Classic (old, retro) cars for sale £0-5k

[0a]

Dodgy photos and high mileage but reasonably cheap. http://vi.raptor.ebaydesc.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...

[Pothole]

danllama said:

0a said:

This looks great for under £5k - change the wheels and the grill and you have a lovely old e28 m535. Of all the M car family I have been in (including the new m5 / m3 and the v10 m5) a passenger ride in an m535 with an ex special branch chap at the wheel remains my favourite.

http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/351641166307

My, my, my. That is rather lovely.

Ad says original wheels come with, too...needs a good wash and brush up under the bonnet though, eh?

[0a]

Pothole said:

danllama said:

0a said:

This looks great for under £5k - change the wheels and the grill and you have a lovely old e28 m535. Of all the M car family I have been in (including the new m5 / m3 and the v10 m5) a passenger ride in an m535 with an ex special branch chap at the wheel remains my favourite.

http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/351641166307

My, my, my. That is rather lovely.

Ad says original wheels come with, too...needs a good wash and brush up under the bonnet though, eh?

Anything to watch out for with these aside from the inevitable rust?

[Output Flange]

Rust. More rust. And some rust.

Rear subframe mounting points go, sills go, floors go. Front strut spring cups go. Sunroof drains stop draining and the cassette starts to rust, or when they do work they drain into the sills. Which then rust.

Lots of parts for these are becoming NLA now too.

And then bear in mind that you're looking at a modified BMW for sale in High Wycombe...

[derin100]

Did anyone mention rust yet?

[derin100]

As you can see, the last one I did (in 2009) looked not too dissimilar to that one to start off with. Really didn't look too bad, did it?

http://www.bmwclassics.co.uk/gallery/index.php?spg...

But then...

http://www.bmwclassics.co.uk/gallery/index.php?spg...

There's a reason why I gave up doing E28s, sold off all of my parts as a job lot on EBay and haven't seriously looked at one since. That was a few years ago and I see no reason why now, if you dig under the surface, that most unrestored ones won't be the same.

That car took me over six months, working most evenings and free weekends to sort and that's not including my body-shop replacing both sills, both front wings, front valance and the bonnet with new items plus a good second-hand bootlid; then a full respray (apart from the roof) to produce this:



Example...take a look at the one my friend 'Tony BMW' has been doing. An M5 and it looks quite nice and presentable in those first few pics here...but then follow the thread. I don't have anything like his skill or patience...there probably aren't many people who do:

http://retrorides.proboards.com/thread/119596


How much do you want one now?

[dbdb]

All eighties cars rust like that though!

[V8RX7]

0a said:

This looks great for under £5k - change the wheels and the grill and you have a lovely old e28 m535. Of all the M car family I have been in (including the new m5 / m3 and the v10 m5) a passenger ride in an m535 with an ex special branch chap at the wheel remains my favourite.

http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/351641166307

I sold my mates one that was far nicer than that perhaps 10yrs ago and struggled to get £1800 - the prices seem to have doubled for anything remotely desirable in the last 4-5 years.

[derin100]

dbdb said:

All eighties cars rust like that though!

I don't have experience of many marques but I'd say you're probably right and most of those cars have completely disappeared now.

I would however say that equivalent era Mercs, in my experience of working on them, don't exhibit that level of structural rust to anywhere near that extent.

[derin100]

V8RX7 said:

0a said:

This looks great for under £5k - change the wheels and the grill and you have a lovely old e28 m535. Of all the M car family I have been in (including the new m5 / m3 and the v10 m5) a passenger ride in an m535 with an ex special branch chap at the wheel remains my favourite.

http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/351641166307

I sold my mates one that was far nicer than that perhaps 10yrs ago and struggled to get £1800 - the prices seem to have doubled for anything remotely desirable in the last 4-5 years.

This is true but the natural trend is for certain classic cars to become more valuable as time goes by. However, I'm in agreement with you and what gets me is the seemingly increasing trend for people to think they can offer up rough, unrestored or renovated, complete ste and still delude themselves into think it's worth lots of money.

Sad as it sounds, I spent (read: "wasted") half the morning today looking through 52 pages of classic cars on EBay. After page 52, even I got fed up, bored and despairing. The level of ste on there is astonishing...and I'm actually sure that it's so saturated that most of it will never sell.

This is a joke, right? Please, tell me it's a deliberate joke?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Toyota-starlet-kp61-RWD-...AQAAOSwqrtWpj52

[Hugh Jarse]

There is some overpriced tat and deluded folk.
Still plenty of bargains too.....almost vintage...

[s m]

bungle said:

0a said:

I just picked up the latest edition of modern classics - very much a magazine for this thread. Looking forward to reading this later. Rover 800 turbo, senator 3.0, 164 Cloverleaf, 25 TXi, Audi 100 - fantastically outdated retro-ness!

Really enjoyed the latest one (out this week). Really hits the mark in terms of the sort of cars I'm interested in, in a way no other mag does (I seem to increasingly just flick through evo without really reading much in detail).

Love the old skool classifieds, and I even like the non-glossy paper!

Have either of you two guys seen the 'feeler' mag that's also out - German Classics? Looks like they're testing the water too

[bungle]

No, not seen it, but looks like they are narrowing their market a little if only German-marques. I'll have a flick through it if I see it anywhere, but they won't (by definition) cover the breadth of cars that Modern Classics will, and will be in danger of repeating themselves after a few months?

They are also stretching the "classic" tag if an Audi TT (I assume mk1) creeps in, which I think was produced up to about 2006?

Edited by bungle on Sunday 7th February 22:20

[s m]

bungle said:

No, not seen it, but looks like they are narrowing their market a little if only German-marques. I'll have a flick through it if I see it anywhere, but they won't (by definition) cover the breadth of cars that Modern Classics will, and will be in danger of repeating themselves after a few months?

They are also stretching the "classic" tag if an Audi TT (I assume mk1) creeps in, which I think was produced up to about 1996?

Up to 1996? I think it was more from 1998 that the TT got going. I guess they're earmarking it as a future German Classic.

I tend to get any new mags, will see how it develops but had a similar feel to Modern Classics

[bungle]

s m said:

Up to 1996? I think it was more from 1998 that the TT got going. I guess they're earmarking it as a future German Classic.

I tend to get any new mags, will see how it develops but had a similar feel to Modern Classics

d'oh, yes, I meant 2006, ie. it's only 10 years old really. Not yet a classic.

And now you've quoted me everyone will notice when I amend my original post!

[feef]

Hugh Jarse said:

Couple more oddballs from that bargain filled Dutch Auction for your weekend coffee and hobnob delectation.

Like all terrain trucks AND convertibles? Space for only one car? Solved..........
http://auction.catawiki.co.uk/kavels/4350515-unimo...

That's quite tempting, not least because I've two of them sat in a field in Kent, one's a scrapper, but the other is restorable, despite being a bit of a basket case

[Hugh Jarse]

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[V8RX7]

Hugh Jarse said:

There is some overpriced tat and deluded folk.
Still plenty of bargains too.....almost vintage...

I love the look of that type of car - but realistically would anyone use it ?

The odd trip out on a sunny day at best.

[EskimoArapaho]

V8RX7 said:

I love the look of that type of car - but realistically would anyone use it ?

The odd trip out on a sunny day at best.

Er... isn't that very often in the very nature of a classic/retro car? High days and holidays, etc.

[LittleEnus]

V8RX7 said:

I love the look of that type of car - but realistically would anyone use it ?

The odd trip out on a sunny day at best.

Yeah but I'd say that for many, many cars owned by us here