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Aug 25, 2015 13:42:43 GMT
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I picked up a 91 Seat Marbella for £20 and found £10 change in it! It was in perfect condition! I gave it away after a couple of weeks..? I picked up a 95 Clio 1.8 16v for £120 and run for a year and sold it for £500. probably worth at least double that now.
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Current retro - 1996 Alfa Romeo GTV / Daily - 2016 Nissan Qashqai Previous retros - Prelude, Integra, XR2s, XR3s, Orions, CRXs, Sylvia S12, S13, Pulsar, ZX 16v, 205 Gti, MX5, MR2 etc
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Aug 25, 2015 21:28:21 GMT
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I've got a fair few. I'll put a pic. Pitches price. And sale price / totall breaking profit. Xr3i 130 ps. Bought as a dog for £50 ( bloke didn't realise it was rolling on escos wheels ) Broke it for £1300 £100 for this in 2011. Two new shocks, went straight through a ticket. Soldit for £1800. Genuine std one owner car. This was a wierd one. Ra rurbo rep, 1.6si log book. Rs1800 running gear. Payyed &112. Ran it for a year. Sold it for &1300. ( cleaned it up a bit. Had a few sub £100 civics aswell. Gotta love a shed.
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Aug 26, 2015 11:26:25 GMT
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Can't find a good pic of it, but best/cheapest car I've ever had was a Rover 420SDI. I got it for free as my friend couldn't find anyone willing to buy it. Thought I'd just run it for a stop-gap as I've never seen myself as a rover man, but ended up keeping it for 2 years. In that time it cost next to nothing in maintenance despite having done over 160k. Great, solid, dependable car, much better than more modern cars I've had since. I'd definitely have another despite Rover's dodgy image, still super cheap last time I checked too.
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If at first you don't succeed........ ....Don't try skydiving!
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choaky
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Aug 26, 2015 13:02:11 GMT
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Saved this from the crusher, cost me £100 ran it as a dog carrying car for 2 months then sold it on for £400 with no mot. hi
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Escort Mk4 ST170 powered sleeper Instagram: @f670_pur
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raye
Kinda New
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Aug 26, 2015 19:59:31 GMT
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Ik bought my jetta at a yardsale for 100 euro, 73£ . Lucky day !!
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Copey
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Aug 26, 2015 20:25:43 GMT
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I got a very rotten mk1 Capri for £150, sold a wing good for £125, axle for £130, headlining for £70 dash plastics for £70 and the Louvre is came with for £200 and loads of other parts too, it was a good buy!!
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1990 Ford Sierra Sapphire GLSi with 2.0 Zetec 1985 Ford Capri 3.0 (was a 2.0 Laser originally)
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blower
Part of things
Never mix Cider and Red Wine , Thats 1 of my Life Lessons . J.C.
Posts: 252
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Aug 26, 2015 20:51:29 GMT
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Cheapest car i ever bought was from a family member , a mk2 astra for £25 in 1998ish it had about 3 weeks MOT left , but sailed through
Going down the bypass was fun though , a trail of blue smoke was visible from afar , tappets were also knocking like crazy
Fun times ...
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Aug 26, 2015 21:04:40 GMT
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Cheap to buy or lowest cost of ownership?
Cheapest buy was probably my first 1850 Dolomite which I bought for £ 75 for it's OD gearbox. Decided it was too good to break and MoT'd it. Cost me a pair of wiper blades. Did 12,000 ish miles in it in 9 months and sold it to my brother who got several more years use out of it before it died of tinworm.
Lowest cost of ownership is probably my current A6 2.5TDI as although I paid £ 3.5k for it in 2003, I've done almost 170k in it since then and more than 100k of that has been business miles at 40 - 45p/mile...... It does 45 - 50mpg and has needed very little other than regular maintenance items - so it's been a very fine earner!
Nick
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1967 Triumph Vitesse convertible (old friend) 1996 Audi A6 2.5 TDI Avant (still durability testing) 1972 GT6 Mk3 (Restored after loong rest & getting the hang of being a car again)
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Aug 26, 2015 22:27:24 GMT
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I have been given cars some of which have gone on to be daily drivers. my present 'bargains' are a free triumph 1300TC that needs a full restro, a £300 Spitfire which is my funday car, a £175 Triumph 1500FWD awaiting its new owner and £200 BMW 520 Auto which is just about to be MoT'd.
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Paul Y
Posted a lot
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Aug 26, 2015 23:54:14 GMT
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A long time ago,before the advent of Kodachrome, I was an apprentice mechanic for a large Ford Franchise. Myself, and my other worthless scum bag apprentices (we must have been worthless because it didn't appear that we got paid...) used to play a little game of 'Buy a Banger'. The rules were very simple. 1. You could spend no more than £25 on a vehicle. 2. For the £25 limit It had to be MOT'd and taxed. 3. Once, either the tax or MOT ran out it earned an honourable death as a banger racer. Had a LOT of cars over a 4 year period but one that sticks in my mind was an immaculate light blue Austin Princess, velour trim and ALLOY WHEELS! with 10 months MOT and 6 months tax. all purchased for the princely sum of £10. Why of all the Escorts, Capri's Grenada's Viva's, Australian Fairmonts, Lincoln Continentals, Lincoln Hearse, Land Crabs, etc that we destroyed does the £10 Princess stay with me. Simple. The chap I bought it from had only just purchased it himself. (He was an apprentice from the local Austin Rover dealership whom we referred to as 'Clarence' on account of him being cross eyed [told you I was old]). Anyway, as was the want of those Gods (the fitters) somebody had run a line of graphite inside the distributor cap so that it wouldn't start. Poor old Clarence couldn't work out why he had driven the car too work and now at home time it refused to start. After 3 days of trying to resolve the problem (as well as being cross eyed he was also thick) I happened to walk past on my way home, acknowledged him as we were on the same day release scheme, and asked what the problem was. He told me that the car was knackered as he had spent over £50 changing anything he could think of to make it start and, if I gave him the contents of my wallet I could be the proud owner of the Blue Princess. As I had had the graphite trick played on me by my fitter about 2 weeks before I realised what the problem was and had the car started in about 5 minutes and drive it home! So, that is how I came to be the owner of a very, very nice Princess for £10. P.
