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Can you get some 90's retro for £1.5k? (spoiler: very yes!)

HoTWire Administrator Posts: 26,965	Can you get some 90's retro for £1.5k? (spoiler: very yes!)HoTWire @admin
	Jul 13, 2017 11:44:54 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	In the last three goes at seeing what we could find for our £1,500 on ebay in the 60s, 70s and 80s we've found some gems and a bunch of projects, of varying degrees of approachable. The 80's had the least amount of projects in it (unsurprisingly with increased galvanization and the cars being that bit younger), not it is time for the 90's I had high hopes of finding good usable cars, hopefully with some suitable retroness to them. I stopped at 95 as that is the cut off for Retro Rides Gathering (ish) and I wanted to see if you could join the fun at RRG17 for £1,500. Let's start with a barge www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Jaguar-xj6-x300-sovereign-4-0/152618443642 Lots of potential in these, and for £1,300 you could be driving to Shelsley Walsh in a great deal more comfort than I will be An Escort, everyone loves escorts www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ford-Escort-1991-5-door-1-4/222578295958 Oooodles of potential with this one, wheels, ride height, or go nuts with the motor, or all three. Another bargeness here www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vauxhall-Carlton-CDX-2-6-Auto-Saloon/322578471404 Plenty of options here, VIP style it, or do some gearbox swapping around and make a drifter, or any one of a number of ways you can fiddle with these things. Or just drive it in comfort. Talking of (relative) comfort www.ebay.co.uk/itm/mercedes-190e-1993-1-8-manual/263081378273 These things have so much potential too, lots of very cool ones out there to be inspired by. Looks to have been fixed up by current owner, so hopefully it is just a buy and drive affair. Pre modded www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ford-Escort-MK4-1-4CVH-1990/332292883716 Save yourself time and just buy something that comes with wheels and some other bits done to it already Got a soft spot for these www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fiat-126-650cc-Aircooled-LHD-1994-New-Mot-Please-read-not-fiat-Abarth-or-500/172767452493 LHD means it is maybe a bit of a lower price than a normal 126? These things are great fun A Retro Rides Legend sells a car www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1994-Toyota-Celsior-V8-4-0-RWD-automatic-JDM-Lexus-LS400/182654409916 The magnificent Alistair K, aka AlistairK, aka Akku, is stell his Lexus, lovely chap, buy his car. Always need a project that will probably sell for more than our budget to start with www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Toyota-Celica-GT4-Turbo-Rally-Model/272755702072 Join Blown_Imp and have a bonkers over engineered slice of Japanese homologationness. Finally a bit of Japanses Saloonness www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1992-Mitsubishi-Galant-GLSi-AUTOMATIC-CLASSIC-CAR-LOW-MILEAGE/263050752140 Looks super clean and (as ever) only wheels and lows away from being a real head turner. I'm looking forward to revisiting the 60's with a £3k budget, but I'm pretty happy with how these £1.5k ones have gone. Some very cool stuff to be picked up if you keep you eyes out.
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Curtis Part of things Posts: 622	Can you get some 90's retro for £1.5k? (spoiler: very yes!)Curtis @curtisre
	Jul 13, 2017 12:05:34 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	I love these threads of yours when they pop up! Do you just spend a morning trawling the bay with weird filters on or something?
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HoTWire Administrator Posts: 26,965	Can you get some 90's retro for £1.5k? (spoiler: very yes!)HoTWire @admin
	Jul 14, 2017 16:05:27 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Jul 13, 2017 12:05:34 GMT Curtis said: I love these threads of yours when they pop up! Do you just spend a morning trawling the bay with weird filters on or something? Doesn't take too long... Select the date range on the filter, stick in a max price... look for Buy It Nows/Classifieds and then things that are unlikely to go too far over the £1.5k ... we've done pretty well so far on that. Plan is to double the spend each time, up to say £12k (or maybe £24k for the fun ).
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Mercdan68 Posted hell of a lot Posts: 9,046 Club RR Member Number: 68	Can you get some 90's retro for £1.5k? (spoiler: very yes!)Mercdan68 @forddan68 Club Retro Rides Member 68
	Jul 14, 2017 18:45:32 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Seven years ago I paid £1275 for this lovely C250 turbodiesel merc Fantastic car its outlasted all our newer cars And is rotfree , great cars and I'd never sell it
	Last Edit: Jul 14, 2017 18:52:17 GMT by Mercdan68 Fraud owners club member 1999 Jaguar s type 1993 ford escort

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Mercdan68 Posted hell of a lot Posts: 9,046 Club RR Member Number: 68	Can you get some 90's retro for £1.5k? (spoiler: very yes!)Mercdan68 @forddan68 Club Retro Rides Member 68
	Jul 14, 2017 18:55:46 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	The jaguar xj6??? Bought locally with five months mot Totally rot and damage free Small tlc needed ...£450 I paid
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domino1971 Part of things Posts: 464	Can you get some 90's retro for £1.5k? (spoiler: very yes!)domino1971 @domino1971
	Jul 15, 2017 6:33:12 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	There's a nice big audi 100 sport saloon car on the Gumtree. It's very clean looking and I think it was around 1,295 pounds oh and its in Ireland but on British plates.


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jyd Part of things Posts: 113	Can you get some 90's retro for £1.5k? (spoiler: very yes!)jyd @jyd
	Jul 15, 2017 15:31:49 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	These to my mind are one of the very best cars of the 1990's. www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/honda-prelude-dohc-vtec-price-drop/14277265
	Last Edit: Jul 15, 2017 15:34:09 GMT by jyd

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peter96 Part of things Posts: 880	Can you get some 90's retro for £1.5k? (spoiler: very yes!)peter96 @peter96
	Jul 15, 2017 18:56:38 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Jul 14, 2017 18:45:32 GMT Mercdan68 said: Seven years ago I paid £1275 for this lovely C250 turbodiesel merc Fantastic car its outlasted all our newer cars And is rotfree , great cars and I'd never sell it £450 for the Jag!!! What a bargain.


