i had £10K spare, so i bought this
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That is my current fun vehicle. I don't have the money or space for a fun car these days, so it is the works vehicle and the bike for me (and the bike has nearly had to go several times as it is!)
Someday I shall have something fun again, but not until we have moved out of the current house and my earnings have increased significantly!
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approx 230 bhp, good fun.
also, had one of these (Not a cooper, but a 1974 Morris Mini with a 1340 Howley Racing engine, went like stink)
Also built one of these -
1300 +40 thou overbore, GpA Head/Cam, Solid Lifters, Twin 40s, Ashley Exhaust, Lightened and Balanced Bottom end, Steel Flywheel, AP clutch, Quaiffe 5SP SCCR Box and LSD 4.5/1 CWP, Internal Gear Linkage, 2.25" Coil Overs all round, 280mm front discs, rear disc conversion, fibreglass tailgate/bonnet, Perspex windows...
I'm not going to even think about how much I spent on it and never used it..... No, not even thinking about that right now.. *sigh*
There's some seriously well sorted "fun" cars on this thread - good work peeps and i'm not envious of the old style 911's, oh no....not in the slightest........
Here's mine, not so much a fun car as my only car so it gets driven daily, stripped back to bare shell and extensive welding/rebuilt with £4k+ of new OE VW parts including bolts/washers etc, ABT tuned 2.0 16v engine/quaife lsd and refurbed leather interior : sitting at 196bhp and 972kg so over 200bhp/ton but not especially quick compared to modern stuff but i like it, especially 2nd to 3rd gear acceleration and the pops n' barks on the overrun - it needs a respray and rust spots on bodywork sorted out this year if i can afford it and have the time to commit 3/4wks off the road.
Driving to the Alps in this:
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Not mine, friends, bikes on roof, load up car, off we go! I wonder if we will get there!!
My fun car is a Ford Puma, stripped out, ready for track days at local track Castle Coombe.
Has anyone ever owned a BMW 650?
Trying to think of reasons why a 2006 plate wouldn't make a fun yet comfortable car for my weekly jaunts up north (even seems to manage 30mpg on a run).
It's an understated rocket for £10k!
V8, 400bhp, 0-60 in 5 seconds.
Series 1 I built for weekends / tatting about in.
I learned to drive in one and used it whilst in 6th form and college. I missed it and had to have another, so decided to build one to my spec.
Looks like a '48 as much as possible but has wide springs and S3 axles, S3 steering and brakes. 2.5 petrol with S2a gearbox and overdrive.
It's an understated rocket for £10k!V8, 400bhp, 0-60 in 5 seconds.
Sounds perfect.
Ok, Ok excuse the cliché I know its a BMW!!, but the way I saw it was that it was an opportunity to own a normaly aspirated inline 6 RWD car that I could use every day that also had a bit of performance, before they died out. And they already have in mainstream production cars.
Such a good sounding car 🙂
All my cars are just for fun
This was mine. Gone, but not forgotten. 1987 Porsche 944 turbo. Bought with 100k miles on the clock, sold 5 years later. Used for daily commute and track days. Never missed a beat, I upgraded suspension to KWv3, put 911 turbo big red brakes on it and chipped to just shy of 300 HP. Cheaper to run than my misuses Focus 1.8 zetec, never driven a moder spoertscar that was more fun to drive. Even the a/c worked. One of the best cars Porsche ever made.
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Please someone say your loving your UR Quattro or better still, Quattro Sport.....
A work colleague of mine has a UR Quattro. He loves it, bought it new, sold it, bought the same car back about 15 yrs later. I lust after it every day in the car park.
Has anyone ever owned a BMW 650?Trying to think of reasons why a 2006 plate wouldn't make a fun yet comfortable car for my weekly jaunts up north (even seems to manage 30mpg on a run).
It's an understated rocket for £10k!
V8, 400bhp, 0-60 in 5 seconds.
Wife had a 630 Conv . Good buy second hand and plenty fast for such a big car.
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This was fun for a while. Rare lichfield spec c type 25, circa 450bhp.
No scooby burble on full chat due to twin scroll turbo and equal length madifold. screamed like a banshee instead.
