Cars you should have bought...

[phib]

How long have you got !!!

Aston DB6 when it it was £16k, was worried it was an auto !!
Aston DB4 when it was £50k didnt like the dark red
Aston DB2 for £15k again didnt like dark red ( there's a theme here !!)
Porsche 964 originbal cup car £10.5k bought a 993 instead
Bugati EB 110, thought the dealer was dodgy ... turned out he was !!
Ferrari Daytona £60k, see Ferrari 550 !!
Porsche 993 Turbo thought car / dealer were dodgy !! They were, bought a GT2 instead

However good buys were :

911 2.7rs lightweight RHD (one of 8) for £43k
Ferrari 355
Ferrari 550


Phib

[magpie21]

A TVR Sagaris in 2009. Was going to look at one which was priced at 24k but ended up buying a Tuscan for 19k instead. Would have doubled my money if I'd have bought the Sag!!

About 3 years ago was thinking about buying an Escort Cosworth or V6 Clio. Both were around 12k then!!!

Edited by magpie21 on Monday 2nd February 15:16

[TIGA84]

phib said:

However good buys were :

911 2.7rs lightweight RHD (one of 8) for £43k


Phib

Not a bad buy that.

I thought there were 16 though but I'm no expert.

[Rude-boy]

phib said:

Bugati EB 110, thought the dealer was dodgy ... turned out he was !!

I can never claim that it was one that got away as I never had the cash I could genuinely afford to spend on it, nor did I ever go to see the car but there was an EB 110 SS for sale for what seemed like at least a year at £100k. I promised myself that if I got halfway there on a windfall I would beg, borrow or steal the rest needed to buy it.

Sadly the prices started to go mental about 4 months before the windfall...

[phib]

Rude-boy said:

I can never claim that it was one that got away as I never had the cash I could genuinely afford to spend on it, nor did I ever go to see the car but there was an EB 110 SS for sale for what seemed like at least a year at £100k. I promised myself that if I got halfway there on a windfall I would beg, borrow or steal the rest needed to buy it.

Sadly the prices started to go mental about 4 months before the windfall...

If it was a blue one at a west london dealer / who also did Ferrari's you had a very narrow escape !!

Phib

[phib]

TIGA84 said:

Not a bad buy that.

I thought there were 16 though but I'm no expert.

Was told 8 by Porsche, used it everywhere for about 2 years, did 40k in it then had it restored by Porsche and it was too good to use so sold it !! For what was then silly money 3 years ago

Phib

[TIGA84]

phib said:

Was told 8 by Porsche, used it everywhere for about 2 years, did 40k in it then had it restored by Porsche and it was too good to use so sold it !! For what was then silly money 3 years ago

Phib

You and Porsche are probably right, I only mentioned it because I saw this the other day.

http://www.classicdriver.com/en/car/porsche/911/19...

Still, they've always played fast and loose with build numbers.

[Rude-boy]

phib said:

If it was a blue one at a west london dealer / who also did Ferrari's you had a very narrow escape !!

Phib

You know I almost wish it was, it would have been easier to deal with if I knew it was a close escape!

[Denno B]

Going back a few years but a couple spring to mind that slipped the net. Had my on eye on Tvr's, the Sagaris was around £30k at the time, need double that now. The other was the mark 1 porsche Gt3, in the £30k's at the time, hindsight is a wonderful thing.

[daveofedinburgh]

-mk1 MR2 when they were still plentiful

-immaculate low miles S2000 with hardtop for £4K

-mkiv Supra with 1UZ V8 conversion and some tasteful, expensive aftermarket bits for £3.5K

-manual hardtop E46 M3 with good brakes for £7.5K

-AE86 'Hachi Roku' Corolla when Jap importers were bringing them in sub £5K

-E36 328i sport when they were lurking sub £1K

-stock R33 GTR for £7K

Spotted all of the above at some point over the years. If I had better cash-flow I reckon I could do some good zero-depreciation motoring!

[RWD cossie wil]

22Rgt said:

BritishRacinGrin said:

I'm sorry but I need to do this for the sake of my own sanity;

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hsvgts454 said:

The list goes on

Oh just listen to the grammar educated dork...just because someone makes a spelling mistake doesnt mean you need to pull them apart and make them look stupid. Ever made a mistake? No..of course not..

Rich coming from a Walt.....

[BritishRacinGrin]

RWD cossie wil said:

Rich coming from a Walt.....

I had to Google that. Probably should've guessed.

https://rafairman.wordpress.com/2012/08/17/what-a-...

[psymonr]

A 1999 Maserati 3200GT back in 2009, I bought a 2003 Audi S4 instead which was plenty nice, but a Maserati would have been so much cooler looking back on it, and the price was good and I loved the sound of the induction as the turbos drew all the air in, but I was scared it would constantly break down, but now they are so old I'd probably never consider one due to larger concerns of problems and failures, somewhat missed a boat on a pretty special car

[stephen300o]

psymonr said:

A 1999 Maserati 3200GT back in 2009, I bought a 2003 Audi S4 instead which was plenty nice, but a Maserati would have been so much cooler looking back on it, and the price was good and I loved the sound of the induction as the turbos drew all the air in, but I was scared it would constantly break down, but now they are so old I'd probably never consider one due to larger concerns of problems and failures, somewhat missed a boat on a pretty special car

The problems would have been addressed by now on a lot of the problems, just go try one.

[Sway]

Fleckers said:

Matt UK said:

A barn full of Mk2 Ford Escorts when they were going for junker money.

Yep

I can unfortunately beat that.

1998 - I was 16,and working weekends as a bike mechanic in the local bike shop. Old boy used to come in for his bike to be looked over, would generally stay warm in my workshop with a cuppa.

Fast forward a couple of months, and he came in and offered me his immaculate mk1 Escort Mexico for free - he'd bought it new, and used it for a couple of family camping holidays at the time. Still had the plastic shrink wrap on the seats, and less than 10k miles. Yet in all the intervening years he'd maintained it and kept it in perfect nick.

They were worth buttons, but still oh so cool. Begged my parents to register it in their name until I turned 17, but with no off road parking the need to tax and insure it prevented my ownership...

Couple of years later historic rallying took off, and I'd hate to think what it'd be worth now.

Bugger.

[PomBstard]

A couple of years ago I looked at a 1984, one-owner-from-new E30 BMW 323i. FSH, four doors, sunroof, showroom condition, about 100,000km in its then-29 years. Elderly gent needed to move into something easier to drive. I didn't fit into it properly, so decided I didn't want it. Could have had it for about AU$7500 which at the current exchange rate is about GBP3500. Not necessarily a great bargain, yet, but just one of those cars I know I should've bought. They're getting quite hard to find.

Ranks alongside the Mk2 RS2000 for GBP500 I passed over when I was about 19 cos it was a bit boy racer. And the 1984 RS1600i a family friend gave me first refusal on when I was about 20 - he'd had it from new and it was minty fresh. I was a student and was content with my Mk2 Cav...

[robinessex]

Almost on topic. Around 1990, whilst testing Ford tractors on Boreham Airfield, (The ford rally centre in those days), we were given the use of the end of one of the old aircraft hangers. One diner hour, I ventured into the other half. There, neatly stacked in rows, was the entire Ford stock of RS200's, abour 20 cars I guess. Not only cars from mild to wild, there were a dozen or so complete chassis, lots of bodies, engines, gearboxes, suspensions and brakes in crates. Tons of miscellaneous parts and bits. Even the casting patterns for some engine components. I 'was informed' that the whole lot was open to offers !!!