zilspeed
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What does your car owe you ?
Fess up time.
How much money is tied up in the car you come on here to talk about ?
Is this place still really locostbuilders ?
I'll go first.
£1000 including the car, the ZX10 motor and everything else I have bought for it.
(Bought wrongly registered, hence the price, but I'ver fixed that so worth a bit more now maybe).
Anyone else care to admit ?
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StevieB
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| posted on 28/8/07 at 07:41 AM |
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I reckon I'll have plugged the best part of £8k into my car by the time it's done.
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zetec
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| posted on 28/8/07 at 07:44 AM |
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i suspect I've done the same...£8K.
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mark chandler
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| posted on 28/8/07 at 07:48 AM |
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Mine topped out @ £3k but a substantial part circa 50% was tools and trick bits that were not really required, could do tomorrow for £1500 easily.
Not really locost though... but lower than most I suspect
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graememk
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| posted on 28/8/07 at 07:49 AM |
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about 6k, and alot more if you inc all the food i've eaten looking around the kit car shows.
[Edited on 28/8/07 by graememk]
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jonno
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| posted on 28/8/07 at 07:50 AM |
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The Dutton S3 with a 2.1 vulcan pinto in, brand new cobra roadster seats
Just under £1500
The Legerra with a 1.8 zetec and throttle bodies i'm on about £1000 at the moment with a bit more to spend on it 
having fun on a budget 
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nib1980
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| posted on 28/8/07 at 07:54 AM |
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about £1200, but that included £250 of paint and £200 on other tools. all in all I'm quite happy
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TGR-ECOSSE
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| posted on 28/8/07 at 07:59 AM |
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Less than £1,000 over 2 years so far but its not finished. I have an almost completed chassis (bought as an unstarted luego project), i also have a
finished chassis needing some work that i got cheep, got 2 lsd sierra back ends,2 mk2 escort back axles, 4 gearboxes, 5 engines,4 cortina complete hub
assemblies,4 gaz alloy shocks and springs,a set of twin 40 webbers and manifold, 4 sets of alloy wheels 13"-17" and lots of other handy
bits. I am trying to be as locost as possible and am fabricating most parts and just picking up parts cheep as i go along. Its taking a long time to
do but will be worth it in the end
Ronnie
ps none of the above is for sale
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nick205
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| posted on 28/8/07 at 08:09 AM |
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Somewhere between £4-5,000 I suspect. I kept an accurate count to start with, but gave up over the 3 year build. It cost me more than I budgeted,
but also took twice as long so balanced itself in the end.
The knowledge, experience, people and end result far outweigh the hard cost of building a kit car for me - I suspect for a lot of others too
Edit to say...
Forgot to include SVA, insurance and tax so add ~ £400 to that and Tax is due again this month 
[Edited on 28/8/07 by nick205]
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worX
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| posted on 28/8/07 at 08:14 AM |
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Including any additional tools, all registering and 6months tax etc, I would say around £9,250.
I kept a pretty accurate log on money spent at first, but that waned toward the end as it got a bit frenzied, but I don't think I'd be far
off with that figure...
Steve
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DaveFJ
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| posted on 28/8/07 at 08:19 AM |
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some of these totals seem suspiciously low! Are we including all costs? - I have spent more on tools than some of you have claimed for the whole
build!
I reckon my car currently owes me circa £8000 with at least another £1000 to get it on the road! (But, admittedly, I have been geeting a little
carried away, eg £1100 for wheels/tyres!)
[Edited on 28/8/07 by DaveFJ]
Dave
"In Support of Help the Heroes" - Always
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nitram38
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| posted on 28/8/07 at 08:26 AM |
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The F1-2 cost me over 8K just in parts. So far the MotaLeira has cost me £13.5k.
I expect 15-16K at the end of the build.
I have bought everything new on the Motaleira for a new reg.
It might sound expensive, but a second hand 10 year old MK1 atom is 15K and mine should be quicker off the line than the MK1.
