£8000 Budget - did not work!

[Ninja]

welcome to my grey valver for 4K mate, body very good, engine very good!

Nice car, I'll offer you £1.65 and not a penny more. J/K The car does look very nice from your sig though. I've always liked grey mk2's, something about 'em.

[Bieldside]

With nothing on the horizon and summer lethargy upon us is it time to give up the search?

Almost a full time job - Autotrader, P Heads , e-bay ....

Tried various forums but nothing worthy offered

Need an option - Corrado VR6 , Storm variety also looking at but thats drawn a blank

Where are all the standard cherished cars - cherished and not for sale!!!

[Conker]

With nothing on the horizon and summer lethargy upon us is it time to give up the search?

Need an option - Corrado VR6 , Storm variety also looking at but thats drawn a blank.

No offence, but one minute you DESPARATELY want a VERY SPECIFIC Mk2, and are willing to spend way, way more than is necessary. You spend a couple of months (if that) looking for one, can't find one, then suddenly have a change of heart and want a Corrado instead?? Bear in mind it took me 6 months to find my 16v, and it only cost me £1000.

I suppose at least you can go on Corrado.net now and say "Hey guys, look, I've got £25,000 to spend on a Corrado!!!"

[JC]

Meeeeee LOL ooooooW 

[tobz.]

With nothing on the horizon and summer lethargy upon us is it time to give up the search?

Need an option - Corrado VR6 , Storm variety also looking at but thats drawn a blank.

No offence, but one minute you DESPARATELY want a VERY SPECIFIC Mk2, and are willing to spend way, way more than is necessary. You spend a couple of months (if that) looking for one, can't find one, then suddenly have a change of heart and want a Corrado instead?? Bear in mind it took me 6 months to find my 16v, and it only cost me £1000.

I suppose at least you can go on Corrado.net now and say "Hey guys, look, I've got £25,000 to spend on a Corrado!!!"

In all fairness this guy did crop up originally about a year ago with a 4k budget so I think he's been looking for a fair while.
Don't give up hope yet, the right car comes up eventually. It took me a year to find my motor and I travelled the length of the country literally (early morning flight to edinburgh on a sunday to look at a dog) and looked at a lot of rough (supposedly mint) motors. My search criteria was identical except mine also HAD to be on a j plate. In the end I found mine and paid £3295 for it. It was 100% standard back then and I've only made subtle mods to it since and kept all the standard parts of course. That was almost 5 years ago though, maybe they have become a lot harder to find since then, I was looking at about 1 car a month back then.

Had you considered buying a VERY tidy mk2 for about 2k then sitting on the other 6k until the perfect car comes along? At least it might satisfy your urge for a mk2 and allow you to find that perfect example without straying to another model which will ALWAYS leave you wondering "what if?"

[Conker]

In all fairness this guy did crop up originally about a year ago with a 4k budget...

Maybe I am being unfair then, but give me £4k and a year and some serious conviction, and I'll find you a mint Oak Green. With a budget of £8k, I'll buy you a minter and make it super-mint. Easy.

Unless of course you've got seriously OTT demands, or indeed, live in a fantasy world.

Perhaps the multiple threads this guy has posted on the same subject have made me tetchy. I'll get back in the grumpy corner.

[tobz.]

I can imagine it's certainly becoming more difficult now. It took me a year and I had lots of conviction, in fact I used about half my holiday from work that year. I'd get to work, carry out my daily scour and if I found something I'd be on the road by lunchtime.
Back then there was a constant stream of oak green mk2's going up on the autotrader website, today there isn't a single one!!! In fact there's probably less than 20 mk2's in total nationwide on the autotrader website. Volkswizards stock was almost entirely mk2's when I was looking now they are the minority.

[Bieldside]

I have looked for many months with no joy - have missed three by not seeing PHeads on the hour the ad popped up so my offer of £8000 was in desparation in many ways. Its not market value , its over the top , its not sensible but even with all that no car has been offered that comes anywhere close to a good quality Mk2 16v

I have a friend who sources cars for one of the Mk2/Corrado specialists and he has drawn a blank for many months too.

I can afford to buy a Corrado Storm + a mint 16v so yes I have a similar post on the Corrado forum - and guess what no takers either. More offers but not close enough.

My only conclusion is that fewer and fewer cars are around and subject to watching every site all day I just need a bit of luck or , as I had hoped, a response to my £8000 budget

Tried £6000 on the 16v forum and got nothing either!

Will vanish off your radar for now - but thanks for the words of encouragement from the positive members.