Little boring boxes with wheels

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Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

The only reason I've never looked into these sorts of cars (like the lotus etc) ... is they are expensive for a toy :) For a crazy/stupid fun car I would have looked at something like a Renault 8 fitted with a Renault 16ts motor ... You can build this sort of car for very little money in the past. (the Renault Alpine A110 etc motors are based on the 16TS motor). So you end up with an insane rear engined, swing axle.... tail happy terror. Well its the stark opposite of the lotus, but gee's the fun you will have.


About 10years ago my wife took me on one of those drive days. I got to drive a little modern lotus, a V8 manual gearbox ferrari, and an AWD paddle shift Lamborghini ....

The lamdo was no doubt the vastly superior car. I didn't like it at all. stupid flappy paddle gearbox, so extraordinarily competent I couldn't imagine being able to push it ... "boring not fun to drive" was my feeling. The little lotus was fabulous... absolutely loved it ... So light and nimble .... Until I drove that ferrari.... Oh man. I couldn't care how crap it was as a car. The gearbox.... the motor ... the sounds .... That V8 howling out to its redline behind your ear. I'd do right hand turns out of round-a-bout with the go pedal nailed to the floor, the tail squirming under power ... the sound ... How could you ever own one of these and keep your license for more than 5 minutes. What a machine, something you want to drive just for the experience, you don't even have to really be going fast.

seeya
Shane L.

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I bought mine a long time ago.. last century. :o it was 25k. I would have spent a good amount on repairs.

I really think they are cheap. It's hard to say what classic cars actually sell for. There are so few of them, and they rarely come up for sale. But probably now a good one goes for 60-70 ish. Plus or minus.

I look at what Mini's go for.. a cooper is 40 or 50. There were 200,000 Minis sold in Aus. There were 20 thousand Cooper S alone made in Australia. Elans.. there were 8-12k made in the world, and there are only probably a couple hundred in Australia. Probably at most only 100 ish "in care" these days.

And I look at the price of the fords and holdens which trade for big $$ and there were many many times the numbers made and sold.

I suspect it's because people around are not aware of what they actually are. So even though the supply is far more limited, there isn't as much demand as there is for more well known 'classics'. Will be interesting to see how things play out.

Swapped my daily to a 2010 ex police car today taking someone to work. I brought it for my mum and dad several years ago. Its rather beaten up by some touchy feely driving by one of them. It's my temporary Tow tug for my boat.


Stopping here before dinner. My very Bright BLUE car for this visit

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We had Blue Light Houses and Bridges.

RIP Offices and care for everyone affected.

Except a lunatic - I'll hold my thoughts on what I think should happen there!

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Originally Posted by Captain_Rightfoot

I bought mine a long time ago.. last century. :o it was 25k. I would have spent a good amount on repairs.

I really think they are cheap. It's hard to say what classic cars actually sell for. There are so few of them, and they rarely come up for sale. But probably now a good one goes for 60-70 ish. Plus or minus.

I look at what Mini's go for.. a cooper is 40 or 50. There were 200,000 Minis sold in Aus. There were 20 thousand Cooper S alone made in Australia. Elans.. there were 8-12k made in the world, and there are only probably a couple hundred in Australia. Probably at most only 100 ish "in care" these days.

And I look at the price of the fords and holdens which trade for big $$ and there were many many times the numbers made and sold.

I suspect it's because people around are not aware of what they actually are. So even though the supply is far more limited, there isn't as much demand as there is for more well known 'classics'. Will be interesting to see how things play out.

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Oh gees ... I wasn't criticising you buying a lotus, I was just explaining why I've never looked at one ( to put me being a tight ass into perspective, I think the last ****box range rover I purchased was $800).

I have crappy old Citroen DS's. They have increased dramatically in value in the time I've owned them. I probably paid less than $1500 for the ones I own. These days the "good cars" change hand for the $50->80,000 mark .... Which is just nuts, they are now so far out of my price range, they would be a pipe dream if I didn't already own some desperate ones.

As always the world moves on. Its already started, the current generation is interested in old Japanese cars... the cars they grew up in the back seat of. Not the cars that interest anyone over 50 that now drive the classic car market.

seeya
Shane L.

This was probably the most boring little box to drive on the road, it didn't like deep puddles neither [bigwhistle]


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It seems to be a Lada thing, Jerry.

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The only car that didn't like puddles more than a Lada was a Mini, with the distributor mounted low at the front. I knew a family who loved them, had three or four, and would religiously spray the dizzy with WD40 for water dispersal. IIRC, the father had the dizzy wrapped in a plastic bag.

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The only car that didn't like puddles more than a Lada was a Mini, with the distributor mounted low at the front. I knew a family who loved them, had three or four, and would religiously spray the dizzy with WD40 for water dispersal. IIRC, the father had the dizzy wrapped in a plastic bag.

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A rubber or surgical glove was great for that.

Actually it might have been a glove, as most of them worked and volunteered as nurses, paramedics and first aiders.

I had a Moke for a while, but it did not worry about water, although I never really tried any serious wet driving.

Maybe not so little, or boring.

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