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  • Classic car sub £2000
  • unfitgeezer
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    Something you can get in and just drive…

    Has to be pre 1992 !

    Volvo 240 estate ?

    monkeysfeet
    Free Member

    Saab 900, MG, older 5 series BMW, …

    wwaswas
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    Rarely, if ever, have the words ‘Volvo 240 Estate’ and ‘Classic Car’ been used in close proximity without any apparent irony 😉

    Do you just mean ‘old’?

    Prsonally, if I were looking for an estate I’d go for one of those big old Mercs.

    CaptainFlashheart
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    W123 Mercedes.

    When the world ends in a steaming nuclear inferno, three things will survive;
    Keith Richards (I mean, seriously, nothing can kill him, surely?)
    Cockroaches
    and W123 Mercs. They’ll still start first time as well.

    tinsy
    Free Member

    Something you can get in and just drive…

    Has to be pre 1992 !

    They dont go together too well either.

    Tom-B
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    Can a premier user please add the tag ‘classic Volvo for sale’ 😆

    monkeysfeet
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    This…http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C373646

    Reliant scimitar…nice.

    wwaswas
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    I’m so easily led, even by myself

    I want to buy this now.

    http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C341435

    bit more than the OP’s budget though.

    edlong
    Free Member

    With classics, you need to think about running costs / maintenance costs / parts cost probably more than purchase price.

    For that money you get a Porsche (decentish 924 or an okayish 944)or you could get a Mini. I doubt I need to tell you the likely difference in running costs.

    Apart from the example you gave, you’ve not said what you need to be able to do with said “classic” – if you need an estate car then I’d agree that an old Merc is the standout choice. If not, then maybe look at warm / hot hatches. Cheaper to look at less obvious brands, so Corollas, not Golfs etc..

    leggyblonde
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    Original mini. Loved mine

    Milkie
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    Classic sub £2K… Oh you mean a rust bucket!? 😯

    How about a classic mini? Wish I never got rid of mine. 😥

    I have been helping my friend get this ready for our trip to the Alps..

    Bit more than £2k tho. 😉

    CaptainFlashheart
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    I want to buy this now.

    That looks lovely!

    Mine looks like this.

    (Not my pic, but same colour/age)

    wwaswas
    Full Member

    thing is I know my wife likes them too so it’s not *just* a pointless bit of mid-afternoon dreaming.

    There’s a chance (albeit slim) I could own one. Darn.

    maxlite
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    Old mercs are lovely, new ones look terribly cheap and tacky

    unfitgeezer
    Free Member

    have had a jap classic mazda 323 gti 1990 great little car

    always liked the Volvo 240 estate !

    test drove a Mini today…bit small but fun !

    tinsy
    Free Member

    MX5? MGF?

    Cheap, loads about to choose from & fun.

    paulwilsonmtb
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    W123 Mercedes.

    The ones favoured in places like Africa because they’re impossible to kill?

    I agree. a proper luxury ‘classic’ car, not like a heap of shit Volvo.

    CaptainFlashheart
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    The ones favoured in places like Africa because they’re impossible to kill?

    Yep. Mine is affectionately referred to as the West African Taxi on many an occasion.

    wwaswas
    Full Member

    The only taxi I ever took in West Africa was in a Renault 4 in Ougadougou (sp?).

    It had no floor. The driver had a couple of planks of wood across so he could drive.

    It was like Fred Flinstones car, we’d all put our feet on the ground when he stopped and then try and lift them up at the right time when he set off again. It was well ventilated, though.

    joolsburger
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    Saab 900 turbo but good ones are getting quite pricey.

    MrOvershoot
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    I had one for years like this (not a left hooker or on a german plate though)

    Fantastic piece of engineering, rural roads covered in cow shit finally killed it in the end as the arse rusted out of it 🙁
    CFH I know what you mean about Taxi, picking up my girlfriend (now my wife) from Heathrow I had umpteen people try and flag me down at the terminal 😀

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