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Oooo, I'm feeling a 1.4 16v turbo for the polo, on megasquirt with bike tbs. Mmm. That would be a good £2.5k including all the necessary upgrades: engine, turbo, intercooler, megasuirt, tbs, brakes, suspension etc.
Loads of carbon bits and pieces for the Locost with the other £2.5k.
There we go.
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Dec 12, 2006 16:46:48 GMT
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£5k - mmmm!
Provided I managed to hide it before swmbo added it to the wedding / house deposit fund, then that's probably about what I need for sorting out my two heaps....
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5Kreanimation
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Dec 12, 2006 17:03:12 GMT
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Cheers Alistair for that, I should really look at these for what it is in materials; A 80's-90's GM car.
I'm bricking it that they will go sky high, and they will end up like the Dodge Chargers and Muscle hero cars!
Trying to keep it on top of the 'To Own' list, so it happens. It will be a long termer - but arn't they all! LOL
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Dec 12, 2006 17:27:44 GMT
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5k is an unimaginable amount of money  I would buy a nice taxempt Rover p6 v8, in that mustard color ;D, smoothed tidied body work and maybe a few hot rod touches and of course a good whack with the stick. The rest of the money would be spend on petrol, a respray for the Toledo and lots of food and beer for me. |
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Dec 12, 2006 18:00:54 GMT
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reanimation in da house:
Imagine someone gives you £5000.00 wrapped up in glittery paper. DP says: I'm quite easy to buy gifts for......
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Dec 12, 2006 19:16:27 GMT
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You can still buy a road legal charger for around this figure if you are very very lucky, I saw a 68 with tax and test but quite a lot of rust go on e-bay uk a few months ago for just over 5k.
Personally if i had 5k to spend then my chevy would have a built 4 bolt mains 350 SB and a nice new paint job. Thats about the 5k gone really.
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Dec 12, 2006 19:17:25 GMT
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I'm never one to throw money at vehicles, so its difficult to envisage £5k on the driveway. probably get a shabby f-1 pickup and spend the rest on a mild resto. or a really german spec 2.0s capri. £5k would pay for a 4 pump hydro system, batteries and wires for my 3.0 tho  . hhhmmmmm, if only I really had that kind of money ;D ;D |
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Dec 12, 2006 19:35:42 GMT
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at the moment it would go into my get the hell out of the hole of a country fund  |
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Dec 12, 2006 19:39:13 GMT
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And I thought this was going to be about Toyota 5K's..... Well, given £5k = $14,251.06 NZD, there's a hell of a lot I could do with it....  I'd throw 5 grand into an engine build for the Alfa, 1.7 shim tappet 8v, high comp, angry set of cams, bored, aim for a streetable and reliable 170hp. I'd throw another 5k into completing the KP, full 5K build up (the engine!!!!!!) slot my K50 in, set up a U code LSD, pair of race seats and decent shocks. Sorted. The rest, I'd probably start looking at kitting out my garage a little better..... |
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Dec 12, 2006 19:45:15 GMT
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Hmmmm FB RX7 or Porka 914 for me. Would probably go for the FB TBH, love those cars so much!
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Dec 12, 2006 19:50:57 GMT
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hmmm a grand or so would see the sigma finished done and dusted.
and the other would 4 would go into turning the carlton into a new m5 beater ;D ;D ;D
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Dec 12, 2006 20:24:06 GMT
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£5000 would see me having the Charmant stripped to a bare shell, treated and professionally resprayed in two-tone (top black, bottom silver), have all the interior fully refurbished and put back in, replace the 4K with a 20V 4AGE with some sensible modifications, nice wheels, bit of camber, expensive suspension and the rest I'd probably waste on some old rubbish!
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Dec 12, 2006 20:25:22 GMT
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add to the (hopefully) £5k+ house deposit coming from some poor lads insurance, and then i should have neough to ship my cars with me and buy a house in some random foreign country with no road tax, cheap fuel and clean water. if there exists such a place. iceland maybe?
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Dec 12, 2006 20:31:59 GMT
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Hmmmm £5k.....£5k......£5k. I dunno! Buy a cheap plot of land and build a garage.
Buy a Rear engined Skoda and yog cash on it.
Buy a random car of ebay cos i fancy it
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Dec 12, 2006 20:39:54 GMT
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And I thought this was going to be about Toyota 5K's..... If only I'd known what they are i may of come up with a slightly more creative thread to celebrate my ridiculous mileage! Feel free to add these cars to the thread. Great suggestions so far. I must say Nightmares has the cleverest though. Respect. great idea, bet theres a few of us here thinking that.  |
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You can still buy a road legal charger for around this figure if you are very very lucky, I saw a 68 with tax and test but quite a lot of rust go on e-bay uk a few months ago for just over 5k. . It wasn't one of those scam auctions was it? You know "email me on this address, don't use ask seller a question" I've seeen Charger rolling shells go for £5K or more recently. |
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Cheers Alistair for that, I should really look at these for what it is in materials; A 80's-90's GM car. I'm bricking it that they will go sky high, and they will end up like the Dodge Chargers and Muscle hero cars! I don;t see them going too mad. Theres no great interest in them inthe US and unlikely to be as they are bound by emissions regs plus there were no big blocks and no decent power options as stock. People will stick to paying good money for "real" muscle or will step upto the high tech performers like the Gen4 and GTO etc. Thats the way the market over there looks to be going. I can see the 80s stuff being left in the hinterlands really. Our market "sort-of-reflects" the US market. |
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Interesting to know, cheers, I will start saving somehow though, maybe the biggest prob is em all getting scrapped!  weeds out the good ones though!  Plus if i fail, i'll build a 90's pointy one , although that does not appeal as much. |
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being scrapped is an issue. Look at it this way. 70's Monza never got to be worth any money, but you can't buy one today as they are all gone... You hardly even see them in the states either. Worth nothing but none available.
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. hhhmmmmm, if only I really had that kind of money ;D ;D
weeds out the good ones though! 