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04-28-2005, 12:35 AM
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Why not look into buying a Locost 7 replica, if your resourceful enough to source the parts, should keep you occupied for a few weeks and the results would be worth it.
04-28-2005, 12:43 AM
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MK2 Golf Gti (either 8 or 16v). It'd be that or the pug although the Golf is a lot better built & reliable so easier to find a good one. Bits are cheap too although avoid kev/chav'd up ones.
I had a 16v and it's top fun. light and chuckable and good performance (60 in 8 secs).
I had a 16v and it's top fun. light and chuckable and good performance (60 in 8 secs).
04-28-2005, 12:44 AM
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04-28-2005, 01:06 AM
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Originally Posted by craig armstrong,Apr 28 2005, 08:42 AM
They are as cheap as chips but I think Gad (like most oldies 
) has donned his rose tinted spectacles - the Mx5 will be far greater fun.
) has donned his rose tinted spectacles - the Mx5 will be far greater fun.
MX5 more fun than a Midget? Not necessarily so. I've driven both and they're different, but BOTH fun.
The Midget will be a DIY proposition in terms of keeping it on the road - and dirt cheap.
You might think the MX won't go wrong - but older ones will go wrong at some point and the parts situation is not as good either in terms of availability or price. And they are more complex.
But the reason that Z cannot have an MX5 is they are rapidly acquiring gay status.
MGs are driven by real men who drink real ale.
04-28-2005, 01:09 AM
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Originally Posted by gaddafi,Apr 28 2005, 09:06 AM
Gad will take the Pepsi challenge any day.........
MX5 more fun than a Midget? Not necessarily so. I've driven both and they're different, but BOTH fun.
The Midget will be a DIY proposition in terms of keeping it on the road - and dirt cheap.
You might think the MX won't go wrong - but older ones will go wrong at some point and the parts situation is not as good either in terms of availability or price. And they are more complex.
But the reason that Z cannot have an MX5 is they are rapidly acquiring gay status.
MGs are driven by real men who drink real ale.
MX5 more fun than a Midget? Not necessarily so. I've driven both and they're different, but BOTH fun.
The Midget will be a DIY proposition in terms of keeping it on the road - and dirt cheap.
You might think the MX won't go wrong - but older ones will go wrong at some point and the parts situation is not as good either in terms of availability or price. And they are more complex.
But the reason that Z cannot have an MX5 is they are rapidly acquiring gay status.
MGs are driven by real men who drink real ale.
04-28-2005, 01:12 AM
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Originally Posted by zero_to60,Apr 28 2005, 09:09 AM
do you need to grow a beard in order to drive an MG?
edit: this criterion ends at the MGB, circa 1980
04-28-2005, 01:13 AM
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Depends how much practicality you're after.
Classics are fine if you're a spanner man, because anything made before circa 1985 is a POS, and if it's British, a FPOS.
I would suggest a CRX or Civic VTi as being practical fun.
People tend to want big money for the few good VW GTis etc that are remaining. Corrados have recently been similarly discounted (or not discounted, in fact).
An MX-5 is a no-brainer, but it is really too close to the S2000 to be worth having. It'll just seem a bit crap.
I'd shy away from anything French or Italian (well, except for the obvious, but I believe you've been very fortunate with reliability!)
Classics are fine if you're a spanner man, because anything made before circa 1985 is a POS, and if it's British, a FPOS.
I would suggest a CRX or Civic VTi as being practical fun.
People tend to want big money for the few good VW GTis etc that are remaining. Corrados have recently been similarly discounted (or not discounted, in fact).
An MX-5 is a no-brainer, but it is really too close to the S2000 to be worth having. It'll just seem a bit crap.
I'd shy away from anything French or Italian (well, except for the obvious, but I believe you've been very fortunate with reliability!)