It was only Vauxhall scrap.@Stu Beck that poor nova
It was only Vauxhall scrap.@Stu Beck that poor nova
HoyyyyyyyyIt was only Vauxhall scrap.
I don't see the problem. Yes the prices are plain nuts to the likes of joe average ( me ) but lets be real. ALL of us have had the opportunity to buy these cars when they were either cheap or even for the best lowest mileage examples, completely affordable. Truth is i didn't. Why? Because i was enjoying other marques and these things just weren't on my radar. A few years ago i took a notion, did some searching and summised, did i really want to spend 20+k on a car i could have had for less than half of that within the last 10 years. The easy answer was no. Iv'e done very well out of old car ownership with all my cars trebling and in one case increasing ten fold so i have no right to gripe. Wev'e all missed the boat in our own way, never has our financial obsession with cars been so great. We tend to covet the value ( or potential increase in value ) and completley miss the point of what the car is.
Find a car that meets your expectations , use it, get your hands dirty and enjoy the hell out of it.
Plenty of class stuff at 15/20 years old right now that's still got a load of life left in it, perfectly enjoyable / driveable. Falls between the iPhone generation and the old schoolers, is totally out of fashion for everyone and therefore cheap as chips. Best enjoyed and passed on without regret or worrying about trying to make a fortune out of it.
Suppose it's a bit like the MK3/4 escorts of 10 years ago really. Used to be able to get really good (albeit basic) ones for hundreds. MK2 Golfs too.
Mate of mine has an old Ford and stopped using it about 5/6 years ago because it had got too valuable. Was the same car he's had for 20 years, bought 2nd hand from a dealer in Belfast and sat parked in the street since. One of thousands at the time but now rare enough and after light restoration is basically an unused garage ornament he's afraid to use because he couldn't afford to buy another. Kinda blew my mind that he didn't want to drive it because it was now worth a fortune.
Why would you even bother, sad way to own a car.
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I was at an auction a month or so back looking for a cheap van to use for moving house. There were a lot of ex Police vans there that I thought would go cheap. How wrong I was. Sure they were low mileage - the Toyota had only 35k on it but it was smokey and 2005 with no MOT. In case you can’t see it the hammer price for that was £3150 plus 30% commission and VAT. It just kept going and going.
The price of second hand cars and vans in general seems to have gone crazy.
Not much if the old fords handle or braked well to be honest about it, a cossie would have seen what way an evo or impreza went on a B road. It’s the RS heritage and nostalgia that’s commanding the money imo.
Tbh, putting the price aside, a lot of the older stuff I’d actually be embarrassed to be seen in, back in the day yes, they where the thing to be seen in, today not so much! Lol
I remember when I couldn’t wait for max power to come out and see what I wanted to plaster on my car next, I don’t look foward to max power just as much theses days.
Same here, i was literally at Santa Pod every weekend.Never bought a copy either, never went to a cruise. Any spare time I had, I was out spectating at various forms of motorsport or building some form of sleeper.
Tbh, putting the price aside, a lot of the older stuff I’d actually be embarrassed to be seen in
I remember my cousin having one of these in the late 80s, I used to duck down even then, for fear of my mates seeing me in it! Drove it like he stole it, I’ll swear the body used to float out over the rear wheels when we where tanking it around corners! Should have had a stennaline sticker on the side.
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