pre 1980 cars with less than 1.3L

[jack01825]

ok so thinking about getting my first car,
so far i have
beetle
mini
viva
imp
fiesta mk1
anglia

so is there anymore, need one thats no more than 3k

[v8will]

Morris Minor.

[Jez0099]

fiat 126, there epic

[iva cosworth]

Escorts 1 n 2 came with 1100s

Plenty of Japanese small cars sub 1300

Small Italians.....Fiats

Probably none any good ,Fords too expensive ,Japs n Fiats all rusted to oblivion

Unless you stumble upon the "been used to drive to church once a week car" with low miles

owned by old persons

[Hugo a Gogo]

Mk1 Golf/Polo

Chevette, even a Cavalier actually

any number of Peugeot/Renault/Citroens, 204 R5 R4 2CV Visa etc


all manner of then mid-sized cars had 1.3 engines back then, Cortinas, Marinas etc

[vrooom]

Austin metro, Allergo, maxi well they are 1275cc.

[iva cosworth]

vrooom said:

Austin metro, Allergo, maxi well they are 1275cc.

Maxi was a 1500 and a 1750 IIRC not a 1275

[carlingofblack]

Maxi no, 1500 or 1750 in two states of tune...;)

[entwisi]

Herald, spitfire, midget, a40/35/30, Anglia,

[kambites]

I think most cars that held the A-series were available in 1.275 form. The midget certainly was.

My first car was an MGB Roadster and I certainly never regretted it. A Midget would be a great first car.

Something like this: http://pistonheads.com/sales/3827821.htm if you could batter the price down a bit.

Edited by kambites on Friday 27th April 18:39

[sportka1]

had a m8 who put the 1750 engine out of a maxi into a mini before. that dont help the op at all but you could always put a mini engine into a maxi i suppose if you really are looking for the slowest car you can find

[littlebasher]

sportka1 said:

had a m8 who put the 1750 engine out of a maxi into a mini before. that dont help the op at all but you could always put a mini engine into a maxi i suppose if you really are looking for the slowest car you can find

I did that as well, but 10 inch wheels screwed up gearing leaving first redundant (0-5mph!). Couldn't close the bonnet either what with that engine being so tall. And don't even get me started on cooling it!

[jack01825]

cheers guys just got quoted on some of them

beetle- £1200 1.5L
mini- £1800- 998cc
viva- £2040 - 1.2
hillman imp - £1600 - 875cc
fiesta mk1 - £2300 - 998cc
anglia - £2000 - 998cc
morris minor - £1500 - 998cc
fiat 126 - £2400 - 650cc
escort mk1 - £2000
mk1 polo - £1900 950cc
2cv - £2300 - ???cc
visa - £2800- 998 cc
spitfire - £3000 - 1275cc
midget - £1950 - 1275cc

cheers guys keep thinking ideally i have no more than 4k to spend on the lot so thats 2k for the car and 2k on the insurance, i like old cars so thats what i would preffer and newer polo's etc... over 3k insurance.

does this sound ok to you guys???


also i found this but the guy who owns it WILL NOT responf ater the emails, i would snap it up if he accept 2k for it as its 2k insurance and my 17th bday is on january 4th so could change a bit before then but i would still be intrested in buying a car now and going to the meetings with my dad etc,
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&am...

[kambites]

You might find that you're pleasantly surprised by the cost of insurance on a classic through specialist insurers. From memory, I paid about 350 quid to insure my MGB in the first year, when my friends were spending four figures on a Nova.

[Lost soul]

entwisi said:

Herald, spitfire, midget, a40/35/30, Anglia,

A woman in my block of apartments has a Herald convertible she uses as a daily driver

[Orillion]

jack01825 said:

cheers guys just got quoted on some of them


viva- £2040 - 1.2


cheers guys keep thinking ideally i have no more than 4k to spend on the lot so thats 2k for the car and 2k on the insurance, i like old cars so thats what i would preffer and newer polo's etc... over 3k insurance.

does this sound ok to you guys???

My first car was a Viva. Best of luck trying to find one, because mine visibly rusted away as I looked at it. Painfully slow, as well.

[aw51 121565]

jack01825 said:

cheers guys just got quoted on some of them

beetle- £1200 1.5L
mini- £1800- 998cc
viva- £2040 - 1.2
hillman imp - £1600 - 875cc
fiesta mk1 - £2300 - 998cc
anglia - £2000 - 998cc
morris minor - £1500 - 998cc
fiat 126 - £2400 - 650cc
escort mk1 - £2000
mk1 polo - £1900 950cc
2cv - £2300 - ???cc
visa - £2800- 998 cc
spitfire - £3000 - 1275cc
midget - £1950 - 1275cc

cheers guys keep thinking ideally i have no more than 4k to spend on the lot so thats 2k for the car and 2k on the insurance, i like old cars so thats what i would preffer and newer polo's etc... over 3k insurance.

does this sound ok to you guys???


also i found this but the guy who owns it WILL NOT responf ater the emails, i would snap it up if he accept 2k for it as its 2k insurance and my 17th bday is on january 4th so could change a bit before then but i would still be intrested in buying a car now and going to the meetings with my dad etc,
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&am...

Visa's engine will probably be 1124cc, maybe 954c but I don't really recall them . But they definitely did the Visa Club, which had the 652cc engine from the 2CV - a slow but quite economical car indeed, and as rare as a pound of rocking horse poo I suspect .

You could also try the Peugeot 104, which had the same 1124cc engine as the Visa as well as a little 954cc plus 1360cc 'performance' ones as well (70bhp, anyway). You could try an early 205, pre-88 they had the same engines as the 104. As did the Talbot Samba.

Or there's the Renault 5, from 956cc from memory. Or the Renault 4 which I seem to recall had a 850 at some point but most had the same 956cc engine? (Will have to get me old Motor Road Test Annuals out to check these, though, as I'm a Peugeot fan rather than Renault ).

Talking rare stuff now though ; they rarely appear at car shows any more...

[Agrispeed]

jack01825 said:

cheers guys just got quoted on some of them


spitfire - £3000 - 1275cc

Mine, 1296cc and cost £2,600, with minimal rust and a few everyday mods

cheap insurance, about 1/3 less than my mums fiat, at £85 a month, try and shop around for more specialist insurance. (you will need a garage though, or it will turn into a rusty heap in 20 mins)

[jack01825]

cheers guys, i will try specialist inusrers nearer the time, the only yhing is we cannot have a garage we applied planning permission for one but got declined byt 3 people, my dad has his escort in a marquee in the front buy i doubt we will get away with anither so would car covers do?

so you guys reckon in my first year driving with no no clamis i can get insurance for under 1k?

[newoldfart]

vrooom said:

Austin metro, Allergo, maxi well they are 1275cc.

The maxi was never 1300.It started as a 1500 then became a 1750.
The 1500s also had an awful and unreliable cable gearchange.