catsinthewelder Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 Started the year with a broken VW camper and a 205 diesel 'daily' Fixed the VW on the last possible day that it could remain on the drive of my old house, passed its MOT ran badly for a month or so and has been considered a none runner since the last repair attempt in June. Remembered that I still owned the Megane sport when the DVLA started nagging so gave it to a mate who rolled it. Acquired the BX after the ms's friend listed it on freecycle for her neighbour Gave the 205 away on freecycle although for the stress involved it would have been easier to weigh it in. Wouldn't have felt right though as we got it on freecycle in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mk1_4dr Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 Arrived in 2010 with the escRot. Mid-Jan, I bought the 320iA touring for £600 to use as a daily taking the pressure off the escort and it proved to be invaluable in May when I found myself suddenly single and homeless. No need to rent a van to move, and I towed escRot with it I used the BM alot of the year, it took me all over the country pretty reliably (I did 1500ish miles in August) but it was damn thirsty and things started to break, so.... In September I bought the K10 for £350 - With a fresh MOT, recent service and only 70k on the clock. Mmm, frugal. In November I sold the E30 for £300 (with a multitude of issues - dodgy electrics, knackered exhaust, 3days MOT, only running on 5 because of another broken rocker and it resolutely refusing to hold charge) Leaving me with just the K10 and escRot to see the year out. Not sure how much Ive actually spent though. Lets call it about even.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProgRocker Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 2010 has been a busy car year for me. January: 1999 (T) SEAT Ibiza 1.4 S that I owned since 2002 with a lowly 54k miles finally got taken away and written off after crashing it in last year's snow. RIP. Worth about a grand but the insurance company decided to pay me £1700, which was a good result. April: Car-less for a few months due to unemployment. Figured that I would need personal transport again in order to get to work so bought a 1994 (M) Ford Escort 1.8 LD from a friend of my dad's so I scraped together £250 to buy the car, plus £112.50 for 6 months tax. Only bought some diesel engine oil but other than some cleaning accessories and the actual diesel to make it go, spent £0 on repairing it. Rather quite good for a dog of a car with a damp boot and a mushroom sprouting from the carpet. Did about 2000 miles in it in 5 months. September: Having sold my flat and gone into rented, could finally afford a half-decent car. Bought the 'birthday present' Nissan Almera 2.2 dCi for £3750 + traded in the Escort for it (so £249 for the Escort). Only done 850 miles in it so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaryoldcortina Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 Much like my real accounts, this will be complicated, and a bit sketchy in parts. January runners (on the road) 24v Scorpio Ultima (family car)16v mk2 cortina (my car)Austin A40 hot-rod (wtf car) Running but untaxedTransit Dormobile (Fred's)LT35 recoveryGranada mk3 estate (log book issues...) Dormant/awaiting repairMk3 Cortina 2 doorMk1 Granada saloonPrefectConsul classicMk1 Capri Mk2 CapriRover P4Mk3 Austin-Healey SpriteBedford Chevanne I'm not including the morris minor, x1/9 trike, bikes, the austin 1100 or any of autofive's stuff The LT got fixed and taxed, Fred's dorma went to be a star on "This is England '86" the scorpio broke down... Prefect and consul classic sold on, granada mk3 chopped up for scrap. I have also aquired a ginetta kit car (dormant...) and a sierra sapphire (on the road) but tbh, not that much has changed. Oh, I also have a mk3 escort and a Volvo 240, both Fred's....