What would you buy with £25,000?

[ShiteRider]

I ain't got £25k, i'd struggle to scrape together 25,000 rupees .

But my mate was telling me how his brother has just bought a secondhand range rover for this amount and it got us talking about what we would buy.

He reckons he'd get; Evo 8 (chavvy twat) and red 2.8 capri for weekends with a "slotty back window" which i worked out meant autoplas louvre .

For me it would be Fiat 130 coupe (fantastically rusty and thirsty, but oh so gorgeous!), A red cortina XR6, and i'd keep my beige 1600 gl cortina for a daily . Partly because it's shit hot, but mainly because i don't think there would be much change out of £25k after sourcing and importing the other two.

So what would everyone else get?

[ashmicro]

Old Virage (the one with the Scirocco back lights) with the brutal manual 'box. I drove one years ago and it was a beast. And the Aston Martin purists* don't like them. If I had any change left I get it painted Ford lacquer red just to really piss them off.

[John F]

I just couldn't bring myself to spend that much on a vehicle.

 

In fact, I'd wince at spending £2,500. But for that, I'd probably get a Yugo 45, a Reliant Kitten AND a Lada Niva, and have enough money left for a bit of tax & insurance on them all.

[cms206]

A manual Senator 3.0CDi 24v. I like the auto, but I'd like to try a manual. An FSO as Steve et all are making me v. jealous... a really nice Mk3 Cavalier SRi130 would neatly round off my spend.

[cort16]

Alfa Romeo Montreal. Super Shite.

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C317819

[brickwall]

For me it's not the car but the spares. When you go into a garage and he apologises 'cos it's going to cost £400 and you can just say "no probs".

[Albert Ross]

I'd try to buy as many similar cars to what I had when I started driving and thereabouts onwards.

1965 Hillman Super minx Mk3. Azure Blue, with white stripe.

1970 Mk2 Cortina 4 door. Aquatic Jade.

1970 Austin 3 Litre. Deep Blue.

1967 Humber Imperial. Gunmetal Grey, vinyl Roof.

1973 Citroen DS Pallas. Light Metallic Blue, black roof.

1979 Opel Kadett Estate. Light Orange.

1970 Mercedes W115 200 Petrol. Red.

1977 Mini 850. BRG or thereabouts.

Late 60s Bultaco Sherpa.

BSA B25 Starfire.

and so on until money ran out or I got pissed off with one or the other.

 

And Mk1 Sierras. Preferably a 2.0 Ghia Estate in Crystal Green, Y plate. Plus others.

[Morgan84]

Mercedes CE W124

MK2 Jaguar in white

Volvo 262C Bertone

Opel Monza

Vauxhall Cavalier MK2 CD auto

Humber Hawk

Mercedes SE or SEL W126

[Cavcraft]

 

a really nice Mk3 Cavalier SRi130 would neatly round off my spend.

 

 

This thread is now over. You won.

[warren t claim]

 

a really nice Mk3 Cavalier with an odd coloured door would neatly round off my spend.

 

 

This thread is now over. You won.

 

EFA

[dollywobbler]

If it had to be one car, Citroen SM. £25k should comfortably buy one and leave enough to run it for about six weeks.

 

Otherwise, I'd be desperately trying to find a barn in which to stash the 50 hopeless shit heaps I'd just bought on Ebay.

[chaseracer]

If it had to be one car, Citroen SM. £25k should comfortably buy one and leave enough to run it for about six weeks.

Unlikely.

 

Otherwise, I'd be desperately trying to find a barn in which to stash the 50 hopeless shit heaps I'd just bought on Ebay.

MUCH more probable!

 

[jakebullet]

Something shagged with a rover v8. And a lot of petrol.

[Negative Creep]

It would probably be a Ford Fal;con XB/XC imported from Oz. I'd get an old Toyota Crown, a Montego estate for the rough stuff, and put a daft engine in the Yugo

[Cavcraft]

 

a really nice Mk3 Cavalier with an odd coloured door would neatly round off my spend.

 

 

This thread will be over shortly over. Warren, you won.

 

EFA

 

 

EFAA

[Pete-M]

Range Rover Supercharged and get the XJR tidied up.

 

I'd keep the Impreza.

[hairnet]

new sandero

81 opel kadett

2 door mk5 cortina

austin 1100

austin 7

renault 5 mk1

volvo amazon

mid 80s laurel

datsun 100a

50s chevy pick up

big shed for them

[Cavcraft]

Proton Savvy and a boot full of mind bending drugs.

[pandarus]

I just couldn't bring myself to spend that much on a vehicle.

 

In fact, I'd wince at spending £2,500. But for that, I'd probably get a Yugo 45, a Reliant Kitten AND a Lada Niva, and have enough money left for a bit of tax & insurance on them all.

 

With you there, John.

 

I would like a really nice Panda, my first 750 if I could find her again

[purplebargeken]

Funny you should say that. How about this?

 

A lot less than £25K. MOT until June/July. No tax. Sweet little car though and would be mine if I had the space.

 

 

 

 

 

Location: Enfield. Price: £400.

 

Ken

[M'coli]

PM me about that Panda, please.

 

What could be better for £25000 than 100 shite-heaps?

[purplebargeken]

PM'd.

[Justin Case]

 

http://www.volocars.com/1975-avanti-ii- ... c-3768.htm

 

$18k would work about the same in sterling after shipping and import duty, which leaves just enough for a shiny new Suzuki Alto at £5995 and a tankful of petrol for each

[Wilko220]

Proton Savvy and a boot full of mind bending drugs.

 

 

If not that, then probably a Bristol of some kind. A distinguished and exclusive class of bad panel gaps.

[phil drolls]

A `64 Chevy Impala SS coop, for under 20k. And spend the rest on snashters!

[whitevanman]

OK....stick with me on this...

1- FSO125P pick up

2-Hyundai Pony pick up

3- 1953 Ford F100 pick up

4- 1969 Chevy Camaro

6- squander anything left over on tools......

 

do I detect a theme here ????

[AndyW201]

As mentioned, I'd have a few cars that reminded me of 't'old days'.

I'd find a really nice MG Metro or even a nice GTa or Advantage. Partly to remind me of my first car, and working on a training scheme at a local Austin Rover dealer back in 1990 & 1991.

I'd also hunt down a nice series 2 Allegro for much the same reasons. In fact I'd probably find it hard not to buy up every 1300 a series engines car out there to save them from the inevitable...

While on a nostalgia trip, I'd have an MG Maestro or Montego 2.0.

 

Plus,

Arrow series Sunbeam Rapier,

Mk 4 Cortina, resprayed Peppermint Green with S trim recaros, slightly lowered and updated, sitting on 7J 4-spokes, with a Granada 2.8 chin spoiler.

Viva HC, preferably a 2300 SL 2 door.

Cavalier mk2 SRi, or even an LXi if I could find one, drove one for a company I worked for. Loved it.

Mercedes 190e, 2.6 sportline with the sport seats package and manual box.

 

That lot'd do me. Probably spend the rest insuring them all....

[stuboy]

sierra cosworth or escort cosworth ...

 

or as much land rover defender for the money

[purplebargeken]

Whatever 50's or 60's Yank I could get for the cash with a bit left over for some go-juice. Failing that then a Jensen Interceptor or a bloody good Series Landie.

[fotorabia]

Id buy this 280CE which had pretty much been abandoned around the cnr from me..

 

and turn it into a turbo diesel version of this...

 

and knowing me...id have spent all the money and only got half way there!