CHEAPEST CAR YOU HAVE EVER OWNED

[Rustycarlover]

Some great stuff on here

[richardthestag]

in 1986ish given a Free Triumph 1500TC, needed a n/s rear door - half of it had rusted away. Cost me a tenner from Atkinsons breakers Colliers Wood. and a huge sheet of fiberglass matting to cover a comically huge hole in the o/s front wing. Gave it a lick of dulux and ran it for 2 years. sold it for £250

 

1985 Bought a 105e anglia, no tax nor test £25, didnt move it an inch and sold it for £50 2 weeks later

 

Should we also include running costs in the debate? 180k miles in a brand new MkII Cav was fun but current Range Rover wins for me, covered 100k miles in 8 years and aside from normal service items it has only cost me a rad and an alternator, not only that but i reckon it is worth 2K more now that I paid for it

[richardthestag]

Oops forgot my Rover P6, was interested in it but at £1k it was very salty back in 1986 - it was very original and also rust free and yes I know what a rusty p6 looks like . owner gave it to his son who managed to slam it into a roundabout and bent the back axle. I offered him £100, bought the bits to fix it from good old Atkinsons and sold it for £600

[Albert Ross]

Citroen DS... £50. Austin 3 Litre... £50. Mk2 Cortina with 9 months T&T... £65. 1967 Pre-Arrow Humber Sceptre with O/D... £30. 1967 Humber Imperial (Thrupp and Maberley stretch with glass partition)... £40.  UK built Isetta... £75. 1993 Astra Mk3 Saloon with T&T £15.  Numerous Sierras for prices around £0 to £50. etc etc etc.

[Rusty Pelican]

 1967 Humber Imperial (Thrupp and Maberley stretch with glass partition)... £40. 

Any pics , love Imperials ( the cars and the mints )

[Albert Ross]

Sorry, no, I lost all pictures from the early 80s during a house move.... apparently everything in black bags is rubbish, according to my removal men.... I wasn't compensated.

[DodgyBastard]

In the last year...

 

This for £200

 

1976 Saab 99 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

this for £150

 

FSOMFG Weld marathon! by srblythe, on Flickr

 

This for free

 

DSC_4598 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

This for £160

 

Peugeot 306 xud sedan by srblythe, on Flickr

 

The Proton for £100 and the 360 for £450

 

DSC_1976 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

this for free

 

See you later! by srblythe, on Flickr

 

This for £500

 

Volvo 340 gl by srblythe, on Flickr

 

The Carlton for £250

 

DSC_3870 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

This for free

 

And the winner of best car in the show goes too... by srblythe, on Flickr

 

 

Think the Proton has been the cheapest, I've literally spent nothing on it since getting it apart from petrol, oil and an mot. It's cheap to run and really reliable. The 306 cost me £300 to get on the road but has proved brilliant at achieving good fuel economy so it's been getting used a lot recently. The Carlton cost very little, I spent little on it but it wasn't cheap to run, I swapped it for a 3l v6 Camry which is just as bad...

[red5]

1.6 Gl cavalier with 3 months tax and test for £3.25. Well, a bacon sandwich.

 

Did a winter, got broken into on Christmas day. Ended up in Taronis in Aston after donating its bumpers.

 

[Taff]

cheapest ever was a Bedford HA van (ex BT) which me and a mate paid £68 for (this would have been 1988)

 

we ran it for a year as a mobile shag palace and general hack until it broke it's back on landing after I got carried away on a hump back bridge outside Yeovil. So we replaced it with a Mirafiori estate for £200, like you do

[Bamboocarman]

I guess my A4 has been one of my best buys in awhile as it still drives like a new car and the interior is immaculate I even gave it a wash today.

 

I bought it a few months back now as a spares or repair with 50 odd thousand on the clock with about 5 months tax and test for £221 with a nearly a full tank of juice and drove it straight home.

 

One new second hand air mass meter for £14 and a 5 minute job to fix it and the old girl has been as good as gold and doesn't use any oil or water.image.jpg.

