About 5 years ago, high winds brought down a tree in the front street, which landed on my car, writing it off.

Having only TPFT at the time (never again will I have TPFT ), I was stuck without essential transport, and very little money to get some.

I finished up with a battered old Mini, which I bought for, get this, £65.

I ran it for about 5 months, until it expired about a fortnight before the MOT (which it wouldn't have passed in a million years) ran out.

£30 for Mini Traveller in 1978

Originally Posted by Hancock

£30 for Mini Traveller in 1978

What state was it in though

Let rain water in, every time it rained.

[COAX]

£225 on my first car which ive still got now

Originally Posted by Hancock

Let rain water in, every time it rained.

That's luxury.

You could see the road through the floor of that mini.

1962 Riley - £40 3 years ago, granted it was in boxes...

Originally Posted by Jean Luc Picard

That's luxury.

You could see the road through the floor of that mini.

I needed the holes in the floor, so I could brake with my feet.

Originally Posted by Hancock

I needed the holes in the floor, so I could brake with my feet.

The Mini had an anchor.

This is getting silly.

Originally Posted by Jean Luc Picard

The Mini had an anchor.

This is getting silly.

I sold it for scrap 4 weeks later, was worried about the Thames River overflowing.

[Collette]

My husband had a little Peugeot 205 he bought a few years ago for £30 - he just used it to go to work and back for a few months until it finally died. He then got a Fiesta for £50 which still had 6 months tax on it so effectively cost nowt - that went on to pass an MOT with few problems and was passed on to a family friend who'd just passed her test

With little old bangers as long as they're roadworthy it's often easy to pick them up for silly money as most scrapyards now charge to take them. The main problem is that my husband collects cars like some people collect stamps

[ludovica]

I swapped a rubbish £15 guitar for a 1964 VW Beetle that was in perfect order.. (off someone who'd lost their licence) we had it for about a year before we lost it in a head-on with a diesel Transit

[Prince Monalulu]

Last few I've had as my personal cars, until I had to clear out my collection, free, free, £1, £75, £120.

Originally Posted by Prince Monalulu

free, free, £1, £75, £120.

You got two cars for free

[jen0607]

48p.
(well, you didn't specify how big it had to be)

[KnifeEdge]

M reg Mondeo, for £200 3 yrs ago which is till going strong!

[Prince Monalulu]

Originally Posted by Jean Luc Picard

You got two cars for free

Yup and all of them driven home too.
Then again I twirl the spanners, so apart from guffed gearboxes I can fix most things if I can be asked.

Originally Posted by Prince Monalulu

Yup and all of them driven home too.
Then again I twirl the spanners, so apart from guffed gearboxes I can fix most things if I can be asked.

I remember an episode of Top Gear, where Jeremy Clarkson bought a car for a pound.

for free. swapped it with my parents old car when they got a new one

[SULLA]

My first car was a standard 8 which cost me £35. The gearbox went on the Exeter bypass. The recovery vehicle came along and said that a repair would be more than the car was worth. I still agree. He didn't charge me for the call out as two of the tryes were quite good.

He gave me a biro with the name of the garage on

[sc0ttish]

35 bucks for an old astra, did me for 2 years

Originally Posted by SULLA

He gave me a biro with the name of the garage on

More than generous, I'd say.

[DinkyDoo]

£70 for a Seat Ibiza in 1998.

[pault2006]

Someone bought me a car for £10 off the Internet.

It went 5mph but if you fit inside it, you'd actually be doing about 150mph!

Originally Posted by jen0607

48p.
(well, you didn't specify how big it had to be)

[Little Bleeder]

Originally Posted by Jean Luc Picard

You got two cars for free

I once made the mistake of giving away my M reg Astra Estate for free because I thought it would cost too much to get it through the MOT. For a stop-gap I bought a Metro with 12 mths MOT for £75 - and kept it for a year. But during that year I was frequently overtaken by my old Astra, which I later found out passed the MOT first time.