c.h.r.i.s

In a few months time, towards the end of the year I will be looking to build a track car / project,
Nothing special will have a budget of about 1.5K (maybe a bit more) to buy/prepare, get me started, basically some cheap fun. can do all the stuff myself.
Can anyone recommend anything, I was thinking of maybe;

2.0 fiesta mk3
2.0 mk3 escort
Pug 205 gti

Any help / ideas would be appreciated, like I said it will be later in the year.
Just wanted to get an idea of what will be available to me.

Thanks

Chris