It's a very late A4 b5 as well being built in October 2000 so it comes with all the bells and whistles .

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This is absolutely brilliant, what a find.

[beko1987]

I missed the free car boat not passing my test until 2010. Current ZX is the cheapest at £350, old ZX second cheapest at £400, XM the most expensive at £600. Dad paid for the Puma (£1k, its put me off spending lots on a car...) so I dont count that as the most expensive!

[The Old Bloke Next Door]

Cheapest vehicle I've ever aquired  is my VW T4 which was free in 2008. A non runner, no mot and full of dents. 1.9 na diesel with 187,000 ish miles. Getting it started was a pain, bled the fuel system to the filter, then the lift  pump, the injector pump and finally the injectors, still dead.

 

So as a last resort it was easy start into the intake. When it fired up, the noise, smoke filling my workshop and oil light remaining on for about a couple of minutes made me think it was fucked, but when the oil light went out it sounded very good and stopped smoking.

 

After 4 new tyres, headlight,  tail light, exhaust system, cam belt and kit  water pump and battery, about 3 days on the dents, both bumpers, bodge and paint, mot and years tax, it owed about £775.

 

Now at 203,000 miles and still going well, only needed routine maintenance and repairs to damage caused by three break-ins, one door lock,  passenger door glass and tailgate glass.

 

[biddlebop]

i had a brown allegro once with boogie boogie bang bang suspension for 20 once and my friend gatecrashed a classic rally with it .....you know who you are .......prarie...    

[HMC]

My cheapest car coincides with around the early 2000s when scrap values were on the floor. Generally I find it's this baseline that dictates how cheap the cheapest cars are on the open market. A rover 216efi Vanden plas was mine for £40 with a decent amount of tax and test. In fact after doing a business trip in it shortly after the mileage allowance basically paid for the car. It was a low mileage giffer special which didnt have a straight panel on it after a lifetime of touch parking.

[phil_lihp]

The handmedown Rover 220 now owned by RobT cost a mere £100 to buy, although it actually stood me about 6 - 8 times that in repairs and maintenance by times I sold it earlier this year.

 

I did buy the crumbling remains of a garden-find Vauxhall Victor FE last year for all of £15 but it was so utterly rotten we agreed to let the seller call in the scrapyard to scrape it up and I just took some trim bits off it for £10.

[John F]

1975 Mk 2 Escort Popular 2-door - free, sold for £125 ((in 1987...!)

1980-ish Mitsubishi Colt 1.5 - free, used & abused for 6 months and eventually abandoned with OMGHGF under a motorway flyover in Germany

1989 Renault Clio 1.4 RT - free, sold for £300

1989 Ford Orion 1.6 GL - free, given away to a mate

1979 Audi 80 - DM 50,00 (about £20), sold to a breaker's for £35

1978 Jaguar XJ-S V12 - £100, sold for £1000

[bub2006]

A D reg fiat panda 750 for £25 from trade and save dealers in somercites. Shows how shite it was paying that from a dealer! C reg ford fiesta 1.1 pop plus for 30 quid around 04/05,pug 205 diesel around same time for £65. One I regret selling though was a 1991 J registered metro advertised in ad mag free for collection. Needed a suspension pump up but that was it. Most recent one was a 3 door 1.4 auto clio on a L plate. Bought last year for 100 quid I think.

[Burnside]

1st Car.  86 Talbot Samba Style. Paid £130 with roughly 3/4 months tax an mot haggled it down from £200 early 2000 when I 16. Owned it for 5 an half years and gave it away for free in Practical classic with a few months tax and test.

 

2nd Car. 89G Fiat Uno 45s 3dr. Paid £95 with no mot for the worse condition Uno I've seen. A ex London car every panel had been sprayed twice! Sunk a fortune into various repairs from panels to a replacement engine had it from 2001 to 2006. Sold it during my parents divorce as had various storage / mojo issues for £100 after it suffered some minor problems my fault to be fair and had no cash etc to sort it via Piston Heads.

