King Maz
Part of things
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Mar 16, 2007 15:07:03 GMT
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Mine is officially impossible to value due to rarity. There's no owners club or scene of any kind and if you ask the insurance company they'll say it has no value worth speaking off. Any damage whatsoever = write off, it might as well be made of paper.
I would value it at around £3000-£3500 inclusive of registration mark (£1500) and the two need to kept together for the added value (another concept than insurers can never understand). A superb Montrose Coupe (yes, staggering isn't it) was offered at a specialist for £2500 some time ago (2y or so?)
It probably owes me the same amount over the last 7 years.
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Mar 16, 2007 16:11:02 GMT
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Last Edit: Mar 16, 2007 16:19:18 GMT by Jack
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Mar 16, 2007 16:19:11 GMT
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Gold one, cost £400, spent about £1000 in the last five years & no idea how much labour. Worth probably about £1200 on egay
White one, cost £200 as a scrapper, about £3k into it so far & 50hours approx & loads more to go. Will prob be with a very small fraction of the time & effort that goes into it, do I care? Not in the slightest.
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Mar 16, 2007 17:01:31 GMT
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Gonna make you all sick but, Capri was £250 in 1998 (virtually mint but worthless at the time and the guy who`d taken it in part ex just wanted it gone), £50 when bought back off my mate in 2001 with no tax or test and by then, a rusty wing, £300 to recommission it at the time, since then £100 for a new wing, £200 worth of paint and £50 last year for a perfect gearbox from a breakers. All in all it stands at £950, less the £200 I got from my mate for it late `99. Whats it worth now? Must be over a grand its a really straight one. Oh, forgot, £10 for as new drivers seat in matching trim.
Real bargain is XR4x4 - I allowed £200 in part ex against and R-reg Vectra V6, since then its passed 2 MOTs needing a no.plate first time and a brake pipe 2nd time.
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Mar 16, 2007 18:38:09 GMT
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The GT cost me £150 in 1999, panels were bought when half reasonable prices existed...gearbox was £40 from a scrappy God Knows how long ago, axle £10, wheels £80, prop £80, K&N's £10 off the 'bay, paint.....  , seats £20, steering wheel £0 in payment for welding a V6 manifold up, as for labour....AAARRRGGGHHHH! But, seeing as there are only NINE left on the DVLA books, it's priceless. |
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Rover Metro - The TARDIS - brake problems.....Stored
Rover 75 - Barge
MGZTT Cdti 160+ - Winter Hack and Audi botherer...
MGF - The Golden Shot...Stored
Project Minion........
Can you see the theme?
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Mar 16, 2007 19:50:51 GMT
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My cortina owes me about £1500 in cold, hard currency. Seven years of my life off and on. Two relationships, a few friends and a futre as an international globe trotting rockstar.
Ok i might be wrong on the last one but if i wasnt working on the car all the time i might have had a chance to actually learn the drums properly ;D
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Mar 16, 2007 21:03:24 GMT
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christ, id say that my KE70 is kicked me in the nuts for about £6500 now and thats NOT including me working on it. Plus its not even finished!!1  |
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Mar 16, 2007 21:41:10 GMT
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^ Blimey, its defo gonna rock then! this game is not about money is it really...but it helps!!!! Got more money in my vehicles than owt else so i can relate to what the Rev said.  |
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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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Mar 16, 2007 21:44:32 GMT
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Looks wise, I could have had it done on a tight budget, but I have bought alot of new parts, and rebuilt alot of the stuff to, plus throottle bodies and ecu/coilpacks etc arnt cheap!!
oh, and its running a COMPLETE ae86 running gear and stuff like that isnt cheap these days.
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Mar 16, 2007 21:47:13 GMT
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I can imagine, respeck, its gonna Rool!
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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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Mar 16, 2007 21:48:04 GMT
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mazda
car: £750
alarm: about £700
spark plugs: £20 (i think)
oil: whatever the price of one bottle
power steering fluid: ditto
fuel: more than i care to think about.
lost count of the buggy
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spacekadett
Part of things
F*cking take that Hans Brrix!!
