Rustycarlover Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 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 £110Maybe those days of cheap cars will come back ? Post your cheapest bangers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 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... Charlie Croker 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HillmanImp Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 Got the Sera from kinkersaab for the princely sum of £0. AlabamaShrimp, Sloth in a bowl, xtriple and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junkyarddog Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 I got a Viva for free, No idea how much I spent to get it roadworthy though eddyramrod and AlabamaShrimp 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rustycarlover Posted November 29, 2014 Author Share Posted November 29, 2014 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HillmanImp Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 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. HMC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlabamaShrimp Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctormop Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 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. Twiggy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig the Princess Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 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. DodgyBastard, HillmanImp, richardthestag and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derskine Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rustycarlover Posted November 29, 2014 Author Share Posted November 29, 2014 If the scrap metal prices keep going down , then the free car may be a possibility again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hertz Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 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. HillmanImp, dugong, chaseracer and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colino Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouseflakes Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 £50. Add £20 for two wings and a master cylinder from a scrappy. I used this for around 8 years, so VFM! eddyramrod, catsinthewelder, Bamboocarman and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghosty Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 I want to find something like these, but it seems the days have passed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bren Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 SD1 2300 bought for £50. Sold for £150. Sierra XR4i twink bought for £ 150. Insurance paid out £975. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stroller133 Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 £125 for a tax and MOT'd Mini 1275GT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakebullet Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 Fiesta mk1, 8 months MOT £100 in 1996. Lasted 3ish years with a bit of welding each year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Jimmy Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 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. Bamboocarman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xtriple Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 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! dollywobbler 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephen01 Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Sterling Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diesel=ambrosia Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twiggy Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HillmanImp Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 £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). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulgalour Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 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. Craig the Princess, Skoze, HillmanImp and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkman Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timewaster Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Tidybeard Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 still using the £100 rennergrandad gave me his primera rather than be insulted by dealer trade in price Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted November 30, 2014 Share Posted November 30, 2014 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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