Cheap Car 'Project'

[Tyrone]

Now my 13 year old daughter has been bitten by the driving bug I have kind of promised to find her a car to drive (on private ground) and work on. Her ideal choice is a classic Mini. My ideal choice is something simple for less than £200.

[LazerBrain]

Tyrone - I've been keeping an eye on eBay for cheap cars for a banger rally. It's worth setting up a search for cars under, say £100. If it's for use on private ground then you don't need to worry about tax and MOT which opens up a lot of the bargain basement cars that are MOT failures - providing you can trailer it there.

 

In the last week or so there have been quite a few Fiestas, some small Fiats, Escorts and other smallish cars going for under a ton. I guess she isn't planning on keeping it going for 4 years to get it on the road...

 

cheers,

 

Darren.

[Tyrone]

Cheers Darren for the suggestion. The perfect solution would be a cheap road going Mini (So I can drive it to wherever) which we can carry out a rolling restoration on. But an MOT failure is more likely at the price I can afford. A crossflow engine car would also make sense for my limited knowledge and parts readily available in the garage 😬

[Grim Reaper]

I saw an old mini for sale at the garage on the bridge in Bainbridge the other day.

No idea if it was roadworthy or not but it's a nice drive out there to check it out

[Tom_C]

Tyrone, YHM

 

 

Cheers

 

Tom

 

FH54WLX - only the car supports ManU, honest!

 

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