Classic (old, retro) cars for sale £0-5k vol 2

[s m]

spreadsheet monkey said:

CharlesdeGaulle said:

spreadsheet monkey said:

nobrakes said:

Chrishum said:

https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1324105

It’s lucky to even have a passenger door mirror.

Four speed gearbox and bare steel wheels with no wheel trims. For the kind of miserable cheapskate who looked at the 1.3 L and thought "nah, that's too opulent and luxurious for me".

It's easy to forget how acutely price-driven the market used to be. Money was hard to come by. As a lad I remember the awe I held the three letters on the bootlid of my pals dad's car compared to our base snotter.

Agreed. I passed my test in 1994 and my early driving experiences were in late '80s Fiestas and Metros. I can remember rear wash/wipe, front seat headrests, and passenger door mirrors being "luxuries" that weren't offered on the basic Popular or City models.

Sticks. said:

Iirc the basic car was a 1.4 (CVH?) by then, so the 1.3 Popular really was the cheapest version, using the old engine. Amazingly well preserved, so good to see one like that. Would look good in the Haynes museum.

According to Wikipedia you could still get a 1.1 in your Escort in 1989

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Escort_(Europe)...

I think the 1.1 option disappeared in U.K. round 87

Unless there was one languishing around unsold somewhere!

[Derventio]

s m said:

spreadsheet monkey said:

CharlesdeGaulle said:

spreadsheet monkey said:

nobrakes said:

Chrishum said:

https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1324105

It’s lucky to even have a passenger door mirror.

Four speed gearbox and bare steel wheels with no wheel trims. For the kind of miserable cheapskate who looked at the 1.3 L and thought "nah, that's too opulent and luxurious for me".

It's easy to forget how acutely price-driven the market used to be. Money was hard to come by. As a lad I remember the awe I held the three letters on the bootlid of my pals dad's car compared to our base snotter.

Agreed. I passed my test in 1994 and my early driving experiences were in late '80s Fiestas and Metros. I can remember rear wash/wipe, front seat headrests, and passenger door mirrors being "luxuries" that weren't offered on the basic Popular or City models.

Sticks. said:

Iirc the basic car was a 1.4 (CVH?) by then, so the 1.3 Popular really was the cheapest version, using the old engine. Amazingly well preserved, so good to see one like that. Would look good in the Haynes museum.

According to Wikipedia you could still get a 1.1 in your Escort in 1989

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Escort_(Europe)...

I think the 1.1 option disappeared in U.K. round 87

Unless there was one languishing around unsold somewhere!

I was once given a MK3 Escort with a 1.1 CVH in leu of payment on a job. they were quite rare, I believe. It went pretty well for an 1100.

back when i was contract draughtsman I did a job for fella that ended up going Bankrupt before I got paid for my work. The bankruptcy was due to reasons beyond his control and he didn't want me to end up empty handed for the work I had done. So, instead, he gave me the office staff pool car, which was a lovely copper coloured 1100 CVH Escort GL. It was absolutely mint....

Right up until someone ran into the back of it, then the very next day, someone lost control on my street and rammed the little escort up against a wall. Volvo 740 1-Ford escort 0.

[bristolracer]

Leave the Escort alone

The problem for older ordinary model cars is that they get bought and either the shell will get used for rallying or somebody will try to upgrade it to something more desirable.
Try buying a Peugeot 205 right now they all disappear for xs or gti wannabes, the humble plain model doesnt survive.

That Escort isnt the most desirable model, but for many people it was all they could afford or want. Plenty of other cars in the past have been modest in price and performance, the Morris Minor being an example.
The modern equivalent of this Escort is the Dacia, plenty of those sell to people who just want or can afford a no frills A to B car.

[KTMsm]

ch37 said:

Strange comment to make (particuarly in this thread!), the standard models are fast becoming the ones lost to time, the cooking models from pretty much any brand will survive in much bigger numbers.

Also, she's just had it serviced at a main dealer every year and kept the paperwork hardly exceptional!

