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Arragonis · 08-27-2011, 05:03 PM

I'm going for a £6.5K (completed) cap here.

1. Renault 5 GT Turbo. The car has a simple 1.4 litre OHV engine dating back to the 50s, a carb but also a turbo. The turbo can be wound up and up and up. Some of them do 120bhp/litre, some do more with intercoollers.

2. Kit cars - you can pick up a few unfinished projects or older builds for this kind of money and rebuild them for very little other than a lot of time and some paint and some cheap parts.

3. Original Mini. Pick up a not too neat but original one (i.e. no bike engines etc.) and add all that classic tuning stuff from the 60s and 70s.

4. Peugeot 309 GTI 1.9. Show it a twisty road and anything, including a Vette or a VW GTI, will not be able to keep up.

And even it's smaller brother, the 205 GTI 1.9, will struggle.

5. Hmmm - need to think...

08-27-2011, 05:03 PM	#2 (permalink)
Arragonis The PRC. Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Elsewhere. Posts: 5,304 Thanks: 285 Thanked 536 Times in 384 Posts	I'm going for a £6.5K (completed) cap here. 1. Renault 5 GT Turbo. The car has a simple 1.4 litre OHV engine dating back to the 50s, a carb but also a turbo. The turbo can be wound up and up and up. Some of them do 120bhp/litre, some do more with intercoollers. 2. Kit cars - you can pick up a few unfinished projects or older builds for this kind of money and rebuild them for very little other than a lot of time and some paint and some cheap parts. 3. Original Mini. Pick up a not too neat but original one (i.e. no bike engines etc.) and add all that classic tuning stuff from the 60s and 70s. 4. Peugeot 309 GTI 1.9. Show it a twisty road and anything, including a Vette or a VW GTI, will not be able to keep up. And even it's smaller brother, the 205 GTI 1.9, will struggle. 5. Hmmm - need to think... __________________ [I]So long and thanks for all the fish.[/I]