 

Others;

 

92 K Ford Escort 1.4 LX 5dr. Paid £175 at End of Line Scrapyard in Swadlincote with 6 months mot an 1 mths Tax. Had it a month due to the fact it used more oil than petrol hence while it prob was there! Sold it for £130.

 

89G Uno 45 5dr with 59,000. 2 owners 10 months mot and 2 mths tax. £150. Kept it a year sorted a few odds and ends. Sold it £250. Should have kept it.

 

89G Fiat Tipo 1.4 DGT. 100,000ish miles. 6 months mot won on Ebay for £77. Went great till I paid Mr tyre £150 to fu*k up a cambelt change which killed the engine. Hate there garages with a passion till this day. Sold it as couldn't afford or find at the time another engine for £100 via Piston Heads. Should have held onto it in hindsight.  

 

90 MK4 Ford Escort 1.4L 5DR. 5 months mot an 1 mths tax. £150 with loads of rust a stoved in drivers wing. Gaffer taped front bumper. Blue play doe to keep the mirrors together. None working stereo or boot lock. Had it nearly 18 mths can't believe it passed the Mot in between and sold it for £225. Loved it.  

 

93 K Vauxhall Corsa 1.2 LS 3dr. 1 months Tax and Mot. £30. Tried to like it and even fixed the broken mirror and headlight. Was miserable to drive and so slow compared to the Uno's and Punto's.  Nail in it's coffin for me was the Mot man wanted £500 to sort it out for a new one. No chance of that so swapped it plus £150 for the Escort above.

 

00 X Fiat Fiorino 1.7TD Van. Brought by my dad new. Sold to his friend after 4 years a fellow builder who has ruined it. Gave it back Feb 13 to my dad an me and my bro for £0. Had 2 months Tax and Mot. Needs a miracle to get another but I'm working on it very slowly to get it back on the road. Will get there someday. Maybe next Summer 2015 I hope!

[Faker]

Cheapest car I've ever bought was an '01 micra 1000 sport ( still to work out what exactly was sporty about it)! £145 with no mot, and a bit battle scarred from poor parking. Booked the mot for the day of purchase, and arrived to collect the car with a tin of isopon to smother the radiator that had a bad leak. At mot (conveniently on my way home) car failed on a ball joint, track rod end and erratic idle. Bought a new MAS which did fek all, turned out it was easily fixed by freeing up the cold start valve on the spi. Car stood me £300 by the time it was mot'd. Proceeded to drive the nuts off it over an entire winter, and use it in a number of navigation rallies. Great wee yoke. Sold it for a small profit the following spring.

[Faker]

Last winter i bought another micra - a 1275 one. Great going wee thing, although quite thirsty (maybe because it was flat out everywhere) Same story.. £180. Very straight, with mot but had a broken rear axle. Quick axle swap and away i went again.. Couple more navigation rallies over the winter, and managed to sell it for £150 in the spring - supplied with another second hand axle because we managed to smash the replaced one!! I love micras!!

[Guest jjsaul]

Cheapest car was a Renault 5 for £100 - sold for the same

Best deal was a Pug 405 estate, bought for £400, run for 2 years and only cost me a few tyres, sold for £550.

Best current bargain motor is a Volvo V70...owes me about 500 quid now i've replaced the air con pump, belt and wiper mechanism.

[stuboy]

a reg metro £5 took as guy couldnt afford the maestro i was selling, i drove it 100 yards turns out no brakes walked home rang a friend who turned up 20 mins later for 20 notes..

[cyruspower]

W reg series 1 pig nose Volvo 345 GL Variomatic in brown metallic with beige cloth interior. Free. Ran it for 12 months. Sold for £140 at auction when it was almost flat lining.

 

T reg E12 BMW 528 in black with black cloth. Rear suspension made from eider ducks. Got two weeks out of it. Bought for £250, sold for £150.