Anyone selling a Cup Car?

[benjj]

Friend of mine in the market and ready to buy immediately for the right car.

Anyone know of anything interesting?

 

[MartinRS2K]

Good luck with the search, I spent 12 months looking at plenty of cars, travelling 1000's of miles in Europe before I managed to find the right one.

Be aware there are lots of cars out there that have lost some if not all of their unique parts and a good few that are no longer on the original shell or engine. It was tight racing and I have seen photos of cars involved in racing accidents that are later looking perfect (re shells) which if it was a road car would have been written off.

Also research which type of Cup car he is wanting....

86/87 car or later 88/89 car
Andros French Series or European Turbo Cup Series
Rothmans Cup car

Also the race history, drivers and providence with race results is an important part of the cars DNA

 

[944 man]

The boat has sailed there, I think. The days of passed-over £10,000 Cups has long-since passed too, to our great regret...

 

[MartinRS2K]

ORIGINAL: 944 man

The boat has sailed there, I think. The days of passed-over £10,000 Cups has long-since passed too, to our great regret...

Totally Simon, there was a French Cup car for sale in bits needing a full rebuild and still missing lots of parts that was €25,000 (£18,500) and it had no racing history plus the original engine was replaced with a later 944 motor!!

 

[benjj]

Thanks gents, some great advice there.

Money isn't really an issue, just finding a car. The one at Strasse is a complete dog apparently. He saw it last week.

The French market could be a good route to a car, will point him in that direction.

Thanks.

 

[MartinRS2K]

ORIGINAL: benjj

Thanks gents, some great advice there.

Money isn't really an issue, just finding a car. The one at Strasse is a complete dog apparently. He saw it last week.

The French market could be a good route to a car, will point him in that direction.

Thanks.

If you want any help (if he's thinking of going down the 944 route) just ask []

If it's a later car then I'm of no use as I didn't go down that route for long.... Lol

 

[TTM]

A recent French restoration is a re shell. For some reason the owner did not mention it.

 

[MartinRS2K]

ORIGINAL: TTM

A recent French restoration is a re shell. For some reason the owner did not mention it.

Oh yes []

 

[benjj]

Thanks Martin, i'll put you in touch.

He's currently chatting to EMC about building him something too. Not sure what spec.

 

[944 man]

I'm surprised that no one else has (I've only alluded to it) mentioned the Cup car that was available for under £10,000 a few years ago. I wasn't worried about the provenance as repairer's lien and storage more than covered its value (giving the original vendor a good title) - I simply didn't think that a tatty journeyman's M754 was worth ten thousand pounds! []