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this was good for the bikes. 245bhp and 400ftlbs
This thread has lead to bad things for my eBay watch list! Where's a good place to read up on kit cars?
I wanted it, I did it, I loved it and I sold it.No regrets!
+1 Sharkbite - loving that Cosworth too.
Thank God I don't drive . . . 😆
@ Milkie
Love the RS, Is that a pukka X-Pack?
Don't know about riding in the alps, would be javing fun driving that about...
Had a standard one in the mid-late 80's. Still want one now but the prices for a decent one are stupidly high 🙁
Can't get a bike in it, can't get a bike on it, can't get the weekly shop in it;
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I love it though. It's been doing a daily commute for the last 18 months and has never let me down (apart from when i left the lights on and the battery wen't flat, but I can't really balme the car for that)
Makes me smile every morening when I get in it.
Had her for 5 years and it's been huge fun, frustrating and sometimes expensive but worth it 🙂
Sadly, due to kids and their incredible talent for using money she has to go 🙁
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Has this for a couple of years before the Split. Also great fun.
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Finally found a browser where I can post pictures
From the Back :
Isuzu TF Plus cab - Great fun bouncing around the forest or loaded with bikes. So much better than the bike rack which was the other option.
BMW Z3 - In the process of being rebodied - picture plan below
SLK AMG55 Kleemann S8 - 596bhp, need I say more?
The rebody is roughly planned to be this:
Also had one of these
With this under the bonnet
Bought for fun, now the misus says it has to be sold to fund grown up stuff like a roof over our heads 🙁
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/very-ot-mg-midget-4000-loads-of-pics
.......And as winter slowly turns to spring, a mans thoughts wander off to topless cars.
Was thinking along the lines of a 1999-2000 Boxster,as they seem to be a decent compromise between sportiness and comfort, buying a one a bit older seems to allow cheaper classic car insurance, maybe soon I will be able to add pics of my fun car to this thread.
Mk 2 scirocco when the kids were young. Lowered suspension and filter/ exhaust changes on a 1.8i. Went round corners on rails though not fast in a straight line.
Then a 5 door Golf GTi (8v) that was chipped and lowered. That was a hoot too. Then a long gap of sensible family motors (Saab 9-5 with 195 bhp was the most exciting).
Recently I had an S3 which went to pay for a wedding last year, much to the lads disgust.
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That sounds a lot like my mini. Same sized engine and overbore, same carbs. Mine still had drums on the back though....which were interesting. I had a stage 2 rally head/cams on it as well which made a big difference. Ate cosworths.
[i]Bought for fun, now the misus says it has to be sold to fund grown up stuff like a roof over our heads
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/very-ot-mg-midget-4000-loads-of-pics [/i]
That's lovely. Did you ever sell it?
One of my riding buddies has a Ferrari 458 Challenge just for the track and uses a Lambo Aventador for pottering about on the roads and going to the gym etc. Still grumbles about the price of cake at the cafe on Cannock Chase though.
Keep them coming peeps, some of you lucky buggers have far too much money 😀 , that old 911 on page 2 belonging to markend wins hand down i'm afraid.
My old golf i posted about back on page 3 is finally in the workshop where it has been for the past month as i gradually bring it up to a suitable standard where it will hopefully last another 30 years, New rear end, new front end, new rear inner arches and rear outer arches, new sills, new door skins, new bumpers, new plastics and numerous other bits n' bobs followed by a marathon body prep & paint job to finish it off for the summer.
I had estimated £1.5k for the work, unfortunately it's creeping above that but hopefully not by too much as i'm skint.
Enjoyed this thread. Would love a hot hatch instead of my diesel estate 5 series, wouldn't work with my lifestyle though. Think about an S4/RS4 or an M5 but the running cost is crazy
My fun car is a motorbike, you get more opportunity to find space in the road to actually have some fun. Currently have a Fireblade
Feeling very inadequate here with a Mazda hatchback. Most fun I owned were 1975 Mini 850 and Mk 2.5 MX-5. And one or three Citroen Saxo VTRs.
Thinking about PXing Mrs North's (modern) Mini Clumban. Wonder if they do a cooking version....?
