Cheap Project Car. Anyone got any suggestions/ideas?

[HADOL]

I am wanting to start a project doing up a car......havent got much cash......dont really want to spend more than £200 on buying the car to start with ........so if anyone has any ideas of where i can get a starting and driveable car for very cheap from.....i'd appreciate it.......

[V8covin]

Facebook marketplace

[broadspeed1]

Anything that cheap will be a waste of time, a few hundred quid is the difference between a scrapper and clean car.

[HADOL]

What price do you think id have to spend to get a working car?
Any recommendations of where to get cheap cars from?

[crofty1984]

Facebook marketplatce, and don't be fussy.

[nunpuncher]

Best bet is to check the free to list places so FB marketplace and Gumtree and search for terms like "non runner" or "MOT failure" the later is often a number of easy fixes that just need doing. However, you'll be lucky to find anything salvageable for £200. You can't even get a knackered 50cc moped for that these days.

Also be aware that you're obviously going to have to spend money on anything you get that's broken. So if you do manage to get something for £200 it could be wanting £500 in parts to get it close to useable.

[Cascade360]

If you're a bit skint and wanting a project car, definitely find something that is cheap on parts (though it may not be a great idea full stop...if you need to buy tools and parts etc., it isn't a cheap endeavour).

[InformationSuperHighway]

Cliche alert...

MX5.

Cheap, easy to find, easy to fix.

[mikeyr]

Some car parts are hard to get hold of at the moment too!

[mikeyr]

Just to say that £400 seems to be staying point for an mot fail locally on gumtree. And that's something like a Vauxhall Zafira so not an exciting end result when fixed up. Near in mind that am MOT failure/non runner will need transporting to your house so budget for that too.

[Decky_Q]

Put unfinished project car into ebay and there loads of results. Punt your £201.53 bid in on anything that tickles your fancy from kit cars to half-assed engine swaps and you win one eventually.

(Prob after beers and a sudden bravery to increase your budget 'cause a rusty bargain in the rough has appeared)

[V8covin]

InformationSuperHighway said:

Cliche alert...

MX5.

Cheap, easy to find, easy to fix.

If they're cheap it's because they're rotten.
If you can't weld look elsewhere

[griffter]

You’ll have to get it home as well. That could cost another £200.
I’d look for a runner (there will still be plenty to do - there always is!) even if an MOT fail. You can still drive it to a prebooked MOT test.

[nunpuncher]

V8covin said:

InformationSuperHighway said:

Cliche alert...

MX5.

Cheap, easy to find, easy to fix.

If they're cheap it's because they're rotten.
If you can't weld look elsewhere

Exactly. The days of the cheap NA MX5 are well gone. NBs can still be bought for c£500 but that's generally because they are even worse than NAs for rust and more often than not the chassis legs are rotten which is not a straight forward job even when you're welding is of a decent amateur standard.

[Decky_Q]

Hey the name V8 Covin makes me think you know something about project cars lol.

For a while I've had a desire to rebody a boxster with a covin kit salvaging the panels from one with rusted out beetle chassis parts. I took a few measurements and it roughly looks like it would work.
From your experience of these kits is there anything obvious I've overlooked or could this work?

[scot_aln]

I'd check insurance costs too as even for a low price car they may be a considerable sum.