Cheapest way to buy a car and park it on the road?

[CloudsAreLovelyAndFluffy]

Hi All,

Please does anyone know the cheapest way to buy a car and park it on the road?

(reason for the question is neighbour is being investigated for stalking and he currently parks a large van in a particular spot which blocks the line of sight - we just need to displace the van somewhere else)

The area is on-street parking so I guess will need mot, tax and insurance unless someone here has any bright ideas? It will also need a vo5 linked to my house (for the resident’s permit)

Thanks

[mmm-five]

Can you get a skip delivered instead?

[jeremyc]

Cheap, more than 40 year old classic?

Won't require MOT or VED, and insurance could be peanuts.

Whether it is a "cheap" option is all relative ...

[larrylamb11]

jeremyc said:

Cheap, more than 40 year old classic?

Won't require MOT or VED, and insurance could be peanuts.

^ this

It wouldn't even have to run or move, only look road-legal and non derelict.

[TikTak]

mmm-five said:

Can you get a skip delivered instead?

This.

Or couple hundred quid for a rubbish trailer with a wheel clamp on it?

[sixor8]

Classics, as you're aware, get expensive unless they are completely shot. Search for restoration projects, an old Jag would be a fair size but only a non-runner will be cheap and you'll need it delivered. Needs working wheels and tyres therefore, so probably still pricey.

A big old 1980 L/Rover maybe like this that went for £710. Probably expensive to transport though!

https://angliacarauctions.co.uk/classic-auctions/2...

[steveo3002]

if its a side road you might get away with a cheap trailer chained to a lump of cement so no one moves it ?

[Hol]

If you really want to go down this route?

Something like a scruffy early Aygo, 106 or C1 will be cheap to buy and insure and is only £20 a year car tax.

Stick a solar battery charger on the top of the dash and it will only need to move occasionally to free the brakes and have an MOT.

[rayny]

Old car on a trailer - This one has hardly moved since 2019, and the trailer had a different car on it back in 2016 :

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.8763101,0.557660...

[NFT]

rayny said:

Old car on a trailer - This one has hardly moved since 2019, and the trailer had a different car on it back in 2016 :

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.8763101,0.557660...

Was going to suggest this, know someone that reserves his parking space with one, was at the end of a dead end and they all parked on an angle, one day his trailer turned up, and hasn't moved since, he drives on and off it and no one had dared to park on it yet.

Came in handy for him over covid too, got to cancel his tax & insurance without a drive, where as everyone else had to keep paying or rent off road space.

P.S.

what rough area is it??

I have a friend that sends his guys out all over UK in old cars to look at bargains, if they like it they buy bargain and leave the old car near sellers, sometimes for a month before it eventually gets picked up, some times by a garage asked if they will jump and move it for another month for fear homeowner gets fed up and burns it out lol

Edited by NFT on Friday 24th November 17:34

[rallycross]

I can hire you a banger with tax mot and insurance and leave it where you want it it £500 for 3 months.

[Rusty Old-Banger]

Just go and pinch half a dozen cones from the local building site and print out a phoney "parking suspended" notice. Might work.

[Hondashark]

rayny said:

Old car on a trailer - This one has hardly moved since 2019, and the trailer had a different car on it back in 2016 :

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.8763101,0.557660...

How has that not been stolen? Its like leaving a brand new iPhone on the park bench.

[NFT]

Hondashark said:

rayny said:

Old car on a trailer - This one has hardly moved since 2019, and the trailer had a different car on it back in 2016 :

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@50.8763101,0.557660...

How has that not been stolen? Its like leaving a brand new iPhone on the park bench.

Indeed, but I do like how the old pictures show a newer and less value car than later years.

[jfdi]

20 tonnes of top soil / mot type 1. Yep drop it just there mate.

[832ark]

CloudsAreLovelyAndFluffy said:

It will also need a vo5 linked to my house

Don’t forget the hot oil

[Simpo Two]

CloudsAreLovelyAndFluffy said:

(reason for the question is neighbour is being investigated for stalking and he currently parks a large van in a particular spot which blocks the line of sight - we just need to displace the van somewhere else)

Stalking the stalker... are we heading to vigilantism?

Just being contrarian

[CloudsAreLovelyAndFluffy]

Simpo Two said:

Stalking the stalker... are we heading to vigilantism?

Just being contrarian

I think crime requires a motive. I don’t wish the stalker any harm I just want to remove a place for him (is it ALWAYS a him?) to hide. Will run it past the investigating officer to be safe.

Thank you for the suggestions I do fancy the idea of a classic car! Not sure what the council rules are for trailers in the resident parking area (and I suspect the Council doesn’t know either!) so I think I’ll give that one a miss - don’t need another legal dispute! :-)

[aka_kerrly]

CloudsAreLovelyAndFluffy said:

Hi All,


(reason for the question is neighbour is being investigated for stalking and he currently parks a large van in a particular spot which blocks the line of sight - [b]we[/] just need to displace the van somewhere else)

Thanks

Who are WE, the nosey neighbour association ?
if a neighbour is being investigated by the police let them do their job.

If you have heard on the grapevine someone might be a stalker and you have set up some kind of surveillance system aimed at them/their property then you'd be treading a rather fine line yourself .

[indigostr]

aka_kerrly said:

Who are WE, the nosey neighbour association ?
if a neighbour is being investigated by the police let them do their job.

If you have heard on the grapevine someone might be a stalker and you have set up some kind of surveillance system aimed at them/their property then you'd be treading a rather fine line yourself .

It reads like the op / family are being stalked by the neighbour.