Tim
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my civic - bought for 995, driven well for 12,000 miles, got some proper honda wheels and tyres from scrappy, sold the 17" horrid things it had on it on ebay for twice the price of the replacements :-) then sold the whole car for £950
No more maintenance issues than any other car
wish i still had it, it was ace
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bazzateer
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Imping along sans Vogue
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Well, my white Imp (LNK) was given to me for free on condition that I put it back on the road - achieved last September at a cost of about £200 in parts . Madge, the Singer Vogue sold on eBay for £770, buyer pulled out and I got her for £550 t&t till August 08, and my new acquisition, the Passat Estate with just 52k on the clock and history/condition to support was just £510. Not dirt cheap but as far as I'm concerned, all bargains.
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Last Edit: Feb 4, 2008 14:32:34 GMT by bazzateer
1968 Singer Chamois Sport 1972 Sunbeam Imp Sport 1976 Datsun 260Z 2+2 1998 Peugeot Boxer Pilote motorhome 2003 Rover 75 1.8 Club SE (daily) 2006 MG ZT 190+ (another daily) 2007 BMW 530d Touring M Sport (tow car)
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fpk
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My self and my old man have a bargin gland that twitches from time to time, mint volvo 360 for free , it was so clean my dad gave the bloke £100 for it as he felt guilty for taking it off him, the bloke gave my dad £90 back ! .....so all in £10 ran it for 3 years a fiat uno £100 got 3 years out of it. mk1 SEAT Ibiza system porsche that had been stood for 6 years and had 80 k on the clock , £ 50 ! I like cheap cars !
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Pug 205 XS £200 with 12months MOT, ran it for 6 months & sold it as a spares package for a mate's rally car. Escort diesel estate, cost me £500, ran it for 6 months, sold it for £600 My Starlet, 3 door cost me £400 with 12 months MOT, lowered, alloys & spots still got it now & will never part with it, but it was a bargain!
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I was doing a bit of valeting in a unit about 6 years ago, and one of the mechanics set off out in a B-registered Volvo 340, to return 20 minutes later on foot holding a Mk2 Astra mirror. He`d swapped the Volvo for a door mirror at a scrapyard. Kind of like a reverse bargain.
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Tim
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Well it was if it was a customers car ;-)
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i think my mk1 clio was a bargin, paid 395 for it, free up the front calipers that had stuck on cos i left it on the drive for a year then mot'd it and ran it for over a year. i replaced the starter which wasnt expensive and stuck 99p R2D2 figure on the dash.
failed its mot on welding, swapped it with a mate in exchange for him fitting a rad in my mini.
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rover vitesse turbo brought for £20 drove it home had it for two weeks and sold it for £200 all i did to it was wash it and give it a good hoover
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Lets clear up car terms: "Understeer" is when you hit the fence with the front of the car. "Oversteer" is when you hit the fence with the rear of the car. "Horsepower" is how fast you hit the fence. "Torque" is how far you take the fence with you.
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skinnylew
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Bargainous/Top value buysskinnylew
@skinnylew
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I bought a 1.0 Ax Jazz off a mate for £75 with a 4 months tax and test,whilst i was doing some night work. Added a crappy stereo i had lying around and two speakers (£10), put the steering wheel in from my Ax GTi, then sold it without even cleaning it (except removing the mouldy block of cheese?!!?) on the day i advertised in my road for £150. With knackered 2nd gear synchromesh and whining driveshafts as well dead pleased with that
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Mike
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I'm not sure I should mention the Astra that started this all off. Lets say I got it unexpectedly cheap and sold it to Mike with a few quid in my pocket. Nice edit there Nick Its with its new owner now, lets hope he can make short work of the (ever increasing) rust! It gave me THE FEAR.
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LOL.
I was actually prepared to pay more for it. Thought the chap had ended early. In fact he had closed & sold to highest bidder. Result! So I walked over to his house round the corner there and then. ;D
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one of my best was a £60 fiat tempra in 1999,pair of wiper blades and £20 for the mot,ran around in it for a month till the rotten exhaust started to blow a wee bit,sold the alloys for £100,put it in the under a grand free adds at £995,got a call,met the guy and £850 changed hands! wish i could do that every month, H202JSJ lasted to 2003 so somebody got good use out of it!
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froggy
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only had one proper bargain which was my lotus carlton,i used to rent a part of my yard to a bailiff who stored repo,ed cars there and he got a job recovering a fleet of rep cars belonging to a firm which was based in jersey ,the reps didnt want to give the cars back as they were owed money and the finance company had already snatched the md,s car which was the lc. the deal was that we recovered the fleet cars and in return i got the lc cheap. the cars were snatched and i phone the company to do a deal on the lc. being a cheeky curse word i bid 5k thinking it would be at least 8k and blow me the guy says 5k cash and its got to be off the island tomorrow so a mad dash down to weymouth and over on the next crossing . the car was tucked up in a lock up and as soon as it drove out i thought RESULT ;D it was spot on 44k with 1 previous owner full lotus history and had spent its life in the isle of man and then jersey.i had a great summer smoking round in it and then sold it to a farmer in norfolk for 3 times what i paid. he rings me every year to tell me how its going .i think i had all my luck in one go
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rover vitesse turbo brought for £20 drove it home had it for two weeks and sold it for £200 all I did to it was wash it and give it a good hoover IF ANYONE ELSE USES THE WORD BROUGHT INSTEAD OF BOUGHT I MIGHT GET VERY VERY VERY VERY ANGRY.
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shlomping
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as most people know i got my ax gt for 60 squids and befor that i had a polo for 90quid both came with mot and test. and I'm still 17 so hopefuly more bargains in the future
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rover vitesse turbo brought for £20 drove it home had it for two weeks and sold it for £200 all I did to it was wash it and give it a good hoover IF ANYONE ELSE USES THE WORD BROUGHT INSTEAD OF BOUGHT I MIGHT GET VERY VERY VERY VERY ANGRY. i'm with you on this one RAGE BUILDING!
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my rocco was £90 off ebay.
slowly put it back to standard selling off bits here and there, leather interior, electric windows, alloys, weber carb, pulled it off the road and sold the engine and box, then weighed it in, made about £500-ish.
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Mk3 Polo coupe for £150, with brand new tyres, mint interior.... My Audi 90 20v, £275. Got a winters use out of it, ripped the stereo out and sold it to a mate for £100, then flogged the car for £550.
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Never trust a man Who names himself Trevor. Or one day you might find He's not a real drug dealer.
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davej
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IF ANYONE ELSE USES THE WORD BROUGHT INSTEAD OF BOUGHT I MIGHT GET VERY VERY VERY VERY ANGRY. i'm with you on this one RAGE BUILDING! I've brought a few bargains in my time... ;D Most recent was a mk2 Polo breadvan off ebay for 1p! It had 8 months mot but it was a non runner. Fixed it for nowt, then had fun spraying it matt black/stickering it up etc! Sold on for not a bad profit... One that I wish i kept was a free mk2 Passat GT hatch. I got it on the road for about £75 all in and used it until i bought my Jetta, I only sold it on for £100 to a work colleague! I havent seen another one since... I have probably had half a dozen or so cars for no more than £10 total! Its great fun!!!
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+ 2007 Octavia Vrs estate, 1971 Beetle project, 2004 Shogun Sport
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lolz at the bad grammar here Mine: 100€ to buy, 80€ for the wheels/tires, 60€ for head gasket and skim, 14.95€ for the pot of yellow paint, free lowering, year and a halfs NCT too Ya i know "what lowering?" rear shocks are too long gonna get em fixed tomorrow
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