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angrydicky Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 Oh dear, here goes then Started the year with 2 A35's. TMP and BKN. TMP - nothing spent. BKN - new exhaust bought and fitted, petrol to collect, about £80.Two services - about £40Brake master cylinder - £140Head gasket - £20Tyres - £110Clutch - £100New drivers seat - £10Welding consumables - about £30New brake shoes - £20MOT - £40 Feburary - bought a Citroen 2CV Dolly for £350. Expendables - wiper blades £10, reseal one tyre £5.Written off in August, flogged on Ebay so someone who has converted it into a van, £250. June - Maestro - Purchase price (and delivery) £325 New tyres £110Service, oil, filters etc, say £50New headlining and materials - £50Carb stripdown and rebuild - freeMOT - £40 June - A35 5187 NO, purchase price and delivery £800 New tyres £110Service - £25Rear bumper £80Grille strip and badge £40Lots of T-cut and other consumables, had most of them already.MOT - £40 August - Austin A55 Cambridge, purchase price £750. New wheel cylinders and brake shoes all round, £200Lots of welding, consumables say £50Service £25MOT - £40 November - Wolseley 18/85, purchase price £1,350 Dynamo reconditioning - £20New washer bottle - £5Air filter - £5 So far! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddyramrod Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 Aye, the year isn't over yet! Scary, are you on the A40 forum with that hotrod at all? We do have one or two over there... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaryoldcortina Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 eddy, didn't know there was an A40 forum... I'll look for it and join, I think.Also, I managed to miss a sierra 2.0i ghia off the list. (in the dead pile...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angrydicky Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 It's an A40 Somerset hotrod, not an A40 Farina Eddy! The Austin Counties Car Club do have a (sort of) forum but believe me, most of them would have heart attacks if they saw pictures of it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaryoldcortina Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 good point, and also a really good reason to join dugong 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 inmerc w123 estatemerc w123 saloonmerc w124 250dmerc 190ejaguar sovmerc w124 e320 coupe outbmw 525merc w123 saloonmerc 190emerc w124 250djaguar sovmorris minoraustin mini so down to the w123 estate and w124 coupe at the mo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddyramrod Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 Aha, thanks guys. I think I've seen pics of this somewhere before. I look at it this way: I don't know what condition the car was in when you started. If it was horrible, then well done, you've salvaged something from it and may it serve you well. If it was a nice one, the boys will be round to talk to you. Naturally I thought Farina, being involved with one myself. I'm not a purist, it's getting refined and upgraded... You would be welcomed at www.a40farinaclub.co.uk which is a pretty inclusive sort of place, but it is rather full of sharp Italian suits... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scaryoldcortina Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 Urgh, thats giving me a migraine just looking at it. I say CONVERT 2 BEAN CANS and pocket the £100. put it this way, 99.9% of car enthusiasts would have fragged it. RR build thread is here, the first few pages show how bad it was.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddyramrod Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 I just read the first page; in which case, good save sir! I've sent better cars to the crusher, so making anything at all out of what you had must rank as a miracle. Consider your hand shaken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gearoil Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 Out: Ford Sierra 2.0GT - lots of wots ur lowest bid m8 type texts, and one actual phone call from a polite bloke who turned up on time, paid cash, collected promptly. Swmbos Ka - disposed of to webuyanychod to save the waking dead wasting your time. Splendid! Sold £915 In: Feb: Alfa 155 1.8 T-spark, bought from my mate having a car clear out. Brilliant. Stretched the £££'s a bit far buying it and it had to go. June: BMW E46 320d Touring - for impending family carrying duties, most I've spent on a car - ever... October: Vauxhall Vectra SRi V6 Estate - taxed, tested, V6 estate with a tow bar for £500, why not says I. First Vaux for me, hated on here, drives fine, after a bit of investigation the clonk on the n/s/f is the top mount. Cost: £500N/S rear cluster, rear wiper arm & couple of bits of misc trim from the scrappy: £23Filters, fluids, thermostat, strut top mount, cleaning swag: £180 In/Out limbo: Ford Sierra XR4x4 - sitting gathering snow & moss outside my unit, buyer still not collected even though he did ring to let me know he had his trailer back, etc, etc, ring you Sat, Sun, mate borrowed the trailer, honest this weekend, next weekend, bank hol, solar eclipse I'm coming up for it deffo ARGHA!