This is the last thing we built for fun. Mini Minus kit car. 1380cc A series heavily modified with a straight cut box and fully adjustable suspension. It's not particularly powerful compared to today's hatches but it's light (fibreglass shell) and handles well. Bloody good fun as well.
'89 Eunos, had it 7 years, love it.
Not the best for long drives though.
New fun, commuting, family car
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Can't wait for Spring to get here.
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Despite a hankering for a Caterham I am stuck with my beloved 90. Bit modified but used as an everyday / everything vehicle. The Caterham will happen one day though (obviously in addition to the 90!), once a house is procured.
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That track mx5 looks awesome!
Another 6 months on & my golf is getting closer to paint....!
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Should be ready to commence the rebuild in a couple of weeks
Finished the engine in the mean time...
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Loving the Mk1 GTi. I run a Mk2 with a TSR motor - head, cams, manifold, decent suspension etc. Not super fast, but fast enough to be fun and a proper car.
Also a Corrado VR6 Storm.
cool badlywireddog 🙂
Mine is running tsr big valve head with kent cam & 2.0 bottom end
This was my weekend toy, pre children! 300BHP in a Mk1 MR2 thanks to a 2 litre turbo engine from an import mk2 turbo. Surprised a good few cars on track days.
Got a sensible Dad-wagon now, a 205 GTi with a 170bhp Gti-6 engine transplant.
Oh, and an Accord Type R as well that is covered in crumbs and sticky finger prints!
Well done for resurrecting this Righog - great thread.
Here's mine, not bought, but inherited from my Gran who bought it when it was a year old.
Full body restoration about 3 years ago, everything else original. Still smells the same inside as it did when we were kids!
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Not fast, not loud, no good for transporting bikes, but it makes people smile & my kids love it!
Oh, the memories:
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380bhp monster, 0-60 in 4 seconds flat (probably a bit under if I'm honest - it was ludicrously quick), properly setup for the track and fast road use. Nice and stealthy exhaust for pottering about town, with an external wastegate & screamer pipe opening at 0.9 bar for when lunacy was required. Turned heads in carparks, on the road, and whenever it was tracked. A real, honest-to-goodness classic mental sports car, and I miss it every day.
I was going to keep it forever, and then two gang murders outside our flat in the space of 5 weeks happened. Working away and leaving wife & newborn son in that environment was not an option, so the car was sold to a racing driver over in Denmark to fund a house move to a quiet little village in Fife, and I'm left driving a Lexus IS200. It's the Japanese Mercedes, don't you know.
had a mare fitting a 2.0L subaru engine in it a few years ago but now it runs sweet and loads more reliable. had plenty of good times in him so far though. next project is building a kids bed for the little un for when she gets a bit bigger but for now she's in the moses basket on the passenger seat... 🙂 looking forward to taking it to europe for a month in summer 🙂
@ Mattbike - That is amazing! I want that.
I used to live in the south of Spain and take people on 5 week trips round Morocco for a living, so fuel costs were never a concer.
Ex-Californian Postal Service Jeep with 4.2 V8 and custom airbrush paint job (done before I bought it), picture quality is rubbish due to it being a scanned copy of a photo. Was right hand drive so postie was next to kerb.
Land Rover 101 Forward Control, originally with 3.5 V8 then swapped out for a Perkins Diesel, great fun messing about North Africa with mates.
Loving Flying Ox's RX8, That's an absolute beauty
Here's my fun car
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Around 400bhp, loads of mods (turbo, induction, exhaust, stand alone engine management)
I've never driven anything that covers the ground so fast and effectively. It eats hot hatches for breakfast and makes Porsches look stupid on twisty roads.
However its a nervous jiggly heavy bag of shite at normal road speeds and the clutch is ridiculously heavy in traffic.
Also it only manages about 8 MPG!
Consequently its currently for sale
You guys sure have a lot of money to buy a car for fun, lol
Anyone every owned a 350Z?
Seriously tempted to buy a 2005 from a friend. Seems to tick all the fun car boxes. Either that or sit my bike test!
270bhp available apparently
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[i]Mines a shonky old Ford Cortina.[/i]
It's very nice. Never thought I'd say that about a Cortina. How old am I getting?
