The 5000 dollar question

[smallspeed]

£5K = either a w123 coupe, or an honest e30 sport coupe.. both going up in value, easy to work on, cheap parts, cheap insurance, etc.

that said, i'd probably get swayed by something ridiculous like an 840ci and eat nothing but bread for the rest of term!

[Burma-Shave]

How about a w123 Saloon?... in olive, on airbags.

[roadiesean]

You guys don't get out of Porsche world enough !! There is a world of great cars for that sort of money, in fact, you don't even have to spend that, I have bought 4 MX5's in the past 5 years and spent no more than £1000 on any of them, one I bought for £700, spent £500 getting a new mohair hood, doing the sills and drove the nuts off it for a year, sold it BACK TO THE GUY I BOUGHT IT FROM for £2700 !! That is how you get through University !

When I was a student in Australia, I bought and sold about 40 cars, kept under the trader threshold, but had credit cards with a total limit of $60,000 with n visible means of support, I was the only one who finished Uni with no debt and $50k in the bank ! Never spent more than $1000 on anything, still wishing I hadn't listened to my father and bought the 356 Speedster or 246 Dino both of which were for sale for $5000 a pop in 1983. Had just bought a '72 Beetle for $2200, so wasn't a lot even then ! Both were solid cars.

But back to my earlier point, there are tons of cars out there for less than £3000 that are interesting and good fun, in fact my Merc E320CDi estate (X reg with all the toys and 82,000miles) I paid just £2300 for ! I bloody love cars that don't cost any money. How did I ever get into this Porsche lark ! Slope330 you have a lot to answer for !!!

[coolaking]

[911hillclimber]

My daughter's on her 4th MX5, non cheap, the last one is new Mk4 and ALL have been great.
2nd one 'died' on a motorway when a young lad buried his mums Citroen into the back of her MX5 while she was stationary in traffic... She walked away untouched.

[Tosh]

I am currently not looking at a Porsche as I am really enjoying my SLK32 - I view it as a free car as it cost me a lot less than the profit I made on my 964. £6k for one of 250 UK cars. And you can get the 3.2V6 (no supercharger) for peanuts
Yes, there's a cubby for my scissors and combs

[Ashley James]

Agree on MX5s, nice little cars and everything for them is cheap, much cheaper than the Germans, so you can't really go wrong.

[The Yellow One]

I bought my 914 from North Carolina for £2500 nearly a year ago now, including shipping and panel costs for the home resto it owes me around £5k, so that's what I would do if I hadn't already