Classic car purchase

colino

Can I suggest you don't waste such a large amount of money on a car? Seriously, as someone who turns a fair coin on such things there are three types of buyers. First are, "investors" who will take their cash pile to any shark convincing them that Fine Wines, Whiskies, Art or Cars are inflation proof. They will be disappointed.
There are the interested wealthy, who now have the cash to buy what was the car of their dreams when they were kids and after a lifetime of modern, reliable, unfussy excellence, discover the realities of collectors cars. They will be disappointed.
The third set is the delightful people who are enthusiasts of a marque. They will know more about them than the seller and either have the tinkering abilities themselves or have the money and the contacts to maintain and improve them. They are a joy to do business with and will be content.
By such a wide spread of potential buys on your short leet, I'm hazarding a guess you are not part of group three. Buy a £5k Bentley as a half-way house to get it out your system, insure it cheaply as a classic and pass it on next year.
Incidentally, you do know why they are called collectors cars? It's because you have to stop every so often to collect up the expensive bits that have fallen off.

Spicy_McHaggis

marcarm wrote: »

https://www.silverstoneauctions.com/1991-bmw-e30-m3-5018

https://www.silverstoneauctions.com/1994-ford-escort-cosworth-20-luxury

https://www.silverstoneauctions.com/1986-ford-sierra-rs-cosworth-5033

Would be my choices from the list they have, but if it were me I would be going older for a Mk1 Escort or preferably a Mk2 Escort Mexico or RS2000.

I can't believe how much more powerful those cars were above the average 80s saloon car. Yet when you compare the Sierra to one of today's top end oil burner it's hardly a performance car.

If I were going Ford it would be a mk1 Mexico or a mk2 RS2000.

Spicy_McHaggis

atrixblue.-MFR-. wrote: »

Timing belt change is not expensive as it easily got at about 1 hours labor in a garage.


Body work like everyone other person out there who don't know anything about spraying will have to pay a competent garage to do it like everyone else who owns a classic or modern car. There is one company out there who makes a pattern metal panels for the RS IIRC.


as for the rest sounds like your butt hurt form being proven to the contrary.

Do you know the difference between a classic and an end of its life performance car?

I'll give you a clue, you won't have worked on a classic in your shell suit on a HA driveway.

---lee---

When I first started looking at nice condition Mercedes R107's a few years ago, they were affordable. They have now steadily moved out of my price range. Wish I had bought one then. Something like an SL350 or 280 would make a great daily driver in the summer months.

onomatopoeia99

RWD Escorts will only appreciate, especially the two door models, as there is a dwindling supply and the shells keep getting destroyed on stage rallies.

Alternatively, for something completely different, how about a 993?

Citroen DS excepted, I have difficulty seeing anything front wheel drive as a classic.

loskie

Caterham or Lotus Elise. Look after them and they will be depreciation free although as with any car there will be annual costs. Or a Landrover Defender

atrixblue.-MFR-.

Spicy_McHaggis wrote: »

Do you know the difference between a classic and an end of its life performance car?

I'll give you a clue, you won't have worked on a classic in your shell suit on a HA driveway.

pride hurt? someone buy it a tissue!

andygb

Spicy_McHaggis wrote: »

Do you know the difference between a classic and an end of its life performance car?

I'll give you a clue, you won't have worked on a classic in your shell suit on a HA driveway.

It sounds like you are the one who doesn't have a clue.
I taught myself back in the seventies/eighties with Haynes manuals. I worked on loads of classics on a driveway, constructed an outdoor spray booth with washing line and polythene sheeting. I borrowed engine hoists, rebuilt cylinder heads, and bought a second hand MIG welder, and learnt to use it and weld sills on in a weekend.
Cars from the eighties and before were easy to work on.

pulliptears

Depending on your plans for the car the delorean could tick over itself. Seen a few of these at fetes and comic Con style shows where owners charge a couple of quid for back to the future photos and they do a roaring trade. 2015 is an important year in the BTTF trilogy so you might make enough to keep it serviced.

A friend of dh's takes his to shows and people were clamoring for pictures, he doesn't charge but is now considering it to help pay for the upkeep.

andygb

This is way under budget, but I think it will appreciate. It is in the right colour and doesn't lack performance.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201502040691163/sort/default/postcode/me158hb/engine-size-cars/3l_to_3-9l/onesearchad/used%2Cnearlynew%2Cnew/usedcars/radius/1501/maximum-age/up_to_7_years_old/model/spider/make/alfa_romeo/quicksearch/true/page/1/fuel-type/petrol?logcode=p

Then again you could go for something like this, if Quentin Wilson on the Classic Car Show is to be believed.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201411219148984/sort/default/postcode/me158hb/onesearchad/used%2Cnearlynew%2Cnew/model/mulsanne/make/bentley/quicksearch/true/page/1/radius/1501/usedcars?logcode=p