RE: The £10K Caterham: Spotted

[Matt Bird]

IknowJoseph said:

JaseB said:

Crikey, you could have mine for £10k, 200bhp zetec on 45's, 34k miles, loads of history etc etc lovely little car, just surplus to requirements and has nowhere to live soon :-(

Free 911 number plate...

Edited by JaseB on Thursday 7th January 12:48

Oof, if only I had a garage!

Oof, if only I had the money!

[sleeky]

If this was for sale a year ago I would have been very tempted!

[SidewaysSi]

Not another Caterham v Westfield discussion. Some people (myself included) don't want a Westfield. Whilst I have nothing against them, I have little interest in them having read many magazine reviews growing up of the brilliance of Caterhams. It is "the original" in my eyes.

[R8Steve]

JaseB said:

Crikey, you could have mine for £10k, 200bhp zetec on 45's, 34k miles, loads of history etc etc lovely little car, just surplus to requirements and has nowhere to live soon :-(

Free 911 number plate...

Edited by JaseB on Thursday 7th January 12:48

Have sent you a PM

[dibblecorse]

R8Steve said:

JaseB said:

Crikey, you could have mine for £10k, 200bhp zetec on 45's, 34k miles, loads of history etc etc lovely little car, just surplus to requirements and has nowhere to live soon :-(

Free 911 number plate...

Edited by JaseB on Thursday 7th January 12:48

Have sent you a PM

Didn't think that would take long, love these cars.

[coppice]

Great myths of today continued- Caterhams might depreciate slowly but they are not immune from depreciation nor are Sevens under 10k uncommon . Man maths and fellow Seven owners told me my old Seven was worth up to 12 and at least 10. The market told me it was only going to pay 8- for a very tidy and upgraded car.Look and ye shall find - but not from Caterham themselves.

[SidewaysSi]

JaseB said:

Crikey, you could have mine for £10k, 200bhp zetec on 45's, 34k miles, loads of history etc etc lovely little car, just surplus to requirements and has nowhere to live soon :-(

Free 911 number plate...

Edited by JaseB on Thursday 7th January 12:48

P

God that's fking cheap!

[HustleRussell]

coppice said:

Great myths of today continued- Caterhams might depreciate slowly but they are not immune from depreciation

Ahem



(This car, about 16 years ago...)

[battered]

SidewaysSi said:

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God that's **ing cheap!

Zetecs have always been cheap and I don't know why. I think it's because Caterham never offered a factory build Zetec, but it may not be. They remain an unjustified Cinderella IMO and probably a better way to a first 7 than a Vauxhall 1.6. They are very tunable, with loads of tuning parts off the shelf and you can take them as far as any other engine this side of a Duratec.

[SidewaysSi]

battered said:

SidewaysSi said:

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God that's **ing cheap!

Zetecs have always been cheap and I don't know why. I think it's because Caterham never offered a factory build Zetec, but it may not be. They remain an unjustified Cinderella IMO and probably a better way to a first 7 than a Vauxhall 1.6. They are very tunable, with loads of tuning parts off the shelf and you can take them as far as any other engine this side of a Duratec.

Agreed but in the current market I think it's pretty cheap. 200BHP in a Seven for £10k is a bargain. Particularly as it has a LSD and if it is De dion.

I may need to sell all my cars in the coming months including the Seven which will be a heartbreaker as I could see myself being buried in it .

[Hooch747]

I sold a raceline zetec engined car with 200 bhp ap brakes etc for 7500.00 a few years ago. It's all relative I guess.

[bigweb]

JaseB said:

Crikey, you could have mine for £10k, 200bhp zetec on 45's, 34k miles, loads of history etc etc lovely little car, just surplus to requirements and has nowhere to live soon :-(

Free 911 number plate...

Edited by JaseB on Thursday 7th January 12:48

Emailed.

OH is going to murder me......

[scubadude]

bigweb said:

Emailed.

OH is going to murder me......

Ditto

And erm... Ditto :-)

[bigweb]

scubadude said:

Ditto

And erm... Ditto :-)

Looks like anyone who has a decent Caterham for under 10k needs to be in this thread!

[scubadude]

JaseB said:

Crikey, you could have mine for £10k, 200bhp zetec on 45's, 34k miles, loads of history etc etc lovely little car, just surplus to requirements and has nowhere to live soon :-(

Free 911 number plate...

Edited by JaseB on Thursday 7th January 12:48

Update- collected this 7 yesterday, 100 sunny miles home and one very happy Scubadude.

Thanks to JaseB for being a gent to deal with, the car came with a Mountain (I do not use this word lightly) of parts, paperwork, accessories and spares... not to mention 3 spare sets of wheels and tyres! Lastly a fresh MOT and half a tank of petrol- which I greatly enjoyed burning loudly ;-)

It might not be a Caterham "Select Car" as per the 1.6 Vauxhall car in the original article and it has been properly "Used" rather than a garage queen but frankly that's exactly what I wanted.

Now, it just needs to stop raining.

[Krikkit]

Great purchase, can't argue with twin carbs.

[Baryonyx]

suffolk009 said:

The Vauxhall engine makes it easily the most undesirable 7 ever made.

What's wrong with the Vauxhall engine? I'd rather than than some wheezing CVH jobbie that usually gets lobbed in kit cars.

[soad]

Baryonyx said:

What's wrong with the Vauxhall engine? I'd rather than than some wheezing CVH jobbie that usually gets lobbed in kit cars.

The old OHC engine which is prone for its camshaft-wear?

[coppice]

Baryonyx said:

suffolk009 said:

The Vauxhall engine makes it easily the most undesirable 7 ever made.

What's wrong with the Vauxhall engine? I'd rather than than some wheezing CVH jobbie that usually gets lobbed in kit cars.

Always good to see someone seeing the cloud and not the golden lining - the lad's got a Seven so he's happy. And I suspect the Ford side valve and BMC A series were not the best engines either...

[HustleRussell]

soad said:

The old OHC engine which is prone for its camshaft-wear?

I ran one of these for five years and raced it for four years in a club with about 17 other identical racing cars, Many of which had been racing since they were built last millennium; not once did I hear of camshaft wear or of a camshaft being replaced.