Stag do "what car" - not the usual challenge

[Turbocharger]

My stag do will be a tour of the WW1 battlefields in Belgium and France - we're taking six cars and I was going to take my Jag XKR until an 'interface with the scenery' moment increased the rarity of the remaining cars.

Now I need another car to make the trip. It must be reasonably quick, quite silly, have at least two seats and available for £2k in the next six weeks. Silliness takes precedence over 'reasonably quick' though, open-top motoring would be nice. It must must MUST be able to do 1000 miles without breaking down, but that doesn't rule out much. I'd probably run it through the summer if it was properly fun too.

Classics are an option - my backup alternative is my soft-top LandRover. I don't particularly like German cars, and I'm not a big fan of Jap dashboards but I could suffer it for a weekend. I'd be happy to rent a car rather than buy if it was sufficiently silly/grinworthy though.

What haven't I thought of?

[iva cosworth]

I will put forward TR7 before 300BHP does

only it wont do 100 let alone 1000 miles without breaking and its not much fun either

[Marlin45]

Hey Turbo. From LRE/LR4x4? (Cartman on there....)

I was just about to say a soft-top LR (pref Series 2 vintage) before I read quick and not breakdown for 1k miles LOL. Though I doubt you could find one of that vintage in good con for that amount of cash. Your later model would be ideal with that tweaked turbo.

Paul

Edited by Marlin45 on Wednesday 18th May 20:54

[slipstream 1985]

mr2 tbar, probably get a turbo for that money though likly to be a slightly dodgy handling rev 1

[richie barry]

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2802580.htm
caddy shed to the max

[Turbocharger]

Nothing that grabs my attention so far (though the Caddy is LHD which would add a token practicality to its silliness ) so my ragtop Ninety is still a strong choice. What MX5s can I buy for £2k? The Jag was nice too, maybe an XJR would fall into double-shed budget.

Hi Paul - you can't go anywhere without other Landy drivers waving to each other...

[Taz666]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CARBODIES-London-Taxi-Black-...

[richie barry]

check this
out
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2011...

v12 bmw THAT would be fun

[edo]

Cant believe MX5 hasnt been mentioned.

[richie barry]

edo said:

Cant believe MX5 hasnt been mentioned.

can there be a topic when some one dosent talk about a fking mx5

[Marlin45]

richie barry said:

can there be a topic when some one dosent talk about a fking mx5

Gay doggin' ?

[edo]

richie barry said:

edo said:

Cant believe MX5 hasnt been mentioned.

can there be a topic when some one dosent talk about a fking mx5

Keep ya hair on Barry!

He wants a fun, plentifully available convertible car for £2k that can do 1000 miles without breaking down - it's an obvious choice I'm afraid!

[Evo]

You can thank me later, but you can't beat a JAAAG XJS V12 Convertible for less than 2 sheds (don't quote me on the reliability though

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/sales/2661433.htm

My other left fieldchoice, how about a 1990 Mazda RX7 Turbo2 convertible

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/sales/2782054.htm

Edited by Evo on Wednesday 18th May 21:05

Edited by Evo on Wednesday 18th May 21:11

[richie barry]

edo said:

richie barry said:

edo said:

Cant believe MX5 hasnt been mentioned.

can there be a topic when some one dosent talk about a fking mx5

Keep ya hair on Barry!

He wants a fun, plentifully available convertible car for £2k that can do 1000 miles without breaking down - it's an obvious choice I'm afraid!

but but but he said he wanted something a little silly thats why i put on the caddy and bmeer.
And a mx5 is not very silly really and not a laugh fun but not a laugh and im bloody sick of hearing about mx5s

[Turbocharger]

That Caddy does look entertaining actually. Would I want it on my drive afterwards though? It wouldn't be easy to flog on.

[richie barry]

Turbocharger said:

That Caddy does look entertaining actually. Would I want it on my drive afterwards though? It wouldn't be easy to flog on.

the caddys only like 1200 you could have a great laugh in it and you might want to drive it after as it is a real eye turner and floging is easy if you find the right person also it make the 1000 miles as it is american and thats just a trip to the shops for them... :P

[clarkmagpie]

300ZX twin turbo
T-tops so wind in your hair stuff.