berendd
Europe
why do I need 3 keys for one car?
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Dec 19, 2008 12:41:03 GMT
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my cheapest was a mk1 fiesta which I bought somewhere last year, it had a couple of months MOT on it. paid 70 euro's for it and it sold a year later for 250 euros.
Next cheapest was a polo breadvan which I paid 100 Euro's for, but actually I bought a spare engine for my derby. Since I couldnt transport the engine I got the breadvan with it.. Drove it for a year and then I sold it for good money..
nothing wrong with cheap cars!
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Dec 19, 2008 12:58:47 GMT
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I picked up a Daewoo Nubira for £50 with 1 years MOT and drove it home, only to sell it within 1/2 an hour to my neighbour for £400.
Result
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Success is the ability to go from one failure to the next with no loss of enthusiasm.
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Mr Vincent
Part of things
Hiding In The Shed ......
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Dec 19, 2008 12:58:52 GMT
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Gold RWD Starlet - Local Garage P.X - £50 Quick tart up 6 months hard use - Sold for £695 !!
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Rusty`s Motorcycles
OLD SKOOL RETRO CAR CLUB
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Dec 19, 2008 13:32:36 GMT
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IIRC my first car, when I was about 15 was £25... 1969 MK2 Cortina estate (later scrapped  ) My Mk1 Cavalier 2000 auto was £34.50... paid £35 and found 50p under the back seat. ;D |
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... the only injury I sustained was a bumped head when I let the seatbelt of without realizing the car was upside down  and that's not really the car's fault. |
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Dec 19, 2008 13:38:05 GMT
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1983 Volvo 2 litre 360GLS for £100 with 8 months mot and 3 months tax . It was cheap but it used so much fuel it almost ruined me. It being the only car I ran out of fuel in twice in one day.
1982 Ford Cortina 1.6 Crusader with 12 months mot and oversided chrome wheels from god know what on it for £120.
Volvo 440 with 2 months tax and test for £60. It drove okay but
it had a nice line in sunshine floors. I sold to my mate for what I paid for it so he could use it a £1000 minimum trade in deal, which he promptly did.
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Dec 19, 2008 13:42:12 GMT
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I went through a stage of running old bangers whilst my old escort was of the road after a crash. First I brought this of a dodgy garage I knew, Came with a years MOT and went well for a 1.6 GL, Only cost me £100 back in 2002  It died a rust related death on it's next text. (Notice coat hanger aeril, I had class!) After that I brought a 1.1L Fiesta with 50k, 1 Owner and 8 Months MOT as a Part X from a garage I knew for £150.  Was a great car until some chav wrote it off 6 months later, Still, I got £250 back for it and the wife and sister in law got £1500 each compo. Had a few other old bangers but none as cheap as these too. Oh and my dad brought this a few months ago for £20 but it had been living in a barn for 25+ years, Sold it on ebay in the end.  |
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Last Edit: Dec 19, 2008 13:46:16 GMT by trigger
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Tefal
Part of things
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Dec 19, 2008 14:17:18 GMT
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ive had a couple of free cars but the cheapest ive ever paid for was a 98p lada riva
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Dec 19, 2008 14:48:23 GMT
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Wow that's cheap ;D. I paid £40 for my first car a 1989 Fiat Panda 750. Oh yeah fell the power.
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alexg
Part of things
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Dec 19, 2008 16:24:54 GMT
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Bought a few trade-ins last 3 years from work nice and cheep. Last 2 were
MK2 Astra 4 months Mot - £50. Sold for £250 3 weeks later
Renault 19 with full history and only 29k! No Mot though, £100. Saled through MOT then ebayed for £660
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1979 'V' Austin Allegro Estate
1990 'G' Rover Metro GTI 1.8 VVC
1985 Sinclair C5
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dclane
Posted a lot
Posts: 1,037
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Dec 19, 2008 16:31:20 GMT
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A Fiat Seicento - free on Freecycle. It needed a £5 spark plug re-thread. MOT'd and sold 6 weeks later for £675.
Alternatively, £50 for a Citroen AX in the same week as the Fiat. New MOT and sold on eBay for £360
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Last Edit: Dec 19, 2008 16:33:14 GMT by dclane
Current vehicle collection:
2006 Saab 9-3 Aero convertible - in mid-life crisis yellow
No new retro as yet ... all attempts to sneak one onto the drive have failed.
