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Re: Best/worst £100 cars.
« Reply #15 on: 02 November 2010, 22:21:38 »

Never bought a car that cheap .. Maybe I should go buy this just so I can qualify: http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1288727098

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Re: Best/worst £100 cars.
« Reply #16 on: 02 November 2010, 22:33:12 »

This one seems tempting for me...  Just need a way of getting it all home...  :-/
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Re: Best/worst £100 cars.
« Reply #17 on: 02 November 2010, 23:31:54 »

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I bought an 850 cc mini for £25. needed head gasket and the little bypass rubber hose.

It was taxed and MOT'd. ran it for quite a while. One day , There was a note on the windscreen saying did I want to sell the number plate. MHG 325  -   YES. sold car complete for mega money (3 figs) The new owner even drove me home in his BMW.

Best £100 car was a Lotus Cortina which I ran for nearly a year. Advertised it in Classic Car and a punter in Italy offered me £600. He was a collector and restorer of Lotus cars. He tried to arrange collection while one of his cars was being delivered to the factory. It fell through so he wired me £100 for my trouble. No trouble. I broke the car and shen everything had gone a guy turned up and took the shell and logbook for a guaranteed £100  ,without even viewing, regardless of what state it was in.   
How the hell did you get a Lotus Cortina for £100????
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Re: Best/worst £100 cars.
« Reply #18 on: 03 November 2010, 00:13:42 »

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I bought an 850 cc mini for £25. needed head gasket and the little bypass rubber hose.

It was taxed and MOT'd. ran it for quite a while. One day , There was a note on the windscreen saying did I want to sell the number plate. MHG 325  -   YES. sold car complete for mega money (3 figs) The new owner even drove me home in his BMW.

Best £100 car was a Lotus Cortina which I ran for nearly a year. Advertised it in Classic Car and a punter in Italy offered me £600. He was a collector and restorer of Lotus cars. He tried to arrange collection while one of his cars was being delivered to the factory. It fell through so he wired me £100 for my trouble. No trouble. I broke the car and shen everything had gone a guy turned up and took the shell and logbook for a guaranteed £100  ,without even viewing, regardless of what state it was in.   
How the hell did you get a Lotus Cortina for £100????

You Broke a Lotus Cortina? :o >:( :'(

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Re: Best/worst £100 cars.
« Reply #19 on: 03 November 2010, 00:16:23 »

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I bought an 850 cc mini for £25. needed head gasket and the little bypass rubber hose.

It was taxed and MOT'd. ran it for quite a while. One day , There was a note on the windscreen saying did I want to sell the number plate. MHG 325  -   YES. sold car complete for mega money (3 figs) The new owner even drove me home in his BMW.

Best £100 car was a Lotus Cortina which I ran for nearly a year. Advertised it in Classic Car and a punter in Italy offered me £600. He was a collector and restorer of Lotus cars. He tried to arrange collection while one of his cars was being delivered to the factory. It fell through so he wired me £100 for my trouble. No trouble. I broke the car and shen everything had gone a guy turned up and took the shell and logbook for a guaranteed £100  ,without even viewing, regardless of what state it was in.   
How the hell did you get a Lotus Cortina for £100????

You Broke a Lotus Cortina? :o >:( :'(

Kevin
No, he sold the chassis number and log book, think about it..... ;)
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Re: Best/worst £100 cars.
« Reply #20 on: 03 November 2010, 00:22:25 »

Bloke across the road from me has a lovely example which he races. His next door neighbour has a beautiful mk1 escort RS1600, big arches etc. which he rallies. Im obviously in the wrong job. ::) :'(
Best sub £100 car I bought was a 1991 24v Senator, about 7 years ago. Paid £15 for it. Local useless mechanic had condemned it for a few faults which took about an hour to fix.
I kept it on the drive in case I needed any spares for my own Senny, but I never needed anything from it, and it eventually rotted to the point where it was realistically beyond repair.
When my own car failed its MOT due to serious tinworm I had to watch both of them being loaded one on top of the other onto the back of a truck and taken down the scrappy.
Heartbreaking. :'(
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« Reply #21 on: 03 November 2010, 07:55:05 »

hillman imp california, omg am i that old lol, my 1st car i paid £40 for, engine in rear, loads of understeer  :D drum brakes  ;D omg did i really do that  ;D :o
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« Reply #22 on: 03 November 2010, 11:16:36 »

I bought a 1997 1.3 fiesta off a mate who was going to scrap it,two tyres and a patch on the sill and it now has 12 months ticket and the best bit was that he threw in the panasonic stereo and disc changer with it, all for £70 :D :y
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« Reply #23 on: 03 November 2010, 13:32:30 »

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I bought an 850 cc mini for £25. needed head gasket and the little bypass rubber hose.

It was taxed and MOT'd. ran it for quite a while. One day , There was a note on the windscreen saying did I want to sell the number plate. MHG 325  -   YES. sold car complete for mega money (3 figs) The new owner even drove me home in his BMW.

Best £100 car was a Lotus Cortina which I ran for nearly a year. Advertised it in Classic Car and a punter in Italy offered me £600. He was a collector and restorer of Lotus cars. He tried to arrange collection while one of his cars was being delivered to the factory. It fell through so he wired me £100 for my trouble. No trouble. I broke the car and shen everything had gone a guy turned up and took the shell and logbook for a guaranteed £100  ,without even viewing, regardless of what state it was in.   
How the hell did you get a Lotus Cortina for £100????

You Broke a Lotus Cortina? :o >:( :'(

Kevin

I am afraid to say that I have been responsible for the untimely deaths of quite a few cars that woiuld now be described as classics and that I would now love to still own. Endless Mini Cooper S's (Mk1's) including two 970's Worth more in parts. The Lotus Cortina was a Mk1 and even had the desirable(?) A frame rear suspension as opposed to the normal cart springs. Of course this was a hundred years ago when a hundred pounds would also buy a new 3 bed semi or 2000 mars bars. ;D ;D

Now I would never dream of breaking a car but I am still looking for another mini facelift Elite in reasonable mechanical condition not bothered about the bodywork!!
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