The ?100 Trackday Car

2Smoke · Crazy Courier Joined: 15 Apr 2005 Karma :

Every year we help organise a trackday on the raf base where I work, for 2 years it was bikes/am and cars/pm. But last year after some hassle with the cars the previous year it was bikes only. Wahey! A good day to be had by all. Now this year its planned to be a 2 day event, cars on the saturday and bikes on the sunday. Good, keeps everyone happy.

Now, whilst enjoying a few beers one night I came up with a plan that would see us having fun on both days..

Why not buy a car to do the trackday with?

Fantastic, for £50 entry plus fuel/beer/burgers we could have another day's fun on the weekend, after all it would purely be for fun as the sunday would be my day for going fast.

So, discussed with my mate, we would go halves on a car.
The criteria for this car must be;
£100 or less to be spent on the actual purchase
Mot/Tax not needed
Rear Wheel drive
As big an engine as possible for the money
Not the usual track-weapons that people use.

Immediately I thought of an old jag, but it seems even mot failures fetch decent money. Looking down the old BMW route then.

I have seen a 525 with a for sale sign, advertised as 'No Tax, short mot' with 2 flat tyres Rolling Eyes

£offers.. got to be worth a try as its local.

Can anyone suggest another car which will suit the criteria? I did consider using my transit but that is just too slow!

We will of course fit a cage, bucket seats & harnesses, make it safe, fit fire extinguishers etc. Oh and lose as much weight as possible!

Suggestions would be good though and will post the progress up as we get there (got a few months to go yet).

paul
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Keir · World Chat Champion Joined: 11 Apr 2006 Karma :

an old sierra xr4x4 or granada cosworth or 2.9. any of them will be cheap to buy and prime for stripping out.
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0ddball · World Chat Champion Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Karma :

A shagged mk1 mr2. I'm sure you could find an mot failure. Only a 1.6 but they are light, you can shed quite a bit more weight, and they handle ok.

2Smoke · Crazy Courier Joined: 15 Apr 2005 Karma :

The granada appeals, like I said in one of the criteria, it has to be something that people dont use for trackday cars. Want to give people a giggle after all Laughing

keep em coming though, have considered a grannie before.
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0ddball · World Chat Champion Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Karma :

If you want to give them a laugh try a robin reliant painted in del boy colours.

Phil_G · Traffic Copper Joined: 28 Mar 2006 Karma :

old lada/skoda?

admittedly more for the comedy aspect those though...
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2Smoke · Crazy Courier Joined: 15 Apr 2005 Karma :

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Phil_G · Traffic Copper Joined: 28 Mar 2006 Karma :

old volvo of somesort?
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stinkwheel · Bovine Proctologist Joined: 12 Jul 2004 Karma :

Old rear engined skoda? They did very well in the rallies in their day.

gavin · World Chat Champion Joined: 05 Jul 2005 Karma :

https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1990-JAGUAR-SOVEREIGN-4-0-AUTO-BURGANDY-SPARE-REPAIRS_W0QQitemZ270090575857QQihZ017QQcategoryZ18185QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

just add NOS Twisted Evil

might be worth a punt, hes open to offers....
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2Smoke · Crazy Courier Joined: 15 Apr 2005 Karma :

Phil_G · Traffic Copper Joined: 28 Mar 2006 Karma :

manta sir?

https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1984-OPEL-MANTA-GTE-RALLY-CAR-white-lots-of-mods_W0QQitemZ190082871436QQihZ009QQcategoryZ9858QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

(can't spot that I dont have much on tonight can you?) Embarassed

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Dave McCool · World Chat Champion Joined: 04 Jun 2006 Karma :

It's a bit over budget, but:

https://images.amazon.com/images/P/1859606369.01._SY300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg
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