Classic (old, retro) cars for sale £0-5k
Discussion
Breadvan72 said:
£1300! Rip off artists! I know someone who picked one i know picked one up recently for £170! Yes really! http://www.aronline.co.uk/blogs/blogs/blog-oh-how-...ikarl said:
VIC test for cat B too
As I thought, a B should never go back on the road...http://www.rac.co.uk/community/blog/rac-blog/septe...
pingu393 said:
ikarl said:
VIC test for cat B too
As I thought, a B should never go back on the road...http://www.rac.co.uk/community/blog/rac-blog/septe...
Fast Bug said:
pingu393 said:
ikarl said:
VIC test for cat B too
As I thought, a B should never go back on the road...http://www.rac.co.uk/community/blog/rac-blog/septe...
pingu393 said:
ikarl said:
VIC test for cat B too
As I thought, a B should never go back on the road...http://www.rac.co.uk/community/blog/rac-blog/septe...
B'stard Child said:
pingu393 said:
ikarl said:
VIC test for cat B too
As I thought, a B should never go back on the road...http://www.rac.co.uk/community/blog/rac-blog/septe...
gowmonster said:
B'stard Child said:
pingu393 said:
ikarl said:
VIC test for cat B too
As I thought, a B should never go back on the road...http://www.rac.co.uk/community/blog/rac-blog/septe...
RSD 25 said:
Breadvan72 said:
£1300! Rip off artists! I know someone who picked one i know picked one up recently for £170! Yes really! http://www.aronline.co.uk/blogs/blogs/blog-oh-how-...Hi said:
Breadvan72 said:
A car that old is not an ideal first classic car. Cars of the late sixties to nineties can be very usable on modern roads (but have many quirks and oddities that take some getting used to), but earlier cars are a world apart from what you are used to. Drum brakes, mixture controls, timing controls on some, magnetos, carbs, limited gears, complex lubrication needs, dynamos, power nothing, and so on. A car as old as an Austin Seven could put you off classics for good (or make you an addict, but it could be kill or cure). Unless you have funds and/or skills and a lot of resolve, the best bet is to buy the best example of a car that you can afford. Buy the one that someone else has ploughed money into. I break that rule a lot myself, but I have been running classic cars for 25 years and run 70s and 80s cars as my daily drivers, so I know what I am letting myself in for.
Thanks for the advice, although I am not too clued up on cars of this vintage all the oddities you mention make me more exited to own one, not less! I do/have run a few 70's and 80's cars as daily drivers so I'm not totally disconnected from the classic world, or retro world at least. I am not looking to use it as a daily or anything either, it will just be added to our fleet and used as and when. I do have some funds and time to plow into it, hence the appeal of buying a cheaper one that needs cosmetic work, not for the saving on purchase price but purely for the fact I much prefer owning a car I have done a lot of work on, plus I would really like to restore a classic like this.With regard hiring/borrowing one, the appeal for us is to have a car we own, preferably one I have been able to put some time and effort into restoring or improving, as our wedding car. So hiring or borrowing one would be totally out of the question as we might as well just use any old car, makes no difference to us IF we can't get something vintage as planned.
I saw a running, but tatty, austin 7 sell in the spring for just over £2k, hence me looking around that price, but it seems to have been a one off! I'll keep looking and hope to pick up a bargain over the winter.
Contigo said:
Just ticked over 100k miles, has a service history file bigger than the Magna Carta!!!!
The Magna Carta is only one page though..jpg/1280px-Magna_Carta_(British_Library_Cotton_MS_Augustus_II.106).jpg)
The Golf is in lovely condition. Even the driver's side seat bolster looks in good nick. How is the filler neck and the firewall where the clutch pedal goes through?
http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C662731#
How often do you see an aerial like that these days.
Looked ok back in the day but strange now.
How often do you see an aerial like that these days.
Looked ok back in the day but strange now.
http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C277110
When I was in junior school one of my teachers had a top-of-the-range Granada estate identical to this and I thought it was the bee's knees. I so wished that my Dad had a car like this rather than a rusty Talbot Horizon.
When I was in junior school one of my teachers had a top-of-the-range Granada estate identical to this and I thought it was the bee's knees. I so wished that my Dad had a car like this rather than a rusty Talbot Horizon.
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