advice on sub 1k small car

[lordlee]

My business partners gardener has written off his renault scenic 'company car' (not his fault) and now has £800 insurance money to spend. He needs something that is 1.4 or below due to being a young male driver. Question is what should he go for?

[Jayho]

Rover 25/200 <-- got a great forum, a bargain to be had as no1 really wants one, reliable unless you thrash it everywhere before its even given a min to warm up! Also not that popular with young driver... lol dont know if thats a good thing or a bad thing...

Old micra's? fun round the bends...

[lordlee]

At the risk of being flamed isn't the k-series a touch headgasket prone? Or will that have been ironed out by fitting the LR HG?

[Jayho]

Lol they're prone to HGF IF you thrash it about everywhere from cold...

But nothing a Haynes manual, set of tools, uprated head gasket wont fix!

But something of that you can find ones which already have one uprated as they went easily!

[Defcon5]

I would get abother 106