Seth
South East
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For my next planned car I intend to buy the best I can find and get straight on with the modifying. I already have one very rusty 60's car - don't have space/need another one taking up my time.  Its only worth buying cheap/curse word if you have plenty of time and skills to do the work yourself and can't strecth the funds to a better example and are prepared to have it unusable for a significant amount of time. |
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Follow your dreams or you might as well be a vegetable. |
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slater
Club Retro Rides Member
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Club RR Member Number: 78
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I do both, but.. if i want a car to do a few minor mods to rather then a big project (fiesta/metro vs mini/fiat) then its definatly best to pay the money for one with 12months ticket and less rot!
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Do what I did. Buy a car with 12 months MOT and looks fine, but don't check it over properly and find out its going to be a money pit anyway!  Saying that, he reckons the engine and electrics will be finished tomorrow and I can finally get my Capri back.  Ha Ha, sounds like my blind bought ebayed Saab 900 Convertible. |
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It depends. I like to buy cars I can "add value to".
If you plan on doing "the business" to a car why pay top dollar for something where you are going to be chucking away all the "good" bits.
A chap I used to work with maintained it was better to buy a complete snotter than something that was "OK". The costs of turning an OK car into a good car will probably be the same as turning a snotter into a good car. If a door si slightly buddling at the bottor or gone into a ragged hole its still a door to weld up or replace so go with the cheper car... I can see the logic.
I try to get cars with good shells. Everything else is simple to fix and they pretty much all need a paint job anyway. Even the tidy ones, by the time you've gone round a few stone chips and a ding here and there you can do a full respray for pretty much the same effort...
I have bought really good examples of cars before and even then you end up not happy with bits on them and wanting to dig right into them...
But then I have 5 cars and none of them on the road and running at the moment...
When buying something for Mrs K I always get the best example I can. No messing about.
I made a rule a few years ago after much pain - never buy anything you can't drive home....
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1941 Wolseley Not Rod - 1956 Humber Hawk - 1957 Daimler Conquest - 1966 Buick LeSabre - 1968 Plymouth Sport Fury - 1968 Ford Galaxie - 1969 Ford Country Squire - 1969 Mercury Marquis - 1970 Morris Minor - 1970 Buick Skylark - 1970 Ford Galaxie - 1971 Ford Galaxie - 1976 Continental Mark IV - 1976 Ford Capri - 1994 Ford Fiesta
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Trying to avoid excess rust, buying a tired, or clunker with a big job needed (usually an expensive one at a garage) is great, as you get a feeling you may of saved it from its fate. but yes, you are buying in to a pile of new problems, try be realistic about your abilities. like pog says; do as i say not as i do! Looking at a RRers selection of antique datsun projects recently i realised mine are prety wimpy in comparison!  however, mine are no where near as rare or worth as much, another pont to chew over wen looking at sorting that wreck 'Christine' style. Twigsy now knows how bad i am for that! |
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 it doesn't matter if it's a Morris Marina or a Toyota Celica - it's what you do with it that counts  |
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however, mine are no where near as rare or worth as much, another pont to chew over wen looking at sorting that wreck 'Christine' style. Twigsy now knows how bad i am for that!
