Now thats a tidy motor..
The Northern Monkey
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Buy a clapped out old motor for a grand tops, spend £400-500 on a real good car detailer, sell for £11k+
Good work.0 -
"Serious enquiries only please."
Yeah, can I have two please?
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Some peoples idea of what things are worth truely amaze me.
You can nearly buy a brand new one of them for that price! I hope no poor sod buys that.0 -
Where the hell can you buy a brand new Pug 205 GTi?MountainMonster wrote:Some peoples idea of what things are worth truely amaze me.
You can nearly buy a brand new one of them for that price! I hope no poor sod buys that.0 -
yeehaamcgee wrote:
Where the hell can you buy a brand new Pug 205 GTi?MountainMonster wrote:Some peoples idea of what things are worth truely amaze me.
You can nearly buy a brand new one of them for that price! I hope no poor sod buys that.
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Ah my bad i only looked at pictures shortly and nothing else, thought it was a golf gti haha0
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Thing is low mileage classics in superb condition are worth money.
It's probably the most desirable hot hatch (unless you are a Golf fan), and most have been written off, modified, or rusted away.
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Nah the most desirable was a 205 t16... watched an original go for over 45k on ebay about a year ago.
MMM T16.
I do love a 205.0 -
Ads like these never fail to amaze me. It's right that there's not many cars like these left, and to find one in immaculate condition is like gold dust. And of course there'll always be an avid collector somewhere with a wallet far too big for his pants. So how do you price something that is almost extinct?
What fascinates me, is that just a few years ago, they were ten a penny. And I'm not talking mid 90s. I mean literally about 5 years ago. Pick up the auto trader, and there's 10. All under 1k.
Of course, most of them have been ragged into a state of despair, so every so often a good example comes up, maybe 1.5k..and getting that kind of money from someone for the sale of a 205 GTI would still be like pulling teeth.
Now all of a sudden, any popular car over 15 years in age has rocketed to the price of a brand new motor. Give it a good going over, take a few thousands miles off the odo...
Maybe I'm skeptical. Or jealous. Or something. I don't know. I like the idea that you can affordably pick up a classic old motor and make a bit of a project out of it. Live some of your days from yesteryear. And then you realise that the dream's been taking away from you, and you do in fact have to be financially well endowed to buy what always was, and still is, a rattly tin can that went a bit faster than all the other tin cans, yet much slower than the car you currently own.
Just give me a Mondeo, please.
Or is that a touch over-dramatic?
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That's a bit more than a hot hatch though. Jolly nice if you want to enter historic rallies, but a bit much for daily use. And LHD only I think.
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@b of b
Having all the documentation makes a difference, mileage can be verified etc.
There is a bit of a difference though. The originals (205Gti, Golf Gti) were very simple cars with no drivers aids, very light and a lot of fun to drive.
Modern cars are more competent, but to have fun you need to drive them at antisocial speeds or on a track.
One of the most fun cars I ever owned was an original MX5, without any of the power bits (stearing, windows etc) of later models. It had just enough power (if that's the right word), lovely gearchange, superb handling, and sketchy roadholding. The perfect recipe for having fun without losing your licence or your life.
I even lived with the hairdresser comments from my co-workers who drove a HSV Holden Commodore V8 and Ferrari Testarossa respectively.I don't do smileys.
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A 20 year old French hot hatch with 29k on the clock for £12k :roll: I've owned two of them in my time (a 1.6 and a 1.9) and they're cracking little cars to drive, despite being made out of kit-kat wrappers and sticky-back plastic. But if anyone bites at that price they deserve a damn good kicking. People try to sell 'mint' ones at silly prices from time to time but the only one that gets the big bucks is the T-16."I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0
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cooldad wrote:That's a bit more than a hot hatch though. Jolly nice if you want to enter historic rallies, but a bit much for daily use. And LHD only I think.
yup the sale was actually in france. had been sat with delivery miles with a collector since new, mainteined and kept ticking over to ensure it wouldn't sieze up etc. Was a proper corker.
I've also seen a Lotus Carlton with delivery miles sell for around £35k.
As soon as I get a garage i'll have a 1.6 205 GTi to play with.0 -
I get the appeal. I do. After reading this thread I had a quick look on ebay, as I do from time to time, just to see if there's any sprightly deals to be had.
There's 1987 Nissan Micras on there for 2k! And these aren't some bizzare super-charged Japanese creations, but the Humble Micra GL. The same cars that were to be had for £75, positioned on the roadside, just off the forecourt at your local wheeler dealers only a few years ago. The ones they pointed you to when you said you needed a cheap runaround to get you to work for the next couple of weeks..