Posts: 838
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Mar 16, 2007 22:18:39 GMT
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I started to add it up, but I'm waaaay to scared to finish  The Kadett cost I think 350 and was resprayed twice in the first couple of years due to micro blisters at about 500 / 600 a pop. plus panels. since then there's been the spax suspension, roll cage, custom stainless exhaust, 3 engine swaps..... But spreading it over 10 years has helped! The 100E has alot less in it at the moment cos there's been a bit more wheeler dealin'. The RS engine and T9 were 40, 25 stake in an Escort me and oldskoolcortina broke and the 105E axle came off a donor I sold for a profit ;D Gulp, there must be few hundred quid tied in the mini including the car, donor, wheels and the Cooper engine bits. Still, the smile when I've been for a good thrash at the weekend? Priceless ;D |
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Mechanic's rule #1... If the car works, anything left on the floor after you finished wasn't needed in the first place  |
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Mar 16, 2007 22:53:18 GMT
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£30 a month storage for, ooh, about the last five years, for a Sierra Sapphire 1.6L which isn't even MOT'd at the minute. Ouch! (It's done probably 3k miles in that time). Plus I paid over £1,000 for it, £350 for wheels / tyres, £200 for suspension, £200 for donor car. But I've had it ten years and it was a much thrashed daily driver for a good while, and still isn't at all rusty. So I don't care what I've spent, I don't care what it's worth, but I'm sh1tting myself because I know what it's going to cost to get it how I want it. That's YOUR fault, ALL OF YOU. ;D As for the three door, I'm not telling. No idea what it's worth but it's worth more than I paid. That's a first! Slightly scruffy 4-door mk1 Escort: Probably worth....  ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS! |
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My fleet:
Suzuki GSX-R600Y SRAD with bald, melted tyres
A borrowed Mondeo
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Mar 16, 2007 22:57:26 GMT
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DO NOT attempt to work figures out!!!
my beast, the widearched estelle, has cost me around £3000 on money spent alone. labour would be impossible to define, entire weeks have been spent on it. at most i would get £500 when selling (which will never happen) and i would be searching months to find someone with tastes like mine to take on looking after something so ridiculous!
the rest, well, put it this way, i don't have a car that i could make money on except the 525 or the 7.
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Mini 35:Cost to buy: Nothing  Swapped my Corsa for it Cost to get it how it is now: £4000! There is too much stuff to list! and that isn't including labour! Its funny how everything adds up! There is still things I want to change though! Carpet - £100ish, Dashboard - £120, New alloys with Yoko tyres - £400ish, plus other odds and sods! Golf:Cost to buy: £300 Cost so far: 6 months tax - £60 Sony CD Player - £30 Meguires Rubber/Plastic cleaner - £6, P Slots - £20, Eyebrow = £4 Total=£420. JettaCost to buy: £360 Cost so far: Battery - £40. And thats it Total = £400. HornetCost to buy: £75! ;D Cost so far: Misc bits and pieces to get it started - £100 And again, thats it Going to have a bit of money spent on it in the very near future though.
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i'm not going there its to scary ;D
van= lots
estate= alot less but still quite a bit
;D ;D
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Last Edit: Mar 17, 2007 7:35:01 GMT by Deleted
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the firenza cost me 1200 , ive pumped another 1000 into it (alarm / clutch / suspension / interior ) . its tax exempt and the insurance is only 190 dunno really what its worth but ive got agreed value at 2500 and i have been offered that for it but declined politely... the kadett on the other hand which ive had for 9 yrs although it cost next to nothing , i must have spent hundreds of hours on the thing and its still an MOT/paint job /interior away from being truly finished so pound for pound the kadett owes me much more than the firenza but i'd never recoup the money in a million years. BUT as has been touched on by many in this thread , the personal feeling of driving something retro/different coupled with the way that this scene tends to break down some barriers and have complete strangers chatting to you in the most positive possible way about your car - you can't put a price on that , its brilliant |
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Mar 17, 2007 10:33:31 GMT
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Amazon - free! (family hand down ) 4 1/2 years worth of servicing & repairs (inc recon back axle & lots of bodywork, mostly hidden structural stuff) all done by Amazon specialists - about £4.5K. Far less than the depreciation on my step-dad's BMW ;D ;D Amazon panels sitting in aunt's cellar - £422 (2 front wings, 2 front inner wings, 3 doors, & top tailgate - all either nos or vgc). Ovlov want about £350 + vodka & tonic just for one wing, & the nos osr door which I paid £20 for would easily cost £250 / £300 from a specialist so I've done well |
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Last Edit: Mar 17, 2007 10:35:16 GMT by Paul H
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Hirst
Posted a lot
This avatar is inaccurate, I've never shaved that closely
Posts: 3,930
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Mar 17, 2007 13:14:42 GMT
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Mostly guess prices, not very good at keeping accounts!
Charmant:
Cost to buy - £300
Cost to tax - £60? (6 months worth, lower rate)
Cost to insure - £600
Cost for some bodywork coming soon - £400-500
Wheels - Few hundred, can't remember
Service parts, oil etc. - £40-50
Petrol - £60 (haven't the chance to drive it much!)
Fender mirrors - £20 ish
With engine swap, suspension/brake overhaul etc. all coming in future I think I'll spend thousands on it in years to come.
And all for a car that very few people (outside here) can see potential in! I don't mind, as long as I'm happy. I wanted a Charmant for ages and now I have it.
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, seats £20, steering wheel £0 in payment for welding a V6 manifold up, as for labour....AAARRRGGGHHHH! But, seeing as there are only NINE left on the DVLA books, it's priceless.
Swapped my Corsa for it
