Well, everyone around here seems to be opinionated so I thought I'd throw this in for you all to argue about and cut me to bits ;)
My old Pug 305 is, frankly, incredibly tired and I've come to the conclusion it needs something near to a full restoration to sort it out. So, I wanna take it off the road, ditch my other old 305 GR which is rusting to nothingness instead of being restored and buy something else. Now, I'm not in the mood for anything a) expensive (because I wanna spend money on the
305), or b) boring . So, I've been looking around and stumbled across the old Audi-engined Porsche 924. Seems to be plenty around for next-to-nothing, they have a galvanised shell and share some components with VWs. Saw a 1985 model for under a grand. Dent in front wing, driver's door has dropped and seems to be leaking a bit of water. It also has the worst stripes across it I've ever seen in my life. On the plus side, the 67900 miles on the clock seem to be geniune, the engine runs very well and a test drive didn't show up any noises at all. It was a very, very, nice ride. I figure I can sort out the downsides relatively easily and run it over the summer. Insurance is pretty good for me as well. The only problem is, after the test drive, I just kept saying 'yes, it's very nice'... hmmm... 'nice'. I really wanted to be able to say 'whoa! this car ROCKS!!'.. but, frankly, I guess for under a grand I can't complain. Any thoughts, suggestions for other forms of cheap sporty transport that'll do the daily commute?Cheers,
Chris.