vampire Posted January 21, 2011 Report Share Posted January 21, 2011 As title really,whats the cheapest car you have paid money for and used it. For me it was during the eighties as a hod carrier i had to have some cheap transport to get the three of us in including tools etc,i ended up with a mk 1 escort that had 3 months ticket on it,it had no roof rack so i just tied the barrow to the roof,the ignition was broke so used to sart with screw driver (honest guv),the front passenger wing used to flap in the wind and who ever sat in the front had to keep their foot over the hole in the floor or water came in,i bought this car for £10 and sold it 3 mths later for £10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cocker3 Posted January 21, 2011 Report Share Posted January 21, 2011 bought a mrk 1 escort 1300 gt bright orange for £100 quid in 1987 it was minted ran it for 3 years and sold it for £600 would be worth thousands now :cry1: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddy Galore! Posted January 21, 2011 Report Share Posted January 21, 2011 a VW scirocco scala, £50 spares or repair, cost all of another 40 to fix and went like stink. beautiful car. swapped it for an old tranny van a year later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inshallah Posted January 21, 2011 Report Share Posted January 21, 2011 bought a mrk 1 escort 1300 gt bright orange for £100 quid in 1987 it was minted ran it for 3 years and sold it for £600 would be worth thousands now :cry1: I'd love one of those. My first car was a mk2 (500 quid), but yes, you could buy a mk1 for 70 quid in the mid 80s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdubya Posted January 21, 2011 Report Share Posted January 21, 2011 once got a mitsibushi cordia for 50 quid was as fast as, used to throw you back in the seat when the turbo kicked in, sold it to my brother in law for 200 KW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fisherman Mike Posted January 21, 2011 Report Share Posted January 21, 2011 (edited) bought a mrk 1 escort 1300 gt bright orange for £100 quid in 1987 it was minted ran it for 3 years and sold it for £600 would be worth thousands now :cry1: I bought a maxi for 50 quid..it wasnt in bad nick so I tcut it completely and replaced a lot of the parts from Haynes scrappy at Challow... a year on I sold it to my Brother for £175.00 A year later I bought it back for £100...got a company car and left it in my dads lock up for 15 years. got it out 10 years ago, changed the plugs, whipped the battery off for a new one and away she went. A little bit of welding to get it through the mot and 2 second hand tyres ( 5.00 each from the scrappy again) and I sold her only a couple of years ago to an enthusiast from Brighton for £850 I have never driven a car that was better in the snow including a couple of well known 4 x 4 marques.....it would go go through it like a knife through butter Edited January 21, 2011 by Fisherman Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Sarakun Posted January 21, 2011 Report Share Posted January 21, 2011 When I first passed my test, blimey, that was a while ago, a mate and I bought a 6 cylinder, think it was 3.3 litre, Vauxhall Ventora, Ventura, can't remember, from the scrap yard. It looked a dog, but it had 2 mnths tax and test, and we went halves on it. It was £15... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WGD Posted January 21, 2011 Report Share Posted January 21, 2011 Does free count? My FIL was working at a large country house and the owner asked him to take away that old car in the barn, "oh, and here's the MOT" It was duly driven away for nothing It was an old Volvo 240 and my (then) fiance (now wife) and I used it for about a year before cashing in on one of the minimum trade in deals and getting £500 for it against something better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluke2 Posted January 21, 2011 Report Share Posted January 21, 2011 Morris oxford paid 7 quid for it think it was a 1957 bought it 1977 took it off the road in 1984 and sold the bits for 350 quid after it stood in the garden for years as a non runner. Cant beat my old mate though he bought a xk120 in 1965 a 1959 model for 300 quid stuck it in the garage until three months ago and I just sold it at auction for £27,500.00, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artschool Posted January 21, 2011 Report Share Posted January 21, 2011 mr2 mk1 300 dollars. forgot to top up the oil and wreaked the engine. :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inthedark Posted January 21, 2011 Report Share Posted January 21, 2011 I bought a Cavalier 5 years ago for £100, and ran it up to June last year. It had a couple of wheel bearings, tyres and half an exhaust in that time, plus a bit of welding. Its still on my drive cos I cant bring myself to scrap it, it was that reliable! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaun4860 Posted January 21, 2011 Report Share Posted January 21, 2011 My first car was a Hilman Hunter, i paid £90 for it, it then cost me £89 to insure it..... Ran it for a year, put it in the garage for a year, gave it to my sister who then ran it for another year.....till she blew the engine... shaun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacksdad Posted January 21, 2011 Report Share Posted January 21, 2011 A bit off topic, I had an old mini that finally died, terminal rust. I took it to the local scrappy and was going to take it in, they paid £25 back then. Two oiks were stood outside, they stopped me and said they would give me £120, they wanted it for banger racing...I snatched their hands off. Whilst walking home, I checked the money, yes, it was all fake tenners :blink: So I went to every corner shop in the area, bought 10 fags, and paid with a tenner in each one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shropshire_Lad Posted January 21, 2011 Report Share Posted January 21, 2011 Done the Escort mk11, Allegro,Escort mk11 estate, Siera, etc. My best bar none, a Proton MPI. We put 175k on the clock and never did anything bar a service, original exhaust when it went to the scrappy. atvb Paul. