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Looking to Buy a Race Car?
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Looking for a car to compete in can be an ardous task, we hope that our page here will develop into a page where you will be able to find all of the resources that you will need when you are looking for a race car this is for sale.
Some of my thoughts about Buying a Race Car
The main thing to consider when you are looking is that different people will advertise their race cars in different places. If you are looking for a classic race car then the likelihood is that you won’t find it in a sports car or modern motorsport publication (either online or offline). If you are looking for a specialist vehicle, you are best looking towards a specialist publication – eg. Porsche Race cars aren’t going to be advertised in performance BMW are they, so why would a specific race car be marketed on a general motorsports site?
A good offline publication to look at for Fast Road and Trackday cars would be something like TRC, they have a few pages of classifieds or PistonHeads which I mention later in the article. – Track and Race Cars Magazine
I would recomend that when looking to buy a race car that you research the kind of specification that you feel that you will need to have to compete at the level that you want to compete at. For example if you are looking to compete at the top level of any championship, in my opinion, you are going to need to do one of two things:
a) Build a car from scratch that is as good as or better specification than the race cars that are leading the championship
b) Build a similar spec race car to cars that are competing well and drive considerably better than those leading the championship currently
In championships where the car is a standard (Eg. Clio Cup UK) then you will probably need to consider the following: a new shell is going to be paramount if you are planting it at the front of the grid – I was told that with the old clio cup cars that a new shell was worth 2/10ths around Brands Hatch? If you are going down this route, then it is probably more sensible to consider buying a new car over a second hand vehicle… as the costs of migrating the setup into a new shell are going to be pretty prohibative.
Where to Look to Buy a Race Car?
RaceCarsForSale – A Leading International Site for selling Race Cars
Raced and Rallied – A well known online portal for buying and selling race cars throughout Europe.
eRacingCars – A well respected site with all scales of cars advertised online. I like it more than most.
Race Cars Direct – A personal favourite of mine, it attracts more of the big money race cars (GT3/LMS), but there are plenty of good deals to be had.
Motorsport Ads – Another good site for race cars in the UK & abroad. Also powers the motorsport classifieds on Crash.net
Pistonheads – Pistonheads is one of those sites that always throws up some oddities, supercars and hatchbacks side by site. Its always worth a gander.
FastRoadandTrack – One that I have seen about, but never really used.
750MC – 750 Motorclub Race Car Classifieds.
The list isn’t by any means intended to be exhaustive, but I will add to it when I get time – its intended to be a gesture in the right direction for those of you looking for race cars.
Always a Hooligan,
/y0z