Hi,
always go for the best you can afford, otherwise like what has been said you can soon spend another £1000.00 or £2000.00 on a cheaper car. The car obviously needs to be seen in the 'FLESH' so to speak. if it is, has it has been described it will probably have had a lot more spent on it to get it in that condition.
I spent, well i lost track after £26k yes £26k on the NADA replica i did. A lot of you will probably remember it, it was painted jaguar carnival red metallic and was at the NEC 5 - 6 years ago BLJ 614L. started life out as a standard 3500 auto in almond and had only 24,000 miles when bought by myself. it was only sold as both my wife and i were made redundant. the only asset i had was the car, which i sold for a third of what it cost me i then set up myself, servicing and restoring them and just over three years ago bought RAY WEEKLEYS business
I am now in the position to do it again. I have a genuine LHD NADA this time, imported myself from california. White with sandalwood interior. Everything underneath has been renewed with new, plus a re-con gearbox, re-built engine and is away having fuel injection fitted rather than having the original AED with carbs. so far with the cost of the rust free car, importing it and the above, i am touching £15k
It still needs to be painted, a leather re-trim ( shall be done in red ) new chrome bumpers, overriders, no plate plinths, handles, locks, push buttons, petrol cap, rostyles are good, but will need re-chroming to match, carpets, grille badge, boot mount badge, plus rubber and loads of other stuff, the list goes on, so will be around the same cost if not more, i don't really want to think about it.
I saw for the first time my old NADA copy in about four years, it still looks well and i would still give £6k for it.
So what i am trying to say is if it has had the money spent on it, it is a cheap car at £5k
joseph