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gotwood Wales Posts: 3,360	Can you get some 90's retro for £1.5k? (spoiler: very yes!)gotwood @gotwood
	Jul 15, 2017 19:00:09 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1992-MERCEDES-230E-AUTO-BLUE-STANCED-FRESH-MOT-LOWERED/302367698709
	You've been telling me you were a genius since you were seventeen ... in all the time I've known you I still don't know what you mean !

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gotwood Wales Posts: 3,360	Can you get some 90's retro for £1.5k? (spoiler: very yes!)gotwood @gotwood
	Jul 15, 2017 19:02:47 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Superb-Beauty-Classic-1991-Nissan-Micra-1-0-LS-Genuine-65K-Reliable-Retro-K10/222574222193
	You've been telling me you were a genius since you were seventeen ... in all the time I've known you I still don't know what you mean !

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peter96 Part of things Posts: 880	Can you get some 90's retro for £1.5k? (spoiler: very yes!)peter96 @peter96
	Jul 15, 2017 19:04:33 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	I bought my Saab 9000 for £700 and it's totally solid where they usually go. If the Audi 100 mentioned above is then one for sale in Northern Ireland its been up for sale for a while. There's also a late 80s Audi 80 as well for £1500 which looks pretty good as well. As far as the cars shown on the original posts it has to be the white 190e. I've had three of them and they're superb. Fancy another one at some time but would need to sell either the 75 or the 9000. Need to stop looking at threads like this. Too much temptation.


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gotwood Wales Posts: 3,360	Can you get some 90's retro for £1.5k? (spoiler: very yes!)gotwood @gotwood
	Jul 15, 2017 19:08:53 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	www.ebay.co.uk/itm/White-Mitsubishi-Coupe-GT-Petrol-Manual-Rare/232404855861
	You've been telling me you were a genius since you were seventeen ... in all the time I've known you I still don't know what you mean !

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gotwood Wales Posts: 3,360	Can you get some 90's retro for £1.5k? (spoiler: very yes!)gotwood @gotwood
	Jul 15, 2017 19:10:18 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Toyota-MR2-GT-2L-Automatic-1990-Targa-Top-12-months-mot/232404295845
	You've been telling me you were a genius since you were seventeen ... in all the time I've known you I still don't know what you mean !

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Mercdan68 Posted hell of a lot Posts: 9,046 Club RR Member Number: 68	Can you get some 90's retro for £1.5k? (spoiler: very yes!)Mercdan68 @forddan68 Club Retro Rides Member 68
	Jul 15, 2017 19:25:08 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Jul 15, 2017 18:56:38 GMT peter96 said: Jul 14, 2017 18:45:32 GMT Mercdan68 said: Seven years ago I paid £1275 for this lovely C250 turbodiesel merc Fantastic car its outlasted all our newer cars And is rotfree , great cars and I'd never sell it £450 for the Jag!!! What a bargain. Yes Peter £450... there are bargains still out there Just not on the internet , local shop windows and word of mouth, that's how I came to own this very clean car At the price some will be thinking it's a bit rough But it's in superb nick with tons of history mot And no rust anywhere , just needing tyres and front shocks
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gotwood Wales Posts: 3,360	Can you get some 90's retro for £1.5k? (spoiler: very yes!)gotwood @gotwood
	Jul 15, 2017 19:37:39 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1993-Nissan-Maxima-3-0-SE-4dr/282569800334
	You've been telling me you were a genius since you were seventeen ... in all the time I've known you I still don't know what you mean !

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gotwood Wales Posts: 3,360	Can you get some 90's retro for £1.5k? (spoiler: very yes!)gotwood @gotwood
	Jul 15, 2017 20:04:03 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Whilst browsing through the ads I realised that during the nineties you could get either the mk1 , mk2 , mk3 and mk4 Golfs brand new !
	You've been telling me you were a genius since you were seventeen ... in all the time I've known you I still don't know what you mean !

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gotwood Wales Posts: 3,360	Can you get some 90's retro for £1.5k? (spoiler: very yes!)gotwood @gotwood
	Jul 15, 2017 20:04:22 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1997-Vw-Golf-Gti-mk3-mot-april-2018-service-history-no-reserve-auction/322593750015
	You've been telling me you were a genius since you were seventeen ... in all the time I've known you I still don't know what you mean !

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gotwood Wales Posts: 3,360	Can you get some 90's retro for £1.5k? (spoiler: very yes!)gotwood @gotwood
	Jul 15, 2017 20:05:56 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SAAB-900-TURBO-16v-3-door/352110473729
	You've been telling me you were a genius since you were seventeen ... in all the time I've known you I still don't know what you mean !

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gotwood Wales Posts: 3,360	Can you get some 90's retro for £1.5k? (spoiler: very yes!)gotwood @gotwood
	Jul 15, 2017 20:11:19 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LANCIA-Y-1-2/322569258815
	You've been telling me you were a genius since you were seventeen ... in all the time I've known you I still don't know what you mean !

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peter96 Part of things Posts: 880	Can you get some 90's retro for £1.5k? (spoiler: very yes!)peter96 @peter96
	Jul 15, 2017 21:39:21 GMT Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top
	Jul 15, 2017 20:11:19 GMT gotwood said: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LANCIA-Y-1-2/322569258815 That Lancia is sooo fugly but I like it!! Mind I don't have my reading glasses on.


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