Which is the whole reason you need a 'safe' front wheen drive car that will naturally understeer when being pushed too hard. The Spitty will need a lot more steering input and if you don't do the correct steering input, then you have potential to lose control. Seriously take my advice, and everyone elses, and get a more modern car that has a much beginner friendly handling characteristics to it.
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Which is the whole reason you need a 'safe' front wheen drive car that will naturally understeer when being pushed too hard. The Spitty will need a lot more steering input and if you don't do the correct steering input, then you have potential to lose control. Seriously take my advice, and everyone elses, and get a more modern car that has a much beginner friendly handling characteristics to it.
in the same way this pic should put me off what ever it is (megane?)
http://www.candysnob.com/archives/pictures/Car_crash_1.jpg
Ahh yes, so what speed what he doing? Know anything at all on the background of the accident? So how were the occupants after the crash?
Great, what does that prove?
But he's Yantorsen. So he bases his opinion on pictures and facts later.
So then, I see you don't have a clue on that crash. So really you cannot compare at all. Oh and it looks worse as the firemen has cut the roof off to get the people out, most probably without moving their back to minimise injuries.
good luck. bye.
if the mods bother to read the whole thread then they'll understand that it was well overdue. But since none of them like me your probably right.
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You do realise why people are telling you a Spitfire is a bad idea?
1) It will break down. It will break down a lot, and that will mean you will need to be able to diagnose the problem. Then work out what parts you need, then finally be able to replace/fix the part. Now you told me on MSN you don't have any mechanical experience so this could come as quite a shock to you. I had only done a little but I had to learn a lot fast when I got my Dolomite.
2) Do you have any equipment/tools? If not you need to budget for £100-150 for a decent set of tools to get you going.
3) You have no driving experience, yes you have driven a little with your Dad but that it not the sort of experience I am talking about. I mean experience when things go wrong and you need to correct a slide etc to stop yourself from crashing. A Spitfire isn't an easy to drive car, thus it will increase your chances of crashing even higher.
4) The brakes and grip on an old car is abysmal. Now you need to look so far ahead of you and predict traffic movement so not to get caught out. This as a person just past their test is just about impossible as you will be having to concentrate on other things.
5) You will need to learn just basic things to run your car day in day out. For example as the weather changes you may find you need to retune your carbs. Now this can be a fairly slow process for someone new as you are not well up on how SU carbs (what you will have on the Spitfire) are tuned.
6) Yes it may be just a 1.3L or a 1.5L but it really will have a lot worse fuel economy than a modern car. You may have to use super unleaded and an additive as it originally ran on leaded fuel. Now this adds to the cost of running a fair bit, as you will only get in the 20's for mpg I would suspect.
Just to help you over the period I had the Dolomite I had to replace the following:
Clutch slave cylinder
Repair clutch master cylinder
2 brake calipers
2 wheel brake cylinders
clutch fork (had to removed the gearbox to do that one)
battery
indicator relay
windscreen rubber seal (windscreen removed)
radiator
None of that includes the other usual consumables like brake discs, brake pads, fluids etc. My engine leaked oil where I parked it, so that meant the oil had to be checked every 4 days to keep on top of it. I haven't included the engine that went on me as that is not so normal, but it does happen. So be prepared to sort out a replacement engine and fit it, or pay for a garage to do it.
There you go, think about some of the stuff I have said. Then really decide whether you can afford one on your budget, and whether you have the patience or knowledge to keep it maintained properly. Then finally you may actually find the Spitfire more boring to drive as you find you can't drive it hard at all due to the cars nature, so just keep that in mind.
I'd imagine that, for example, something like a £2k BMW 728i (which is a near 2 ton barge!) would return as good if not better fuel consumption than an old Triumph.
I say this as a friend of mine has an S reg TR7, he puts roughly twice as much fuel in it as he did in his previous Calibra, and shock horror, it breaks down constantly, something his Calibra only did now & again.
Learn to drive & then decide.
What a read.
Y. posts about the car he dreams of buying.
We give some advice.
Y. shoots it down as WRONG, he knows better even though he hasn't got a license.
Post more advice on WTF is he doing.
Y. Tells us we are wrong and clutches at straws trying to argue.
Repeat
Y. posts picture of a crashed car as evidence, taken from the 'book of in3rn3ts
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Claims he is only 17 and what does he know
Y. posts about the car he dreams of buying.
We give some advice.
Y. shoots it down as WRONG, he knows better even though he hasn't got a license.
Post more advice on WTF is he doing.
Y. Tells us we are wrong and clutches at straws trying to argue.
Repeat
Y. posts picture of a crashed car as evidence, taken from the 'book of in3rn3ts
'Claims he is only 17 and what does he know