Favourite cars that were achievable by people who weren't rich

[Tuearts right boot]

Have you seen the price of most of these cars on this thread. Mental but great to see at those prices, they'll be looked after.

 

[Tuearts right boot]

Yeah but girls liked em. A lot.

Me at Bredbury Hall early 70s after quite along chat with nice looking girl "can I give you a lift home"
Girl "oh ok"
Leaves club and walks to shiny immaculate 3 Litre Capri.
Girl "Oh nice car.....fancy a shag ? "

How shallow can you get.





And she's no better.

 

[Betterdeedthan red]

Audi s3 .
Absolutely love it

 

[Kompany Car]

Have you seen the price of most of these cars on this thread. Mental but great to see at those prices, they'll be looked after.

MG midgets are still cheap, easy to tinker with and the bits are plentiful.
But most things that fall into the classic car category are expensive. Early Ford XR3s in good condition are fetching 15k+.
However they do make some sense as a run about if they are more than 40yrs old. Classic insurance is cheap, no road tax and they are exempt from any emissions charges. 80s cars weren’t that bad from a reliability point of view as long as it was something reasonably mainstream and didn’t have any clever engine technology (electronic fuel injection) was still fairly new and was still having teething problems.

 

[Blue Mist]

I'll start.. (why did they stop making them)

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Beautiful. I had a 1600. 2nd hand. The original owner had replaced the bonnet with the power bulge one so everyone thought it was a 3 litre.

 

[Kompany Car]

Audi s3 .
Absolutely love it

That was a fairly expensive car back in the day. Launch price was just under 25k in the late 90s. A Ford Escort would have cost you about 11k so roughly 2.5 times more expensive than a normal car. It would be like paying 45k today (if you just account for inflation), which strangely enough is around the same list price of a brand new S3.

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

I just want a sky blue Citroen 2CV.

 

[Betterdeedthan red]

That was a fairly expensive car back in the day. Launch price was just under 25k in the late 90s. A Ford Escort would have cost you about 11k so roughly 2.5 times more expensive than a normal car. It would be like paying 45k today (if you just account for inflation), which strangely enough is around the same list price of a brand new S3.

I paid 12k for a 2010 low milage model.
Which is quite a lot of money.
But fucking hell it's fun

 

[J.G.Blue.]

I always wanted a Datsun 240z & managed to buy a 260z 2 seater in around 1988,
Beautiful looking car with wolfrace alloys, straight 6 engine all for £1200 & thought I was the dogs dangly bits until it rusted away over about 3 years,
Took it for a mot & it failed, the bloke said it would cost around £400 to weld it up & at the time I could not afford it so sold the car for around £600,
God knows what it would be worth now just for spares?

 

[Kinkybyname]

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mine had the Martini livery - maybe tacky but loved it at the time

 

[Boo or Boo-urns]

I always wanted a Datsun 240z

 

[Dirty Harry]

I'll start.. (why did they stop making them)

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My friends son (my mechanic) has a few of these ‘projects’ from the 70s, including a 1.3, which always seemed mad to me, a 1.3 engine in a Capri !

Mine was my Old ‘Ford Probe’, fantastic car, boot space was incredible, with the back seats down could easily get a full size trial motorbike in there, lovely to drive, had to go in the end as the parts were fuckin astronomical, things I was paying £5, £10 for for previous Fords, was paying £125 for the Probe, new starter motor £695 (as it happens, was a bit of a scam really as it was only the solenoid in the SM that was going on them, which you could change, but many mechanics never told you that).

 

[Kompany Car]

I always wanted a Datsun 240z & managed to buy a 260z 2 seater in around 1988,
Beautiful looking car with wolfrace alloys, straight 6 engine all for £1200 & thought I was the dogs dangly bits until it rusted away over about 3 years,
Took it for a mot & it failed, the bloke said it would cost around £400 to weld it up & at the time I could not afford it so sold the car for around £600,
God knows what it would be worth now just for spares?

More than 30k.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Land Rover Defender 90. Ideally in blue or green with a white roof and steel wheels.

They're crazy expensive now for what they are but a few years ago you could pick one up for fuck all.

 

[Sir peace frog]

i can honestly say the best car ive ever had is a ford mondeo estate, ive had it 5 years never had a minutes problem, they are huge inside ,so tip runs,fishing or moving stuff is rarely a problem , and its really nice looking(imo) and nice inside

 

[Bill Walker]

Cortina MkII 1600e

Had one of these, great car.

 

[Keeper!]

I managed to get one of these back in the 80s, mid engined and complete madness, it was like a gokart on E, amazing memories

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Yeah but girls liked em. A lot.

Me at Bredbury Hall early 70s after quite along chat with nice looking girl "can I give you a lift home"
Girl "oh ok"
Leaves club and walks to shiny immaculate 3 Litre Capri.
Girl "Oh nice car.....fancy a shag ? "

“You can fuck right off, you’re not staining my upholstery.”

 

[Dirty Harry]

I managed to get one of these back in the 80s, mid engined and complete madness, it was like a gokart on E, amazing memories

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The old Renault 5 GTE twin turbo thingy ?

 

[Keeper!]

The old Renault 5 GTE twin turbo thingy ?

Yep, mid engined madness in a R5, I had the 5 Gordini before that, that was 1600cc front engined and that was crazy fun but the Turbo mid engined was lunacy, lucky to be still alive to be honest.