OV9

McSwede wrote: Tue Jul 05, 2022 3:38 pm

Rich B wrote: Tue Jul 05, 2022 11:26 am £10k?

Awful cars, they belong in the scrap heap imo (coming from someone who's first car (well, my mums car that I drove) was a Maestro).

Correct. Spunking £1k on one would be too much

Is that how much a gallon of petrol and a box of matches costs in these insane times?

Get it bought

I'd quite like a to have a go in a MG Montego Turbo like my dad had when I was little, to see if it still feels as mental as it did when I was five, that was a quick car!

He still complains about how shit it was, even now all these years later if he sees anything related to it

He had a red 1.6L, a light blue 2.0 Vanden Plas and then a white MG one.

16vCento wrote: Tue Jul 05, 2022 4:10 pm Get it bought

I'd quite like a to have a go in a MG Montego Turbo like my dad had when I was little, to see if it still feels as mental as it did when I was five, that was a quick car!

He still complains about how shit it was, even now all these years later if he sees anything related to it

He had a red 1.6L, a light blue 2.0 Vanden Plas and then a white MG one.

this may explain some things...

16vCento wrote: Tue Jul 05, 2022 4:29 pm

My dad never had anything remotely cool when I was around, he did have a VW Fastback on twin 40's before I was born, but the best achieved when I was around was his Celica 1.8VVTi (when I'd left home), a MK3 Cortina 1.6XL, Talbot Horizon 1.3LS, MK2 Cavalier 1.6GL and Nissan Primera 1.6 Circuit were the bang average cars I was ferried around in as a kid and teen.

I've never had anything boring.

drcarlos wrote: Tue Jul 05, 2022 4:35 pm

16vCento wrote: Tue Jul 05, 2022 4:29 pm

My dad never had anything remotely cool when I was around, he did have a VW Fastback on twin 40's before I was born, but the best achieved when I was around was his Celica 1.8VVTi (when I'd left home), a MK3 Cortina 1.6XL, Talbot Horizon 1.3LS, MK2 Cavalier 1.6GL and Nissan Primera 1.6 Circuit were the bang average cars I was ferried around in as a kid and teen.

I've never had anything boring.

My dad had mainly 2litre rep mobiles that he bought at about 5 years old and ran them til they died (apart from his yellow SD1!) He never had a BMW or even anything German, yet I'm a big BMW fan - which started with an E30 I wasn't really planning to buy.

what's your car history?

I'm not sure how cool a MG Montego ever was tbh

My dad had some interesting stuff, Granada 2.8i Ghia X, some sort of sporty Kadett, Cavalier 16v, Escort 1.8 16v LXi which was pretty much a 5 door XR3i, Xantia Activa and more I can't remember.

He had some proper bad stuff too, Marina, Allegro, Lada Riva, Sierra 1.8, Mondeo 1.8td to name a few!

Better than his current Kadjar in my kind, but the way things are, the Kadjar is probably quicker than most of them!

Rich B wrote: Tue Jul 05, 2022 4:46 pm

drcarlos wrote: Tue Jul 05, 2022 4:35 pm

16vCento wrote: Tue Jul 05, 2022 4:29 pm

My dad never had anything remotely cool when I was around, he did have a VW Fastback on twin 40's before I was born, but the best achieved when I was around was his Celica 1.8VVTi (when I'd left home), a MK3 Cortina 1.6XL, Talbot Horizon 1.3LS, MK2 Cavalier 1.6GL and Nissan Primera 1.6 Circuit were the bang average cars I was ferried around in as a kid and teen.

I've never had anything boring.

My dad had mainly 2litre rep mobiles that he bought at about 5 years old and ran them til they died (apart from his yellow SD1!) He never had a BMW or even anything German, yet I'm a big BMW fan - which started with an E30 I wasn't really planning to buy.

what's your car history?

After the Maestro, Volvo 480 Turbo, Civic EG VTi, Mk1 CRX-16v, Granada Scorpio 2.9 (owned at the same time as the CRX), Civic EK VTi, L200 Strada, Accord Type-R, Mecedes A160 (owned at the same time as the Accord while I waited for a clutch on backorder for it), Civic MB VTi, Fabia VRS, Saab 9-3 Aero 2.0T, Saab 9-3 Aero V6T Wagon, Subaru Hawkeye WRX, currently L200 Barbarian and TVR Chimaera.

That's a lot of fwd-love!

Rich B wrote: Tue Jul 05, 2022 5:43 pm That's a lot of fwd-love!

I know, but when I did RWD I wanted to do it properly with maximum danger .

http://www.4starclassics.com/for-sale/v ... -for-sale/

^ Ooh, wonder if it's one of the Mr. & Mrs. ones from way back when. G60 LTD was one, can't remember the other, maybe G6 OVW (?). Certainly not common.

https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/tg19 ... zer/789626
https://www.classicdriver.com/en/car/po ... 958/694519
https://www.hemmings.com/stories/2007/0 ... he-kreuzer

A kit replica would do (I've long regretted not buying an on-the-road kit 356 coupe for £4000 many moons ago I still my eye open for a Banham 550 but on the rare occasion one does pop up the prices seem to be £toomuch).

Today's risky money pit want:



£2,750, 103k miles. What could possibly go wrong...
Clicky

Surely not much if you’re not getting one of the big engines?

Seems like a decent cheap barge.

Yeah, and you can use cheap Bentley parts when it breaks... oh.

There's a guy on Boatshoes that bought a high mileage 3L TDi one of those. Might be worth a read for inspiration/sanity checking.

I fancied one of those a while back. I can’t remember why as I had no need for such a car..

Think it was a ‘lot of car for the money’ type things.

https://collectingcars.com/for-sale/1993-bmw-e34-m5

Oh yeah, love the e34