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Plenty of projects below £1000 and loads of interesting stuff sub £2000 . More projects than people to do it and a lot of stuff professionals are not intersted in /
£8000 for a running driving 66 mustang with a 289 V8 . Little rust and needs paint but totally useable . As said plenty of very tidy vauxhalls for less than 3k .
Suzuki cappacino for £200 . Various basket case minis for £500 , if you are handy with a spanner they can be put back together cheaply enough .
BL stuff is cheap as well , what about tidy V8 p5 and p6 s ? They can be had for 3k
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JC
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Aug 11, 2015 14:21:43 GMT
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A bit of a rambling - its early in the morning. jeez, that's some train of thought for early in the morning. At that time of day all my brain can come up with is "Neeeed coffeeeee!"
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Aug 11, 2015 20:43:21 GMT
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The whole restoration trade is probably glad I don't have money to pay someone else to realize my dreams/fantasies/nightmares, i'd be forever looking over their shoulders and telling them they'd missed a bit! But for me, the idea of paying someone to do something I can do myself is a total no-no. If I won the lotto, i'd still be buying fixer-uppers, i'd just be able to do them quicker cos of not having to save up for parts and work for a living. The "built not bought" mentality and ethos is strong in me and the standing back and surveying your handiwork after sometimes years of effort and thinking "I done that!" is a priceless feeling that I would never willingly relinquish. Escorts have drifted well outside my price bracket, so when I wanted a 70s 2door RWD tintop I bought my Toledo for lunch money and built that instead. And i'm sure i'm not alone, a true enthusiast will find something that appeals and tinker away because that is their nature! In fact, you could say that the "scene tax" is a good thing, since it encourages us less financially blessed enthusiasts to "think outside the box" which results in all the weird, wacky and wonderful machinery in these pages, where there is no such thing as an unloved car!
Steve
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Last Edit: Aug 11, 2015 21:10:01 GMT by carledo
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Aug 11, 2015 20:59:06 GMT
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Personally I got bored with the whole scene, overpriced rubbish on eBay and other classic sites... Also got fed up with the mines better than yours crowd, with a young family and a mortgage and a holiday home to pay for I got into the old Mercedes thing... I say old because I like w202 and w210 models, not everyone's cup of tea but I like em!! And I pay between 1000 and 2000 pound for my mercs, in my opinion far better cars than rusty fords for circa 5k plus,, I don't attend any shows anymore to many big egos out there..... But I seem to have found a great forum here all types of older cars, and so far no big egos, I've been into the ford scene since I was ,15 so that's a total of 32 years, yes I'm that old!!!! I now have no desire or interest in that scene at all much prefer old mercs so much car for little money, which is what I can afford and I enjoy just tinkering and polishing the life out of em!
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Last Edit: Aug 11, 2015 21:03:51 GMT by Mercdan68
Fraud owners club member 2003 W211 Mercedes E class 1989 Sierra sapphire 1998 ex bt fiesta van
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Aug 11, 2015 22:31:47 GMT
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I have a 'friend' who would like to own a classic/retro/interesting car but says that he can't afford it. He whinges and whines about how he's not got enough money to get into it. He wants a mid sixties Shelby Mustang convertible, or an E-type or something like that (who wouldn't!?) But he says he can't afford one, he says that he only has between £500 - £1000 to spend on something interensting. Well, in my experience a £1000 can get you a lot of something interesting. I've bought so far this year seven cars that i consider interesting for mostly under a £1000, and infact for the most part they've been nearer £500(ish), and frankly it's been great, and i'm having a lot of fun in my interesting cars! Ok, i've not had an E-type, but i've had an X-type! And i've not had a Shelby Mustang convertible, but £650 bought me a pretty nice Street Ka convertible which was so much fun it was unreal! My point is that if you can't afford the high end prices some of these cars go for, adjust your aim. Go for something you can afford, drive it, and enjoy it! Cool cars are out there in every shape size and budget! For crying out loud most of the time i'm cruising about in £500 worth of 1985 Talbot Alpine, and worse still, it's hearing aid beige! But i think it's kool as funk, and judging by most peoples reactions when they see it, so do they! Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder!
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Aug 11, 2015 23:32:19 GMT
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What do you mean retro classics are becoming out of reach ?? There was an old Sierra on here the other day for £90k and its sold
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Aug 11, 2015 23:47:54 GMT
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There are still plenty of affordable older cars here in New Zealand. Over the past 15 years I've bought four Ford Falcons ranging from '78 to '91, a '71 Wolseley 1300, and a '90 Ford Laser (Mazda 323 clone) for my wife to use, and we've dailied all of them. All were purchased for under NZ$2K, some a long way under. Not mint cars and some with very high mileage but all completely road legal when I bought them.
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