I'm have no interest in slow / dull cars only fun / interesting ones

Having it "serviced at a main dealer every year and kept the paperwork" IS exceptional for such a car, plus the condition shows she's done far more than that

[Chrishum]

spreadsheet monkey said:

CharlesdeGaulle said:

It's easy to forget how acutely price-driven the market used to be. Money was hard to come by. As a lad I remember the awe I held the three letters on the bootlid of my pals dad's car compared to our base snotter.

Agreed. I passed my test in 1994 and my early driving experiences were in late '80s Fiestas and Metros. I can remember rear wash/wipe, front seat headrests, and passenger door mirrors being "luxuries" that weren't offered on the basic Popular or City models.

I remember in the late 90's when we were running anything we could afford, which usually amounted to the base models with whatever chav tat we could assemble that a typical modification would be to find a set of head rests in the scrappy from a higher spec model (you know the cloth ones) and stuff them between parcel shelf and back seat in an effort to make it look more premium.

Specs of even base cars now are amazing compared to what they were. My £6k Kia has a reversing camera, cruise control and other things that would have made you feel king of the sea front car park in 1998. Can you imagine the stir LED DRLs would have caused in the days of Max Power!

[danp]

Up for £1k - low mileage and owners Clio, manual and 1.4 so should be reasonably nippy and couldn’t see any rot on the MOT history:

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202104020...

[danp]

The (short lived) warm spell seems to have encouraged a few soft tops onto AT locally:

MG TF - £2k, 40k miles, HG done, hard top, new roof, looks tidy with folder of paperwork:

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202104010...



Daihatsu Copen - £3.6k, 30k miles, 3 owners:

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202103290...



And for the discerning PHer:

Nissan Micra - £3k, 8k miles(!), 1.3 auto, 4 owners:

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202103290...



Not sure I’ve seen one of those before, only 7 miles from me if anyone would like the tyres kicked ;-)

[golfer19]

I never knew a Micra convertible existed.

[CharlesdeGaulle]

Me neither. I rather like it! Goes beyond loser back into cool.

[spreadsheet monkey]

danp said:

Up for £1k - low mileage and owners Clio, manual and 1.4 so should be reasonably nippy and couldn’t see any rot on the MOT history:

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202104020...

Good find. Seems cheap in today’s world of inflated prices for low mileage older cars.

[ferrisbueller]

spreadsheet monkey said:

danp said:

Up for £1k - low mileage and owners Clio, manual and 1.4 so should be reasonably nippy and couldn’t see any rot on the MOT history:

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202104020...

Good find. Seems cheap in today’s world of inflated prices for low mileage older cars.

A 25k mile M-reg went on eBay a few weeks ago for about £500. Waiting to see it reappear at a dealer for a multiple of that.

[p4cks]

golfer19 said:

I never knew a Micra convertible existed.

Me neither but everything points to an import; the fairly mundane looking alloy wheels, automatic gearbox and the narrow number plate recess front and rear

I do wonder what it looks like with the roof down

[danp]

p4cks said:

Me neither but everything points to an import; the fairly mundane looking alloy wheels, automatic gearbox and the narrow number plate recess front and rear

I do wonder what it looks like with the roof down

Yes I assumed it must be JDM. Shown at the 1995 Tokyo motor show apparently.

[Macron]

Cheap small dog carrier, 306 petrol estate with sub 100k and new mot. £695.

https://www.gumtree.com/p/peugeot/peugeot-306-esta...

[31mph]

Macron said:

Cheap small dog carrier, 306 petrol estate with sub 100k and new mot. £695.

https://www.gumtree.com/p/peugeot/peugeot-306-esta...

I think the front of the 306 has aged rather well, it's actually quite handsome

[ferrisbueller]

Macron said:

Cheap small dog carrier, 306 petrol estate with sub 100k and new mot. £695.

https://www.gumtree.com/p/peugeot/peugeot-306-esta...

Blimey, looks a great find.

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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Renault-Megane-Classic-...

[Chrishum]

How about a total oddity?



https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/auctions/2000-toyo...

[ferrisbueller]

That's remarkable.

[Captain Smerc]

A proper leftfield motor choice, like it.