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Dec 19, 2008 10:04:01 GMT
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1994 Fiat Uno for £350
then spent a ridiculous amount forever fixing it and modifying it. oh dear.
my sunny only cost £400 though and seems to be pretty much perfect!
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1994 Mazda 323f 1.6i 16v GLX
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Darrel
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Dec 19, 2008 10:23:07 GMT
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£1 for a 1972 beetle at an auction. Ran it for 2 years and then sold it for £500  Also bought a mk1 Escort off a bloke at work for £50. Picked it up (had 2 weeks mot + Tax left), drove straight to Cornwall in it( around 200 miles away), had a holiday in it, came home and then put a new Mot on it. Went straight through with no advisories |
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Dec 19, 2008 10:24:31 GMT
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£127 got me the herald in my garage, it's now awaiting work... lol!
£200 got me the Sapporo, spending alot more on it just for MOT tho....
Never really got anything mega cheap tbh.... must try harder to get more cars cheaper.. lol!
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Earth Rocker
Part of things
Among the living.....Just!!!
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Dec 19, 2008 10:29:30 GMT
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£FREE, Fiat Uno no mot, £10 to get stuff sorted for mot, used for a year to do pizzas sold for £200 to fella who owned pizza shop. NICE.
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Dec 19, 2008 10:30:17 GMT
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£200 for my white Starlet, considerably more than that spent so far & still a hell of a long way to go! My brother bought a mini complete with minilite type alloys on it for £20 just by knocking on someones door!
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Dec 19, 2008 10:46:59 GMT
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Where do you get these cars so cheap?!
My cheapest was £150 on a 72 Beetle..........which then cost nearly £2000 to restore!
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kevfromwales
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the conrod's REALLY out the block now!
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Dec 19, 2008 10:47:00 GMT
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this was my cheapest - got the call that it was 'available' and thinking it was a freebie I got up there sharpish - turned out I had to pay for it - but only a quid only problem was I only had 89p on me!  taxed, tested, 2 owners from new - lovely!! - kev |
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Almost on the road: b11 sunny breadvan, e36 tds, 325i skidcar,
nearly there: ford f250 tathauler, suzuki alto, u11 bluey
not for a while: ford pop, 32 rails,
not in this lifetime: ruby, '29 hillman
''unfortanatly I'm quite old and scruffy and in need of some loving. my drive shaft needs a new boot....''
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Dec 19, 2008 10:50:58 GMT
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Datsun 280C 330 Saloon for £120 including 2 Mths Mot and 4 Mths Tax!:  Datsun Bluebird for £100:  Mazda 1300 for £80.00:  And finally my old Toyota CROWN Custom Estate. I paid £270 for it with a blown Head Gasket:  |
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dugong
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One Of Us Will Live To Rue The Day We Met Each Other (Wire : 2008)
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Dec 19, 2008 10:55:19 GMT
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Piazza which was £390 (ebay).
Bought for a laugh on ebay, blezzed around until the tax and MOT ran out, did Chumbawumba Castle and JAPS in it (as well as the Cheadle John Poois croooooz), shunted round various storage places, probably going to go away for the winter, tried to sell but couldn't bear thought of being broken for LSD and found some outdoor storageage at the last minute.
