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Guess what. An old one like that might even be British. The early ones were made by Jensen. If it isn't rusty, buy it. Rust is the only real expensive thing to fix.
 
Sounds like that Volvo is right up your alley. For that price, expect that it needs a little work....and...as Super7 says, watch out for rust. Rust is the real killer when it comes to repair/restoration $$$$$.

However, if this car spent all of it's life in California, rust will probably not be a problem.

Also, those electric overdrives are expensive to repair, and parts are hard to find for the OD.

Sounds like this might be a good deal for what you're looking for, though. It's sure worth a telephone call.

Good Luck!!!
 
You can do with a P1800 what you can do with an Amazon.
Lots of 'go faster bits' around. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devilgrin.gif
It's not a whole lot bigger to sit in than an MGB.
Might be a tad longer.
Beautiful on the outside, less so on the inside.
Typical'70:s Volvo interior. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif
 
Did everyone forget the renowned Saab Sonnet of the 1970's??????? Nice car, but every one I've ever seen is burning oil.
 
I think until the early 70s (intro of Sonett III) the Sonett II had a two-cycle engine so it was supposed to burn oil (though perhaps not in the quantities you've seen).
 
The Sonnet a friend of mine had was a V-4, 2 cycle with a 4 speed gearbox, shifter on the column!

What a wierd combination, especially with all the American muscle cars running about in those days. It looked like an upside down bathtub, a V-4 oil burner with four on the tree!

It was a great little car and ran pretty fast, if I remember correctly.
 
I thought all the 2 strokes were 3 cylinder and the V4 was a 4 stroke from Ford, I think Ford Taunes.
 
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How about the Fiat Spyder? I always liked their lines, and the fact they were convertibles. If I wasn't able to get a TR6, I had already considered either a Fiat Spyder or an Alpha Romeo.
 
Only problem with a fiat spider is finding one that isn't rusted out completely.
 
And they had so much faith in their electric windows, that there is a plug in the door panel you can remove to install the hand crank and operate the windows manually. And we say nasty things about Lucas! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Jeff
 
It’s pretty easy to find nice FIAT Spyders in So Cal. You’re just not likely to find one for $5k. Then again, almost all of the other cars mentioned so far won’t be found in decent shape for under $5k.

That Volvo P1800S has potential but you’d have to look it over closely. OBTW that one isn’t an LBC. The early ones were made by Jensen in England. The S models were made in Sweden. (Easy to remember, eh? S for Sweden.)

TimeforChange, from your apparent concerns about 4-cyl cars I take that you’re interested in a bit of acceleration. Unfortunately that’s not something the less costly English and Euro cars are known for. You’ll have a very tough time finding anything exceptionally quick from “over there” in your intended price range. A few years back it would have been easy to pick up a less famous American Muscle car for reasonable cash but as you found with the Demon that’s no longer the case.

I’m sure something will come up. It will just take a lot of hunting, a little luck and quite a bit of patience.


PC.
 
And now I'll mention a car that I had the honor to own and drive for 12 years. I believe that the 1976 Lincoln Mercury Capri II will someday be a VERY sought after collector car. It had a 2.8 Liter V6, and was imported from the Frankfurt factory in West Germany. I loved that car. It had a killer 2nd gear that left most other cars of its size in the dust. I bet parts might be hard to come by now, because before I traded it in in 1990, it was already hard to get parts for it. It was a great long distance cruise car, and was marketed as "The Sexy European." When it first came out in 1975, it really turned heads. Weak points were bad brakes....squealed a lot, warping rotors....get em wet, and they warped, typical Ford weak front end suspension, and it leaked oil at a rate that you needed to add a qt. everytime you filled up with gasoline.
Good points were the excellent, well built, and comfortable vinyl seats, the dynamic engine.....great, although heavy handed transmission, and blow me away acceleration.
Ford's next import, the Merkur was a flop compared to the German built Capri. I have fond memories of that 1976 Capri II!
 
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