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mikeymk
Part of things
'85 Polo Coupe S 1.6 16v
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Cheapest were 40 quid, they were three cars on three separate occasions.
'94 Corsa 1.4 SRi (needed a lot of T-Cut) '94 Fiesta 1.3 LX '89 Polo 1.3 breadvan
All were tidy and original, just needed a clean up and MoT, each returned a few hundred quid profit.
These days you just don't seem to get such abundant easy earners. You've got to pay two ton for something that there's no hope of getting an MoT on, only to find that the going rate for them is less than a monkey anyway..
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Aug 27, 2015 11:42:03 GMT
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Audi 100 Avant about 3 years ago with 11 months tax and MoT for £400. Ran it for a year with very little trouble, including over 1000 miles in a week in Devon on holiday. Current Saab was £351 but came with no tax so was technically more expensive.
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Jaguar S-Type 3.0 SE
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Aug 27, 2015 18:38:42 GMT
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These days you just don't seem to get such abundant easy earners. You've got to pay two ton for something that there's no hope of getting an MoT on, only to find that the going rate for them is less than a monkey anyway.. Ain't that the truth. A bloke I do a lot of work for tried getting back into the cheap car game after being out of it for a few years and couldn't figure out why he was losing money on almost every car. There just isn't the profit margin in it to make it worthwhile unless your willing to sell death traps with bent mots.
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ChasR
RR Helper
motivation
Posts: 10,194
Club RR Member Number: 170
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Aug 27, 2015 23:17:13 GMT
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I have bought a few cheap cars over the years that were runners. These include: -A tidy 1991 Volvo 740 2.0i SE for £260 with 90k and a very high clutch in 2006 -A sheddy 1989 Volvo 740 2.3i GLE for £220 that dollywobbler went on to own in 2007 -1989 Escort XR3i Cabrio for £350 with a bent MOT for 12 months. -2003 Clio 1.4 Expression for £300 in 2012. Out of those the Volvos had no money spent on them. The Escort did, and so did the Clio. The Clio was almost like a different car but then I did almost spend what I paid for the car (knackered engine mount to the point the gear stick moved a mile upon clutch engagement, a disgusting interior that was binned for a replacement from a low mileage car and other small issues. My claim for a free car has to be my dad's 2001 Ford Mondeo 2.0 Ghia X which had 380,000 miles on the clock. I broke it for £1k when the diff blew itself to bits for the second time in the car's history. I really should have kept that car.
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vertex
Part of things
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Cheap enough for me at the time, Someone else got them from me even cheaper. For the last couple of years I've bought cheap dailys to get me through the winter months. Volvo s70 2.5 10v 8months t&t Bought for £400 Sold for £255 no t&t Lexarse gs300 sport 7-8 months t&t Bought £500 Sold £245. No t&t
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adam73bgt
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 4,867
Club RR Member Number: 58
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Not quite as cheap as some of the others here but I was pretty chuffed to snag a V12 for £700
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I'm glad to see I can hold my head up in this company. In the late 90's I worked in a small country garage & paid £1 for a B reg Pug 205 ( poverty pack 1100) to the daft apprentice who wanted some money to go round the chip shop & offered his project motor as exchange. He had run out of enthusiasm to get it fixed, so wanted to offload it anyway. Just to annoy him, I spent a Sunday afternoon welding it up, (he couldn't weld ) put some seat covers in it & gave it a good polish -& promptly sold it for £400. He called me a gift for years after this.
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Aug 28, 2015 16:12:06 GMT
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'93 Cavalier 1.7Td Needed a car quick for work, family found it locally for £300, ended up running it for nearly three years during which time I spent less than £300 on it in maintenance and parts, half of that being a new set of front discs. That car got abused every day and never really let me down
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Aug 28, 2015 16:29:10 GMT
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I'm probably going to make you all sick..
first car. L reg Peugeot 106 Key largo
For the sum of..
£0! A relative had given up driving so she said if I wanted it, Ive got to collect it. Had it for two years before I scrapped it. I regretted it, but it needed too much spending on it to make it right
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Why Pee on the floor like everyone else? Be a Hero, and S*** on the ceiling!
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Aug 29, 2015 10:12:23 GMT
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l reg Honda accord, 2.0 auto.
a mate bought it blind, but it was like a smoking shelter for homeless dogs inside,so rather than scrap it, he gave it to me until the mot ran out, when i gave it back. i threw away half the interior and drove it round as it was for 9 months. the abs didnt work, which was alarming at best in the wet, it drank fuel, it ruined 3 drivers side tyres in the 9 months because something on the suspension was poorly, the central locking didnt lock, and the sunroof leaked. oh and 1 of the 4 electric windows worked, sometimes.
it was cheap, it wasnt very cheerful, but it never didnt start, and it racked up some serious miles without any love.
rip honda.
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