Motoring Discussion > Anyone looking to spend £25k on a car?	Buying / Selling
Thread Author: TheManWithNoName	Replies: 32

New Mon 24 Sep 12 14:00   Anyone looking to spend £25k on a car? - TheManWithNoName

tinyurl.com/8jxftdh And it still has saggy rippled looking seats like a pair of old pants! Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 24 Sep 12 14:24   Anyone looking to spend £25k on a car? - Shiny

Maybe £1200 tops. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 24 Sep 12 14:56   Anyone looking to spend £25k on a car? - commerdriver

I'd rather have the one below it :-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 24 Sep 12 15:03   Anyone looking to spend £25k on a car? - WillDeBeest

I'm impressed that it's 'Not currently stolen'. I wonder if that status is updated in real time. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 24 Sep 12 15:09   Anyone looking to spend £25k on a car? - Armel Coussine

Steep price for what looks an immaculate car. That model was very quick indeed but its (also very quick) handling caught quite a few drivers out. It's a lot of money for a tweaked bread-and-butter jalopy. Not enough for a proper Talbot though, not for a runner anyway. I hoped the OP would be about one of those 'needing restoration'. No such luck. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 24 Sep 12 15:08   Anyone looking to spend £25k on a car? - Slidingpillar

Presumably you mean the Talbot Lotus Sunbeam? There must be very few survivors as they rightly acquired a name by about 1985/6 for rusting to bits. Someone I knew was offered one which must only have been about 5 years old at the time and really, wanted reshelling then. Goodness knows what it's really worth, other than the obvious "whatever somebody wants to pay". I believe they are a super car to drive, but for that money, you can get a seriously concours RS2000 and have some money over to keep it that way. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 24 Sep 12 15:17   Anyone looking to spend £25k on a car? - madf

Only 1150 right hand drive cars were built... And it used a rather unreliable Lotus engine (funny the ad does not mention it)... I would be surprised if the 1150were sold at anything like the full price. If it was a dog, its ancestry would be described as "mongrel" It's worth £5k for the engine and scrap for the body.. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 24 Sep 12 15:29   Anyone looking to spend £25k on a car? - Zero

>> It's worth £5k for the engine and scrap for the body.. Of course its not, the fact its still survived makes rocking horse sheet look common. Really, how many of those are still anywhere near tidy. It is of course, as above, worth what someone will pay for it, and if I had 10 grand pocket money and a dry garage I would home it. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 24 Sep 12 15:13   Anyone looking to spend £25k on a car? - Dog

Luvly injun. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 24 Sep 12 15:31   Anyone looking to spend £25k on a car? - Zero

How about this at 50 grand? www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110943142290&clk_rvr_id=390628217868 Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 24 Sep 12 15:53   Anyone looking to spend £25k on a car? - Dog

Nice car, albeit a left hooker, put in a bid for £10k on behalf of Humph's pension fund. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 24 Sep 12 15:54   Anyone looking to spend £25k on a car? - Zero

>> Nice car, albeit a left hooker, They all were, that was the only flavour. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 24 Sep 12 16:05   Anyone looking to spend £25k on a car? - R.P.

I was stopped by an unmarked Police one of these in Moss Side in 78 - I jumped a traffic light. Took a lot of sweet talking to get out of that. Two female Police Officers.... Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 24 Sep 12 16:24   Anyone looking to spend £25k on a car? - Zero

>> I was stopped by an unmarked Police one of these in Moss Side in 78 >> - I jumped a traffic light. Took a lot of sweet talking to get out >> of that. Two female Police Officers.... I had temporary custody of one for about three months in the late 70s, fabulous little motor. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 24 Sep 12 16:30   Anyone looking to spend £25k on a car? - No FM2R

>>I had temporary custody of one for about three months in You had your own police woman? Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 24 Sep 12 16:37   Anyone looking to spend £25k on a car? - Zero

>> >>I had temporary custody of one for about three months in >> >> You had your own police woman? Thats a whole different story and requires an 18 certificate. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 24 Sep 12 16:55   Anyone looking to spend £25k on a car? - Armel Coussine

>> Thats a whole different story and requires an 18 certificate. Zero and Rosa Kleb on the floor of a black maria... guh... Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 24 Sep 12 16:02   Anyone looking to spend £25k on a car? - henry k

>> How about this at 50 grand? >> >> www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110943142290&clk_rvr_id=390628217868 >> No takers for the Isettas? bmw Isetta 600 limo microcar. Is that the LWB version? or a pink one at what price??? Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 24 Sep 12 18:46   Anyone looking to spend £25k on a car? - Biggles