I find it perplexing.0 -
Having owned both I'd go for the 1.9, it's a better car in quite a few ways IMO. Which ever one you go for, be prepared to be handy with spanners unless you've got a mate who's a good mechanic, bits tend to drop off from time to time....The Northern Monkey wrote:As soon as I get a garage i'll have a 1.6 205 GTi to play with."I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Stevo 666 wrote:
Having owned both I'd go for the 1.9, it's a better car in quite a few ways IMO. Which ever one you go for, be prepared to be handy with spanners unless you've got a mate who's a good mechanic, bits tend to drop off from time to time....The Northern Monkey wrote:As soon as I get a garage i'll have a 1.6 205 GTi to play with.
Depends whats available at the time I guess.
I'm ok around cars, helped restore bits of a mk1 Escort so as long as I have a manual i'm fine!0 -
Up until late 2009 you could still buy a Golf GTi Mk1 in South Africa for less than £10,000. When later Golfs started being made, they continued with the Mk1, calling it the Citi Golf as a budget alternative, with 1.3 motor.
It was so popular additional models were introduced, initially with the 1.6 motor of the original Gti, and later the 1.8 from the Mk2 Gti, In the Mk1 body, it was a seriously quick fun car.
Spot the difference.I don't do smileys.
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I dream one day of having enough time, space and money to build up my own aerial atom-type thing with a hayabussa engine. I've got a basic design plan, might do as a retirement / mid life crisis project.0
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yeehaamcgee wrote:I dream one day of having enough time, space and money to build up my own aerial atom-type thing with a hayabussa engine. I've got a basic design plan, might do as a retirement / mid life crisis project.
There are vids of a standard looking gotlf gti mk1 somewhere on youtube with a RWD conversion and a hyabussa engine in the boot.... look like any old Golf but goes like stink!0 -
cooldad wrote:Up until late 2009 you could still buy a Golf GTi Mk1 in South Africa for less than £10,000. When later Golfs started being made, they continued with the Mk1, calling it the Citi Golf as a budget alternative, with 1.3 motor.
It was so popular additional models were introduced, initially with the 1.6 motor of the original Gti, and later the 1.8 from the Mk2 Gti, In the Mk1 body, it was a seriously quick fun car.
Spot the difference.
Slightly different bumpers and grills. The later Citi's had round rear lights too. All that said, I'd rather have a 3 door Mk1 :P0 -
Oh no no no no no. I plan on a complete carbon fibre "bodywork", with an aluminium tubing spaceframe chassis.The Northern Monkey wrote:yeehaamcgee wrote:I dream one day of having enough time, space and money to build up my own aerial atom-type thing with a hayabussa engine. I've got a basic design plan, might do as a retirement / mid life crisis project.
There are vids of a standard looking gotlf gti mk1 somewhere on youtube with a RWD conversion and a hyabussa engine in the boot.... look like any old Golf but goes like stink!
It only seems polite that I should build it, seeing as the Anglesey circuit is only 30 mins up the road
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One of my mates tests his 306 Rallye at Anglesey, surprised he's not on here actually, just heard he's into bikes too lol.0
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It's an amazing circuit since the do-over. Laguna Seca-esque corkscrew section, banked hairpin, beautiful surface. Just awesome.0
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Been meaning to take my 206 on track just for fun... i'm not far from Llandow Circuit here, pretty boring but would be good for starters.
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I'd love to take my golf TDI on a track to be honest. Not because it's fast, but because it's just fun to try and get the perfect line through all the corners, beating your own time with each lap.
Unfortunately, track days have insane levels of vehicular snobbery attached to them :roll:0 -
Nah not really, i've been down to Llandow and seen guys in their 1.1 fiestas having fun while elise's/evo's fly past!
as long as its an open track day, you just need to stick within your limits!0 -
hmm that picture makes me miss my lil 205. was only a 1.1 but was a brilliant little car.
replaced it with a 306. thats not gone well.
apparently the 22 years old 205 is alot more reliable than the 11 year olf 306. havent even seen my new car since january, been in teh garage the whole time. utter pile of crock
Miss my lil 205
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I loved my 306.. I had a DT which i'd played with a bit. Had some serious cooling system issues though, loads of the pipes started deteriating and splitting
Sold in on Ebay with a gallon of radweld in the system 0 -
My 205 exploded
I had to call work to book the day off since my car was on fire in the road!
Mind you, the 306 that replaced it caused it's own issues. I had to cancel a day at work with THAT, because all the doorhandles had broken off, so I couldn't get in 0 -
looool! The door handles went on my Hyundai Coupe, and the same thing is happening to a lad in work! massive PITA!0
