A car a month for 2020. Idiocy but you love it.

A car a month for 2020. Idiocy but you love it.

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Toaster Pilot

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14,615 posts

157 months

Wednesday 1st January 2020
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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. 

samj2014

552 posts

111 months

Wednesday 1st January 2020
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I'll be watching this one!

Roboticarm

1,450 posts

60 months

Wednesday 1st January 2020
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Sounds like a fun plan to me

G111MDS

316 posts

90 months

Wednesday 1st January 2020
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Great idea! I normally buy at least one car each year. This sounds like a great challenge for 2020 though. Will be following with interest smile

RC1807

12,483 posts

167 months

Wednesday 1st January 2020
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Expect 4 cars on your drive together before May!

DamnKraut

456 posts

98 months

Wednesday 1st January 2020
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OP, do you also have a daytime job you’ll follow while fixing up your monthly shed? Or is it all part of a 1 year sabbatical? wink

Northbrook

1,429 posts

62 months

Wednesday 1st January 2020
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I'm in.

Will it be the same £500ish budget for the year - buy, drive, sell, buy...?

magpie215

4,370 posts

188 months

Wednesday 1st January 2020
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This could be interesting...... :-)

BigMon

4,155 posts

128 months

Wednesday 1st January 2020
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Bookmarked!

MikeM6

4,985 posts

101 months

Wednesday 1st January 2020
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Like it, is the YouTube channel up and running already and if so is there a link you could post?

LukeyP_

400 posts

53 months

Wednesday 1st January 2020
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Bookmarked

mrtwisty

3,057 posts

164 months

Wednesday 1st January 2020
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Ridiculous. Idiotic idea. You're mad.

I love it.

What's your YouTube handle?

ETA - roughly whereabouts in the country are you? Just so we can, erm, 'help' finding the cars ;-)

SAS Tom

3,398 posts

173 months

Wednesday 1st January 2020
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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.

RammyMP

6,729 posts

152 months

Wednesday 1st January 2020
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A chap that I work with is doing something similar, he’s started with an old mini, I feel it may ruin him!

tecplumbing

96 posts

102 months

Wednesday 1st January 2020
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you can have my xtrail for 500 quid. needs a diff rebuild tho👌

Teddy Lop

8,294 posts

66 months

Wednesday 1st January 2020
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Yeah best wishes for your mental health selling that many budget cars in todays world, I very nearly told the one and only interested asshole that took the mrs e46 to take his silly games and do one, just on principle, knowing I'd get less than half on wbac.

stewjohnst

2,442 posts

160 months

Wednesday 1st January 2020
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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 biggrin

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.

wjb

5,100 posts

130 months

Wednesday 1st January 2020
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This should be fun.

imperium

390 posts

83 months

Wednesday 1st January 2020
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Bookmarked and good luck smile

anonymous-user

53 months

Wednesday 1st January 2020
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Hate to be Mr Sensible here, but what about insurance? Do companies not get a bit uppity about chopping and changing, a la hiding as a trader?


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