Cheapest budget car????

[67velle]

Im looking for low budget cars.........PICS and discripition??????? I had a tight budget . Can you build a fun car for 13,000????????

[ProTouring442]

I would bet that you could do one hell of a Fox-Mustang for 13K.


Shiny SIde Up!
Bill

[67velle]

that sounds like a fun ice cream getter!!!!

[Restomod]

I had just a little more than that in this!! It can be done!!!

[Z06killinSBF]

Any Mustang between 79-98 is REALLY cheap and have a ton of parts. You can look into the 4 banger foxes and the v6 SN95's for a cheap alternative. Drop in a stroker and good suspension and your set. My 5.0 was a blast and I only had about $9k in it.

[67velle]

I have 13500 in my car ....Including 5500 for the car and 3000 in wheels and tires!!!!! Of coures we can,t count my labor

[dropit69]

yeah i just seen a decent fox body roller sell near me on craiglists for 1500 bucks..i emailed him for only god knows why ( i have to many cars already ) and thank god he already sold it..lol..

[Project69]

Turd-gen camaros are cheap as well. Plus an LS1/T56 swap is easier then ever now.

Might be my next project soon...

[ProTouring442]

Third-gen camaros are cheap as well. Plus an LS1/T56 swap is easier then ever now.

Might be my next project soon...

I hadn't thought of this option, but it's also a great one. My original hesitation was with the tuned-port junk, but with LT-1 and LT-4, not to mention the LS1, they could be killer cars on the cheap.

Great, just what I need... another project idea!

Shiny Side Up!
Bill

[Z06killinSBF]

Speaking of 3rd gen Camaros, my dad has an 88' IROC Z black on grey 5 spd that he may be selling before too long. It's all stock right now but needs some loving. I know he was gonna freshen it up and put leather in it.

[69TAPoser]

If you are looking for classic muscle, 3rd Gen Novas (1968-72) are still a really good bargain in my opinion. You can find them for under $10K which would leave you plenty $$ for "cool stuff."

Phil

[go-fish]

I went from a 1973 Dodge Challenger to an 88 IROC. World of difference, the car was super fun to drive and the Tuned Port didn't seem like junk to an 18 year old with a lead foot. The Chally was a bone stock 318 2bbl and the IROC seemed so modern, that is until the 700R4 grenaded. I was a carpenters apprentice and didn't have the bucks to fix it so I went back to the Mopars.
Since then I have quietly been on the look out for another. Don't discount them. There's a fella on my base that is goin 10's on the bottle in a '90 ? that has an LT1.

[JMarsa]

If you are looking for classic muscle, 3rd Gen Novas (1968-72) are still a really good bargain in my opinion. You can find them for under $10K which would leave you plenty $$ for "cool stuff."

Phil

4th Gen Nova's are a 1/3 that price. The last RWD Malibu's are another great bang for the buck car as well.

--JMarsa

[BRIAN]

How about a Ford Fiesta with a SHO engine mounted in the trunk? Actually they were built for a while and marketed under "Shogun" Jay Leno has one on his web site. They are fast and as you could imagine the donor cars are dirt cheap. The orig ones are expensive but are easily replicated. I think somone out there sells the swap parts. Esat 13sec car that will hang with the best of them. Hey, it is different and cheap.

You aren't going to touch a 1st gen anything for that amount.

[LMDGUY]

$13k is alot of money if your handy with tool and able to do most of your own installs. My last 90 mustang I had $6500.00 into it. had a 306 with Vic jr heads etc... dyno at 375hp to the wheels with no tune. All you have to do is shop around for parts, Craigslist, Ebay, forums. Alot of the part on that car were used.

[rocketman]

The 4th gen Camaro's are pretty right priced, the Lt1 cars are a good value and they can look good for little cash, the the mid C-4's are run good prices right now.

It will be hard to build any 67-69 camaros for that price, the early 70's camaros and novas aren't to bad yet.the late 70's camaros are getting popular theres a couple real nice ones around here.

Just some ideas.

I bought a 94 with a 6 spd for 4,500 and have done the supension and stuff and have about another 2k in it so far for a nice cruise night cruiser.

[MarkM66]

4th Gen Nova's are a 1/3 that price. The last RWD Malibu's are another great bang for the buck car as well.

--JMarsa

But will result in a final value of 1/3 of the price. 4th gens have very poor resale, no matter how nice it is.

[63SW]

78-81 Malibu's are very popular , everywhere and reasonably priced.
usually can always get your money back..

ive had 4 and made money on all of them.

just my thought.

heres one i sold for 7500

[robyrd]

if you're looking for something you can get some money back on, you can get a pretty nice 74-77 vette for a good price and they sell well after they are spruced up a little. and man those are really pretty cars!

[jeff s]

Dale built projecy Ygen 3rd gen for about 12k. http://www.schwartzperformance.com/ygen.htm