Cars you bought for fun II

For some reason it seemed like a good time to resurrect this thread 😆

Cars you bought for fun 1

Here’s one of mine ( now gone )

I Still have not bought a replacement due to life getting in the way but it will be some form of cheap 2 seater roadster..In which i hope to disgust some people while driving it 🙂

God I miss it.

1990 Eunos 1.6. Cheap coilovers, wide tyres, no cat or centre silencer & a ‘loud’ silencer

It was awesome.

A slightly beefed up one of these.

I once bought a Sierra 2.8 XR4x4 for fun.
The intention was to strip it out and go to track days. But never found the time.
We did take it around the estate where I work (Private road) and it went like a stabbed rat.
Sold it to a bloke who took it to a track day and put it in on the grass, span and wrecked it.

It was funny when we bought it, the guy was selling his pride and joy (for £500) and was amazed we were just getting it for a laugh.

I never have.

🙁

I’d love an old landy, but I’d worry it was too reliable. practical and economical. To avoid these pitfalls as a 19yr old I brought myself one of these

(not this one but I couldn’t afford film with all the petrol and insurance bills, this is the closest pic I could find)

Like this.

Not mine, but pretty much identical:

Bought for the grand sum of £450 quid, about 10 years ago (it was a ’96 / P reg). Bonkers brilliant turbo fun. It chewed it’s own gearbox in the end.

Mk2 Toyota MR2

It was almost like the day it drove out the factory (it was 12 years old). I loved it, the wife hated it 😆

@sweepy: I take it you’re American or Canadian?

I can’t imagine that Pontiac would have been all that manoeuvrable around the roads of GB.

Is it a LeMans, btw? What year?

The only vehicles I’ve ever actually owned were about a dozen different motorbikes and this:

Sadly missed, sold to a bloke with zero mechanical sympathy who told us: “I just want something to run into the ground.” From the current MOT record that’s exactly what he’s in the process of doing.

I had two Alfa Romeo 1600GT Juniors as second cars in the late 80’s early 90’s one after the other. The first was mechanically very sound but had body work issues that I sorted out,. Should never have sold that one but….The second had a good body but problems with the transmission I never fully got to the bottom of. should never have bought that one but….. Sold to fund a round the world trip.

If I could have combined the two I would have had a cracking car.

Both were fun to drive about in

Good spot Saxonrider, it was indeed a LeMans sports coupe, 73/4 I think
I’m British, was living in London when I had it and it didnt feel too unwieldy. Not that I cared anyway, I was a kid and thought I was the dogs nob in it 🙂

I had one a bit like this:

Bought it with the contents of my £1 and £2 pound coin jar. It was great until the sunroof started leaking. The smell of leather and walnut replaced by wet dog.

APF

Don’t have any pictures to hand but had one of the original Williams Clios which was a bonkers little car – probably one of the best cars I’ve ever owned from a fun/driving perspective. I also had an E30 M3 and an E36 M3, the E30 was sublime but the E36 was a better road car overall.

I now drive 2 x boring Fords but on the plus side they do transport bikes well!

Not mine but I bought one. Uneconomical to repair properly as a 24-year old. Drove nicely but was a pain in the arse so I moved back to London and sold it.

Had it from 2003 until 2005, in which time I drove it as a rolling restoration. The best was when I had to make my way from Manchester to Lampeter in it. Man those roads were AMAZING in that car!

Camping. trips, mountain biking, pony club rallies, shopping and school runs. No carpet. No aircon. I removed the bulkhead and put a quick release seat in the back and gave it a tow bar for the horse box. We’ve had more fun in and thanks to this in the past year than all my other cars combined.

Followed by this:

Mazda MX5 Mk2 1.8iS
Porsche 944S2

Fun car is now a Panda 100hp, we tell ourselves it’s practical, but nothing can be transported safely with that little suspension and such limited use of the brake pedal. Very fun drive.

