Where I lived in the west of Scotland, half-decent used cars weren't that cheap. You were possibly looking at around £250 for something with MOT and a bit of tax.
My brother had a B-reg Citroen 2CV Dolly (green/white) that he bought for £250 around 1991. He flipped that a month later for £475.
My first road car was a yellow 1980 Citroen Dyane 6 which was bought locally at the very end of July 1991. It lasted a couple of months until the MOT ran out and it was scrapped. That cost £75 and gobbled up another £75 for a pair of Michelins. It was already hanging at 11 years old and had some welding done to one side of the floor and had a rather crusty windscreen surround. (There must be photos of this somewhere, but not in my possession)
The second road car was also bought locally, this time for £250. It was a 1968 Wolseley 16/60 automatic in blue/white and was missing it's original interior, instead having a red A60 set of seats (disclaimer, I didn't paint that shite on the bootlid - I covered it up with two rows of electrical tape).
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As well as the local supermarket ad boards, newsagents shop windows, Scottish Motor Mart, local papers, the search included combing the Exchange and Mart which is where I found this one. Arrangements were made and trailer procured and towed by my dad in his Volvo 240 estate.
It was a bit of trek, but I don't particularly remember them being ten-a-penny. I don't remember much about the trip down to Goring-on-Thames, but I do remember the vendor and his most fabulous boat house full of antiques and some of the things down below the house in the dock, including some sort of vintage boat bike like this sort of thing:
The car wasn't stored there, so we had to drive round to some farm nearby. We followed him in his car which turned out to be a lovely old red Citroen DS. The deal was done and the car loaded onto the trailer to head back north to Scotland.
