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Bought the car in '99 for £2500

Between then and Nov' 2006 Probably spent about £1500 on various bits and pieces, new head, twin carbs, new suspension etc

Between Nov' 06 and Jan 07 about £4500 for cossie engine and all the other bits.

Total so far £8500.......which I don't think is too bad for what I've got, granted it's a lot of money though.

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I reckon I owe my car.... It has got me everywhere I want to go for the last 8 or so years in style and probably still cost less than a modern pile of crap if you include depreciation

 

^^^ agree completely!!

 

i've had my car for 2 years now. first couple of months she stayed with a mate (thanks Steve) as I had no where to put her...

 

car cost £150...

 

paid about £100 to have her delivered (paid in parts)

 

i guess i've spent about £100 on service parts, and yesterday spent £70 on 2 tyres...

 

Essex Boy and my son got her MOT'd for my Xmas pressie - i don't know how much that cost them

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Not much!!!

£400 for the car

£250ish for the wheels & tyres

£20ish for halfords satin black

£60 for a rad

A bloody billy bargain I reckon, although it the mo it has no MOT and needs a new prop so I recon that figure will be goin' up :shock:

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You still after a prop for one, thought you had it sorted, Ive got two from 1600X-Flows with good Universal joints if you require one.

 

As for my current resto Mk3 2 door.

 

Car - £2000 :shock: could have had cheaper but I wanted an unmessed with, original, solid shell.

 

Respray/body resto and a few shell mods, somewhere in the region of £1500 - 2000.

 

Swaymar 3.0 V6 - Came from a car i broke but easily 1500.

 

Not even going to go any further, I recon 7/8,000 all in more possibly.

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You still after a prop for one, thought you had it sorted, Ive got two from 1600X-Flows with good Universal joints if you require one.

 

 

I got myself a single piece porop just need to get new ends on it - cheers though!

Posted

just over £23k :shock: but it was over nine years so thats about £2555 a year and i wasted a lot of money on things i dident need :? still worth it to me now its finished :D

Posted

bet it has cost me less over the seven years ive had it than first year's depreciation and interest for a fook us bought with borrowed money. Which is nowhere nearly as cool as any leafsprung rwd ford

 

So dont ask what your osf ows you, but what you ow your osf

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mines probably further from being completed now than when i brought it and i bet its cost about £6k so far - keep buying things i dont need though - i dont wanna sell them though in case i want them in the future. but it'll be worth it in the end :D:D - just dont tell the missus

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About £400 overall and its not finished yet but i was a lucky bugger and got the car for free :D

 

I had to drag it out of a jungle basically which was quite interesting :lol::lol:

 

I think once ive finished it it'll ow me a grand :D

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lost track really but including buying the car, around 5 1/2 - 6K :?

it gets expensive just sorting out a new engine with all the little ancilleries to get etc. Just getting the little things add up, like when you order a part from rally design for instance, you then get slapped with the VAT and P+P!!

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Escort.

 

Car = Free

Panels prob £80

Wheels & ghia seats plus other sundries robbed from a dead ghia = £20

Calipers discs servicing etc £100-200ish

Probably £20 in rattlecan primer

£30 for a twinchoker

and £20 on a gasket set when I blew the head gasket

So virtually naff all in the 5 years Ive had it

 

Cortina

Cost = £600

Brakes = £100

Still to go - set of doors, a service and a lick and polish for summer

 

Motoring on the cheap :wink:

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