Picked up a 205xs 4 months ago. Cracking car. Cam, skim and a 4-2-1 manifold and it’ll be all over the gti’s. Cam belt last weekend, just fitted mintex pads and disks today. New beam and B6 shocks next weekend. I earn enough that I don’t need to get my fingers dirty with cars so I must still enjoy it!

And

And

and if my new contract works out I’ll be able to chop in the ever so sensible 320d tourer for something like Daffy posted above

Picked up a 205xs 4 months ago.

Any pics? I love 205s, especially those without 1.9 engines…

Bought this last week!

158bhp and 850kg so should be lively!

Needs a fair amount of work, waterproofing, soundproofing and generally needs a bit of tidying up, but hope to have it as my only car for my final year at uni after placement.

OLiver racing…Midas Gold ?

GTM K3 😀

This. I bought this for fun. £370. Failed mot. Needed very little.
0-60 in 7.2 (apparently) and weighs bugger all.
It’s the VTS not the common as muck VTR.
Stripped with bucket seats etc. Awesome on track days for no money.

Future classic the 16v VTS. I tell thee.

I’ve always wanted a Land Pig. Couldn’t believe how shite they were in standard form so had to spend the next two years rebuilding it. Stock on the outside but now running a Eales 4.2 V8 on EFI, a trick Ashcroft five speed, fancy diffs, big Zeus brakes, power steering, 900×16 on 1 ton rims and reworked suspension. It’s a thirsty but fun way of dragging bikes around.

Can’t get the photo link to work, but I’ve had two kit cars for fun, a Westfield sold when a got married, and the current 7 lookalike, which is about 400kg, 110bhp, 12000rpm red line, 6 speed sequential gearbox, and bleeding ears within 30 minutes.

None yet but I keep looking at Alfa 147 GTA’s or Alfa GT V6. Completely daft I know but as the last few weeks have sown me you only live once…

I bought one of these new after a stonking bonus back in 2005, I still have it, it’s ace. 3.2 DSG. (this isn’t my photo, but it looks the same, apart fro RHD obvs)

Had a few mx5’s now, and an mr2 which was my favourite. Looking to get a mk1 mx5 this year. Have a real itch for an integrale though, prices are rising so if i want to scratch it it’s likely now or never.

Have a real itch for an integrale though, prices are rising so if i want to scratch it it’s likely now or never.

Been there, got the t shirt!
A few years ago, I knew I wouldn’t be able to afford to keep it for long, but it was pretty good year! (red, 8 valve)
I also keep looking at prices. maybe if I sell the kit car and a kidney.

Sijackson, that, is a fantastic vehicle.

http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/1993-Lancia-Delta-HF-Integrale-Evolution-Outstanding-Example-/271890866819?nav=SEARCH

I imported this from Japan, kept it for year then sold it to Walkers. They’ve had it for about 18 months now. Deeply regret selling it, but I had promised the Mrs that I would only keep it for a year.

All of my vehicles are bought on utterly spurious basis, I don’t commute by car and generally cycle everywhere so practicality doesn’t really feature. Here the ones that are in my photobucket, there’s been loads. 😳

And currently this:

But the financial circumstances dictated by 2 kids and 1 income means that this will almost certainly be the last. It’s been fun.

Edit- no idea how to link to Flickr images on a phone, you’ll have to use your imagination.

bobbym,
Nice, mine below. I was single at the time, but still didn’t have the money to treat it right. Sold it to a bloke from New Zealand who had come over to find one, and was staying with mates two doors down!
link to photo as image thing not working for me this morning!

MG Metro. Not the sexiest of cars, but quite sprightly and very nimble. It even had red seat belts

My current company car, a 120d M Sport. Now I know I don’t own it, but when I joined my company I had a choice of this or a very boring A3. The car is costing lots more in tax, because it’s loaded up with toys, but it does go like stink, and it’s got red leather seats. Red leather seats! 😯

I pulled a 3.5l engine out of a 7 series and stuck it in an E30 estate, that was a weapon… 😈

That’s as many images as I can cope with loading on this forum with a hangover. (Admittedly the white BMW may have had a hint of practicality to it but it was a definite heart over head decision and utterly bankrupted me..)