What £5k special classic
Discussion
Hi All,
Future house purchase means, I will have space for another car.....don't tell Mrs Ice !! she will kill me! LOL!
So current stock:
Mk1 Golf GTI - sportline cabrio]
Mk2 Golf GTI - Big bumper model
Porsche 996 Turbo S
Mercedes E320 CDI AG auto - Estate - my everyday workhorse
Mercedes C200 CDI Elegance auto - Mrs Ice's car
So if I had £5k to spend on adding to the collection, as a special car, what would you have? I don't want something that will depreciate massively though!!
My thoughts so far:
Mercedes R129 SL, preferably 500 V8
Some sort of Ford - Cortina/Capri/Escort? - might be too expensive?
Mercedes coupe of some-sort?
Jag ? XJ/XJS ??
Lotus Elan from the 90's
I want it to be special enough, not sure the Ford's fit that bill?
Open to suggestions.
IceBoy
Future house purchase means, I will have space for another car.....don't tell Mrs Ice !! she will kill me! LOL!
So current stock:
Mk1 Golf GTI - sportline cabrio]
Mk2 Golf GTI - Big bumper model
Porsche 996 Turbo S
Mercedes E320 CDI AG auto - Estate - my everyday workhorse
Mercedes C200 CDI Elegance auto - Mrs Ice's car
So if I had £5k to spend on adding to the collection, as a special car, what would you have? I don't want something that will depreciate massively though!!
My thoughts so far:
Mercedes R129 SL, preferably 500 V8
Some sort of Ford - Cortina/Capri/Escort? - might be too expensive?
Mercedes coupe of some-sort?
Jag ? XJ/XJS ??
Lotus Elan from the 90's
I want it to be special enough, not sure the Ford's fit that bill?
Open to suggestions.
IceBoy
Oooohh lovely - in exactly the same predicament, so will keep a keen eye on the suggestions. :-)
My thinking:
Early BMW 6 series
VW Beetle (re-living my teens)
TVR S2 (first car i ever owned, terrible but i loved it!)
keep and eye on whats going through Barons if you're in the area - often stuff in the price bracket
http://www.barons-auctions.com/entry.php?pageid=93...
good luck!
My thinking:
Early BMW 6 series
VW Beetle (re-living my teens)
TVR S2 (first car i ever owned, terrible but i loved it!)
keep and eye on whats going through Barons if you're in the area - often stuff in the price bracket
http://www.barons-auctions.com/entry.php?pageid=93...
good luck!
IceBoy said:
Thanks BERGS2, I'm open to anything really but it has to be a head turner/special or just different.
IceBoy
you sent me on a 'wikitunnel' of looking for £5k motors..... ;-)IceBoy
these
Are ageing very nicely IMHO - i had one about ten years ago - drove it to the south of france and back - rather agricultural, but was approached often by people wondering what it was.
IIRC, there were only about 2000 made - a very community like forum on here (well, at least it was a few years back!)
I was in a similar predicament recently. My shortlist was:
TVR wedge (rejected for now as too similar to my '86 Esprit, although it was also hard to find cosmetically tidy ones)
Reliant Scimitar (simple, classy: could only find projects when I was looking, but I will take the plunge one day...)
Fiat X1/9 (had two in my youth: great fun when sorted. £3k bought a good one 2 years ago, but look pricey now IMO)
80's 6 Series (don't know my Beemer E-numbers.....saw a few at dealers, all at p!ss-take prices, lost patience)
Porsche 944 or 928 (plentiful, but 928 prices ridiculous especially after being puffed up in classic mags)
Finally settled on a Porsche 944, 8v oval dash car...around £4k for what is a very solid car: took some finding though. Not as grunty as the S2 I owned about 15 years ago, in fact with only 165 horses (when new) you have to keep your foot in, but the balance is lovely and properly retro fun. Should be due to appreciate too, if movement in Turbo prices is anything to go by.
TVR wedge (rejected for now as too similar to my '86 Esprit, although it was also hard to find cosmetically tidy ones)
Reliant Scimitar (simple, classy: could only find projects when I was looking, but I will take the plunge one day...)
