CHEAPEST CAR YOU HAVE EVER OWNED

[Rustycarlover]

I only started buying cars recently and it seems that nowadays you can't actually buy cheap cars like you used to. My cheapest was a rover 420 bought for £110 including delivery then scrapped 2 days later for £117 and a 1993 mazda 121 £110

Maybe those days of cheap cars will come back ?

 

Post your cheapest bangers

[dollywobbler]

I'm not playing this game. I even lose a fortune when cars are given to me! Though my £266 BX back in 2009 was a career highlight. Spent a fair bit on it, but did loads of miles in it too. I think that's the least I've ever paid for an MOTd car. Had some tax too. Those were the days...

[HillmanImp]

Got the Sera from kinkersaab for the princely sum of £0.

 

[junkyarddog]

I got a Viva for free,

 

No idea how much I spent to get it roadworthy though

[Rustycarlover]

I think car prices do seem to be going down a little , it just seems stupid that a rotten ford fiesta can get £200 on ebay

[HillmanImp]

Also got this Volvo from Sam Glover for £150

 

 

And this Saab from M'coli for £200

 

 

I really did like that Saab, not sure why I got rid of it. Maybe time for another.

[AlabamaShrimp]

I'm getting back into selling cars again and it does seem most cheap cars have gone as people now know that they can scrap them and get paid. A few years ago you had to pay them and cars were for nothing.

 

Anyway as for cheap cars, I have free* ones as we had a family car pitch. Least I've paid myself was £40 in about 1997 for a very nice white mk1 1983 fiesta. Didn't have it that long as I was a naughty boy with no driving licence

 

The swift was cheapish at £117.88 would have got it for a lot less but the owner had already been offered £90 in scrap

[Doctormop]

In 2001 I was a Cab driver using a 94 Montego 2.0 diesel to earn my daily bread.

Whilst it was off the road for pretty major work I bought an A registered Nova 2 door saloon with 3 weeks MOT and a weeks tax (back when you could buy tax with a car, seems a distant dream now) for £25, reduced from 40 from the garage that was fixing my Montego!

Kept it for 5 days and sold it for £40, best thing was it had half a tank of fuel in it, l found out later the garage fixing my car had sold the Nova owner an Orion for £800 and the purchaser thought that included a Px allowance for the Nova so the garage kept quiet and palmed it off on the first likely idiot to look gormless enough to buy it.

[Craig the Princess]

 

Free Allegro through the club forum from a chap in Maidstone, 2 months MoT an passed the next one with no expence. One family owned, sadly the family seemed to enjoy repairing any fault with expanding foam. Still a total bargain.

[derskine]

Probably my 18 GTD, I traded it for a petrol 18 and got the petrol one back for free when it was accident damaged.

Does that count?

[Rustycarlover]

If the scrap metal prices keep going down , then the free car may be a possibility again

[Hertz]

My greatest buy ever, £50. Could have had it for nowt but when I got there it was loads better than I expected so gave him a drink. Here I am admiring my purchase looking a lot thinner, jeez I need to go on a diet next year. 

 

[colino]

My first foray into buying and selling was a Triumph Toledo in around 1979 as the car was, "leaking everywhere" and the seller settled for a £15 donation to a charity.  The wooden bung was eventually replaced by a proper core plug for about 20p.

[mouseflakes]

£50. Add £20 for two wings and a master cylinder from a scrappy. I used this for around 8 years, so VFM!

 

[Ghosty]

I want to find something like these, but it seems the days have passed...

[Bren]

SD1 2300 bought for £50.

 

Sold for £150.

 

Sierra XR4i twink bought for £ 150.

 

Insurance paid out £975.

[Stroller133]

£125 for a tax and MOT'd Mini 1275GT

[jakebullet]

Fiesta mk1, 8 months MOT £100 in 1996. Lasted 3ish years with a bit of welding each year.

[Uncle Jimmy]

Friend of mine loves to remind me of the split screen camper he bought for £80 back in the '80s....they must have seen him coming.

[xtriple]

I've said before about the Passat estate I bought at a car auction for a quid with tax and test, a tank full of petrol and no faults other than the previous owners inability to clean it.

 

Also bought a 2CV for £20 which I ran for ages when I was at uni in the 90's, dreadful heap which I utterly adored!

 

Bought a Saab off a skint mate for £15 with tandt and that was brilliant.

 

I've hardly ever srapped a car and (passat excepted) the above were sold for a decent profit!

[stephen01]

paid 50quid for a 309 pug,about 12 years ago,  It had about 8 months mot but overheated after about 25 miles, I was only learning to drive so it was no real problem

 

also had a very tidy 1.8 sierra, paid £150, with a months ticket, re moted it, used for 6 months and flogged it for £150... 

[Lord Sterling]

Cheapest car I had was my Black 1989 F-plate Ford Sierra Sapphire Ghia:

 

 

Not actual car but exactly like it.

 

Must have been about 22 when I got it for £NOWT. Ran it for a bit on the insurance of the family friend who gave it to me as back then I could drive any other insured vehicle (a loophole which has since been closed up) and ran until Insurance, tax and MOT were all up. I couldn't afford all 3 and I had nowhere to put it. Sadly had sell it to the scrappy for £20, still got the wheels though. I really wished I knew then about renting a lock-up, it might still be here.

 

My current Merc is potentially the next cheapest, so far it cost me £250, £15 admin fee for insurance transfer, £F***All for MOT, and pocket money for most of the stuff I've got for it so far. But we'll have to wait and see...

[diesel=ambrosia]

Corsa B £275 when I was about 18, third car after a year of driving. The rear wheel bearings were so worn it pretty much has four wheel steering. Sold for £50 quid to a mate who completed its destruction. 

[Twiggy]

Got a Morris 1800 from a colleague at work for sweet FA, brought it home, cleaned it, advertised it in Loot for £100 and got haggled down to £75.  That was long ago in the days when you had to pay the scrappy to take a car away.

[HillmanImp]

£50. Add £20 for two wings and a master cylinder from a scrappy. I used this for around 8 years, so VFM!

 

 

What is that. First glance I thought it was a P6 but it ain't.

 

*EDIT* Its a Renault 10 (I looked the the URL).

[vulgalour]

I have never paid more than £400 to purchase a road legal vehicle.

 

It's the Barry Shitpeas Plan and it works for me!  It can work for you too.

[Junkman]

A 1971 BMW 2000 Tilux that I got for a bottle of wine.

 

Wish I still had it etc etc...

 

What a hateful piece of shit it was.

[Timewaster]

Metro diesel £50. Sold months later for £350.

 

Axgt £100. Fixed and sold for £500.

 

Rover 600t £100. Blown up. Sold for £25

 

Can't win them all.

 

Does explain my user name though.

[Noel Tidybeard]

still using the £100 renner

grandad gave me his primera rather than be insulted by dealer trade in price

[wuvvum]

I've had a few freebees.  From memory - Maestro 1.3 City in navy blue with fucked engine mount; Rover 216 Vanden Plas EFi auto in gold with tan leather; Y reg Bedford HA van which I never did manage to get running; F reg Nissan Sunny 1.6 Coupe; Citroen AX 10E with 3 months' rent still on it that I used as my daily until it ran out.  There's probably been more, but those are all that spring to mind.