Low Budget Collection

[OlberJ]

Been thinking about this this afternoon, spurned on by another thread about buying a Zonda and having to sell other toys to get it. On a much smaller scale What would you have in your collection?

I'm thinking classics/future classics you could have, keep nice but drive as much as possible. Ignore the insurance and tax, we can work round that at a later date

I'd have :

• Pug 205 GTi in white with a 1.9 Mi16. Looking completely standard but sorted chassis.
• Mk1 Mx5 with a 1UZFE V8. Again, looking pretty standard but with a roll bar and decent suspension/brakes.
• Lotus Elise S1 with a 2GRFE V6. Would be an absolute animal.
• Porsche 911. 3.2 Era with later engine and uprated suspension.
• BMW E30 with a V8. White again.
• MEV Atomic for the track day car.
• Datsun 240Z, i'd keep it a straight 6.
• Honda Integra DC2. Standard in white.
• Merc SL500, 90's job for business meetings.

I reckon i could do all that for £100k easily.

But would you rather have a collection like that, or an MP4-12C/F458 etc?

Can 1 car really be more fun, a better ownership experience than having that little lot to play with?

[barchetta_boy]

One day when I am rich and have the time, I will have a proper car collection... not the Chris Evans type: 12 different exotic Ferraris, how boring is that? Keeping it genuinely affordable, just imagine how much fun you could have, purch price limit of £10k per car... Something like this:

- 1979 Porsche 928 manual, modified (already got ;-) and by the way if you hear the exhaust you will be IMPRESSED, a car that can carry you across continents and spin the wheels in the first 3 gears

- 1980 knackered 2CV / Dyane (try finding one) in yellow - lives round the corner, have mentally already bought it for £1,000. A Q7's exhaust would blow it off course, but this is motoring at its simplest and therefore best

- Beck Porsche 550 Spyder in white with blue spears

- 1980 Renault 5 Gordini Turbo  http://www.r5gordini.co.uk/wiki/Image:HYD_429Y.jpg

Always wanted one ever since I had the mid sized matchbox model of the mid engined one

- 1969 Alfa Romeo GT Junior

Cheap as chips for what it is (you can get a good one for £10k). http://www.alfaholics.com/2011/03/1969-alfa-romeo-... Just look at it.

- 1988 Jaguar XJ-S V12 HE Cabriolet

http://www.classiccarsforsale.co.uk/classic-car-pa...

The laughably named "High Efficiency" engine should perhaps quote a gallons per mile rather than mpg figure, but the real measure would be smiles per gallon. This walnut lined leather cocooned barge has a style and an ambience that Porsche never matched with the 928, nor Benz with the W124 coupe, though both ran rings around it dynamically. Still, who would you rather have dinner with, Rio Ferdinand or a flabby Oliver Reed?

That's about it - ooh, silly me, no Benz. With the £10k limit, an older SL tempts, but I've got the Jag for top-down wafting. The CE, somehow eternally the sweet spot of the M-B line-up, and never bettered in its W123 guise, a car so good that when Benz stopped making it and replaced it with the now-highly-rated W124, German taxi drivers held a mass protest outside the factory (true).

http://www.classiccarsforsale.co.uk/classic-car-pa...

Thoughts?

Joel

[flatline84]

W123`s are lovely, but I think the protests had more to do with electrical issues rather than quality. Correct me if Im wrong. I tried a sorted W123 before buying my W201. It was hewn from granite, but felt very agricultural in comparison, ride quality was nowhere near.

As for my garage..

1984 190E 201 190E 2.3-16
1984 928S 5-speed manual with a custom exhaust
1984 E28 M5

These three and Im sorted

Straight 4, straight 6 and V8? Sorted..

[ewenm]

Far too many cars in that list for me, if I actually want to drive them.

3 cars for < £100k:
Family utility vehicle - a fast estate, say an RS4.
Classic GT - Aston Martin V8 Oscar India.
Track/Blat toy - Caterham 7.

[swifthobo]

I have in my fleet 4 Suzuki swift gti's with the hope they will become collectable doubtful! but I like the brand every Suzuki I have driven has been a pleasure.