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garethj Posted December 29, 2010 Share Posted December 29, 2010 Started the year with a 1987 VW Polo which was faultless, I put plugs, leads, a rocker gasket and an oil change on it in 6 months. A brilliantly reliable car which I sold to Torsten. Everything went wrong from that second, which is a complete mystery and something I feel terrible about.Bought for £210, spent about £35 in 6 months and sold for £200 The 1958 Peerless had to go due to threats of redundancy, I R GUTTED Bought for £xxxx, spent about 3 lifetimes and sold for £xxxx + about £2 Got a 1987 Ginetta G26 which was fantastic fun but needed a lot of maintenance to make up for previous years of neglect. Still a great car and I think I'd have another..Bought for £350, spent about £300 on parts but loads of time, sold for £1000 Now with a 1988 Volvo 740 wagon, as the price of old Land Rovers has gone skyward for some reason.Bought for £400, so far it's cost a set of plugs, leads and wiper blades Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaseracer Posted December 29, 2010 Share Posted December 29, 2010 1982 Dyane: 1/1/10 - in garage; 1/1/11 - still in garage. Mileage this year = 0; spent £0; twinpot mojo = 0 New Year's resolution for 2011 = obvious 2003 Blingo futureshite: mileage = lots, including northern Europe as far as Berlin; spent more than usual (replaced front springs, discs, two tyres, windscreen) to keep it in VGC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anglevan Posted December 29, 2010 Share Posted December 29, 2010 Start with the C1 Lancers still have the gold 1988 - apart from an oil change / basic service. Have done nowt to that since purchase. So apart from MOT / insurance etc .. fine by me. Does need a couple of tyres very soon but have some in stock The White 1986 Lancer was bought for £225 with full ticket, 6 months tax and again spent nowt on it - just run it (did an oil change) one by be sold in the summer though as need to take stock.. Bought a white 1987 Lancer for 48 cans of Stella drove it back from down sarth. Thats now broken for bits and with fuel expense / and scrap value when broken up - i'm down by about £20 The Capri - not touched - stil sat in garage Talbot camper - not touched, in storage (taxed and tested still though) did fit a tow bar start of year that was not cheap !!! other than that just an oil and water change Fiesta XR2 - not touched Fiesta pop - bought some sills for £15 (need some wheel archs still) that will need some money for 2011 (lads first car) Tigra - Spent nowt apart from wipers and an oil change. Some one ran into it start of year but received a cash payout for £700. Did a goovy job on a mates car (mates rates) and he bought my paint for the Tigra so a couple of weekends work with hammer / dolly and a spray gun and no money spent. I'm up by £700 so think that will do for 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod/b Posted December 29, 2010 Share Posted December 29, 2010 A quiet year for me: 1998 Rover 200 1.4: Sold £495 1991 Rover 216 SLi avec plus de camshaft: Bought £100 Jan / Feb, Spent £160 on fuel tank (fitted), £100 MOT inc test, ARB link arm and CV boot. Dec 2010: Given to a mate on long term loan. 1981 Austin-Morris Princess: Bought £200 December 2010, spent £120 transport from Bournemouth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CreepingJesus Posted December 30, 2010 Share Posted December 30, 2010 Started year with the Mondeo, with a 3-week old MOT and dubious front suspension. Hence the £60 shelled on two 2nd hand front tyres. Nothing else spent on it (I think...) other than tax, petrol, and insurance. It needs a fair bit of work, tho' : front suspension needs completely overhauled, new exhaust, and a porous inner rear wheelarch seeing to. And maybe the alloys reconditioning if I can spare the cash.Acquired Renner in June for £324 (down from the overly optimistic £550 asked). Immediately needed ABS reluctor ring replaced, but I knew about that. Even the roughly £200 spent still brought us out ahead. She'll need front tyres and brake discs very soon, but that's not too harsh for one of these, so no worries. I just worry what the winter chaos has done to her hull... Neither of the bikes turned a wheel, nor are they likely to in the near future. It's just as well I don't have a garage, or even a drive to work on; it could be soooo much worse! