Ex Academy or Roadsport? Help

[dj1online]

Hi
I am looking to buy my first caterham and have a budget of 12.5k. The car will be for road use only.

I have been keeping an eye on piston heads, carandclassic and classiccarsforsale for a couple of weeks and am now in a position to buy. I am aware know two caterhams are the same which makes this process a bit of a challenge. As it is my first one and being realistic I have been looking at both roadsport and ex academy cars

So the question is .... Do I go with a slightly older roadsport or a newer ex academy car? The academy cars vary and I would be looking for one that someone had done a few bits to making it more suited to road use?

I would also be interested what people thought to how the residule values would compare when i come to sell either type car in a year or two?

Edited by dj1online on Thursday 16th April 08:44

[dj1online]

I have been looking for something very similar to the spec (listed above by Bert) with the exception of supersport upgrade, LSD and 6 speed. 6 speed cars are generally rare and outside my budget.

I am quite flexible and not discounting cars for not having a heater for example.

Each day I have been checking all the websites frequently and suitable cars are few and far between. It doesnt help when Caterham buy cars off pistonheads then put it up for nearly 3k more!

Edited by dj1online on Thursday 16th April 16:18

[dj1online]

Yes have seen it and emailed the owner a few times with questiosn etc. I know its an ex acad with expensive upgrades but not sure whether its worth the asking price?

[dj1online]

Bert the blue one was the one (i mentioned earlier) that has now appeared with caterham at over 15k!