RE: Shed of the week
Friday 23rd March 2007
'Smokes a little'In a new development for shed of the week, the PH team will attempt to justify their selection on a weekly basis. To kick us off, we’ve found this, which we like - a lot. In fact, so attached to it are we, that we don’t even like the term ‘shed’ mentioned in the same breath. Clearly, we’re not going to make this easy for ourselves.
SOTW: Delta Turbo
1988 LANCIA DELTA 1.6 HF Turbo Martini 5dr Hatchback Special Edition
'Smokes a little'
Possibly, it’s the stripes that have tipped the balance, confusing our minds in a fog of 'right over crest' slides and kankkunen cool. Ok, so it’s 'only' a 1.6HF, not an Integrale by any means, but for just £625 or less – a high spec Playstation 3 for instance - this seems like a bargain. Grow a big ‘tache, practise the correct pronunciation of ‘Markku’ and drive everywhere at ‘maximum attack, flat’.
Actually, you’ll probably need to if you’re to take your mind off the sinister reality lying amongst ‘does smoke a little’ and ‘only early signs of rust’. This is a 19 year old Delta for heavens sake. We must be mad. Still, if someone out there does buy this car, please let us know how you get on, because secretly, we’re really rather jealous. We love it.
Advert: Manual, 90,000 miles, ’88 E reg, tax&test.175bhp.Good cond for year age with only early sighs of rust. Sensible modifications. Does smoke a little but runs and drives lovely. Tons of bills and receipts, Regrettable sale. £625. ono
Discussion
I think you should add a twist to the shed of the week, buy each week buying the shed, taking it to a track day and then sell it again at the end of the week in time to buy the next one, ok it may need to be shed of the month but it would be even more of a laugh...
Set the max spend at £1000. shouldbt cost too much over the year if you sell each one... and would be a cracking feature...
just imagine picking up an old luxo barge for 600 quid and then wafting it around cadwell park, before selling it on to some unsuspecting punter....
G
Set the max spend at £1000. shouldbt cost too much over the year if you sell each one... and would be a cracking feature...
just imagine picking up an old luxo barge for 600 quid and then wafting it around cadwell park, before selling it on to some unsuspecting punter....
G
. Funnily you should say that......Did you ever watch the million pound property experiment?
Well I am challenging Adam to buy a car for £500. By cleaning and fettling each he needs to sell them on for a profit. The challenge is that by the end of the year he has to have enough money to buy something exotic- Lambo, Ferrari, Maser etc
We know we'll end up with a rusty 308GT4 but it will be fun!
Watch this space
G
Well I am challenging Adam to buy a car for £500. By cleaning and fettling each he needs to sell them on for a profit. The challenge is that by the end of the year he has to have enough money to buy something exotic- Lambo, Ferrari, Maser etc
We know we'll end up with a rusty 308GT4 but it will be fun!
Watch this space
G
garlick said:
Well I am challenging Adam to buy a car for £500. By cleaning and fettling each he needs to sell them on for a profit. The challenge is that by the end of the year he has to have enough money to buy something exotic- Lambo, Ferrari, Maser etc
I'm sure Autocar tried that, having a big launch feature with a 6 series BMW and a Fiat Cinquecento as the initial sheds. I'm not sure if anything ever came of it, the last I saw was a little half-page article saying they hadn't done very well with either of the initial cars.
Fifth Gear tried it with a Puma too, and failed miserably.
Part of the problem is, it's easy to turn a tatty £50 shed into a decent-looking £200-300 runabout in a couple of weekends, but not very easy once you get out of the realm of bangers. Even with classics, turning a £5k car into a £10k car tends to require more than £5k of parts, labour and outright dedication.
Timberwolf said:
garlick said:
Well I am challenging Adam to buy a car for £500. By cleaning and fettling each he needs to sell them on for a profit. The challenge is that by the end of the year he has to have enough money to buy something exotic- Lambo, Ferrari, Maser etc
I'm sure Autocar tried that, having a big launch feature with a 6 series BMW and a Fiat Cinquecento as the initial sheds. I'm not sure if anything ever came of it, the last I saw was a little half-page article saying they hadn't done very well with either of the initial cars.
