Classic Cars

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Tester decided it didn't have enough power for him. He had been looking at turbo'd MR2s but was taken by the condition of the MX5.
So, put it on Autotrader at £2,150 this afternoon and took a cash deposit a couple of hours later for £2,100 and collection Mon/Tues.

Had a lot of interest very quickly so could well have gone for more but my need for it to be out of the garage was worth more than a protracted haggling session.

Oh, this one was bought for £1,000 in 2014 so looks like values are on the up.

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They say you can tell if a car is a good driver in the first 50yds of driving and I'd say the MX5 passes that test with flying colours.

Yep, my blat across the wastelands of Coventry concur!

[Asian Boss]

My instinct for the MX5 (without seeing it - they're always worse when you see them) was 2.2 to 2.5.

2.1 sounds like a fair deal.

[Asian Boss]

OK, so it's £8500, but it's a 'classic' in my book

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1990-XR3i-in ... SwnidgFxZr

That is very TWOC'y and snide.

[wheelnut]

We bought Mrs Ds pretty tidy 1.8 Eunos Roadster for about 2 grand in 2007 and sold it in 2014 for about £850 i think. So the tester's offer is pretty good I think.

I really miss it sometimes. They're not very fast, but they're very sorted. The suspension is way higher spec than anything else in the class (double wishbones all around) and they feel properly 'tight'. They say you can tell if a car is a good driver in the first 50yds of driving and I'd say the MX5 passes that test with flying colours.

I love ours - it’s a 2007 NC3. We’ve been all over in it. Had it about 8 years now and will keep it a while longer. Not fast, but they don’t need to be. Brilliant, brilliant little car.

I call ours Dougal cos it’s magic on roundabouts.

[KungFooBob]

Not fast... in that case you need a Chinese turbo kit off t'bay.

[wheelnut]

Not fast... in that case you need a Chinese turbo kit off t'bay.

Nah - it’s great as it is.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Not fast... in that case you need a Chinese turbo kit off t'bay.

BBR in Brackley (just round the corner from Mercedes F1!) do loads of tuning bits for MX5s. Their turbo kit ok the mark 1 1.8 takes it up to ~240bhp.

What you really want though is a conversion by Flying Miata in the US, take out the cast iron Mazda engine and drop in an Aluminium 6 litre V8. Doesn't even change the weight .

[KungFooBob]

My mate had a Mk1 for a decade, you name it, he did it, was a ringtool for many years.

He ran a couple of hundred quid Chinese turbo kit and a home built mega-squirt for years without issue.

[Potter]

My mate had a Mk1 for a decade, you name it, he did it, was a ringtool for many years.

He ran a couple of hundred quid Chinese turbo kit and a home built mega-squirt for years without issue.

That ^ sounds like something off a weird Reddit pron group.

Ringtools, mega-squirt

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That ^ sounds like something off a weird Reddit pron group.

Ringtools, mega-squirt

Reminds me when I needed a new vacuum pump for the Landie and just put vacuum pump into eBay/Amazon (don't recall which), thinking it would give results for cars in my 'online garage' with them.
The site decided that automotive wasn't even the category it would choose.

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Gone.

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Need to get my SL320 back on the road....then sell that as well!