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Darrel
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Dec 19, 2008 11:08:32 GMT
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Oh i paid £150 for a Ford capri from a garage when I was 17. One of my first ever cars. It had 8 months Tax but no MOT on it. My Brothers/father said i was stupid buying it as it must need money spent on it for the MOT otherwise the garage would of Mot'd it. Realised my mistake but took it to the MOT center anyway. Failed on 1 headlamp bulb. 67p and a years Mot was got |
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ChasR
RR Helper
motivation
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Cheapest car you've bought?ChasR
@chasr
Club Retro Rides Member 170
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Dec 19, 2008 11:17:55 GMT
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I paid £220 for a 1989 Volvo 740 GLE that Ian (dollywobbler) bought off me for £150. It's gearbox was noisy and not the smoothest thing out there, it needed some minor welding for the next MOT, but otherwise it was a fine car for doing daily trips in. It came with 12 Months MOT too. It even had half decent tyres on it (Kumho Solus KH15 V rated) Closest to that was a £260 1990 Volvo 740 2.0i SE. This needed nothing doing to it, and except a rusty spot on the wing, it was mint, being a 2 owner car with 90,000 miles. The clutch probably would have needed doing by now (it would squeak if you went off the line), but for £260 for a mint Volvo with lots of history. I did once buy a Jaguar XJ40 XJR 4.0 Litre for £200, but it needed another £300 spending on it so as to get another gearbox fitted. All of my current cars don't qualify for cheapest cars  . |
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Dec 19, 2008 11:30:37 GMT
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25 quid for a drive away, mot'ed mk1 1600gt capri mind you that was 15odd years ago when they were still about mk3 2000e cortina for £10 and 40 B+H ;D happy days |
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Cheapest car you've bought?BenzBoy
@benzboy
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Dec 19, 2008 11:43:01 GMT
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£50 for my Mk3 Escort 1.6 Ghia with tax and test off eBay a few years ago. Nice car 'til it caught fire. |
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Dec 19, 2008 11:44:11 GMT
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Some of you have been drinking too much Christmas spirit already, apparently...  ;D My last Yugo was £15, with MOT and tax. |
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Last Edit: Dec 19, 2008 11:44:46 GMT by jettadeluxe
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Seth
South East
MorrisOxford TriumphMirald HillmanMinx BorgwardIsabellaCombi
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Dec 19, 2008 11:52:09 GMT
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£150 for Brian the beige Dolomite complete with 6 months MOT.   Worked great as a winter car. Engine's stills at here as a spare for the Herald |
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Follow your dreams or you might as well be a vegetable. |
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Dec 19, 2008 11:52:28 GMT
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I payed £60 for a 1976 manta coupe but had been sat in a garden for past 18 years. Its worth more than that in parts and this was when scrap was high but it had no engine (so its getting a ford v6 slammed in)
I payed £40 for a Metro about 10 years ago then swapped it for my brothers mountain bike. Nice.
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1987 Opel manta GT 2.0 16v
1976 Opel manta s project
1985 Opel Rekord E 2.2i
1992 Vauxhall Carlton 2.3TD
1989 Mercury Grand Marquis
2005 Landrover discovery 3
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Dec 19, 2008 11:53:05 GMT
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My 205 GRD....£0.00 ;D  Belonged to my dad's gf, he bought her a Vitara (she'd always wanted one....) so in a fit of benevolence she gave me the Pug, still with 4 months tax in the window and MOT until March 2009. Now (and for a few months yet) my only car, doing 200+ miles a week in all weathers at anything between 53-63mpg depending how fast I push it. Starts first time, every time. All I've done is drop 200 watts of Kenwood in it to drown out the noisy diff/gearbox. Not as clean as the pics, in fact it's probably carrying 100kg of finest Worcestershire Mud underneath/up the sides/on top right now. ;D |
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Dec 19, 2008 12:01:49 GMT
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£20 for MOT'ed and Taxed (a month left) nissan sunny last augest!, raced it after tax has run out |
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Dec 19, 2008 12:06:00 GMT
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£62 for the DoomWagon tm. Bought off ebay from Benzboy. Hadn't even heard of Retro Rides at the time. The day my life changed FOREVER! ;D  |
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Last Edit: Dec 19, 2008 12:20:46 GMT by danblez
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Dec 19, 2008 12:33:11 GMT
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I went to view a rover p6 v8 that one of my "cars wanted" adverts had turned up... I bid him £50, which I thought was a little cheeky, but he had already explained how desparate to get rid he was . Instead of the expected haggling, he just shrugged and said, ok.. here's the logbook and £50, can you take it away now? So I did ;D it drove out of his yard, and onto my truck. which makes my cheapest (not free) car at £ -50. |
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in |
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