The foreign (Polish?) registration may be a deal breaker though. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 24 Sep 12 18:53   Anyone looking to spend £25k on a car? - Runfer D'Hills

I got severely spanked by one of those in the Trossachs one summer's night a very long time ago. I was in my Mk2 Cavalier Sri. he clearly wanted to, er, well, you know, "see who was quickest" and I didn't notice that it was the Lotus version...It was quick for the time. Very quick actually. Only reason I managed to stick with him for a while was that he was a bit of a feardie on the corners. You live and learn. :-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 24 Sep 12 19:16   Anyone looking to spend £25k on a car? - Fullchat

The Lotus was bit better handler 'out of the box' than the Escort at the time as you will see that it has a wheel at each corner. Made its mark on the rally circuit. stevemckelvie.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/talbot-sunbeam-lotus-rally-car/ The reg number of the vehicle featured in the article is very close to the one on offer. Last edited by: Fullchat on Mon 24 Sep 12 at 19:18 Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 25 Sep 12 11:34   Anyone looking to spend £25k on a car? - Mike Hannon

Some clown will pay for the Talbot. Look what the 30-year-rule has done to prices of souped-up tat like XR Fords that might have a bit of sporting history. Taken off the road at four years old? Have you had a look at the website? Looks like a right posh boys' palace. Strange to me that they've been in business all this time and I don't ever remember seeing an ad from them before. And Knaresborough? With the greatest respect to my friends from the North, what are they doing selling stock like that so far from the City of London? Years ago, in a coach on the way to a John Player League match at Scarborough my pal said 'I think we just passed a signpost that said Knackersbury'. Last edited by: VxFan on Tue 2 Oct 12 at 00:47 Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 25 Sep 12 11:46   Anyone looking to spend £25k on a car? - Focusless

Might be a bit slower, but £5.5k would get you a barely run-in XR3i: www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201238485385634 :) EDIT: ...and it's a Reading number; ooh I'm tempted... Last edited by: Focus on Tue 25 Sep 12 at 11:47 Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 25 Sep 12 11:56   Anyone looking to spend £25k on a car? - Zero

If thats as advertised.......... nice toy. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 25 Sep 12 12:33   Anyone looking to spend £25k on a car? - No FM2R

For no good reason that I can tell you, that car doesn't feel right. The Turbo sticker is strange - doesn't seem like the behaviour of the sort of person who would own that particular car - could have been stuck on by offspring I guess. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 25 Sep 12 12:46   Anyone looking to spend £25k on a car? - Focusless

>> The Turbo sticker is strange - doesn't seem like the behaviour of the sort of >> person who would own that particular car - could have been stuck on by offspring >> I guess. Yes, that did strike me as a bit odd. As mentioned previously my mum had a mk1 1.1 Fiesta, which was yellow. For some reason she let my sister put various stickers on it, at random places on the bodywork. Of course by the time mum came to sell it, all the paint except the patches under the stickers had faded. So when said stickers were removed, the effect was quite, er, interesting... Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 25 Sep 12 12:58   Anyone looking to spend £25k on a car? - TheManWithNoName

Regarding the OP, if you filter Autotrader to select other cars at £25k, there is an interesting collection including a Jensen Interceptor and a Masarati Marek. I know what I'd rather spend £25 big ones on. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 25 Sep 12 13:55   Anyone looking to spend £25k on a car? - Dog

>>Some clown will pay for the Talbot<< Thinking of putting my Lancer up for £19,950 - you never know :} Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 25 Sep 12 14:49   Anyone looking to spend £25k on a car? - Ted

I think you got a typo there Bonzo........didn't you mean £19.95 ? Ted Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 25 Sep 12 16:31   Anyone looking to spend £25k on a car? - Dog

Nah, itsa 2008. :) Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 25 Sep 12 16:34   Anyone looking to spend £25k on a car? - Zero

I thought it was a 1600? Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 25 Sep 12 16:59   Anyone looking to spend £25k on a car? - Dog

Just picked up my Lumix FZ200, part exed the Lumix G2, too complicated (for me) and the lenses are £mega. www.dpreview.com/products/panasonic/compacts/panasonic_dmcfz200 If you see mr knowitall, tell him he was right about bridge cameras IMO. Last edited by: Dog on Tue 25 Sep 12 at 17:01 Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 25 Sep 12 16:59   Anyone looking to spend £25k on a car? - Ted

1600 ? ....Wattle & daub with half timbering, then ? Ted Reply to this message | Report message