Still possible??

[nick69]

Is it still possible to buy a classic yank with mot for around £1k?

Now im talking a beater, and pre 70, ideally but def' pre 80.

I wanna buy my old man a car but have limited budget, i need to keep a few thousand aside for repairs on said car but to make it viable the car needs to be as cheap as possible.

Im coming over early 2011 so thats the time scale.

Oh and before someone says anything, just under 3 years ago I bought a 67 Dodge Dart for less so it used to be possible.
Is it still? anyone?

[philoldsmobile]

I'd say very very very unlikely, at the moment there is absolutely nothing on ebay that matches your criteria.... £1k gets something utterly dire like a chevy cavalier or a beaten to death 4 cylinder fiero

there are a few currently inder £1k, but i'd expect all of these to end well over £1000 there are currently a couple of thirdgns at £1k, but they will go up, and there are a couple of fiero 2.5's  - one cheap as chips but a non runner, the other tidy, buy it now £795

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http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1980-CHEVROLET-GMC-CAMARO-YELLOW-NOT-SWAPS-/220660394386?pt=Automobiles_UK#ht_557wt_933\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1980-CHEVROLET-GMC-CAMARO-YELLOW-NOT-SWAPS-/220660394386?pt=Automobiles_UK#ht_557wt_933

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I remember the days when something like that caprice would fetch no more then £795, and it wasn't that long ago!!

I was once offered the oldsmobile version of this (cutlass) at £150!! but having a better cutlass at the time it seemed expensive for something i didn't want..

This is by no means unusually expensive now. (well it wouldn't be if it weren't rotten as a pear)

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[nick69]

Hey Phil, it sure does seem the Classic car market in the UK has changed in the last 3 years.

[philoldsmobile]

oh yes, it definitely has.  

try finding a mk2 escort... when I were a lad (well, 17 or 18 years old) you could pick them up anywhere for a couple of hundred quid, ditto capris.. then one day they were all gone.

isn't it about 4am in Canada right now?

[Incursus]

I'm sure Deans Eldorado was less than £500

Saying that I sold my 72 Duster as a rolling Chassis with more filler than metal for £800  bought it as a runner for £1200 four years previously!

[nick69]

Yeah its almost 3am, cant sleep!! Its the start of Moose Mating season and they make so much bloody noise!!!

[nick69]

Quoting: Incursus

Saying that I sold my 72 Duster as a rolling Chassis with more filler than metal for £800 bought it as a runner for £1200 four years previously!

Yeah ive had some decent finds over the years, and your Duster had a lot in common with my Dart lol

[philoldsmobile]

Quoting: nick69

Oh and before someone says anything, just under 3 years ago I bought a 67 Dodge Dart for less so it used to be possible.

RK Signed on as Phillis

I brought the same car ten years ago for £75 !!

I brought the '85 Eldo for £400 - sold it for £900 IIRC.

[nick69]

The guy that bought that dart from me has fully restored it

nutter
It was held together by starbucks coffee cans lol

[art b]

Quoting: nick69

It was held together by starbucks coffee cans lol

that,ll be deano......

[Roadkill]

Quoting: nick69

The guy that bought that dart from me has fully restored it  

Now THAT must've been an epic !!

Quoting: nick69

It was held together by starbucks coffee cans lol

I did make up some Stainless plates to go in the trunk floor when my brother had it before me . . . .

Wow.  That was . . . . twelve years ago, now . . . ?

[nick69]

Yeah he lived/lives in Bristol, it didnt have the same appeal. Did you see it after I finished it?

Saying that I found my old Cougar for sale too, not to my taste but hey!

[Roadkill]

Quoting: nick69

Did you see it after I finished it?

Yeah, saw it matt black.

Saw your work on the dash, too . . .

[art b]

Quoting: nick69

Saying that I found my old Cougar for sale too, not to my taste but hey!

yup its up for sale on the aaci forum....

i see steves seen it already....


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