I know how lovely everybody is here. (slight sarcasm) Could some of you find me any car in the East sussex area of England for £150 or under. I have looked and not much luck and I know how useful some of you are. I want to muck around with my mates in it on some private land so yeah. Thanks
I turned up nothing in my search. Got any scrapyards nearby? Might be lucky to find a runner they'll part with or a parts donor car that itself can be repaired and made to run. Failing that, you can always come away with some cool gizmos.
Yep there is a scrapyard "Ripleys" which I am hopefully going to some day next week. Hope there is a runner! - - - Updated - - - Just found this. Seems legit. (imported from here)
Unless you go through friends you aren't going to get anything youy can be reasonably trusting of below £350. Even then, I ended up with a mid 90's FIAT Panda and you may not do much better than a crappy hatch. Reliable because they're so shit, and they're so shit that I hate them.
If Jeremy Clarkson is able to get a working Volvo for 1 pound, I'm pretty sure you could find something. (He said that he was at a scrapyard or something where someone was going to pay to get rid of a car and he offered 1 pound for it.)
I guess living in the bohemialand gives me some good advantges. I found this, for 5000 czk (~150 gbp) and it looks like a good deal. no outside rust, below 200k km, and it is in a legal running state, if i would need a car this would do. Its a french car fromthe 90's, i know, but still... and then i found dozens and dozens cars between 150 and 350 gbp, many being a good deal just like that renault. and the best deal for 350 gbp (~12000 czk) was this this. You get 2.0,84kw engine and air conditioning just for that little fotrune, and there isn't major rust included. that thing is mint. Again, fully legal and driveable.
Someone wanted to get rid of it at a scrapyard or something but they would have to pay like 250 pounds so Jeremy's friend who was there offered 1 pound for the car.
I wish we had $250 cars in the US. Cheapest running cars here are about (there are definitely exceptions) $1000 (615 gpb).
There are alot of non runners very cheap which are easy to repair but they don't have MOT's so no tax and not legal to drive. Like these: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2004-Volk...5170873?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item23410c2739 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vauxhall-...5466092?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item5d50144c6c http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2004-VAUX...0?pt=UK_Commercial_Trucks&hash=item2595ce38a2 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BREAKING-...9818379?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item20eb7d6a0b
I'd say in the UK £500 is probably the amount of money required so that on any given day you could wake up and be able to purchase a running car without too much effort. You can get them for less, my first car was £400 and in pristine running order, got a mate that paid £300 for a farm runabout vehicle, but thats the point where I'd say its going to get a little harder to track something down. Below £300, that is going to be very difficult and if you find a runner that cheap it probably won't pass an MOT. - - - Updated - - - You can take out a statutory off road notification with the DVLA (SORN), it will no longer be road legal and its a PITA getting a SORN'ed vehicle to be unSORN'ed, but tax, insurance and MOT will no longer be required on the vehicle at all. From there. Its private land. You can drive whatever you want on private land with the landowners permission. No licensing required. Even SORN'ed vehicles. If you're not going to drive it on-road again then getting a SORN on it would be the best approach. Then you can drive it around on this private land without worrying about your tax, MOT and insurance. From those links. The Astra van only needs a new timing belt. I hate vauxhalls but £150 for a near runner. The ford KA it specifically states is not an ad for the whole vehicle. THe caddy I get the impression is like the KA and is literally being broken for parts. The Tigra, might also be worth a look at.
Statutory Off Road Notification. Its a document that can be arranged with the DVLA to state that the vehicle is no longer used on the road and is either not being used at all or being used on private land outside of DVLA jurisdiction. With a SORN there is no longer any requirement to maintain road tax, MOT or insurance. However as soon as a vehicle with a SORN sticks a tyre onto an actual government owned road again and the police catch you, well say goodbye to the car, say goodbye to your license even and say goodbye to a load of money in your wallet. If it is a car that is going to be abused on a farm somewhere but not actually going to be driven on the road ever again, SORN makes perfect sense.
Wish you luck in finding a field car, some of my best memories as a kid (not that long ago) were with my friends in the various cars ive owned over the years. I was lucky in that some of my family owned a garaqe, so i would sometimes get MOT fails to use until they are ruined. But other times i would browse the local buying and selling paper, dont know if theres one where you live. Or check gumtree, thats where i got the last two, some good deals there. Heres a few examples of the kind of cars you can get. Each car had something i loved, except the Corsa. It was a bit shit. £120 (i think, very long time ago, i never payed for it) £70, turned out to be hugely reliable and bulletproof, after a year of abuse it got MOT'd again and used for 2 years on the road £150, was so good while it lasted. Desperately want another one, road legal this time! Free, was glad when a friend wrecked it... ...Meant i got this instead. Diesel, was bulletproof. Still have these two: Bought this purely for the wheels, (winters for my Ford SportKa) Got this for £130 this summer, was road legal for a week or so, great fun! Used for dogs at the farm now.
