£10k to spend on a car

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£10k to spend on a car
TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsSTR
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Lol – double exhaust, skirts, front & rear bumpers and alloys, but otherwise almost the same, yeah 😉

Posted 13 years ago

clubber
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Nah basically same alloys and bumpers at least as far as I can see but then I just use it for getting round, not cruising…

I’m not sure what skirts are in this respect 😯

Posted 13 years ago

clubber
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Oh think ive spotted the skirt. It’s the boy racer looking bit under the doors, right 😉

Posted 13 years ago

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Conqueror
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TVR S2 for 3 grand

That should leave 7k to keep it running

Posted 13 years ago

rusty-trowel
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I had one of them Mk1 XR2s as my first car. Cracker it was until i wrote it off. Those pepper pot wheels didn’t take kindly to hitting a concrete post at 70mph, not sure i found all the bits, but then i didn’t hunt in the field for that long. 😳

Posted 13 years ago

edhornby
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7k to keep a TVR running??? that money will be gone in a month if my mates TVR is anything to go by

I’ve had silly suspension citroens and they are more reliable than you’d think, however a diesse (as beautiful as they are) would have bodywork and sills that would disintegrate before your very eyes – I’d still have one and drive it in the summer only

Posted 13 years ago

mastiles_fanylion
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Terrahawk – I share your taste in cars. Only managed a mk3 XR2 and a very broken mk1 1.3L Escort but always lusted after both your suggestions.

Posted 13 years ago

Trekster
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I was a Ford mech when the Fiesta came out, did the intro course 😯
We did a rally cam swap on a 1.3Sport demo car for the Boss who was a LeMans sports car racer. It was a magic wee car.
tony
The torque steer on XR2s however was horrendous on our country roads 🙄
Used to maintain a couple of Mk1 & 2 rally cars of 1.6 Burton engined fame + an ex Elsmore Gp1 RS2000. Mate had to buy it when he practically wrote it off demoing it 😕
Know a guy building some Escorts for the Irish market and can command 6x£ figure sums for them with ex works bits fitted. One of them was well in with Ford in the Mk1 days and owned/rallied a few ex works cars with some success.
Mini for me if I had to choose. Had a `68 Cooper for a while and maintained a mates 1293S for a few years. That car was built by Tony Blower Racing in Malvern for road racing. We re-preped it for stage rallying. Awesome wee car 😈

Posted 13 years ago

derek_starship
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Posted 13 years ago

grannygrinder
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I think £10,000 will just about get you an Escort Cossie 😀

Posted 13 years ago

Stuey01
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What is this, a Ford appreciation thread?

Get some taste:

😈

Posted 13 years ago

Dyffers
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One of these

Mine’s probably worth way less than 10k now, and I can a) fit a bike on the back and b) still embarrass moron BMW drivers with it there.

Wasn’t very good in the snow though. 🙄

Posted 13 years ago

mastiles_fanylion
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Derek_starship – all kinds of NO!

If it is a Mk 3, it has to be a 3.0S like in The Professionals.

Posted 13 years ago

midlifecrashes
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How about a pimped V6 Avantime?

Posted 13 years ago

gee
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The R32 does 32-35 mpg on the motorway, even when going quickly. It does 25-30 round town. I used o have one of those S2000s – awesome car and a lot more entertaining than the golf, but I wanted to put the bike inside the car and the V6 gives the Golf a lot more torque. The 4WD helps in the mud/snow too.

GB

Posted 13 years ago