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocket88 Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Started with; Omega 2.5 estateBuick RegalVolvo 740 estateswmbo Jag Outed Omega to an Aussie who intended "touring Europe" in it [good luck......] broke evenReplaced with 300 te on lpg, which was a pain outed that [broke even]Bought Saab 900 ragtop for £500 that turned out to be rare limited edition, sold for £2200Bought Audi A4 tdi, which wasn't as nice as hoped [still got]Bought '94 Pisshat tdi, which has been far better than expectedRegal and Ovlov fraggedstill got swmbo's Jag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cms206 Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 2010 so far... 1975 Leyland Leopard - sold £600 (no loss from original purchase price)1976 Wartburg 353W Tourist - stolen1978 Leyland Leopard - "acquired"1979 Leyland National - sold £500 (no loss)1980 Leyland Leopard - sold £600 (+£12.25)1981 Leyland National 2 - bought £1000.001982 Leyland National 2 - bought £825.001986 Mercedes 608D - sold £600 (+£200.00)1987 Dennis Lancet - sold £1300 (+£1190.00)1989 Vauxhall Cavalier SRi130 - still on strength, awaiting welding1991 Fiat 126 - bought £50, still to be recovered1993 Peugeot 205 1.1 Zest - bought £100.00, sold immediately to mate for £100.00 (no loss)1998 Ford Courier 1.8D - scrapped (+£100.00)2007 Ford Focus 1.8 Zetec - traded in2010 Ford Mondeo 1.8TDCi Zetec - replacement for above Think that was it... oman5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnthonyG Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Started the year with two Mondeos, ended the year with same, although the old one (1999) is now on a SORN and lacking a current MOT, it may get donated to a relative as his current car is held together by gaffer tape! Good save on the Sapphire Cosworth, Fiatdaft . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lankytim Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 2010 so far... 1975 Leyland Leopard - sold £600 (no loss from original purchase price)1976 Wartburg 353W Tourist - stolen1978 Leyland Leopard - "acquired"1979 Leyland National - sold £500 (no loss)1980 Leyland Leopard - sold £600 (+£12.25)1981 Leyland National 2 - bought £1000.001982 Leyland National 2 - bought £825.001986 Mercedes 608D - sold £600 (+£200.00)1987 Dennis Lancet - sold £1300 (+£1190.00)1989 Vauxhall Cavalier SRi130 - still on strength, awaiting welding1991 Fiat 126 - bought £50, still to be recovered1993 Peugeot 205 1.1 Zest - bought £100.00, sold immediately to mate for £100.00 (no loss)1998 Ford Courier 1.8D - scrapped (+£100.00)2007 Ford Focus 1.8 Zetec - traded in2010 Ford Mondeo 1.8TDCi Zetec - replacement for above Think that was it... How much do old coaches/buses go for? Its something i've perved over for a while and even the wife quite fancies one! Id imagine a Leyland National coach would be one of the shitest/cheap ones you could get. Wouldn't mind a double decker, actually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cms206 Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 2010 so far... 1975 Leyland Leopard - sold £600 (no loss from original purchase price)1976 Wartburg 353W Tourist - stolen1978 Leyland Leopard - "acquired"1979 Leyland National - sold £500 (no loss)1980 Leyland Leopard - sold £600 (+£12.25)1981 Leyland National 2 - bought £1000.001982 Leyland National 2 - bought £825.001986 Mercedes 608D - sold £600 (+£200.00)1987 Dennis Lancet - sold £1300 (+£1190.00)1989 Vauxhall Cavalier SRi130 - still on strength, awaiting welding1991 Fiat 126 - bought £50, still to be recovered1993 Peugeot 205 1.1 Zest - bought £100.00, sold immediately to mate for £100.00 (no loss)1998 Ford Courier 1.8D - scrapped (+£100.00)2007 Ford Focus 1.8 Zetec - traded in2010 Ford Mondeo 1.8TDCi Zetec - replacement for above Think that was it... How much do old coaches/buses go for? Its something i've perved over for a while and even the wife quite fancies one! Id imagine a Leyland National coach would be one of the shitest/cheap ones you could get. Wouldn't mind a double decker, actually. Basically depends on what you're after! The price of scrap is pushing prices up, but a general rule of thumb is around £750-1000 for something elderly, full size and needing some