Track day car what to get
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At 17 you probably have loads of time on your hands and may get some kind of satisfaction out of doing stuff yourself. Whatever you get will probably end up in a tyre wall at some point so I would probably be looking for a slightly tatty (ideally vandalised) car for peanuts that you can spray can green if you fancy.
Obviously something straight, mechanically sound and not rotted to bits is important, shiny paint is not.
Keep your eyes out on ebay and be flexible on what you get.
to be fair, even something like a citroen zx 16v may be ok if you take all the weight out of it & lower it a touch - I think in normal condition they are probably about the £500 mark.
Obviously something straight, mechanically sound and not rotted to bits is important, shiny paint is not.
Keep your eyes out on ebay and be flexible on what you get.
to be fair, even something like a citroen zx 16v may be ok if you take all the weight out of it & lower it a touch - I think in normal condition they are probably about the £500 mark.
agree with the other poster, its highly likely that it will end up backwards in a tyre wall, this isnt me being a miserable arse, its me having once been 17, grown up around motorsport and being convinved i was gilles villeneuve....
... so that all said, get a 205 GTI or a Golf GTI, strip it, spend some time building it into a cheap but effective car and really enjoy humbling more expensive machines. i am building a 205 gti with a budget of £1K just to see how much fun you can have for £1K and i dont think that spending another ten grand will make it ten times more fun. insure through your father, through a reputable company like adrian flux but get yourself as a named driver, and have some fun. the very last thing you want to do is take a car onto a track and then bend it so anything expensive is out of the question... why waste money on the car when you can be spending that cash on trackdays?
... so that all said, get a 205 GTI or a Golf GTI, strip it, spend some time building it into a cheap but effective car and really enjoy humbling more expensive machines. i am building a 205 gti with a budget of £1K just to see how much fun you can have for £1K and i dont think that spending another ten grand will make it ten times more fun. insure through your father, through a reputable company like adrian flux but get yourself as a named driver, and have some fun. the very last thing you want to do is take a car onto a track and then bend it so anything expensive is out of the question... why waste money on the car when you can be spending that cash on trackdays?
I did a trackday last year and 4 lads turned up with a 1.5 diesel nova they'd bought for £200. £200 for the trackday meant £100 each for the day and that poor nova was thrashed around the circuit all day, only stopping when it overheated. They even drove it home ok at the end.
So, really - anything will do to have fun in, although I'd go with RWD. In the cheap stakes you can now pick up early MX-5's/Eunos 1.8's for a little over £1K, parts are easily available and cheap.
So, really - anything will do to have fun in, although I'd go with RWD. In the cheap stakes you can now pick up early MX-5's/Eunos 1.8's for a little over £1K, parts are easily available and cheap.
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