Classic (old, retro) cars for sale £0-5k
Discussion
Challo said:
He says that his Accord is one of the best around, original etc. Except it's not original, it's slammed on the ground. I'm surprised it doesn't have flowers hanging from the rear view mirror and squirrly writing up the windscreen. It is tidy enough, but if there is bubbling on the arch, where else is there bubbling?Also available for £500 less, an actual original Accord of the same vintage:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Honda-Accord-2-0-i-SE/28...
Hugo a Gogo said:
what exactly does JDM mean in relation to that car, is it actually a different spec to a euro one?
or is it just 'scene'
In relation to that car he is just hoping to attract 'scene' type hits from people searching JDM.or is it just 'scene'
The advert mentions it still has the original supplying dealer plate on the rear, and that's UK spec.
Kitchski said:
If you need more information on this the car frequently appears in dannyDC2's videos (a PHer).KarlMac said:
Kitchski said:
If you need more information on this the car frequently appears in dannyDC2's videos (a PHer).
Fast Bug said:
I'm think they've had that for a very long time. Was about £9k once.
tog said:
Fast Bug said:
I'm think they've had that for a very long time. Was about £9k once.PurpleTurtle said:
tog said:
Fast Bug said:
I'm think they've had that for a very long time. Was about £9k once.golfer19 said:
PurpleTurtle said:
tog said:
Fast Bug said:
I'm think they've had that for a very long time. Was about £9k once.JasperT said:
B'stard Child said:
I keep the "Montego story" for when one gets posted It's filed under memory bank under "actions have consequences" 
http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C822647Do go on!
Fast Bug said:
I once got stopped by the police on the 31st of July for only having 1 trade plate on an August 1st registered MGF. He did a U turn and pulled me over and read the riot act to me. What he failed to spot was the car I was following only had a front trade plate as we were delivering 2 cars to a customer and had 1 set of trade plates between us 
So what's the Montego story
So again delivering cars between dealerships I always got the "runts" (being the newest employee and this one was one of the first times I'd delivered one so didn't know where I was going) Took in a 3 year old Montego 1.3L Automatic with just 16 K miles as a part ex (owned by two spinsters who did shops and back once a week and probably a few coffee mornings and clearly had never seen hard use) - it was never gonna sell locally but our "up north" dealership would probably out it as a cheap mini cab.So what's the Montego story
It looked like this but in hearing aid beige
Stats for this beast of a car
1275 cc 68 hp (51 kW) at 5600 rpm and 75 lb·ft (102 Nm) at 3500 rpm
So got in it and followed the other car - Porsche 944 turbo from memory
This was the start of a very frustrating journey....
Initially the 1.3 wasn't just asthmatic it was worse - all the get up and go that it should have had got up a gone - wouldn't rev past 3000 rpm - just like hitting a wall or a rev limiter.
Porker was disappearing into the distance so I resorted to holding it in the lower gears manual and keeping my foot in - slowly the rev range started to increase. some of the few horses it had were being released.
By Wisbech I caught up with the Porker waiting in a lay by and then it was the long straights towards Peterborough - needing to make progress to keep up I needed to kickdown to get the odd overtake in.
Kickdown was something the car had clearly not been ever introduced to - I stamped on the throttle to drop a cog in the box and the glovebox flew open and the bonnet released onto the safety catch...... so fluttering up and down in the wind as I overtook.
So the journey became a process of getting an overtake done and getting far enough ahead to be able to stop, get out slam the bonnet down and then get going before being overtaken again by the car that you'd just overtaken.
Obviously I modified my driving approach to avoid using kick down but it turned out that above 60mph any bumps in the road also resulted in glove box and bonnet being released...... I stopped bothering to close the glove box!!!
Once the other side of Peterborough it was the twisty roads around Melton Mowbray - It became very clear that the chassis had the rigidity of a wet paper bag - wind noise increased as you went round a corner - the door gaps clearly changing.
Absolutely awful car with no redeeming features at all that I could find
I arrived a bit fried and frustrated and was given the keys to a Panda 1000s with one of the modern FIRE engines the other guy getting a Rover SD1 in 2600 flavour.
I arrived back first (knowing where I was heading this time) and had an absolutely cracking drive - you don't need lots of bhp, fat tyres and a sports car to have a blast on A and B roads
I later on drove a Montego Turbo - it had a little more charm but a chasm between 2nd and 3rd gear change where it fell out of boost and it became a wait for it wait for it wait for it - woooo hoooo here we go again
Awaits "not so cool story bro"
pingu393 said:
That Montego was the best car my granny and her sister ever had and you tried to break it. I can imagine them trying to chase you young ruffian down the road being bashed by their handbags
One thing was true when I first drove it I could run faster than it could go and I can probably still run quicker than they could 
Please apologise to your granny and her sister - I didn't try to break it I just tried to get somewhere at something quicker than a glacial pace
On a side note - I stopped working for the dealership after a few months - this car was one of the reasons - not because it was s
t but because the ladies were proper ripped off by the garage owner - also another reason for the shifting cars round because he wouldn't want the car seen advertised locally.I can't remember the price but as an example if it booked at £3500 he gave them a part ex of £1500 against a brand new Nissan Sunny which they paid full retail on for an previous model in an unattractive wedgewood blue overloaded with extras and in heathermillsmatic set up.
It had been bolted to the forecourt for best part of a year- no one in their right mind would pay full retail on.
He was a lay preacher and they were parishioners - now you'd think that a man like that could be trusted to give them a good deal - that's what they thought - a shark is still a shark even when it wears a dog collar on Sundays.
B'stard Child said:
Once the other side of Peterborough it was the twisty roads around Melton Mowbray
Living there/here, the roads around are bloody excellent. I was driving up from Corby around midnight a few weeks ago, The Wall, disc 2 at door-rattling levels, in the pre-rain chill... and it was fantastic. Flowed amazingly. Had to back off in the last mile as I caught up with a fairly well driven (with less emphasis on "let's see what this hunk of junk will do!") Hyundai Coupe and it would have taken things getting irresponsible to overtake them, as the rain was just spattering and my hunk of junk was going to start intervening if I leaned on the suspension more around some of the better sighted bends...wst said:
B'stard Child said:
Once the other side of Peterborough it was the twisty roads around Melton Mowbray
Living there/here, the roads around are bloody excellent. I was driving up from Corby around midnight a few weeks ago, The Wall, disc 2 at door-rattling levels, in the pre-rain chill... and it was fantastic. Flowed amazingly. Had to back off in the last mile as I caught up with a fairly well driven (with less emphasis on "let's see what this hunk of junk will do!") Hyundai Coupe and it would have taken things getting irresponsible to overtake them, as the rain was just spattering and my hunk of junk was going to start intervening if I leaned on the suspension more around some of the better sighted bends...But great roads deserve great vehicles
Montego 1.3L Heathermillsmatic 0
Panda 1000s 1.0 5 spd 3,141,592
Kitchski said:
He says that his Accord is one of the best around, original etc. Except it's not original, it's slammed on the ground. I'm surprised it doesn't have flowers hanging from the rear view mirror and squirrly writing up the windscreen. It is tidy enough, but if there is bubbling on the arch, where else is there bubbling?
Also available for £500 less, an actual original Accord of the same vintage:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Honda-Accord-2-0-i-SE/28...
Took me a while to notice the next gen. Accord and Rover 600 like bubbling on the rear arches of that one.Also available for £500 less, an actual original Accord of the same vintage:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Honda-Accord-2-0-i-SE/28...
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