What classic would you buy for £20k?

[AceOfHearts]

So over the next few months I have some soul searching to do. I have a bit of extra money coming in and am debating between upgrading my Chimaera or selling up and putting the money towards a different car. Im not interested in moderns and was wondering what you would do with a theoretical £20k (ish) to spend on a car?

No real criteria tbh, i like British cars but nothing is a deal breaker. An e-type or Interceptor would be the dream but obviously out of budget

What would tempt you away from TVR?

[AceOfHearts]

Cheers for the ideas guys, i have done the XJS thing recently as a daily but I dont think it really had the 'special' factor as a toy car. I do keep looking at DB7's but I dont know if it would be too much like the XJS (probably giving them a massive disservice) and the Ford switchgear is a real turn off even though I know thats really petty.

And yes the TVR does tick pretty much all boxes but there is a small amount of fancying a change (be it new car or building a monster engine for the TVR which I had been planning on for a while) but i still have this niggling feeling that I will be spending all of this money on a £10k TVR that I would never see back if i get to this same dilemma in 2 years time.

Mk2 Jag is definitely a good shout. And there is a £15k Interceptor just down the road from me on carandclassic but no doubt it would be a moneypit

[AceOfHearts]

crostonian said:

Plenty of classic cars I would buy at this budget but the majority are Italian or German.

Would a Griffith 500 be too close to the Chimaera?

XJ-S Convertibles and Merc SLs do the wafting thing well if that's what you want, what about a Mustang of some sort or some other Yank V8?

Griff 500 is a bit close i think, id rather upgrade the engine in my otherwise well sorted Chim. Yank V8's are a good shout but tbh I don't know much about them and dont think are really my style

Edited by AceOfHearts on Thursday 5th November 17:24

[AceOfHearts]

Wow some great suggestions, had not thought much about Alfa or Lancia but those are lovely.

Lowdrag - The TVR has been amazingly reliable over the 25,000 miles I have done in it and has never needed recovery, but I don't think I could sell it for that Mercedes to be honest.

[AceOfHearts]

Vanin said:

In case you did not open it, this ticks all the boxes.

E Type £19,114 Manual Air con. Matching numbers V12 Taxfree Colour not bad for a V12.

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C676522


Take a holiday in LA, break down and meet new people. Think of all those pretty girls who will stop to see if they can help!

That is definitely worth a thought. I wonder what import charges would be like though?

I understand the Mercedes if probably a great car but really does nothing for me unfortunately

[AceOfHearts]

V8 Fettler said:

Keep the TVR and buy another TVR.

How much can you pick up Vixens for now?

[AceOfHearts]

Ooof

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1958-TVR-Grantura-MK-I-/...

[AceOfHearts]

Thanks for all the replies guys, I have done some soul searching and I to be honest I think I would regret getting rid of the TVR as it is such a good all rounder and we have a lot of memories (I bought it 6 years ago during my apprenticeship), so over the course of this winter I am going to get some bits tidied up and look at getting some more power out of her, and then get a cheaper classic with the rest (maybe another Morris Minor or an Austin 7) so that I can scratch the itch and me and the misses can have something a bit different in the summer.

I think I will need to rent another garage