How much did you pay for your bus?

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Poptop2, Aug 27, 2018.

  1. Poptop2

    Poptop2 Administrator

    I can’t believe some of the prices being touted about for 40 year old rust buckets. The most I’ve paid for any of mine is £3k and that includes a nearly new one back in the late 70’s.

    I do usually buy doer uppers though.
     
  2. Barry Haynes

    Barry Haynes I dance in leopard skin mankini’s

    I paid £500 for my first one in 1980/81
    £1000 for my second one in 1994
    £7000 for my current one in 2013
     
  3. Flakey

    Flakey Supporter

    I didn’t pay much for my late pickup but it stands me at a fair bit now !
    Huge variation in prices being asked and condition
     
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  4. Back in the seventies ,you could have bought a house for that sooooo??
     
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  5. Three grand over the odds. Like Thatcher, I will not get over it.
     
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  6. Dubs

    Dubs Sponsor supporter extraordinaire

    The most I have paid for a bay is £350 for my current one. The one before that was £150. They where both bought a long time ago though..:thumbsup:
     
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  7. £1800 in 2011. Rusty but running with an MOT and I drove it home!
     
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  8. The less you pay initially the more you spend on doing it up ,or you could spend a lot in the first place and still spend a lot doing it up depending on how much you knew about what you were looking at and how much of the work you do yourself .
     
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  9. How much is an old Porsche ??
     
  10. Barry Haynes

    Barry Haynes I dance in leopard skin mankini’s

    Was the war still on?:thumbsup:
     
  11. How much is a new vw camper ?
     
  12. Dubs

    Dubs Sponsor supporter extraordinaire

    It had just finished I think..
     
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  13. £3,400. I was ripped off.
     
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  14. Think dad paid about £3000 back in 1991 for the one I have, over priced and needed a new engine for the first MOT a year later, though I'm driving it now, so in the grand scheme of things we're happy.
     
  15. scrooge95

    scrooge95 Moderator and piggy bank keeper

    Knowing that I was never going to be able to undertake a restoration myself, the advice I got on here when I joined was to get the best I could afford, and to pay more attention to bodywork and the underneath than to shiny paint and a perfect engine. This I did.
    I still paid more than enough, and more than I could afford really - but thanks to a 0% credit card and 3.5 years of being careful, working extra on Sundays, and focussing on what I needed rather than wanted, 3 weeks today I will own it. I'm rather proud of that.
     
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  16. Barry Haynes

    Barry Haynes I dance in leopard skin mankini’s

    £3,400 you could of bought Barnsley for that:p
     
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  17. I sold my escort Mexico for £600 it would be worth over £40000 now
     
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  18. :thumbsup:
     
  19. You’d ave been ripped off at that!!!
     
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  20. The equivalent of £2900 in Nigerian Naira back in 1976, thanks to the black market.
    Official price was equivalent of £4100.
    Tony
     

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