A car a month for 2020. Idiocy but you love it.
Discussion
I don’t really believe in New Year’s Resolutions but I’ve decided I am going to set myself a challenge for 2020 - I am going to buy, fix as required, use and sell/swap/otherwise dispose of a car every month. Twelve cars in twelve months. I know it’s been done before but this is my attempt.
The goal isn’t about making profit from each car (although it’d be nice) but to drive some stuff I haven’t had before and also to finally make some real effort in making YouTube content. Hoping that buying generally working stuff will mean I can churn out videos without the delay of having to replace head gaskets and other major repairs that the shoddier part of my current fleet requires
A few ground rules:
£500 max purchase price per car.
Road legal, preferably with a few months MOT. Having to test cars will make the schedule even tighter.
Only terminally broken cars will be scrapped if they absolutely must be - weighing in working stuff just to move on to the next one isn’t acceptable.
No age/type/etc restrictions. I don’t care how retro or interesting or whatever your ego thinks it is.
January’s entrant is already lined up. Keep your eyes peeled.
The goal isn’t about making profit from each car (although it’d be nice) but to drive some stuff I haven’t had before and also to finally make some real effort in making YouTube content. Hoping that buying generally working stuff will mean I can churn out videos without the delay of having to replace head gaskets and other major repairs that the shoddier part of my current fleet requires
A few ground rules:
£500 max purchase price per car.
Road legal, preferably with a few months MOT. Having to test cars will make the schedule even tighter.
Only terminally broken cars will be scrapped if they absolutely must be - weighing in working stuff just to move on to the next one isn’t acceptable.
No age/type/etc restrictions. I don’t care how retro or interesting or whatever your ego thinks it is.
January’s entrant is already lined up. Keep your eyes peeled.
SAS Tom said:
I recently tried to buy a car for £500 and they were all scrappers or just boring. It’ll be interesting to see how you get on.
It’s entirely possible to find interesting cars that are not scrappers if you know what you’re doing or where to look and are also lucky/persistent/optimistic, sure there are some nails out there but it can be done to run these short time frames.It’s also worth noting that most things I’ve spent that sort of purchase money on have needed a bit of work, new brakes, a battery, driving around a slightly fked gearbox,etc. But if part of the fun for you is Haynes 1-3 spanner tinkering, then its a fine way to spend some money
At this end of the market, I’ve mooched around in an old 9-3, a 2.3T saab 9-5, a VR6 Sharan (that was a scrapper by the end) a 2.5V6 Mondeo (I only used it for a 1000 miles family trip round Cumbria then flogged it on) Alfa 147’s, and a 2.5Turbo v70 I paid £500 for.
We’re not taking McLaren F1 levels of interesting but if diversity tickles you, in terms of engines and driving experiences, it’s a totally realistic adventure.
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