GETTINGYOUTHEMOSTBANG FOR YOUR BUCK

The team shows just how much performance you can get for minimal outlay from our classified pages with nine of our best picks – but who got the most BHP for their money?

hat car would offer the most power for the least money paid in a hypothetical game of Top Trumps? It’s a pub question that started off as a bit of gentle banter and then got somewhat out of hand before morphing into a search within our classified pages and on affiliated website classiccarsforsale. co.uk for the car that’s currently for sale offering the smallest price per brake horsepower figure. In short, the race was on to find the ultimate performance bargain classic.

As you’ll see here, each of our nine thrill-seekers has taken a very different approach to this little exercise, resulting in a truly eclectic mix of cars – everything from perky hot hatches and old-boots-tough offroaders to sporty, lissome coupés and hoofing great luxo-barages.

And, er, a Rover 45.

But which classic car offers the most outright bang for your buck? Read on to find out. The occasional fast-andloose adherence to the rules probably won’t surprise you, but the results definitely will…

W£700 – and I’d be surprised if you couldn’t chip a bit more off that.

Okay, so it’s the sort of performance that leaves you unruffled after a long motorway voyage rather than grin-inducing B-road chuckability, but I don’t think any car in our classifieds offers as much oomph-per-outlay as this little gem does.

And any of my colleagues who disagree are just sore losers…

120k miles, UK high-spec model, FSH, MoT August 2021, original, unmolested, no rust, tidy interior, drives well. London