As for my collection I am huge jap car fan and as follow's

Dihatsu charade gtti

Datsun 240Z

Suzuki alto works turbo

Suzuki cappuccino

Suzuki jimny

mazda 323 gtr

ooo forgot Old saab 900

I would be a happy man with these.

Edited by swifthobo on Wednesday 14th March 11:16

Edited by swifthobo on Wednesday 14th March 11:20

[PaperCut]

My little 'budget' lot would consist of...

Lancia Thema 8.32

Alfa Romeo GT Junior

BMW M5 E39

Jaguar XKR (old one)

Porsche Boxster (early '97 boggo 2.5)

Mercedes 500E

Saab 900 Turbo

Audi RS4 (2.7T)

Holden HSV


...even with all that i think i'd still get a whole chunk o'change from the list price of a new McLaren!

[lestershaw]

i have
1999 tvr chimaera 500 32,000 miles
2001 boxster 3.2s 73,000 miles
1998 jaguar xjr 73,000 miles
mitsubishi delica 4x4
cost less than £25k for all 4 !
all are great condition and i drive them all regularly :-)
in the last year i have also had
tvr cerbera 4.2
nissan 350z
bmw 850i
subaru impreza sti 555
i try to buy wisely and sell when i get the right offer rather than when i need to , i have a few other cars on my list to try, monaro, maserati 3200, and????

[SirSamuelOfBuca]

Started my budget collection with my r5 gtt. Next is a sierra 2wd cossie. Then hopefully some old escort mk1/2 rally esque build from shell.

[D1bram]

£100k low budget?!?!?!

Could have a great collection for a quarter of that.

Sunny Sundays - S1 Elise - £8k
Even sunnier Sundays - 07 Fireblade - £5k
Daily - E39 M5 - £20k
Classic always-wanted-one-of-those-for-some-unknown-reason - MkV Cortina - £2k

[E55 Max]

ewenm said:

Far too many cars in that list for me, if I actually want to drive them.

3 cars for < £100k:
Family utility vehicle - a fast estate, say an RS4.
Classic GT - Aston Martin V8 Oscar India.
Track/Blat toy - Caterham 7.

So you would hate my garage then

[ewenm]

E55 Max said:

So you would hate my garage then

Not bad, but missing the Caterham (or similar).

My current garage is a cheaper/slower version of my ideal 3 above anyway (Volvo V50, 1967 Mustang, Caterham).

[RobCrezz]

My Current Evo 6, but with forged engine and a modest fast spooling 450bhp.

S1 Elise with Honda K20, n/a tuned to 275bhp.

Some sort of practical Range rover TDv8?

[DanDC5]

DC5 Integra - track toy
FD2 Civic Type R - daily
TVR Tamora - car for nice days


Less than 40k and a car for every use. Don't need more than that personally.

[Andy665]

Only want three cars

Alfa SZ - 25k
Octavia VRs estate - 20k
M6 convertible - 25k

[M3Charlie]

BMW E30 Sport Evo (for nice days)
BMW E36 M3 (currently own and have as a track toy)
BMW E46 M3 CSL ( for my yearly Ring trip)
BMW E92 M3 ( currently own as a dry weather everyday car)

[flatline84]

M3Charlie said:

BMW E30 Sport Evo (for nice days)
BMW E36 M3 (currently own and have as a track toy)
BMW E46 M3 CSL ( for my yearly Ring trip)
BMW E92 M3 ( currently own as a dry weather everyday car)

So you like BMW`s I take it?

[M3Charlie]

Just a bit!!

[flatline84]

suspected as much

[Baked_bean]

flatline84 said:

So you like BMW`s I take it?

I think he likes m3's

[paulmoonraker]

I would have:

Impreza STi (currently own) as the family weekend car. 350 horses mapped and massive grins from my twins as I 'prepare to launch to light speed'.

Porsche Cayman S as the 'take the other half to the pub for lunch' (kids dumped at Nans)...

Mondeo ST Diesel as the work hack.

Noble for the track...

-P