Fifth Gear tried it with a Puma too, and failed miserably.
Part of the problem is, it's easy to turn a tatty £50 shed into a decent-looking £200-300 runabout in a couple of weekends, but not very easy once you get out of the realm of bangers. Even with classics, turning a £5k car into a £10k car tends to require more than £5k of parts, labour and outright dedication.
The threat of the sack should make him work at this project!
Thing is with the other attempts is they gave up. If we can't get to a Lambo then we'll keep having fun at the £2K mark. The thought of tooling around in an Opel Monza for a week and then selling it for a R5 GTT has undeniable appeal. And we'll be keeping you all updated as we go.
G
garlick said:
Timberwolf said:
garlick said:
Well I am challenging Adam to buy a car for £500. By cleaning and fettling each he needs to sell them on for a profit. The challenge is that by the end of the year he has to have enough money to buy something exotic- Lambo, Ferrari, Maser etc
I'm sure Autocar tried that, having a big launch feature with a 6 series BMW and a Fiat Cinquecento as the initial sheds. I'm not sure if anything ever came of it, the last I saw was a little half-page article saying they hadn't done very well with either of the initial cars.
Fifth Gear tried it with a Puma too, and failed miserably.
Part of the problem is, it's easy to turn a tatty £50 shed into a decent-looking £200-300 runabout in a couple of weekends, but not very easy once you get out of the realm of bangers. Even with classics, turning a £5k car into a £10k car tends to require more than £5k of parts, labour and outright dedication.
The threat of the sack should make him work at this project!
Thing is with the other attempts is they gave up. If we can't get to a Lambo then we'll keep having fun at the £2K mark. The thought of tooling around in an Opel Monza for a week and then selling it for a R5 GTT has undeniable appeal. And we'll be keeping you all updated as we go.
G
Thanks mate :-)
Now where's that cash - I've a Lancia that needs viewing...
I think it would be more interesting and relevant to see if for say a £1000 budget you have to buy a new shed each month for say 12 months. That £1000 is all you have, so you buy a Mini for £500 drive it for a few weeks then sell for $600 and you now have an £1100 budget, so then you buy a Jag for £1000, but then sell it a month later for £800 and your budget is down to £900 and so on.
Get a few people to sign up for this challenge and the winner is whoever has the biggest budget left at the end.
Maybe throw in a random topgear style challenge each month where they can earn budget increase or something, i.e. £100 for first, £50 for second and so on.
Get a few people to sign up for this challenge and the winner is whoever has the biggest budget left at the end.
Maybe throw in a random topgear style challenge each month where they can earn budget increase or something, i.e. £100 for first, £50 for second and so on.
Timberwolf said:
garlick said:
Well I am challenging Adam to buy a car for £500. By cleaning and fettling each he needs to sell them on for a profit. The challenge is that by the end of the year he has to have enough money to buy something exotic- Lambo, Ferrari, Maser etc
I'm sure Autocar tried that, having a big launch feature with a 6 series BMW and a Fiat Cinquecento as the initial sheds. I'm not sure if anything ever came of it, the last I saw was a little half-page article saying they hadn't done very well with either of the initial cars.
Fifth Gear tried it with a Puma too, and failed miserably.
Part of the problem is, it's easy to turn a tatty £50 shed into a decent-looking £200-300 runabout in a couple of weekends, but not very easy once you get out of the realm of bangers. Even with classics, turning a £5k car into a £10k car tends to require more than £5k of parts, labour and outright dedication.
Agreed, It's really not at easy as you think. My pal works at a dealership & I used to buy the part ex's off him at the right price.
But the cost of advertising the cars was crippling.
Add to that, that by rights, you should be selling as "trade", and you've then opened up the "trading standards" box, don't get me started on that.
"This car you've sold me for £200, I've found a piece of chewing gum under the passenger seat, and it wont come off"
I used to have one of these as a company car, except mine was a limited edition in grey metallic with leather Recaro's.
