fluke wrote:
SO i am looking for something fun, fairly quick and cheap so i can have 292 off of the road for some serious TLC but i cant find anything i fancy...
How quick and how cheap?... and what do you need it for?
A Mk1 Focus 1.8 Zetec is very practical and a cracking drive for something so mundane so would be my choice at below a grand for example
I got into this "bangernomics" phemomanon a few years ago when I was running a Porsche 993 as my daily driver. Like you I felt I was killing the car, and my wallet, with the dreary have to do motoring, and while the car could do it it just seemed a waste of it's talents. My first banger was an old Saab 900 (£300 from eBay) which was an inspired choice as it cost me next to nothing to run for 2 yrs. Saving the special car for real occassions and the more interesting journeys makes driving it feel more of an event as well... "familiarity breeds contempt" and all that. Be careful though the temptation to upgrade the banger is also hard to resist. I'm now on a 2001 E430 Merc Estate.
The argument against the superior economy of weasel (diesel) power for the daily beater is hard to resist but I'm so anti the devils fuel I continue to rebel against that one
Cheers
Mark