One car you wish you had bought but didnt...

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One car you wish you had bought but didnt...
Topic Started: Oct 14 2009, 02:04 PM (197 Views)
Colly	Oct 14 2009, 02:04 PM Post #1
Advanced Member Posts: 193 Group: Members Member #8,324 Joined: April 16, 2009	The one that got away! What car had you the money for, should you have bought and what made it cool?
	If your car feels like it's on rails, you're going too slow


Colly	Oct 14 2009, 02:31 PM Post #2
Advanced Member Posts: 193 Group: Members Member #8,324 Joined: April 16, 2009	Mines a lime coloured 1970's BMW 2002 alpina with a race engine (193 bhp I think), 0-60 in 5.8 secs. As rare as hens teeth. This was the car that they based the M3 on. Went to view it in cork about 4 years back. Took a video of it at the time, might try to find it. Edited by Colly, Oct 14 2009, 02:36 PM.
	If your car feels like it's on rails, you're going too slow


Topher	Oct 14 2009, 02:55 PM Post #3
Advanced Member Posts: 857 Group: Admin Member #2,243 Joined: April 2, 2008	That would be worth seeing colly
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jim1500	Oct 19 2009, 09:22 PM Post #4
Advanced Member Posts: 550 Group: Members Member #526 Joined: October 30, 2006	- 88 mk2 GTi for �250 6years ago when i was saving for deposit for house. White wee bumper, needed front springs or shocks, but was a real nice tight car! - 85 MG Metro, was very clean, metallic blue, had the chance of it for free but no room as I'd just bought a MK5 Cortina (should really have made room!!)



Eamon1.3	Oct 19 2009, 09:53 PM Post #5
Advanced Member Posts: 1,923 Group: Members Member #79 Joined: May 16, 2005	jim1500 Oct 19 2009, 09:22 PM - 85 MG Metro, was very clean, metallic blue, had the chance of it for free but no room as I'd just bought a MK5 Cortina (should really have made room!!) Kept that quiet ric, i mean jim. Unfortuntly i have a disease were if i say i want a car, i generally buy it. So dont regret not buying any, but regret buying lots, prety much every car ive owned besides my red mk2, red scirocco and current scirocco
	Mk2 1300 Golf + Mk2 1800 Scirocco GT2


jim1500	Oct 21 2009, 06:21 PM Post #6
Advanced Member Posts: 550 Group: Members Member #526 Joined: October 30, 2006	It was an MG one, very rare now, 1275 engine etc sporty seats alloys. ..... oh and it was free!



Colly	Nov 2 2009, 09:54 AM Post #7
Advanced Member Posts: 193 Group: Members Member #8,324 Joined: April 16, 2009	Colly Oct 14 2009, 02:31 PM Mines a lime coloured 1970's BMW 2002 alpina with a race engine (193 bhp I think), 0-60 in 5.8 secs. As rare as hens teeth. This was the car that they based the M3 on. Went to view it in cork about 4 years back. Took a video of it at the time, might try to find it. Something similar but without the rare and the race engine This is a 2002 tII that my dad has. He restored it for a customer about 10 years back but it has been sitting outside for a good few years now. We bought it when the guy moved abroad. The vinyl roof went to bits but it is running. Would look cool with the turbo kit on it, might be one for the future
	If your car feels like it's on rails, you're going too slow


ivortheengine2	Nov 2 2009, 10:28 PM Post #8
CLUB GTI PAID MEMBER Posts: 309 Group: Members Member #1,152 Joined: July 18, 2007	Always wished i had bought a 190 mercedes cosworth especially in black . I had a std 2.0 190 years ago when mercedes really were wonderfully engineered, doors shut with a big heavy thud. To have a 2.3 or 2.6 cossie would have been just the thing .



OZ Cupra	Nov 2 2009, 11:00 PM Post #9
Newbie Posts: 15 Group: Members Member #8,316 Joined: April 8, 2009	A couple of cars spring to mind.. an early skyline GT-B (60's) it was a straight rust free shell with a load of parts (possibly enough to build several cars) didn't have the time nor the know how in those days to put it all together. The other would be an E30 Hartge Touring (genuine built, not converted) with 90,000miles one owner! for �500 more than I paid several weeks earlier for my Touring which had the conversion done by Birds UK! Not that I paid loads for mine just the genuine one was a steal!! The Skyline well that would be worth a small fortune now even if it was still in bits in the parents garage in OZ!



jim1500	Nov 3 2009, 08:12 PM Post #10
Advanced Member Posts: 550 Group: Members Member #526 Joined: October 30, 2006	ivortheengine2 Nov 2 2009, 10:28 PM Always wished i had bought a 190 mercedes cosworth especially in black . I had a std 2.0 190 years ago when mercedes really were wonderfully engineered, doors shut with a big heavy thud. To have a 2.3 or 2.6 cossie would have been just the thing . I remember a black one when i was an Queens yonks ago, had black heneka 5spokes, blacked out rear lights and indicators and heavily tinted windows, superb looking car that looked like it should have been chasing James Bond!



dieseldave	Nov 3 2009, 11:57 PM Post #11
EX VAG-PARTS-MAN Posts: 610 Group: Members Member #1,916 Joined: December 10, 2007	Mine althiugh this probably is the wrong place to say it, was a black series2 rs turbo escort, or a mk3 escort xr3. Another one was a Talbot sunbeam, but I think I might know where there is one, already half turned into a rally car, has been sitting for a few years, hopefully its not too bad
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