I had it chipped to 170bhp by an outfit up near Reading, and they fitted big wheels and a strutbrace. The boost was adjustable - I used to call it the 'hysteria' button. I also remember that most of the speedo was covered by the steering wheel, I used to think "This road seems a bit tighter than I remembered it" but discovered I was doing 100mph, not 80mph*.
In the wet the torque steer was incredible, it would easily jump from one lane to the next on a dual carriageway. My boss borrowed it for a weekend and when he returned he sent a memo to the whole company warning then that none of the females in the place should drive my car. When I moved on and left it behind, 4th gear had gone awol, but that didn't seem to slow it down much!
Happy memories!
SS7
*Please note that these were the days before high speed on appropiate roads didn't slaughter children or polar bears.
I had it chipped to 170bhp by an outfit up near Reading, and they fitted big wheels and a strutbrace. The boost was adjustable - I used to call it the 'hysteria' button. I also remember that most of the speedo was covered by the steering wheel, I used to think "This road seems a bit tighter than I remembered it" but discovered I was doing 100mph, not 80mph*.
In the wet the torque steer was incredible, it would easily jump from one lane to the next on a dual carriageway. My boss borrowed it for a weekend and when he returned he sent a memo to the whole company warning then that none of the females in the place should drive my car. When I moved on and left it behind, 4th gear had gone awol, but that didn't seem to slow it down much!
Happy memories!
SS7
*Please note that these were the days before high speed on appropiate roads didn't slaughter children or polar bears.
I think that like a lot of these cars they are best remembered with rose tinted glasses. They really were only good at the time they were made and you forget how to much modern cars have progressed over the years in every way possible. I'd love a go in a 205 GTI 1.9 again but I am sure I'd find the non assisted steering crippling, the trim rattly, engine noisy and the looks very dated. That said, I have an Elise now so apart from the looks I am already back there!! 
I had exactly the same car in 1987 i was only twenty at the time and i traded my fiat uno turbo in for it.Mine was on a d reg i had nothing but problems with it my friends XR2 was just as fast!
Not that i learned from that experience as the next car i bought was the integrale which was a dream for a kid to be driving back then,again though problems problems problem aah those were the days........
Not that i learned from that experience as the next car i bought was the integrale which was a dream for a kid to be driving back then,again though problems problems problem aah those were the days........
pasthim said:
I think that like a lot of these cars they are best remembered with rose tinted glasses. They really were only good at the time they were made and you forget how to much modern cars have progressed over the years in every way possible. I'd love a go in a 205 GTI 1.9 again but I am sure I'd find the non assisted steering crippling, the trim rattly, engine noisy and the looks very dated. That said, I have an Elise now so apart from the looks I am already back there!!
They are fun even if you are used to modern cars, where they usually fall down is when using them as a daily driver, thats when you miss modern comforts the most.
Timberwolf said:
garlick said:
Well I am challenging Adam to buy a car for £500. By cleaning and fettling each he needs to sell them on for a profit. The challenge is that by the end of the year he has to have enough money to buy something exotic- Lambo, Ferrari, Maser etc
I'm sure Autocar tried that, having a big launch feature with a 6 series BMW and a Fiat Cinquecento as the initial sheds. I'm not sure if anything ever came of it, the last I saw was a little half-page article saying they hadn't done very well with either of the initial cars.
Fifth Gear tried it with a Puma too, and failed miserably.
Part of the problem is, it's easy to turn a tatty £50 shed into a decent-looking £200-300 runabout in a couple of weekends, but not very easy once you get out of the realm of bangers. Even with classics, turning a £5k car into a £10k car tends to require more than £5k of parts, labour and outright dedication.
That barely literate barrow boy t
t Mike Brewer had a series where he tried this. It was good viewing if you turned the sound down and ignored his "bollox like SpaceHoppers" gait. He started with a "Chinkweechentow" and I don't remember what he ended up with. As it wasn't the smack in the teeth he deserves I lost interest. Gassing Station | Classic Cars and Yesterday's Heroes | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff