2000 miles - £500 car
2000 miles - £500 car
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AB

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19,175 posts

215 months

Saturday 7th July 2018
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http://therotarydash.com/

I'm going to do this next May.

Give me some inspiration on choice of car...

I've always wanted an excuse to buy and fix up a cheap MX5 but I'm not sure 2000 miles in one would be so great.

https://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/...

Something like that could be quite cool.


ZX10R NIN

29,762 posts

145 months

Saturday 7th July 2018
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The Mercedes is to easy you're pretty much guaranteed to get there, something like this may be more of a challenge:

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201...

AB

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19,175 posts

215 months

Saturday 7th July 2018
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Love the first Jag. Thing is, I'd definitely want to bring it home!

ZX10R NIN

29,762 posts

145 months

Saturday 7th July 2018
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In reality it will probably do as well as the Mercedes but there's always that nagging doubt.

AB

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19,175 posts

215 months

Sunday 8th July 2018
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ash73 said:
Do they check of you only spent £500? I can imagine a lot of people will buy something for £1K just to save a bit of hassle.
Probably not, and I'm sure they wouldn't check if you spent £1k fixing it up. But then you'd definitely want to drive it back. In which case it's a 'what car' for £1k purchase, £1k of mods/fixes and 4000 miles biggrin

rsbmw

3,466 posts

125 months

Sunday 8th July 2018
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Hmm I quite fancy this event

AB

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19,175 posts

215 months

Sunday 8th July 2018
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rsbmw said:
Hmm I quite fancy this event
It'll be a good one.

Alan16ac

149 posts

169 months

Sunday 8th July 2018
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Not sure about the car, but that's one hell of a drive. Some beautiful places along the way.
Slovenia is especially beautiful imo. I did a drive similar a few weeks back.

Riknos

4,701 posts

224 months

Tuesday 10th July 2018
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circa 9 years ago I did a Barmy to Barcelona banger rally with a £250 budget in a 1995 C180 - car was great and was good fun drifting round the mountains and crashing into them / friends cars, so that gets my vote!