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the shizzle => for sale / wanted => Topic started by: james on October 07, 2003, 07:44:32 am
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Do any of you fine gentlemen know of any cheap cars being sold by any of your dear acquaintance's. Sub £200 (yes I know 200 notes dont buy you much these days but I am comletely skint). I need it to go forwards and backwards and that is about it :lol: . Any help will be much apreciated.
Cheers
James
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you could try going to a car auction, sometimes cars get sold there for like £5 or something daft like that, if you're not choosey.
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There's an auction place in Chesterfield but dunno if it's trade only or not.
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Theres one at J3 of the M621 up here in smelly Leeds too, I know that ones open to the public. I'll try and find out what its called.
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There is auction in Derby, next to Derby County FC training ground.
And my mate is selling his Audi 80 quattro for £250.
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That would be nice but I need to be able to insure it aswell :D . Auctions sound like a good idea. I am looking at minis at the moment.
Cheers
James
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Well my mate been looking for mini under £300 for ages but in the end he bought mini for £1000
A word of advise, don't get mini under £500, usually they are rough as badger's arse and bit keep falling out.
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Re Mini's - keep an eye on the bottom of the door sills, they rust like buggery. If you can find a sound one it'd be ideal, dirt cheap parts and to insure and you can mod them easily too.
Plus, they corner like a Lancia Delta integrale on steroids and you feel like you're doing 100 when you're actually only doing 30!
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I am going to go and see some of my friends at the garage this morn. a few of them have minis so may be able to point me in the right direction. I might also go and look at the auction in derby later. do they run every day?
Cheers
James
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Hang on, I'll find it out.
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if you buy something that comes under classic car insurance then you could insure it for £50. plus you'll look pretty fly rolling up to the crag in a ford anglia
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Car Auction (BCA)
Raynesway, Derby,
Derbyshire, DE21 7WA
PHONE:(01332) 666 111
FAX:(01332) 660 186
I think there is different type of auction everyday - phone them to find out which day is the best.
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Ok ill phone them later.
What is this about classic car insurance?
Cheers
James
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Re Mini's - keep an eye on the bottom of the door sills, they rust like buggery. If you can find a sound one it'd be ideal, dirt cheap parts and to insure and you can mod them easily too.
Check the boot and the foot wells and all - they tend to rust a lot as well.
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classic car insurance is piss cheap (like seriously £50 a year, but soemone will be able to clarify), mainly cos its almost impossible to speen in a morris minor, but also cos if you've got a classic car you'll be extra carefull not to trash it.
of course it may not be a great idea since fixing them when they break would be dear, and old cars eat petrol (leaded) like its going out of fashion (which is it).
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Ok ill phone them later.
What is this about classic car insurance?
Cheers
James
I think if your car is more than 20 years old and got classic status and the insurance will be dirt cheap.
Don't bother with big name insurance - go for someone like Footman James or other small classic car specialist.
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Cool - so you can insure an E-Type which goes 150mph for about twenty notes? Nice.
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I've been quoted TVR 3000M (1977) 3.0 powered by Ford Essex V6 on fibreglass body which goes like a stink, on classic car insurance for £190
Sorry Bubba - they are certainly Subaru beater !!
Wait for it - I was 19 that time. :lol:
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:eek3:
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Sorry Bubba - they are certainly Subaru beater !!
Yeah, until you get to the first greasy bend where I flick bogies out my side window at you as you spin off down the road :D
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Yeah, until you get to the first greasy bend where I flick bogies out my side window at you as you spin off down the road :D
Hoping to get Cerbera next year so you will be eating my dust :lol:
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You get paid too much!
I'll wave as I pass you broken down / spun out into a hedge.....
I'm not jealous. No, not me.
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Not enough apparantly !!
You can get Cerbera for the price of Scooby nowsday and I have alway been with TVR since I was toddler. Last Tiv I have driven was 390SE, boy what a noise !!
Have driven Griffith 500 (what a beast), Tuscan Speed 6 and Cerbera 4.2 but alway wanted to own ultimate Cerbera 4.5 LW RR.
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I thought I'd try and race a Griffith (4.5) in my old E36 325i. Bad move. He sort of pissed off into the distance in a big way.
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Yeah, Griffith is a beast. They is another Tiv I would consider too - my wife wanted a soft top sport car.
The one I drove was Griffith 500 and most of boy racer (Cossie, Ren 5 GT-turbo etc) seem to race with me. How I laugh when I see their face when I gunned it.