And the winner of dreamer of the year is...

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

It's a rare Ford...there's someone out there to give nine grand for it!

and the way older Fords have been going north in value, I'll be willing to bet come back in a decade and that will start to look "cheap". I can remember and not so long ago when 70's Escorts and later Cosworths were pretty cheap. Look at how low milage Peugeot 205 GTi's are selling for. Along with other of the original "hot hatches". I see yer man also has a Renault 5 Gt Turbo. You couldn't give them away a few years back. Hell the rear engined ones were changing hands at around 15K in the early noughties. His Integra Type R(which looks to be an original Irish example) is "cheap", but that's in this market where insurance is monumental, mostly mental. Double that price in sterling in the UK market wouldn't be that much of a stretch, especially for a non JDM example. Example one. and he has an even more expensive one on the premises.

As an aside I reckon if you had a big shed somewhere and some spare cash, the current "cars of any flair over ten years old are uninsurable" Irish ballsology could turn out to be a good opportunity down the line.

Cheensbo wrote: »

Hands down the hardest fwd car money can insure.

FYP. It's cheap alright and you'd likely get more for parting it out. The only boy racer aftermarket nonsense appears to be the intake. An original can still be found for about a hundred quid(time was they were just dumped). It's a good un, but I suspect it will need work to future proof it. He does mention some paint issues and if it's an Irish car and especially if it's originally a UK car chances are extremely high it'll need both rear arches welded and repainted. Notorious fault in the chassis with these, made much worse and ironically by the wheel arch protectors on the Irish/UK cars(and salted roads).

That the R5 with numerous issues is more expensive says much. The R5 is probably easy to insure as a classic.

Cheensbo wrote: »

I'd love a dc2, but it would be stolen from my yard before it even cooled down. <actually there's yet another reason they will be quite valuable.

As an aside that seems to be much more a problem in rural areas? They seem to be "safer" in urban. Well so long as not parked in some high risk locales. Still, with a clifford and anti hijack and a tracker they'd need a tow truck. A new Ford Focus ST would be much easier to nick in standard form. I suppose the small of brain scum will just target certain "magpie" cars more. And more often. The value of parts doesn't help either. Parted out with some patience that R yer man has would get more money than as a whole. I can't think of another market where that would be the case.