Most random car you bought?

[Merry]

Had no real need for it, its quite odd. Had to drive half way across the country to pick it up too.

[B'stard Child]

Mitsubishi FTO V6 with a manual box in dog knob red with 3 days MOT, 1 days tax left and had been abandoned due to running issues for 6 months at least - council were threatening to crush it if it didn't get an MOT and re-taxed

I have no idea why I bought it.

It was a PITA to fix (Alternator issues turned out to be broken loom), the paint work was horrid (faded all over) and I eventually swapped it for a Motorcycle when I'd finished fixing it

Here it is ready to be delivered



And escaping with the swap









Oh I remember why I bought it it was £100....... I should have left it to be crushed

[the pips]

GPZ 900R? Great swap

[B'stard Child]

the pips said:

GPZ 900R? Great swap

Unfortunately not it was a GPz600r (with some issues) - still got it actually but it no longer has issues

It keeps a Gpz1000 RX company

[Angpozzuto]

I got bored whilst waiting for my daughter at a kids birthday party and won an eBay auction for a MK2 MR2, I found it with 3 minutes remaining and bid on it without reading the description. It turned out it had an auto gearbox with a massive 120hp.

But it was enough to get under my skin and was soon replaced with another MR2 with an appropriate amount of power and that was replaced with 2 more mr2s both quicker still.

[jamesbilluk]

I quite wanted a project, so was set on purchasing a Caterham Supersport, in kit form. After some research, I realised I wouldn't have the skill, patience, time, or space, So I decided to buy one ready built instead.

I drove it once (twice including the drive home) and realised it sadly wasn't for me (and the throttle cable got stuck on full) so sold it within a month.

[Neil1323bolts]

Had a few random cars but probably a rover 220 gsi , had it couple of months then got rid , bought a golf vr6 which was better but liked a bit of oil ! , I bought an xr2 of eBay years ago , turned out a rotten old bag of a rust heap . Silly boy 👦

[seawise]

1988 2 owner 25,000 mile Mercedes 190 E from collecting cars auction site because i’d had too much sun and booze one Sunday afternoon during lockdown1. Still got it and love it, oddly.

[Pit Pony]

Mk2 Cavalier CalibrE.

Wife was not impressed. Kids were not impressed.

It broke down the first time we went out in it.

[Olivergt]

A few weeks ago I bought a bright green 2003 Nissan Micra with 189k miles on it for €250 euro.

Has an NCT (MOT) for 3 months.

Not quite sure why, it just looked cool, it's not! It just about runs, broke down on the way home, EML light is on, probably requires a timing chain (I did all the research after I got home).

Anyway, it's budget motoring at it's best it will get nothing spent on it unless it passes it's next NCT in May.

[Pit Pony]

Mk2 Cavalier CDi auto.

Wife would not believe it was free and had 3 months tax and 6 months mot.

Mk2 cavalier Sri.

Wife could not believe I'd paid £40 for a car with a massive dent in the rear door.

[cerb4.5lee]

It was the 520d touring for me. The X5 4.8iS was killing me in fuel costs so I thought that it would be a good idea(it wasn't) to go for something economical. Being an engine man I obviously just couldn't stomach the 20d engine at all. The reality was that I ended up with a car that was sluggish, had an unrewarding engine to use...whilst not actually being all that economical because of the 1700kg weight. A serious own goal on my part for sure.

[Every day a journey]

Gave up reading when I saw this...

'I've always had decent motors VAG mainly'

[greggy50]

I once purchased an Austin 1100 for £120 a decade ago at Uni whilst aged 18 unseen off Facebook.

I ended up breaking it for parts and the 12g295 head went for more than I paid for it!

[Mack42]

Back in the mid nineties I got out of an 635csi high line that I loved into a Peugeot 306 S16 and even on the drive home I was wondering why I had done it. Then in 2014, again on a whim, traded a Range Rover that I had from new into a merc CLK Black Series kept it for a year then back into a Range Rover. I’ve had plenty of performance cars over the years but those two were totally random blips.

[DBSV8]

its dangerous to be at work 4 months in to your rotation .....getting bored and looking at cars on ebay ....

I bought this while in Siberia ...

on the plus side its been a lot of fun ..

[Davie]

I set of one day to buy a 2007 V70 D5 in good order as a comuting tool but on arrival, discovered the guy had a yellow Volvo 850 T-5R that had been sat unused for about a year by his house... so I bought that instead.

Seemed like a great idea at the time.

[underwhelmist]

DBSV8 said:

its dangerous to be at work 4 months in to your rotation .....getting bored and looking at cars on ebay ....

I bought this while in Siberia ...

on the plus side its been a lot of fun ..

Yeah, that's a bit more random than a Skoda! It looks great - what is it, and is there a Reader's Cars thread on it?

[DBSV8]

underwhelmist said:

DBSV8 said:

its dangerous to be at work 4 months in to your rotation .....getting bored and looking at cars on ebay ....

I bought this while in Siberia ...

on the plus side its been a lot of fun ..

Yeah, that's a bit more random than a Skoda! It looks great - what is it, and is there a Reader's Cars thread on it?

its a Lotus 22 formula junior fitted with a kawasaki zx9r engine , road registered , I've had her since 2006 , in the process of stripping the engine down and modifying the exhaust its got a quaiffe diff , allowing you to select reverse gear , weighs around 400 kg , the chap i bought her off also had an atom , and said the lotus was faster than his atom ,

trouble is with me being away , ive really not used her in the last two years

[underwhelmist]

DBSV8 said:

its a Lotus 22 formula junior fitted with a kawasaki zx9r engine...

Just absolutely bloody awesome. Thanks for the info and pics, hope you get more use out of it soon