Fiat X1/9 (had two in my youth: great fun when sorted. £3k bought a good one 2 years ago, but look pricey now IMO)
80's 6 Series (don't know my Beemer E-numbers.....saw a few at dealers, all at p!ss-take prices, lost patience)
Porsche 944 or 928 (plentiful, but 928 prices ridiculous especially after being puffed up in classic mags)
Finally settled on a Porsche 944, 8v oval dash car...around £4k for what is a very solid car: took some finding though. Not as grunty as the S2 I owned about 15 years ago, in fact with only 165 horses (when new) you have to keep your foot in, but the balance is lovely and properly retro fun. Should be due to appreciate too, if movement in Turbo prices is anything to go by.
In fact, since this is my favourite game and there's nothing on TV...
Scimitar:
http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C603204
Saab 900 Turbo:
http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C259479
BMW 525e: my mate got one last year: lovely bit of kit, wafting to Le Mans with Flock of Seagulls on the Blaupunkt:
http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C558352
Scimitar:
http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C603204
Saab 900 Turbo:
http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C259479
BMW 525e: my mate got one last year: lovely bit of kit, wafting to Le Mans with Flock of Seagulls on the Blaupunkt:
http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C558352
Perfect choices, how did I forget those? Series III on pepperpot alloys would be cool-as.
O/T, Spotted a very tired CX turbo parked kerbside in Lyons recently, commented to the wife that it had probably been there a while. Checked out the street on Google Earth and there it was, captured four years earlier... What a waste.
O/T, Spotted a very tired CX turbo parked kerbside in Lyons recently, commented to the wife that it had probably been there a while. Checked out the street on Google Earth and there it was, captured four years earlier... What a waste.
John_S4x4 said:
That is pretty awesome!Porsche 924S, a Le Mans edition if possible would be my suggestion. These are great to drive, had a proper Porsche engine and £5k will buy a minter. The world is starting to wake up to just how good these are/were for their era without the silly stigma attachment. Or a 944S or S2 are both worth consideration.
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IceBoy said:
Hi All,
Future house purchase means, I will have space for another car.....don't tell Mrs Ice !! she will kill me! LOL!
So current stock:
Mk1 Golf GTI - sportline cabrio]
Mk2 Golf GTI - Big bumper model
Porsche 996 Turbo S
Mercedes E320 CDI AG auto - Estate - my everyday workhorse
Mercedes C200 CDI Elegance auto - Mrs Ice's car
So if I had £5k to spend on adding to the collection, as a special car, what would you have? I don't want something that will depreciate massively though!!
My thoughts so far:
Mercedes R129 SL, preferably 500 V8
Some sort of Ford - Cortina/Capri/Escort? - might be too expensive?
Mercedes coupe of some-sort?
Jag ? XJ/XJS ??
Lotus Elan from the 90's
I want it to be special enough, not sure the Ford's fit that bill?
Open to suggestions.
IceBoy
If you're going for the Jag XJS, then try find a TWR manual 3.6 version 275 Bhp, so nearly as powerful as the 5.3 V12, but with an engine half the weight, so much more drivable. They certainly won't depreciate any further, in fact they're appreciating in value again.Future house purchase means, I will have space for another car.....don't tell Mrs Ice !! she will kill me! LOL!
So current stock:
Mk1 Golf GTI - sportline cabrio]
Mk2 Golf GTI - Big bumper model
Porsche 996 Turbo S
Mercedes E320 CDI AG auto - Estate - my everyday workhorse
Mercedes C200 CDI Elegance auto - Mrs Ice's car
So if I had £5k to spend on adding to the collection, as a special car, what would you have? I don't want something that will depreciate massively though!!
My thoughts so far:
Mercedes R129 SL, preferably 500 V8
Some sort of Ford - Cortina/Capri/Escort? - might be too expensive?
Mercedes coupe of some-sort?
Jag ? XJ/XJS ??
Lotus Elan from the 90's
I want it to be special enough, not sure the Ford's fit that bill?
Open to suggestions.
IceBoy
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