franky
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| posted on 24/9/09 at 05:23 PM |
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At what point is it no longer locost!?
As I look around the forum I don't see many cars that are locost..... my own plans for a locost have gone to 'quite high cost'.
Maybe this is because i'm a closet troll and like shiny things However also the result of doing things properly and to a standard has a cost
too.
Whats the honest build cost of your cars?
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prawnabie
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| posted on 24/9/09 at 05:25 PM |
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Bout 4k for me
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scootz
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| posted on 24/9/09 at 05:30 PM |
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The minute you put your deposit down on a kit!
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Paul (Notts)
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| posted on 24/9/09 at 05:34 PM |
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Anything under 7K to build is locost
did mine for that
Paul
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nitram38
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| posted on 24/9/09 at 05:35 PM |
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20k mine
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UncleFista
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| posted on 24/9/09 at 05:37 PM |
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2k-2.5k -ish [1] 
Up 'til SVA, we've money spent since.
Tony Bond / UncleFista
Love is like a snowmobile, speeding across the frozen tundra.
Which suddenly flips, pinning you underneath.
At night the ice-weasels come...
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phelpsa
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| posted on 24/9/09 at 05:39 PM |
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My current budget says £5k. That's for a budget track/hillclimb car though so no IVA/lights/road legal stuff.
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tomgregory2000
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| posted on 24/9/09 at 05:42 PM |
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bout 8k
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flak monkey
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| posted on 24/9/09 at 05:49 PM |
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Mine was OTR for about £5.5k
Since its had a lot of money spent on it. Probably closer to the 10k mark now.
Sera
http://www.motosera.com
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smart51
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| posted on 24/9/09 at 05:50 PM |
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£250.01 surely?
It is a locost if you use all the parts in the book. The moment you start adding shiny bits (not just new bits) then you no longer locost.
Bike carbs, silicone hoses, billet callipers ...
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martyn_16v
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| posted on 24/9/09 at 05:50 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by franky
Whats the honest build cost of your cars?
That depends on whether the wife is in earshot
I originally set a budget of £6500, but I gave up counting at £8k (although I had been counting a lot of tools and things I can re-use for other
projects). It's all the little bits here and there that have taken me over, there's so many things I just hadn't thought about when
making a budget, all those tenners add up though...
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oldtimer
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| posted on 24/9/09 at 05:58 PM |
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My first build I did for £2.5k, this one, a locost I am trying to do for <£5K, up to £4K+ already but most bits are got.
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zilspeed
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| posted on 24/9/09 at 05:59 PM |
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Well, mine isn't a Locost whatever way you look at it.
But anyway.
It owes me around a grand or thereabouts.
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shaun fulcrum
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| posted on 24/9/09 at 06:01 PM |
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£18k for me, original budget was 10-12!!! god knows where the rest appeared from 
All worth it now iy's on the road though 
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UncleFista
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| posted on 24/9/09 at 06:05 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by smart51
£250.01 surely?
It is a locost if you use all the parts in the book. The moment you start adding shiny bits (not just new bits) then you no longer locost.
Bike carbs, silicone hoses, billet callipers ...
My carbs cost £15 delivered, the steel for the manifold was £8, I reckon it's still Locost
Tony Bond / UncleFista
Love is like a snowmobile, speeding across the frozen tundra.
Which suddenly flips, pinning you underneath.
At night the ice-weasels come...
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t16turbotone
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| posted on 24/9/09 at 06:05 PM |
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Mine was OTR for 3.5k
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maartenromijn
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| posted on 24/9/09 at 06:07 PM |
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Even though I try to do as much as possible myself, about 1.5k. And it isn't even running!
BLOG: http://thunderroad-super7.blogspot.com/
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liam.mccaffrey
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| posted on 24/9/09 at 06:12 PM |
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I'm going to come in <5k i hope. Mine is anything but locost. its not even a 7
Build Blog
Build Photo Album
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franky
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| posted on 24/9/09 at 06:23 PM |
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well i'm hoping my fury comes in at under 7k..... If I brought the chassis kit/body work and everything else I got with the unfinished project
deal new it'd be about 12-13.5k..... which isn't locost its RS6 money
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 24/9/09 at 06:37 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by martyn_16v
That depends on whether the wife is in earshot
That thought went through my mind!
There's the real budget, and there's the budget I told my wife...
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MautoK
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| posted on 24/9/09 at 06:42 PM |
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Pretty close to 6K OTR but there's no fancy shiny bits except the wheels. Just about on budget. 
John.
He's whittling on a piece of wood. I got a feeling that when he stops whittling, something's gonna happen. (OUATITW/Cheyenne)
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02GF74
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| posted on 24/9/09 at 07:00 PM |
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when you stopped adding up the receipts and start hding them from the other half.
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steve m
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| posted on 24/9/09 at 07:01 PM |
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£3982 on the road Mot and insured
also taxed
and that is for the first 5 years motoring, not including fuel on the road
[Edited on 24/9/09 by steve m]
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LBMEFM
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| posted on 24/9/09 at 07:23 PM |
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£8000 to £8500
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RichardK
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| posted on 24/9/09 at 07:23 PM |
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3 years of weekends & £1847 including buying the donor for mine
Cheers
Rich
Gallery updated 11/01/2011
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