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skinnylew
Club Retro Rides Member
Posts: 5,703
Club RR Member Number: 11
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Cheapest car you've bought?skinnylew
@skinnylew
Club Retro Rides Member 11
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Dec 19, 2008 17:35:30 GMT
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Bought a Citroen Ax 1.0 Jazz off a mate who wanted rid for £75. Used it fro 5 weeks to go back and forth to my night work i was doing (didn't want to risk the GTi being nicked) then sold it for £150 after advertising it for 1 day in the street lol. Other than that my Ax GT that's in legal dispute cost me £150 (doubt I'll see it again  ) and my Ax GTi cost me £400  |
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Dec 19, 2008 18:24:13 GMT
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1983 mk3 Escort 1.6 Ghia £21
1986 Fiesta 1.0 Pop Plus £21
1984 Fiesta 1.1L £20 iirc
1989 Granada 2.9V6 4x4 £50
1988 Mazda 323 1.5 GLX £60
1991 Sierra 1.8 Chasseur £15 (did 30,000 miles in this beauty and cost me one clutch cable)
My Saff I'm currently using daily £50
1997 Mondeo 1.8TD estate £80 (from my dad so spose it don't really count)
First 5 of list had MOT but not tax (i worked at carcraft and got these P/X's out the onsite auction), the rest had tax and MOT and come from other places.
Plus a few freebies and my brother's had a load of good bargains too!
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Ray Singh
Posted a lot
More German exotica in my garage now
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Dec 19, 2008 18:26:46 GMT
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0.34pence and two PK chewing gums for a white Mk2 Escort 1.3 ghia.
I was too young to drive and it sat outside my parents house until they sold it for £300.
Was years ago, bet i could have sold it for much more now as it was a 2 door.
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Dec 19, 2008 18:34:43 GMT
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skud rapid coupe 40 quid ran till mot ran out - I was a student and poor got 30 quid off the scrap man (i know I iz sorry)
mk1 fester ghia - 40 quid again rescued from under a tree where itd been sat for few months - there was 10p sized hole in pass footwell which was covered over with quicksteel and a small 1 inch square plate - straight for mot and it passed - rolled in it till I was waiting to turn left into a side street one time and got used for target practice by a bus (i still cry now - took the bus co for 2 whiplash claims and 400 quid ;D
no pics as this was fifteen years ago (fek I'm old)
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Last Edit: Dec 19, 2008 18:35:22 GMT by hairnet
2001 HONDA CT110 (NOT RCV)
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Dec 19, 2008 19:22:39 GMT
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Why have I nevered been offered a sub-£100 car that's worth having? I paid £150 for this. Probably the most solid Sierra I've had but the wiiring loom had been hacked to bits so it had all sorts of electrical hassles. Ran it for 6 months. Sold it on ebay for £120, the guy paid for it then got offered a similar one nearer to home for free so didn't collect it. Sold it again for £110 quid and the guy drove it back to Wales. DVLA say it's still taxed 3 years later.  |
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Jaguar S-Type 3.0 SE
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Dec 19, 2008 19:49:15 GMT
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2001 vectra 1800 club £100 , guy was going to scrap it  cam belt failure ...... 2 days work +hundred quid+new mot ..... sold = profit |
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Last Edit: Dec 19, 2008 19:51:07 GMT by branny361
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Dec 19, 2008 20:02:09 GMT
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This mini cost me £60 delivered in 1990 ish.  Although it was just a brown accident damaged shell before I rebuilt it. |
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Last Edit: Dec 19, 2008 20:03:16 GMT by zetecvan
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fordghiarsxrboy
Part of things
old fords don't die... i buy them!!
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Dec 19, 2008 20:47:58 GMT
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passed my test dec 2nd smashed my mk2 fezza into a post dec 12th.mate offered me his old mk2 to repair mine if i got his NEW 4 week old 1999 escort goin after it broke down.5 squids of petrol half hour of head scratching later and the fezza was mine.ha ha ha he was gutted.
end result mk2 fezza ghia 2 mnths t&t used over xmas then stripped to do my fezza ;D
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one retro ride is never enough
2001 transit 2.4 red
1989 escort ghia 2.0 16v bike carb'd
1989 escort estate 1.4 gl
2008 vauxsnail zafira sri (wife's choice)
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Dec 19, 2008 21:53:12 GMT
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Lady I worked with told me about her son's Mk2 Golf Driver. When I turned up to buy it she asked me if I'd take her son's E-reg Bluebird Estate with me as well. Must've been one of the 1st car 'BOGOF' deals!
I left the Bluebird on my Ma and Pa's verge whilst I worked out what to do with it . . . needless to say I soon got a visit from a member of the Banger racing fraternity. £10 later he'd bought what was probably his most expensive car!
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@pistonbroker on Twitter
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Dec 19, 2008 21:57:42 GMT
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i worked at carcraft and got these P/X's out the onsite auction. My mate's in the trade and does really well with that auction. He's currently got a Mk2 Golf valver as a toy that came from there. |
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@pistonbroker on Twitter
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)
and that's not really the car's fault.
) and my Ax GTi cost me £400 
Ax GTi Turbo
