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Want small RWD car for buggy.

  • 17-08-2012 9:22am
    #1
    newmug
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,571 ✭✭✭


    Do they still make small RWD cars? Like Fiesta's and the like? I want one to make into a buggy for the fields. Once upon a time there was any amount of RWD, it was actually FWD that was rare. You could just take out all the glass, open up the pump and viola, you had a field go-kart! Ah fun times!


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  • #2
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    That must have been a long, long time ago....

    Fiestas were never rwd either ;)

    Get a Fourtrak for the fields as a buggy!


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 23,339 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Fiesta was never rwd, old Starlets were, big money to buy them though. An e30 might be the cheapest and smallest rwd easily available me thinks.


  • #4
    langdang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,857 ✭✭✭langdang


    Fiat 126 buggy?
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0-MZ76vLbs


    Jimny in 2wd mode with suspension lowered?

    No idea of price, but an off the shelf solution would be a Rage buggy -great craic.


  • #5
    conzy
    Subscribers Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭conzy


    E36 compact can be gotten for half nothing


  • #6
    newmug
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,571 ✭✭✭newmug


    Were the Mk1 Fiesta's not RWD? Mine was!

    Cant be a jeep, centre of gravity too high. Any car, even a saloon.


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  • #7
    newmug
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,571 ✭✭✭newmug


    Hmmm, an E36 would look mad flying through muck. Might check one out.


  • #8
    Paddy@CIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭Paddy@CIRL


    newmug wrote: »
    Were the Mk1 Fiesta's not RWD? Mine was!

    Cant be a jeep, centre of gravity too high. Any car, even a saloon.

    The Fiesta was never RWD. Except for a really rare and priceless rally prototype.

    OP, keep an eye out for a Beetle, Starlet KP, old BMWs, Volvos, Mercs etc...


  • #9
    newmug
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,571 ✭✭✭newmug


    Paddy@CIRL wrote: »
    The Fiesta was never RWD. Except for a really rare and priceless rally prototype.

    OP, keep an eye out for a Beetle, Starlet KP, old BMWs, Volvos, Mercs etc...


    :o:o:o:o:o My old one defo was, its sitting in a ditch burnt out for the last 15 years!


  • #10
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    newmug wrote: »
    Were the Mk1 Fiesta's not RWD? Mine was cobbled up!

    Fyp :pac:

    I sense a bit of shnaky diffin in the fields... ;)

    Why not get a diesel omega?


  • #11
    Ardennes1944
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,238 ✭✭✭Ardennes1944


    hmmm....and where would this field be OP? :D


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  • #12
    Leonard Hofstadter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Leonard Hofstadter


    newmug wrote: »
    :o:o:o:o:o My old one defo was, its sitting in a ditch burnt out for the last 15 years!

    No the Fiesta was always front wheel drive:).


  • #13
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,985 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    newmug wrote: »
    :o:o:o:o:o My old one defo was, its sitting in a ditch burnt out for the last 15 years!

    Lift it up and get a snap of the drivetrain ;)


  • #14
    keithclancy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,208 ✭✭✭keithclancy


    newmug wrote: »
    :o:o:o:o:o My old one defo was, its sitting in a ditch burnt out for the last 15 years!

    Sure your not thinking of the Mk1 or Mk2 Escort ?


  • #15
    galwaytt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,822 ✭✭✭✭galwaytt


    newmug wrote: »
    :o:o:o:o:o My old one defo was, its sitting in a ditch burnt out for the last 15 years!

    Nope, Fiesta was never RWD. Unless, of course........you reversed it into the ditch.....:p

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  • #16
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,929 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    Funny enough it will be Easyer to find rwd huge engine car for dirt cheap, then same car rwd.

    Look for Opel omega, old Volvo, e36 is easy and cheap to get.


  • #17
    Paddy@CIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭Paddy@CIRL


    Newmug,

    There was only two RWD Fiestas built by Ford (officially) in the late '70s as prototypes for a new generation of rear wheel drive Escorts (after the MKII) which never materialised. One was mid-mounted like the Renault 5 Turbo and the other (pictured) was FR with a BDA engine.

    I can assure you that neither are in your ditch :)

    fiestap1lp0.jpg


  • #18
    stimpson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,828 ✭✭✭stimpson


    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/3626896

    How's yer welding skills?


  • #19
    Daniel S
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,533 ✭✭✭Daniel S


    RoverJames wrote: »
    Fiesta was never rwd, old Starlets were, big money to buy them though. An e30 might be the cheapest and smallest rwd easily available me thinks.
    Please don't waste an e30 on a field car! :(


  • #20
    Victor Meldrew
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 768 ✭✭✭Victor Meldrew


    Any old (very old) Opel Omega, ford sierra, BMW (various). why does it need to be small if it is being driven in a field.

    big will be cheaper as has been pointed out before

    buy the cheapest and commonest and enjoy..(jealous)

    old 740 /940 or 240 volvo with a turbo? :D:D:D:D

    Edit..... Mazda Mx5.....


  • #21
    Jimbob 83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,032 ✭✭✭Jimbob 83


    Haha the whole time until reading the whole original post i thought you wanted a small rwd car that could fit a childs pram, i was beginning to think people linking pics of dune buggies was a little unhelpful :p

    Im abit slow tonight (have a massive headache too :()


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