alternatives to MGB GT's?

[TerryG]

It looks like you are good at modifying cars so you could get something like a Morris Minor and put a bigger engine in it. They are always a giggle to drive (espicially in the wet with skinny tyres) i always have fun drifting mine even with the standard 1098 (but i am biased).

[JPB]

currently 4 cars is £800 insurance

You could save more than the cost of VED for an extra car by considering a change of broker!

I'm insuring my modern and both classics - one off the road and stored some 200+ miles away - for a shade over £120 p/a which is a proper multi car policy that accrues and recognises NCB, gives me unlimited mileage on all of them and has written agreed values on the old 'uns.

Admittedly I stay in one of the cheapest postcodes in the UK for car insurance, but £800 seems very steep even if you're in a huge inner city area with a high crime rate.

[TerryG]

£800 for 4 cars is amazingly cheap.
I pay more than twice that for my range rover, focus and mog (but i am in east london) 7 years NCB, etc, etc.

[rich.]

i think i pay €1400 ish a year but that includes house, health 2 adults & 2 kids. van, truck, jcb & wifeys car. it may be more but i dont want to check!! they even gave me a months free insurance for the mazda while i was selling
try an mgb but im sure you will be dissapointed. i had a standard 77 & a slightly modified roadster & my daily diesel hack was just so much better, handling & performance was just such a let down.

[JPB]

£800 for 4 cars is amazingly cheap.....

Sorry Terry but what on earth gives you that idea? Look at RHS, Peter James, Adrian Flux and even Lancaster, all would offer multi car policies for maximum cost typically around £250 if you were in the most expensive postcode areas; NE4 & NE15.

Can't speak for anyone in the same inner city area as you stay because I don't know where that may be, but I do know a couple of people in London, one Chiswick, the other Peckham, who have similar policies at £160 and £212 respectively. The first is a divorced male, 42yo, home owner and two from the four on his policy are garaged. The second a 39yo single female tenant (LA) with three cars, only the one garaged.

So unless you stayed, say, NE4, were under 25, had 9 points on your licence and had several convictions for bad things, you'd be able to do better than £800 for the same policy, by a very considerable margin.

[TerryG]

I'm 29, clean licence living in E10. I pay £1660 for the cars i listed. If i was offered £800 by anybody i would rip their arm off! I called around over a dozen insurers to get a quote that low. eg Direct Line want £2200 just to insure the range rover by itself. Unlimited miles, SDP&C, 7 years NCB, etc
I'm with Admiral as most companies either won't insure the mog or won't insure the "moderns" and this worked out the cheapest deal.
Even my grandfather with his automatic honda accord pays £300 pa living in NW10.
I envy those of you who get cheap deals but London is a majorly expensive place to get insurance.

[maph2]

its actually £798 for 4 cars fully comp, unlimited mileage for me and missus everything agreed value - top of the range 09 plate mondeo estate fully loaded, top of the range 99 yaris (ex toyota show car so loaded), saab turbo and a heavily modified mini that outruns stuff like E36 M3's. its all on one policy with a specialist - the price is ok, trust me i've looked.

[maph2]

It looks like you are good at modifying cars so you could get something like a Morris Minor and put a bigger engine in it. They are always a giggle to drive (espicially in the wet with skinny tyres) i always have fun drifting mine even with the standard 1098 (but i am biased).

TerryG - i've seen a couple of moggie convertibles locally. quite like the look, particularly sage green with red hoods. i have an a-series throttle body setup and spare megasquirt in stock too

[maph2]

i think i pay €1400 ish a year but that includes house, health 2 adults & 2 kids. van, truck, jcb & wifeys car. it may be more but i dont want to check!! they even gave me a months free insurance for the mazda while i was selling
try an mgb but im sure you will be dissapointed. i had a standard 77 & a slightly modified roadster & my daily diesel hack was just so much better, handling & performance was just such a let down.

I'm not sure how you can compare a modern diesel to a car designed in the early 60's using tech from the early 50's

[trigger]

You know, If i was you I'd be looking for a Triumph 2500 or a Triumph 2.5 Pi, Both are very nice roomy cars, The Pi's have a history for temperamental injection systems but they sound bloody lovely with a full stainless system fitted.


1968 Triumph 2500 Pi by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr