Car Cost

[Guest salty_monk]

The only problem with buying ready built is that it's built to someone elses spec not yours & there's only so much you can do... Having said that if you choose wisely that & part built kits are the cheap way to do it...

 

[Guest micky bigthumbs]

I bought a built up car it looks nothing like the original , i,ve changed almost everything just the engine to finnish and the chromed roll bar to do. but has cost more than a kit still lots of work but i get to drive it regular

Mick

[Guest paul mercer]

I'd love to take mine round a track, but admit i'm a little scared which is why i haven't rushed to do it yet. Crashing it does worry me as i don't think i'd ever get round to fixing it due to time and money. Will probably do it one day though, with all my fingers and toes crossed.

 

Paul

[Guest rizla]

do that paul and you will crash

[Guest salty_monk]

Barkston's very safe I would say, there aren't many points where you can do a huge amount of damage, even Dave's wasn't so bad & look where he ended up!!

 

Being a sprint track there's no chance of any "rubbing" too from other idiots in cheap freeby cars who don't give a toss (oh... that would have been us then.. )

[Guest rizla]

and my son still wont shut up about his ride in the car recons its better than my car

[Guest steve o]

I brought a part built one and it turns out that there is a lot built badly and incorrect so you then have to spend time correcting

[Guest STEVE OXON]

hi i built a 2b,finished sva in april 05. it realistically owes me 3 and a bit years and 6.5 grand.including sva tax insurance registration etc.....

but you can then say ''I DID THAT.''

all part of the fun actually making it yourself.

steve

[Snapperpaul]

The "part built" that i bought only had the rear suspension fitted nothing else had been touched, however the donor had been stripped ( better for space but i could have done with it on the driveway) and it was a comprehensive kit with everything RHE could supply. Worked out at about half the cost of a the original puchase price.

My biggest expenses have been stainless nuts and bolts, drill bits, garage tools and an over indulgance on things i wont need for months at Europa and Deitling.

[Guest markmc]

probably the best way to buy one i would think...a cheap barely started project..

[Guest Petemate]

My build was almost a carbon copy of Snapperpaul's. Thank goodness the previous owner (who I never met, got the kit off his dad who wanted the garage space....) had only bolted in the (unfettled) rear axle and partly converted the front SP. I was glad that's all he'd done when I discovered he had, among other things, HACKSAWED through the handbrake primary rod instead of just removing the clevis pin; thrown away the whole harness including the engine management (thanks Richard Sumner for coming to my aid) and painted the rear drums and cam cover with a ghastly red paint. When I collected the kit & bits, afore-mentioned son's Toyota was parked in the drive with the appropriate Max Power sticker on the screen....

But I digress. Total cost including collecting it and the legal bits apart from tax just under £4000 (£3,997.25) As it came with the seats, full SS, coloured grp, weather gear, leccy & brake packs, spare screen, new clutch, starter, coil etc., I was well pleased.

Pete