So, who took up the £250 gauntlet? and how close did you get?
will
im sure this has been posted on here before i came along but i cant find anything in search..
So, who took up the £250 gauntlet? and how close did you get?
will
I got very close. In fact I managed to buy my engine for exactly £250 
The rest of the car cost about 6k
Here you go, though the thread digresses somewhat and is maybe a little caution when reading at work,next to wife.
http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/viewthread.php?tid=38698
Alleged current record is around £50.... by a scrapyard owner
[Edited on 24/1/09 by iank]
you have got to admit, if you managed to build a car for £250, it is going to be made up of a load of hand me down and crap resourses,
and lets face it, the car would be S**T!
Yes I spent exactly £250.
Plus a load more and still going.
I made just about everything, got my donor for free, had access to a bodyshop for free, got given load of bits and it cost me 10 x the 'book
price' including SVA and registration costs. Best £2500 I ever spent
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Originally posted by iank
Here you go, though the thread digresses somewhat and is maybe a little caution when reading at work,next to wife.
http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/viewthread.php?tid=38698
Alleged current record is around £50.... by a scrapyard owner
[Edited on 24/1/09 by iank]
Nah, nowhere near £1800 all in, still not bad though
Cheers
Rich
the sva test costs £190, and is about to change to over £500 with IVA.
I think it well and truely blows any chance out the water, unless you can get paid to build it, and then screw them over and keep it?
Dont get any ideas Steve!
I think you can get one of those tamaya models for that but you may have trouble fitting in
I have wondered before if anyone would be up for building a "locostbuilders" car. IE. Anyone who had bits n bobs spare could donate to the
cause. I reckon it would make a good charity project and with a bit of sponsorship could come close to £250? Promote the site and all that?
In terms of my on car's cost, that owes mu just under 8 grand at the moment and not been for SVA yet. I reckon I've got another £500 or so
to go!
[Edited on 25/1/09 by eznfrank]
Donor car £175
Steel £150
Seats £200
Various other used parts (ebay and locostbuilders) about £100
TSF - £625 
Mines about 4k ish. i Think. I gave up counting.
Im thinking of making another one but setting a budget of say 1500 quid including sva/iva just to see if i can do it.
I think my tools bill at Halfords (Even on trade) is more than that
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Originally posted by eznfrank
I have wondered before if anyone would be up for building a "locostbuilders" car. IE. Anyone who had bits n bobs spare could donate to the cause. I reckon it would make a good charity project and with a bit of sponsorship could come close to £250? Promote the site and all that?
[Edited on 25/1/09 by eznfrank]
my thoughts exactly, was thinking the finished product could be auctioned or raffled off - depends how easy it would be to get rid of quote:
Originally posted by BenB
I got very close. In fact I managed to buy my engine for exactly £250
The rest of the car cost about 6k
and thats from a free donor car!
if you werent looking to include the sva (dont think the book did) and you were prepared to go for a boggo spec, I reckon you could probably do one
for the money.
DOnt use the escort bits,theyre too sought after now, get an old sierra and use everything from that. Dont use polybushes or anything, just get cheap
repo rubber ones and stuff like that.
Sticking points would be the cost of the steel and the alloy, youd have to source those from scrap, also the costs of the coilovers.
As said tho, youd end up with a prerusted chassis, a car with old bearings and friction material everywhere, no spec and a bit shit.
We built 2 for about 3k on the road, first came in at 1250, second about 1750 as I bought new GAZ shocks!! First used bike shocks with bigger springs. I wouldn't consider either to be 'poverty spec' but both are Escort based with crossflows. I found the major expense was going to be instruments, so the donor pod was used. Pedal boxes were fabricated from mini and Manta. This was 4 years ago though....
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Originally posted by dinosaurjuice
£250... whos came close?