work, with decent MOT'd machines starting around the £1000 mark. One thing which does sometimes occur is with bigger operators anyway is that the tyres are leased, so purchasing a set can add about £600 on top of the purchase price. My Nationals were £825 (SHH 389X, the yellow one) and £1000 (PIL 7013, the red & cream one) but they seemed to be very much the exception rather than the rule; 389X needed an headlight and brake adjustment for MOT, PIL's got a burst downpipe and a slight power steering leak needing attention before it goes in for test in a month or so (hopefully!). Plus points are that insurance and road tax are cheap, bad points are - as always - cost of tyres, some systems are slightly more complicated, finding somewhere to keep it and fuel consumption, though something like a Mercedes minibus should still do about 25-30mpg and the smaller ones will fit - just - in a standard car parking space. Double deckers like Bristol VRs, MCW Metrobuses and Leyland Olympians are normally around the £1500-3000 mark depending on what's been done/needing done and you can pick up an early-mid 80s Volvo B10M or Leyland Tiger coach for about the same with a test... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inspector Morose Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Avoid Metrobuses and East Lancashire bodies if you don't like welding....Personally, I'd go for anything that takes your fancy but beware; if you think cars eat money, they 'ain't nothing compared to restoring/keeping buses. I'd frighten myself (and probably bought a house, at the time, with) the money I spent on mine when I had them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Gah! I can't believe you bought 'my' National 2 for half the price of my Landy! Mind you, my wife actually agreed to the Land Rover purchase. She gets very unamused whenever I contemplate owning a bus. Not sure one would fit down our track annoyingly (though there is someone not far away with a Bedford OB coach on his driveway - nice work!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inspector Morose Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Must get to see 89 again one day. I was the last person to drive it at NBB. (Down saarf in company of several Atlanteans to a dealer) To anyone who wants to try bus preservation, I say go for it! (Hmm OB on a drive eh? Any idea what reg?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lankytim Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Theres a scrapyard in Stafford that regularly has "modern" buses driven over the weighbridge, they are then ripped to pieces with mechanical grabs until there's nothing left, glass, seats, the lot! Are there many of those MCW double decker things still knocking about? West Midlands Travel retired the last of them a couple of years ago- there was a rumour that the gave a few away because there is so much fibreglass inside them its uneconomic to sell them to scrap dealers. (not sure how true that is) I'd drive to work in one of those, just to piss everyone off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Theres a scrapyard in Stafford that regularly has "modern" buses driven over the weighbridge, they are then ripped to pieces with mechanical grabs until there's nothing left, glass, seats, the lot! Are there many of those MCW double decker things still knocking about? West Midlands Travel retired the last of them a couple of years ago- there was a rumour that the gave a few away because there is so much fibreglass inside them its uneconomic to sell them to scrap dealers. (not sure how true that is) I'd drive to work in one of those, just to piss everyone off. WMT (or TWM after an expensive rebrand) only killed off the Metrobus THIS year! (half an hour left...) Even then, they've retained some for training. Birmingham's routemaster in some ways. Well, I think so... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Reverend Bluejeans Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 '89 530i, owned 7 years. Did about 2000 miles this year, needed nothing, sailed thru t'test, been stored since. 96 318Ti. 2 years with me. Added fuel, washed it 5 times, taxed it in January, bought some new Michelins on rimz via the bay, 60 quid. MOT due Feb. Total spent this year for around 15'0000 miles= Maybe 150 quid excluding tax/insurance and gas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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