well, just spend as you want, too many men on this forum are under the thumb from their ladies. while you are still (briefly) un married, spend up. Almost all of my wages go on my car/myself and i love it that way

I restored my MK1 Cooper S from a write off for just on 8K, most of that was on body work at mates rates.

My wife's immaculant litte clubman owes us 3K

The MK2 Cooper S is about 4K so far, but i have almost everything for it brand new.

Our van is about to get painted, so it's only 1K purchase price, and $100 for bead blasting so far, i expect it will cost no more than 3K on the road.

I do it by trading parts, doing barter deals etc etc, there are a lot of people out there to do it with.

They cost as much as you want the to.


Doogie

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$500 a fortnight would equal another mini in the garage every six weeks for me ........if only i had a garage

spend what you want to, like you say better that than drugs or .............. women

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I think that if you think of your Mini as a car well then you can spend too much.
I love Minis and they are more than just a car to me. What price do you put on a car that you LOVE driving. What price is fun and enjoyment?
My first car was a Mini, I spent many thousands but with every dollar that I spent I found a new kind of enjoyment from my car.
Now I have a group Nb race car, cost more than 30 grand to build from a bare shell, I did all of the work myself except for the building of the motor and gearbox because I was inexpeirnced in building race engines. Why would I spend 15 to 20k on engine parts to have it explode?
Everything else was built by me (note Makka) oops no the paint was done by a back yard bloke.
I reckon if I sold it tomorrow I'd only get 15 to 20k for the entire race car.
As I said, what price is fun?

I think i spent a grand total of about not much
4 new spark plugs , is the entirety of my mini spendings , besides the fuels and rego and insurance and stuff for the last 15 months hahaha

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i spent all the money i saved on my mini....so now i have no money to spend on my mini till i get a job again

Like it has been said... Only spend what you can afford, if it keeps the food off the table then you are a bloddy dick!! A car is never complete, there is always somethin to add or upgrade, which in turn adds to the $$ factor..
I have been told i have spent way to much on my mini and its not even close to being on the road.. I could have bought say a 200sx and turned it into a 10 sec car with the amount of money i have spent on my mini
And am i worried about the amount of money i have spent on it no.. But it would have been nice if crap was a hell of alot cheaper for mini's, its like they see the "mini" in fornt of it and ohh yay lets tripple the price.....

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like most peopel have said on here, spend the money while you have it, on something worthwhile and soemthign u will get enjoyment out of. I spent as much as i sold my last mini for but this one, it still remains to be seen. it is a perosnal thing tho with minis, unlike the common day cars, where u spend big bucks and get nuthign for it when u sell it, so as chief wiggum says

'i say if it feels good do it'

yup i can vouch for the married curb the spend thing especially since we have our own place ........ TK good to see there are people out there who still have the inclination to build there own cars in there GARADGE SHED CARPORT WHATHAVE YOU ...... i'm useing my garadge to build MY car TK
i hope it will be nice enuff to win a few trophys will take a while to do since i am doing most of the work myself with help from a few mates some on here others who i know and have met along the way
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yeh thats is oen thing iu found doing 99% of jobs myself: the amoutn of contacts u soon get! There is a great amoutn of people out there with knwoledge to help get the job done. Mates are alos handy if they are willing to lend a helping hand. But also doign thigns urslef us save alotta money and learn wat goes where and how to do the job next time... good expereinces for anyone i say