merc C220D estate, 1 lady owner from new, FMBSH, 67k, immaculate & I know it's been looked after/pampered, might have it if I get chance (think they want it to go to family first though)
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Last Edit: May 5, 2015 20:36:18 GMT by joem83
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I bought this last year for beleave it or not £2000 I would expect that made you a very, very healthy profit lol
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Gotta be this Cavalier 2.0 GLi Auto. I paid £155 in 2004 with a genuine 70k miles, 7 months road tax and a brand new JVC stereo that the bill in the glovebox said cost £160! Apart from normal running expenses (tyres pads, timing belt, services etc) it has cost me the princely sum of £8 to keep it going (£5 for an antiroll bar link and £3 for a lump of petrol pipe) It starts and runs faultlessly despite being left unused, sometimes for months on end, does 40mpg on a run and pulls like a train. Needless to say I still have it, now just turned 104k, its only just run in! Steve However I've just bought a 2003 Saab Turbo convertible with a damaged piston but otherwise perfect and low miles for £150 so that may turn out to be pretty profitable!
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Last Edit: May 5, 2015 19:36:48 GMT by carledo
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this is perfect timing for this thread, i have just won a bmw m20b20 engine and gearbox with what looks like all the ancilleries and the subframe still bolted to it for the pricely sum of£0.01. thats right 1 pence. and its only 25 miles away too an its sat on a pallet and he has a forklift to load it on my van, what could go wrong.
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dubwarrior2
Part of things
"Open up, its the filth"
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When I was restoring my '67 VW splitty, I was after a drivers door for it. I phoned up a large VW breakers/importers and they told me that they only had "rough" ones in stock and that they were £300!!! I went to Vanfest at Malvern a few weeks later and that same big company were there trading with all of their stock spread all over the place. I found the pile of splitty doors and began searching through them. Right at the bottom, I found a near pristine deluxe model door in excellent condition. Asked the same guy how much he wanted for it and, because he was absolutely stoned, he replied "£100".
I had the cash in his hands and was gone before he could stand up.
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I went looking at a bunch of 924's and the guy had 9 924's ans 3 944's. One was an early auto in white with Fusch alloys. I chose the 924 I wanted and asked what he wanted for the 944. He told me it was seized and he couldn't move it so if I could shift it I could have the 944 and the 924 for 600. I went home, got a friend and my van then went back climbed under it and clicked it into neutral. Dragged both cars home and with nothing more than a battery got the 944 running. I took the wheels off and sold them for £600 then got a set of battered 944 wheels for £50 and sold the rest of the 944 as a running project for £350.
The rest of the cars ended up being sold to j Davidson scrap merchants. I bet I did better than everyone else in the deal.
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sweaty palms slip off joystick
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had a few odds and ends:
3 x ford focus zetec alloys £40 the car itself cost £895 and has done 21k since i bought it
not car related but at a classic car show last year: was looking round for a set of sun visors for an mgb gt for my dad, i spot a familiar site in a box on a stall- a sega mega drive (i collect old consoles and games), no idea if anything worked or what was in the box, offered him £12 as it was basically untested spares, took it home and couldnt get a picture. box was also full of games which all cleaned up, new tv lead (£12) transformed the console and everything worked perfectly. about £200 worth as it turns out there were some nice games in the box
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stealthstylz
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What's your best bargain?stealthstylz
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I bought some of these brand new for £5 when I used to work at Halfords. Stuck them on ebay, sold for £500 and the bloke paid me to drop them off.
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Neighbour's wife had a breadvan Polo with virtually every panel badly dented (another story). When the gearchange failed (bent shaft due to failed gearbox mount) he decided to buy her a new V6 LWB Shogun. The Polo sat in the drive awaiting it's fate when he asked me if I wanted it for parts so snapped his hand off as FREE. Polo was a B reg and Shogun was G reg so that made Polo around just 6 years old ! Ran it for nearly 5 years without any serious problems
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I bought some of these brand new for £5 when I used to work at Halfords. [Stuck them on ebay, sold for £500 and the bloke paid me to drop them off. Reminds me of a buyer in London of some MGF wheels I sold that buyer offered to pay me to deliver. I was going near him anyway to pick something I'd bought so no problem but he still insisted on giving me £75. At the time I was running a LPG powered Volvo 240 and could get from here (Stoke-on-Trent) to London and back for £17 ! Anyway chap invited me in for a cuppa and I was with him for 4 hours as such an interesting old chap. He told me about how he originally came from Tyne & Wear area but ended up in London after WWII as he was trained by army as an electrician so plenty of work for him with the post war rebuilding. After a couple of years he had a break and needed a car to get back to his home area as things to take up / bring back so train not really viable. Cars were scarce but he came across a 1920's Austin 7 that seller would only accept payment if it managed to get him there and back. Chap said all he did was paint it bright yellow to tidy up body and checked things over. I said what a wonderful story to which he replied "do you want to see it ?" He took me out throught his yard full of rotten Rolls, Mercs and such to a tatty garage. The doors were prised open and there stood a bright yellow Austin 7. Cellulose windows were yellow and cracked, hood tatty in places but otherwise as it was parked up 60+ years previously. Chap even when to a shelf and showed me the remains of the tin of yellow paint.
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Hardy retro, but I bought a 53 plate Civic Type-R for £1000. Had leather, FSH and new Goodyear AS2 tyres on the front.
Needed a clutch, A/C condensor, Engine mounts, Bushes, brakes all round,
Left me high and dry a couple of times, once when the idler pulley ate it's bearing near Cornwall, and once when I snapped it's drive shaft near Nottingham. That one was my fault though.
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PhoenixCapri
West Midlands
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What's your best bargain?PhoenixCapri
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So since I got another great bargain thought I'd reprise this thread I give you a full, working, laser alignment setup for £102 Now I just need to buy a 4 post lift So anyone else had any good bargains recently?
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1976 V12 Jaguar XJS with a knackered clutch for £500, did the clutch, gave it a bit of a tidy up and sold it in Germany for 20,000 marks ( about £7000)
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FOAD
Scotland
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Jul 15, 2015 19:15:27 GMT
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Last Edit: Jul 15, 2015 19:16:03 GMT by FOAD
1981 Vauxhall Chevette 1984 Mercedes S123 230TE 1988 Peugeot 305 GR 1988 Hyundai Stellar 1992 Subaru MV BRAT 1992 Peugeot 205 D-turbo 2004 Ford Ranger retroshite.wordpress.com/
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FOAD
Scotland
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Jul 15, 2015 19:18:31 GMT
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1981 Vauxhall Chevette 1984 Mercedes S123 230TE 1988 Peugeot 305 GR 1988 Hyundai Stellar 1992 Subaru MV BRAT 1992 Peugeot 205 D-turbo 2004 Ford Ranger retroshite.wordpress.com/
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