A Friday morning what car type pondering ...

[XJSJohn]

so criteria ...

• 5 cars
• must be first registered before 1980
• GBP50k total budget (or thereabouts)
• Must have some current T&T (i.e. no barn finds)

What would you lot be looking at?

there is a reasoning behind this, will expand a bit later, curious to see what comes up first before adding more to this!

[Garlick]

On a Thursday, how novel.

[fatboy69]

It's Thursday today...................

[Garlick]

Hang on, he's in Singapore.....

[Vitorio]

Garlick said:

Hang on, he's in Singapore.....

Still thursday in singapore right now i reckon. 17H according to the almighty google.

[Garlick]

Ah, well I tried.

[sleep envy]

It's not even Friday in NZ yet!!

it's still Wednesday in Hawaii

[Garlick]

sleep envy said:

It's not even Friday in NZ yet!!

it's still Wednesday in Hawaii

Look, Don't turn this on me....some bloke up there thinks it's Friday. Poke him

[sleep envy]

Garlick said:

Look, Don't turn this on me....some bloke up there thinks it's Friday. Poke him

One can excuse John as he's a total lush, you though...

[Gruber]

Anyway... all 5 cars need to be pre-1980, T&T'd and within £50k...

Hmmm.

Not quite enough budget to buy a nice E9 CSL and have sufficient left over for the other 4 cars.

Well there would have to be a Merc SL Pagoda, a Series Land Rover, an old Mini and a Daimler V8 (the Mk2 Jag shape) in my wish list. Topped off with an MGB perhaps?

[Gruber]

Just to back up my suggestions:

Pagoda - £26k: http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C263728 (manual and LHD - perfect for Euro driving holidays)

Landy - £5k: http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C277686

Daimler - £10k: http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C295575

Mini - £4k: http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C250275

BMW e21(I've changed my mind about the MGB) - £4,750: http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C241032

Total: £49,750 before haggling.

Edited by Gruber on Thursday 10th May 10:39

[XJSJohn]

sleep envy said:

Garlick said:

Look, Don't turn this on me....some bloke up there thinks it's Friday. Poke him

One can excuse John as he's a total lush, you though...

It's been one of those weeks .... I was just wishing it was Friday!!

May have been a drink Involved too

Time zones / warps aside .... Question still stands .... What would ya get?

[XJSJohn]

Gruber said:

Anyway... all 5 cars need to be pre-1980, T&T'd and within £50k...

Hmmm.

Not quite enough budget to buy a nice E9 CSL and have sufficient left over for the other 4 cars.

Well there would have to be a Merc SL Pagoda, a Series Land Rover, an old Mini and a Daimler V8 (the Mk2 Jag shape) in my wish list. Topped off with an MGB perhaps?

Some nice left field (to me) choices there food for thought, any more suggestions?

[XJSJohn]

allright, its Definitely Friday now ....

Here is my 5 to get things rolling .... am interested in other ideas though as this could lead me to a shopping trip

911 3.0SC in Guards Red
http://beta.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/...

Mini Clubman 1275GT (always preferred the clubman grill for some reason)
http://beta.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/...

Jaaaag XJC 4.2
http://beta.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/...

Jensen Interceptor Mk3
http://beta.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/...

Datsun 260Z
http://beta.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/...

total a whisker over the 50k mark at 52,888