[i]You guys sure have a lot of money to buy a car for fun, lol [/i]
Tell me about it. I thought I earned good money till I looked at this thread. I still like plenty of these cars though. I fancy one of the older 1970's cars myself. like that Spitfire.
daniebike - Member
You guys sure have a lot of money to buy a car for fun, lol
That is very true Danie, But what has been great from the contributors to this thread is that they have all been about adding a bit of fun to life rather than any willy waving "look how much my car cost"
Peterfile...350z is serious contender for me as well, they go great will be comfortable and reliable, have nice V6 engine, only thing perhaps they lack a little spirit ??....Maybe a good place to start from though.
It's got 5.0 V8 under the bonnet Samuri, you are forgiven.
buy a car purely for fun!? some people have too much money sitting around.
jekkyl - Member
buy a car purely for fun!? some people have too much money sitting around.
jekkyl - Member
I was bored one day at work so here's my bucket list, for your admiration and/or derision.1. Get and maintain independence- Achieved 1999
2. Fall in love – Achieved 2004
3. Get married and be happy- Achieved 2007
4. Have at least one child – Achieved 2011
5. Get proficient at a sport (Golf: 25%, Swimming: strong but never competed, Mountain Biking/Cycling: 70%?)
6. Compete in a XC mountain bike race and not come last. Achieved 2013
7. Complete an olympic distance triathlon and not come last
8. Scuba dive somewhere tropical.
9. Get proficient at a musical instrument.
10. Have a ride on a helicopter
11. Parachute jump, incl freefall
12. Visit Thailand
13. Visit Rome, incl The Colisseum & St Peters Basilica - Achieved 2008
14. Visit New York
15. Visit Paris and climb the Effiel Tower, see the Mona Lisa @ the lourve and visit Notre Dame Catherdral – Achieved 2007
16. Cycle coast to coast UK – Achieved Sept 2011
17. Cycle coast to coast Italy
18. Cycle coast to coast USA.
19. Cycle John O’Groats to Lands End
20. Ski down a mountain.
21. Ride a gondola in Venice – Achieved 2007
22. See a wild snake – Achieved 2011
23. See a wild badger – Achieved 2013
24. See a wild bird of prey - Achieved
25. See a london show- Achieved X 3
26. Hike up the highest mountain in England – Achieved 2011
27. Hike up the highest mountain in Scotland
28. Hike up the highest mountain in Wales – Achieved 2013
29. Live long enough to see a grandchild (hopefully many)
30. Ride on a horse at a gallop
31. Swim across a lake (& back again) – Achieved, Coniston 1994
32. Shoot a magnum - Achieved 2007
33. Shoot a shotgun - Achieved 2007
34. See an opera - Achieved 2007, in Verona - La Boheme.
35. Visit Pompei – Achieved 2008
36. Visit the houses of Parliament, London – Achieved 2009
37. Go to Oktoberfest, Germany
38. Go to a music Festival
39. Go to all-night ‘Rave’ – Achieved several times ;o)
40. Compete in a Poker Tournament – Achieved 2010
41. Create a sculpture
or it might just depend what you choose to spend said money on 😉
Wife just bought this which is quite good fun.
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That Rover is absolutely stunning ......
Probably not that good to drive, however?
djglover - MemberNew fun, commuting, family car
On the £300/month lease deal by any chance? I know I'd be tempted...
Those 135i's are stunning value on lease deals at the minute. We were very tempted....
Where is this deal. Just about to buy a fiesta st and would look at this instead
The Audi Quattro (the actual one used) from ashes to ashes has just sold on ebay for 15 grand!
Jekkyl..Those things just run and run with no maintenance, they handle best with with one steering and one on the roof for ballast.
Where is this deal. Just about to buy a fiesta st and would look at this instead
They ended a couple of weeks ago when BMW stopped the subsidy.
Gateway2Lease and Central Vehicle Leasing were the main suppliers. You might get lucky with a cancelled order or alternatively Golf R's are £300ish on a 6+23.









































