Weekend toy £25k

[JonMad]

Did they ever get that low? Sportsfits have hoovered around 60k for a while, but never saw manuals drop below £80.

If you're feeling brave, there's a manual for £60k but it's got 80k on it. It's not in the most appealing colour, either....but you know, V12.

I think we're detailing the £25k budget at this point as well

Manual V12 Aston under £25k you say? Easy - DB9: https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-detail ... 6103179696

I say easy but there aren't very many manuals compared to autos on Auto Trader.

One service in the last 7 years? (otherwise, V12, and an Aston, what's not to like)

[jamcg]

Here’s an off the wall suggestion - a low mileage classic: https://www.kgfclassiccars.co.uk/vehicles/35997/

I knew someone who had one. A fiesta crashed into it, and got wrote off- back when a write off was a write off and not just a broken headlight. The Yugo had a slightly bent bumper

[IanF]

I imagine you’d be lucky taking a Maser GT to a scrap heap.. it’d be a pile of bran flakes on the drive way before!

Aston/911/Maser have too much overlap.. just buy a proper Italian V12 and then at least the misery will be matched by the driving dynamics

[JonMad]

Here’s an off the wall suggestion - a low mileage classic: https://www.kgfclassiccars.co.uk/vehicles/35997/

there was one of those round my way when I was growing up.

[Rich B]

My sister had a white 513 (looked similar at the front - the Pug 309 to that one being the 205!) It was pretty awful, but seemed pretty bullet proof in a soviet steel kind of way.

[speedingfine]

Find a few grand and get this. Looks like the bloke's taken it to bed with him

https://www.carandclassic.com/l/C2087079

[Delphi]

One service in the last 7 years? (otherwise, V12, and an Aston, what's not to like)

But it was carried out by the internationally renowned Aston Martin specialist Great Horkesly Garage!

[Matty]

Find a few grand and get this. Looks like the bloke's taken it to bed with him

https://www.carandclassic.com/l/C2087079

That's lovely...alas, self servicing for 10 years plus no talk of a rebuild means it's be too much of a roll of the dice for me.

I spent far too much of my time the other night looking at LS3 converted TVRs after they were discussed here. That doesn't meet the £25k budget though....