Cheap older Q-Car for a dad who should know better

Ebodsky · 2004-05-23T11:32:30+00:00

Now my 6 yr old is hooked on fast&furious movies, it kinda got me thinkingthere must be a pile of 8-10year old q-cars available that youngsters simplycan't afford to insure ( tough I know , but we all go through it ! )Instead of blowing hundreds in PCs, I just wondered what kind of older buthi tech , hi revving cars can be found for 'hundreds of quid', that I couldafford to have as a project ( not a major re-build , but at least be able tokeep it off road whilst I tweeked it )Things I don't have in mind :-Corsas , Novas Astras and ford equivilants all associated with baseball capwearing pin-headsNothing that rotsThings I do :- Japanese coupes ( never owned Jap-car in 20 years of driving! ), Audi or anything euro turbo

May 23, 2004 42 Replies

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Simon Atkinson 22 years ago

I always reckon that the old Triumph Vitesse 2000 straight 6 was the perfect definition of a Q-Car.

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Grimly Curmudgeon 22 years ago

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Simon Atkinson" saying something like:

Ah, but those who knew them could distinguish them from the bog standard Herald.

Now, a Herald with a 2.5pi lump... (not mine)

A MK1 Cortina with an Essex... (mine)

A Sunbeam with an Essex... (not mine)

A Sunbeam with a Ti lump... (mine)

All provided much fun; but the best of the lot was a rusty old Mini of a mate which had some sort of full-on Janspeed lump heaved into it. Great glee.

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Darren Bastin 22 years ago

cheers guys

sounds good

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