Most Expensive Ever ?
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Have the last 2 years been the most expensive TVR £'s per mile spent that we have ever known ?
Insurance
Road Tax
Service and maintenance
At least the fuel bill has been the lowest ever !
So looking forward to a time when this is finally less of a threat to us all and we can add to global warming again.
Insurance
Road Tax
Service and maintenance
At least the fuel bill has been the lowest ever !
So looking forward to a time when this is finally less of a threat to us all and we can add to global warming again.
Lockdown 1 was great - nice weather, empty roads so I used mine on the commute to work every day. I think I managed around 3K miles this year
My most expensive years have been the ones when it was off the road - a full year for a body off full rebuild and 7 months for the engine rebuild. They've probably accounted for over 75% of the money I've spent on the car in my ownership
My most expensive years have been the ones when it was off the road - a full year for a body off full rebuild and 7 months for the engine rebuild. They've probably accounted for over 75% of the money I've spent on the car in my ownership
Daggsy said:
Have the last 2 years been the most expensive TVR £'s per mile spent that we have ever known ?
Insurance
Road Tax
Service and maintenance
At least the fuel bill has been the lowest ever !
So looking forward to a time when this is finally less of a threat to us all and we can add to global warming again.
Ken, you know that Red cars are high maintainenceInsurance
Road Tax
Service and maintenance
At least the fuel bill has been the lowest ever !
So looking forward to a time when this is finally less of a threat to us all and we can add to global warming again.
S6 ROR said:
Daggsy said:
Have the last 2 years been the most expensive TVR £'s per mile spent that we have ever known ?
Insurance
Road Tax
Service and maintenance
At least the fuel bill has been the lowest ever !
So looking forward to a time when this is finally less of a threat to us all and we can add to global warming again.
Ken, you know that Red cars are high maintainenceInsurance
Road Tax
Service and maintenance
At least the fuel bill has been the lowest ever !
So looking forward to a time when this is finally less of a threat to us all and we can add to global warming again.
Now I think of it, 2021 will hopefully be better for driving than 2018,2019, & 2020.
Most definitely here!
At the end of Aug-19 I had the engine rebuilt in my Chimaera (circa £5k), followed by a period of awful weather (wettest autumn on record I recall) that meant I'd only just managed the running-in mileage by the time the first lockdown hit in March 20. When it went back for another oil change just prior to that lockdown I had a few other bits done at the same time just for convenience, rather than making another trip later on...
Then in July 20, having covered barely 600-700 miles in the Chimaera since it's rebuild, we got the opportunity to acquire our dream Tuscan (mk-1, Halcyon Atlantis, Powers engine rebuild etc) at a price that was too good to pass up. Managed a couple of hundred miles in that over the the summer, before the next two lockdowns hit, and during the second one it went in for a big 12k service and a few other bits- we collected last week with a £2k bill.
So looking at my spreadsheet (I am an accountant), I make it just shy of £8,600 spent in the last 18 months across the two TVRs including tax and insurance. For this we have managed roughly 800 miles in the Chimaera (almost all pre-lockdown), and around 300 miles in the Tuscan.
£7.82 per TVR mile in the last 18 months- not including fuel. Which actually doesn't sound as bad as I thought it would be!
At the end of Aug-19 I had the engine rebuilt in my Chimaera (circa £5k), followed by a period of awful weather (wettest autumn on record I recall) that meant I'd only just managed the running-in mileage by the time the first lockdown hit in March 20. When it went back for another oil change just prior to that lockdown I had a few other bits done at the same time just for convenience, rather than making another trip later on...
Then in July 20, having covered barely 600-700 miles in the Chimaera since it's rebuild, we got the opportunity to acquire our dream Tuscan (mk-1, Halcyon Atlantis, Powers engine rebuild etc) at a price that was too good to pass up. Managed a couple of hundred miles in that over the the summer, before the next two lockdowns hit, and during the second one it went in for a big 12k service and a few other bits- we collected last week with a £2k bill.
So looking at my spreadsheet (I am an accountant), I make it just shy of £8,600 spent in the last 18 months across the two TVRs including tax and insurance. For this we have managed roughly 800 miles in the Chimaera (almost all pre-lockdown), and around 300 miles in the Tuscan.
£7.82 per TVR mile in the last 18 months- not including fuel. Which actually doesn't sound as bad as I thought it would be!
brownspeed said:
is appreciation in value factored in? Over the time I've owned mine, the rise in value is more than its cost me to run and maintain!
I paid £12k for my Chimaera in 2016, have since spent approx £9k on it over the last 4-5 years, and I reckon if I sold it privately now it would fetch maybe £14k on a good day? 
I am hoping it will be different for the Tuscan though, having bought for £23k I would like to think there is a lot more headroom there. Unfortunately, the Tuscan was always going to be 'the one' that we'll never get rid of, so any appreciation is pretty moot- unlike the Chimaera which I'm hoping to move on this year to fund the next purchase.
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