Seeing as I'm feeling confident that one day I'm going to stuff my Impreza on a track day, it made me wonder what 'disposable' cars could make good track days cars instead?

Say you had a budget of £2-3000 (not much more than the excess on track-day insurance cover!). Plus another £500-ish for full harness, extinguisher, some form of roll cage... Keep it off-road, trailer it there, so no insurance or tax to worry about

I was thinking:
205 GTi - too expensive still?
R5 GT Turbo - too likely to go bang?
Mini Cooper (not thr original sort) - that could be a laugh.
Triumph GT6 - interesting handling.
Rover 200 or 216GTi - probably cheap!

Anyone got any other suggestions? AX GT, Metro GTi?

 

Hire car???

 

XR3i? XR2?

good fun

Owain "McRae" Morgans

 

At Goodwood the other day there was a bloke who owned a scooby but it was off the road, so he had brought his 'station car' - a stripped out 205 1.9 Gti with recaro seats and harnesses - looked great and seemed pretty quick.
Might be the way to go, I reckon.

 

escort rsturbo mine did pretty well..

rw

 

.....I used to navigate in a road rally Citroen AX GT - ******* quick - very chuckable and huge grin factor - unfortunately was destroyed in a monumental accident on an event - so we got a 205 1600 GTi not as roarty quick as the Citroen but more stable and IMHO, if we had the off again but in the pug we wouldnt have needed cutting out.....I would go for the Citroen if u aint gonna throw it at the scenery and the Pug if u are

 

In the current issue of Evo in the For Sale section, there is a Golf GTi. Stripped out, role cage, exhaust, upgraded brakes etc etc £2500.

Very tempting it is...

Chris.

 

Chris, that car would have to be very high spec to be worth that money!

Owain McRae Morgans

 

Dales and I spoke about this a year or so ago. If you remember the old support races from the BTCC with the old shape Renault Clios they were quick cars.

Apparently you can buy them now with trailer for about £3000 fully modded, slicks etc etc.

Dales mentioned 4 of us doing a group buy for say £800 each and sharing it at track days.

Worth investigating?

 

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:<HR>Originally posted by owbow:
<B>Chris, that car would have to be very high spec to be worth that money!

Owain McRae Morgans[/quote]

At home now, so I have Evo to hand (edition is the 'Fight Club' one with the new M3)

1984 Golf GTI
Safety Devices cage + full harness
Yokos
Oil Cooler
DTM S/S Exhaust
Uprated Brakes
Huge history file + VAG Service Book
Two Owners
MOT'D

£2500.

I thought it looked like a cheap way of getting of track without having worrying about wrecking your ride to work on the Monday, but maybe not then!

Dreamweaver, sounds <B>very</B> interesting...

Chris.

 

have a look at the site of steve carter he has a video clip of a seat that is interesting. there is also a site about a 4x4 sierra, cheap but lots of fun. There is a fiat for sale on the Easytrack site.Im Not it literate enough to put the links on this bbs

 

Cossie Sapphires are going for around £3000 now ,not too good around a track with standard suspension though!!!!!
Darren

 

If you want something that handles as well as the scoob go for a 205 GTI . A 1.6 handles better than the 1.9 on standard suspension but there are plenty of suspension kits available . I owned 3 of them before the scoob and I would still have one if I didn't need a bigger car to tow my stock car ( a 309 GTI !!) . There's a thought . If your not worried about looks you can pick up a late model 309 GTI for around £1000 . Even better handling than a 205 ( less twitchy ) and if you're really lucky you can find on of the rare 16v ones with the Mi16 engine fitted ( 160 bhp as standard and easily tuned ) .

Derek

 

I used to Hillclimb my Scoob, but financial constraints (I broke it a lot) meant that I've had to retire the Subaru from Hillclimbing, I now compete in a rather mad 205 1.9 GTi. Its got a Race Cam which means nothing happens below 4500, then all hell breaks loose.

Its fully caged, and has a Quaife Torque Baising Diff. Yes its more twitchy than the Subaru but a fantastic laugh.

Rolling roaded last week at 148BHP at the wheels, this week its having an new ECU fitted so we should have MORE power.

For cheap and cheerfull thrills I can't knock it

Mark

 

BMW E30 M3

Designed for track use from day one

Cheers
Iain

 

just get a cheap Westfield....