What spare car do you have?
What spare car do you have?
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gazzab

Original Poster:

21,627 posts

311 months

Saturday 23rd April 2005
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I am (accidentally) collecting cars and might soon have P1, Merc, BMW and Cerb! So going to lose the P1 and BMW. So will then want a 3rd car. Any suggestions for a cerb partner!? Needs to be cheap to run, fun, safeish, every day car etc.... Can I really do a mini (with TLC etc then no running costs to speak of) or will I die of cuteness?

redleicester

6,869 posts

274 months

Saturday 23rd April 2005
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I have a..... wait a minute..... it was there a second ago...... nope. Fastest cake in the west - scone!

Nice line up old chap, but some of us have to just make do with a lonely boring old Cerb.

vinny73

221 posts

258 months

Saturday 23rd April 2005
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I got an immacluate Frontera 3.2v6 for sale, T/99 (facelift), 60k, fully loaded..... ;-)
Been very reliable. Its very safe, and surprisingly no slouch. Cheap'ish too.....
I just got to fix a prob with the handbrake cable for an MOT, then it will be in trader.

Extra 300 Driver

5,282 posts

275 months

Saturday 23rd April 2005
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MG ZT or 75 V6, now they're cheap!

nervous

24,050 posts

259 months

Saturday 23rd April 2005
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want to sell the p1 to me? id be interested in having another ridiculous car for the nervous ridiculous car fleet. mail me if you wanna chat about it

>> Edited by nervous on Saturday 23 April 13:59

gazzab

Original Poster:

21,627 posts

311 months

Saturday 23rd April 2005
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Nerv - it is advertised in the for sale Subaru section! Cheapest P1 ever (seriously). I cant be bothered with hanging around for highest price and negotiating over the odd stone chip or wheel scrape!

andy4200

5,125 posts

302 months

Saturday 23rd April 2005
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I started off with just a cerb and went about a year like that. Then I upgraded to cerb and girlfriends Punto (maybe that should be downgraded).
After a while I got my bike licence and added a CBR6 to the collection. Then we decided the repairs were worth more than the Punto so upgraded that to a Focus. Finally, for now, I've traded the CBR6 for a Sprint ST1050.
However, I'll be changing again sometime soon to bring in a 7 type blat/track car and maybe go looking for something like an E30 M3 to keep it company.

davidn

1,028 posts

288 months

Saturday 23rd April 2005
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S-Type, for the real Arfur Daley experience.
Anyone seen Terry?

julesy

65 posts

276 months

Wednesday 27th April 2005
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I run a 1.2 Clio for most of the commuting during the week - interesting contrast in terms of power when I take the Cerb to work. All those w*nkrs in 3 series who push me out of the outside lane in the Renault get a rude awakening...!

grahamn

1,777 posts

263 months

Wednesday 27th April 2005
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Sorry to have to admit this but,,,,I have a diesel mundaneo.

It is a Ghia X though

morebeanz

3,283 posts

265 months

Wednesday 27th April 2005
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Hey Julesy,

Don't forget, some of those 3 series drivers have Cerbs at home too!


Of course, I don't push anyone out of the way though...

david smith

716 posts

277 months

Wednesday 27th April 2005
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98 mini cooper - starters gone doolally so using cerb - so have a mini with a cerb as the spare

just worried I now have 2 cars that dont start all the time under thier own power!

DAS

beemer

378 posts

287 months

Wednesday 27th April 2005
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gazzab said:
I am (accidentally) collecting cars and might soon have P1, Merc, BMW and Cerb! So going to lose the P1 and BMW. So will then want a 3rd car. Any suggestions for a cerb partner!? Needs to be cheap to run, fun, safeish, every day car etc.... Can I really do a mini (with TLC etc then no running costs to speak of) or will I die of cuteness?


Gary, a few years ago I swapped my old 2002 tii with the sub-editor of Classic & Sports Cars' Mk 2 Golf GTi. It was a great car, practical, cost virtually nothing to run and sold it 2 years later for only a grand less than we "paid" for it.

Classic car insurance too. Find an unmolested one (there's the tricky bit, but 5 door white ones like ours are a good bet!), and you're laughing!

cheers
sean

kingstonking

36 posts

269 months

Wednesday 27th April 2005
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Audi A2 SE Sport for around London - perfect.

tvr-fan

237 posts

258 months

Wednesday 27th April 2005
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Toyota MR2 very reliable nothing ever spent on it in 3 years of ownership, regularly tear it apart on the roads and it just keeps going!!! 45,000 miles so far in my posession.

xsnowman

99 posts

264 months

Thursday 28th April 2005
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golf 1.8 driver, got the Mrs a Vauxhall Tigra (very hair dresser!) and in the process of getting my bike license with an eye on a Suzuki Bandit 600 to start with.

K1 Cerb

579 posts

287 months

Friday 29th April 2005
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Me? a Saab 95 V6 Estate - goes like stink in a straight line - with all the niceties such as Wood/Leather/AC...it dosen't 'do' corners though ...perhaps I need to sort that out!

K1 CERB

martyn-s1

66 posts

277 months

Saturday 30th April 2005
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Pajero for the family + dog
TVR S1 for me when the suns out, after all a man has to be careful what convertible he drives if not in the hairstyling business

olly

2,174 posts

313 months

Monday 2nd May 2005
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Cerbera
Mk1 Golf GTi x 3 (only 1 on the road)
BMW 7 series


Just about got all angles covered !

simonsparrow

1,599 posts

291 months

Monday 2nd May 2005
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1970 Rover P5B with 5 litre Rover V8 and manual gearbox. Although its in New Zealand, and I'm here....