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hillmouse Posted January 21, 2011 Report Share Posted January 21, 2011 SAAB 900 with tax and test for a tenner. Ran it for over a year without doing anything but adding fuel and oil. Got £50 of the scrappy for it. SAAB 99 for £100 which ran for 2 years and broke even when I scrapped that for £100 too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gixer1 Posted January 21, 2011 Report Share Posted January 21, 2011 Bought a Mk2 golf 1.3l and ran it for a year, it was a fantastic car and only gave up when i tried to drive it through a mates weeds into a barn and the heater matrix blew - the car turned into a sauna in seconds! Regards, Gixer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy. Posted January 21, 2011 Report Share Posted January 21, 2011 Two defenders. L reg 110 and a safari for a grand the pair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul223 Posted January 21, 2011 Report Share Posted January 21, 2011 EITHER A B REG ITAL VAN ( OOPPS CAPS ) bought it in 1997 for £20, it had 4 months tax and test on it or a n reg corsa , bought it last year for £50, no test or tax but passed the mot after an evening of work or could it be a P reg datsun 140J :blink: which i bought for £30 in 1990, no tax or test but lovely car shame about the rot nope has to be the ital, ran around in it for 4 and a bit months with no problems, real cheap motoring, weighed it in and got me money back :yp: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diceman Posted January 21, 2011 Report Share Posted January 21, 2011 Was given an A reg Micra by a retiring mechanic, he'd been using it to store all his scrap metal. Drove it home (wouldn't go over 30 due to all the weight) cleaned it up and ran it for a few months whilst I was between jobs then did some off road trials in it - terrible punishment but it refused to die, so I sold it to a student for £170 and got another £30 when I weighed in the old scrap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul223 Posted January 21, 2011 Report Share Posted January 21, 2011 bought a mrk 1 escort 1300 gt bright orange for £100 quid in 1987 it was minted ran it for 3 years and sold it for £600 would be worth thousands now :cry1: As a teenager i had two suzuki AP50's, an A100 and GT185 (amongst others), i real in shock every time i look at AP50 and GT prices My first car was a Hilman Hunter, i paid £90 for it, it then cost me £89 to insure it..... Ran it for a year, put it in the garage for a year, gave it to my sister who then ran it for another year.....till she blew the engine... shaun my dads used to have a hillman hunter, metalic green it was, can't say i have fond memories of it, but before that he had a hillman imp, now that was a great car Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclemicky Posted January 21, 2011 Report Share Posted January 21, 2011 Morris Ital 1.7 , cost me £80 from a scrap yard , welded it up , drove it for 2 years an sold it for £295 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hodge911 Posted January 21, 2011 Report Share Posted January 21, 2011 quite a while back when i was about 18/19 bought a mini pick up for £15 with a knackered engine got a one from the scrappy for £10 put it in ran it for about a year loved it sold it for £120. seeing wot they go for now i wish i had it in the same condition be worth a wee bit more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duncan Posted January 22, 2011 Report Share Posted January 22, 2011 ford anglia 105e bought it for £15 in 1975 had it for 6 months then the drivers door fell off so scrapped it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Geordie Posted January 22, 2011 Report Share Posted January 22, 2011 First car was a MK1 Fiesta 1.1 paid £100 for it at auction needed a set of break disks and pads and a little tidy I made the car MINT and ended up planting it in the back of a Citroen BX and in turn HE hit another BX in front of him writing thoese two off and my fiesta needed a new bonnet rad and the front N/S wing pulled out. CHEAPEST car I owned was a Fiat 126 cost me all of £25 Next to that was a Datsun A100 for £70 Most recent was the car I WAS driving till some tw at forced us off the road was a Fiesta LX 1.3 on a 1995 N plate cost us £280 full MOT and 6 month tax. We only bought it because the 1995 M corsa 1.4 broke down. we bought it for £200 and on the way to Folkestone the cam belt snapped at Alfreton so we had to find a cheap car to get us to Folkestone. It not only got us to folkestone with a knackered engine mount (I repaired it when we got home £9) it also took us to the Lakes to blackpool to edinburgh and to reading twice. Was a fab car till it got ran off the road Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willxx Posted January 22, 2011 Report Share Posted January 22, 2011 a VW scirocco scala, £50 spares or repair, cost all of another 40 to fix and went like stink. beautiful car. swapped it for an old tranny van a year later. glad you didn't miss out the "van" in that post :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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