The Nearly £999 challenge!

[Renrut]

Ok challenge should you choose to accept it is to find something just over the £999 budget thats super tasty and likely to be a good laugh. By just over I mean a good haggle from £999, not £5K + £300pcm

So I shall start the ball rolling with this tasty V8 crumpet!

[mjslonergan]

Unless I have misunderstood the concept, I offer you this... allow for the Sterling difference and it's a haggle away on price, and over here it is test exempt so an MOT waiver would have to be allowed for fairness to foreign competitors...
http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/vintagecars/3201373

[Renrut]

Yeah thats the kind of thing. By tasty I don't mean featured on the front of Max Power but something a PPC'er can see the worth of

[mjslonergan]

Not sure if this would be a laugh or get you laughed at, but might surprise on the handling circuit, and Colin McRae did Rally one...
http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/modifiedcars/3583971

[Renrut]

OMFG! I so badly wanted one of them a few years back! I even went to look at a red one but chickened out because of a tiny bit of rust on the drivers sill!

Might surprise on the 1/4 as well, the engines are the same as the Suzuki Cappo and people have gotten over 120bhp out of them. Not much but in a car weighing less than 700kg it would be very fun!

[fha772]

Looks like a trip to Manchester is in order...

[Renrut]

I was expecting to see half the car missing from one of the angles but no, its all there. I can't even imagine the suspension bits are that expensive as they're based on XJS parts and some are even shared with the XJ.

[fha772]

The first XK8 we had was damaged, it had had a front end shunt, it was a lot worse than this one.
I liked it, but I did nearly end up with cauliflower ear from getting into it, nearly every time, I smacked my ear on the top of the door frame!!
But if I have this, I'll turn it into a track car.

[Renrut]

One to defintiely have a good look underneath before parting with money but sounds very good for the money.

Not sure about the wheels though.

[Relentless Rob]

That's donor territory. If it had a proper gearbox at least.

Would sit pretty in a MGB eh Frank?

[Renrut]

That's donor territory. If it had a proper gearbox at least.

Would sit pretty in a MGB eh Frank?

I still think a Jag V8 powered MGBGT would be wicked fun. And who cares if its not got a proper gearbox, its a 'GT' not a full on track weapon

[Relentless Rob]

Best of all when you do get bored you can upgrade with a few choice XKR/XJR bits.

When you consider the performance of the standard XK that weighs around the two Ton mark and my old MGB was 900Kg the car would be pretty rapid without a supercharger.

[Renrut]

Get it started then!

[Relentless Rob]

It would have to be this version of the engine...



...with a six speed manual instead of the auto.

[Renrut]

Kind of missing the point of the nearly 999 thing...