The latest new Atom is 38K and I am hoping that off the line, my car should equal or beat it.
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welderman
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| posted on 28/8/07 at 08:27 AM |
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mine was approx £6500.00 to build sva etc.
But spent too much sonce that day.
Thank's, Joe
I don't stalk people
http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/forum/23/viewthread.php?tid=172301
Back on with the Fisher Fury R1
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Bluemoon
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| posted on 28/8/07 at 08:32 AM |
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So far 3.5K, will be 4K or there abouts once finished. Not including tools in this as the sky is the limit on that one (also good tools last a life
time not just one car build)! Could have used cash to speed up the build but this would have been less fun...
The actual cost is only 500Quid over budget, I think that's not bad!
Not to bad I think for a MK indy. Could do it cheeper if bought an unfinished project, but you would have a lot to undo!
Dan
[Edited on 28/8/07 by Bluemoon]
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mcerd1
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| posted on 28/8/07 at 08:44 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by nitram38
So far the MotaLeira has cost me £13.5k.
I expect 15-16K at the end of the build.
Snap
but mines only a Pinto its safe to say a Dax is never going to be 'locost' but also I keep on getting carried away
and I don't count tools because I use them on all my cars - they get quite a bit of use as I've never owned a car thats less than 10 years
old
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BenB
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| posted on 28/8/07 at 08:46 AM |
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Mine must be up around 7k for the car, SVA and insurance.....
If I take into account the rental of my garage (£2200 per year) it starts getting scary!!!
Bloody expensive Norf London....
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Danozeman
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| posted on 28/8/07 at 09:14 AM |
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Mines about 4 - 5k i think. I did have a spreadsheet with the cost on but i gave up as it was depressing how much it was costing.
Its all the little bits that add up.
Dan
Built the purple peril!! Let the modifications begin!!
http://www.eastangliankitcars.co.uk
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iank
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| posted on 28/8/07 at 09:32 AM |
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About £2.5k so far. Still got about £1-2k left assuming the long line of bits and pieces the difference depending on what I end up doing for an
engine.
--
Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
Anonymous
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ash_hammond
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| posted on 28/8/07 at 10:12 AM |
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Just a quick spreadsheet of everything i can remenber and it comes in at 8,372.00
That does not include SVA and registration costs.
The car is a MAC#1 ZR Pinto.
.: www.mac1motorsports.co.uk | www.m1moc.com :.
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thunderace
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| posted on 28/8/07 at 10:25 AM |
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mine is a duton b-type and i think it would have been a lot lot cheaper building new than restoring my car it a lot lot more work restoring than it is
buying all new i have spent over £4000 so far and i still need to spend another £2000-£3000 to finish it.
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GazzaP
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| posted on 28/8/07 at 10:33 AM |
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luego locost racer all in all up to now not inc running costs i would say 6k
www.gmpmotorsport.co.uk
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 28/8/07 at 10:47 AM |
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About £6K, so not very Locost. Also, I'm still spending money on it!
I probably spent a further £1K on tools (welder, compressor, etc) but I regard them as assets now, for future work.
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jollygreengiant
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| posted on 28/8/07 at 10:52 AM |
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£5123.83 and not finished. Yet.
Could be worse though if you include the cost of buying a house with a garage to do the build in, ie +£120K
I reckon about £2k to go all in, which would give me a total of £7.5k
Beware of the Goldfish in the tulip mines. The ONLY defence against them is smoking peanut butter sandwiches.
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Big Daz
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| posted on 28/8/07 at 11:14 AM |
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Must be knocking on for 3/4 a pint of blood & 1 square foot of skin - Money wise I think £4 to 5 K
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chockymonster
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| posted on 28/8/07 at 12:03 PM |
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Are these real prices or what the wife thinks prices?
PLEASE NOTE - Responses on Forum Threads may contain Sarcasm and may not be suitable for the hard of Thinking.
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