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Come Inside... => Petrol/Diesel/Red Diesel/Aviation Fuel Head Zone => Topic started by: GROWLER on March 04, 2013, 10:55:01 PM
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Some quite tasty ones here. rubschin:
'Arf tempted too. rubschin:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_odkw=&_stpos=ch664nn&_localstpos=ch664nn&_fcid=3&gbr=1&_osacat=29751&_clu=2&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313&_nkw=mini+van&_sacat=29751&_from=R40 (http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_odkw=&_stpos=ch664nn&_localstpos=ch664nn&_fcid=3&gbr=1&_osacat=29751&_clu=2&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313&_nkw=mini+van&_sacat=29751&_from=R40)
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How bloody much......... eeek:
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F'kin 'ell - I understand the appeal and had (use of) a clubman (1100) once - but those prices!?
[had use of until it was written off in a accident (no fault) for which we got about £50]
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How bloody much......... eeek:
S'what they fetch geezer. Shrugs:
Everything is worth what a punter is willing to pay, and everything has a value and a price tag, simple as.
Mini's in general are very 'good news'.
See BM for further details. whistle:
You seen the values of <cough> Mokes lately Apey? scared:
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F'kin 'ell - I understand the appeal and had (use of) a clubman (1100) once - but those prices!?
[had use of until it was written off in a accident (no fault) for which we got about £50]
S'pose I could buy a common Berlingo or equivelant in white for similar dosh, to blend in with all the other one man band opertions? whistle:
Just a thought at the mo to get me business a bit more noticed. rubschin:
Got to try different 'headline' tactics these days.
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How bloody much......... eeek:
S'what they fetch geezer. Shrugs:
Everything is worth what a punter is willing to pay, and everything has a value and a price tag, simple as.
Mini's in general are very 'good news'.
See BM for further details. whistle:
You seen the values of <cough> Mokes lately Apey? scared:
cussing: yes I have ...........couple for sale here now.......... cussing:
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How bloody much......... eeek:
S'what they fetch geezer. Shrugs:
Everything is worth what a punter is willing to pay, and everything has a value and a price tag, simple as.
Mini's in general are very 'good news'.
See BM for further details. whistle:
You seen the values of <cough> Mokes lately Apey? scared:
cussing: yes I have ...........couple for sale here now.......... cussing:
Knew i shouldn't have mentioned this 'touchy' subject, soz mate. redface:
You gorany piccies of yours before its....<cough>.....demise , just out of interest ike? whistle:
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How bloody much......... eeek:
S'what they fetch geezer. Shrugs:
Everything is worth what a punter is willing to pay, and everything has a value and a price tag, simple as.
Mini's in general are very 'good news'.
See BM for further details. whistle:
You seen the values of <cough> Mokes lately Apey? scared:
cussing: yes I have ...........couple for sale here now.......... cussing:
Knew i shouldn't have mentioned this 'touchy' subject, soz mate. redface:
You gorany piccies of yours before its....<cough>.....demise , just out of interest ike? whistle:
Somewhere got photos but scanner is knacked at the mo...............will dig them out sometime .............. Thumbs:
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F'kin 'ell - I understand the appeal and had (use of) a clubman (1100) once - but those prices!?
[had use of until it was written off in a accident (no fault) for which we got about £50]
S'pose I could buy a common Berlingo or equivelant in white for similar dosh, to blend in with all the other one man band opertions? whistle:
Just a thought at the mo to get me business a bit more noticed. rubschin:
Got to try different 'headline' tactics these days.
Fair enough - don't let me dissuade you. Just wonder what else you can get for the money.
It seems (and I do not claim to any expert) that there are few real bargains in classics or even future classics. I was looking to get a Mk1 MR2 a few years ago, but there are so few decent unmolested ones at the right price that I gave up.
For now.
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I know Big Al, I know.
Some right ole frightenin' prices out there for even mundane stuff now. eeek:
I mean, take this Moggy I've just bought for instance!
No way is it mint...didn't want a minter regardless anyawy, but some of the vaues being asked are like 10 times what they were when new, especially travellers and vans. eeek:
Trying to find an unmolested performance classic is extremelly difficult, but I do know some of the local Toyota lads in my local dealers that I deal with, and will do a bit of sniffin' if you wish? rubschin:
Classic Essy's both mk1's and 2's are fetching monster money, even in bogo standard trim.
Eye watering prices for nice performance versions...like Twin cams for upwards of 50k!! Shocked:
Unmolested Cossy mk1's for upwards of £40k...IF you can find one. Shocked:
Some serious wedge being made by those that had the foresight to keep something very tasty under wraps many years ago.
Think I've mentioned it before in here, but there's a geezer 'round the corner from here who's got a Focus RS. Had it for 2 years nearly now, and you only ever see it when he wheels it out to wash and polish it.
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Can never see the attraction in owning cars that age. Fun to take a ride in one that someone else has sweated over, quite like to look at some of them at car shows but I will never buy a car that hasn't got ABS.
I wonder what Lotus Cortinas go for nowadays? Bet it's a lot higher but for its time jeez what a car
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Can never see the attraction in owning cars that age. Fun to take a ride in one that someone else has sweated over, quite like to look at some of them at car shows but I will never buy a car that hasn't got ABS.
I wonder what Lotus Cortinas go for nowadays? Bet it's a lot higher but for its time jeez what a car
I luv 'em 'cus they're ALL ANNA LOG! lol:
ABS and all the other shite is for wusses. scared:
What's wrong with candence braking ffs man, ey, what? Shrugs:
Who needs all this digi ecu shite to do stuff for you anyways? Banghead
DON'T get me ranting about modern cars. noooo:
I'm a 'cat's whiskers' man I am, and proud of it. cloud9:
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Once you've had your life saved by ABS from some lunatic that tries to ram you, you won't easily give it up
Nutter just drove straight across a give way line and I just braked and steered round him with the ABS. Didn't have time to think. There's also a pedestrian in London that just walked out in front of me that walked away due to ABS. Then there was that huge deer that just ran out in front of me - loads of roaming deer in Sussex, you just don't know how good a driver ABS makes you
Analog brakes = death
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The ABS on my motorbike saved that goat for sure.... noooo:
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Can never see the attraction in owning cars that age. Fun to take a ride in one that someone else has sweated over, quite like to look at some of them at car shows but I will never buy a car that hasn't got ABS.
I wonder what Lotus Cortinas go for nowadays? Bet it's a lot higher but for its time jeez what a car
I know they weren't Lotus Cortinas but you mentioning them took me back to when I saw one of these "world cup" cars (http://www.rs2.co.uk/cortina.htm) on the road around 1979 cloud9:
Great pics, but the black and white one gave me goosebumps just now, some REAL football stars there, sadly at least two of them no longer with us cry:
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Once you've had your life saved by ABS from some lunatic that tries to ram you, you won't easily give it up
Nutter just drove straight across a give way line and I just braked and steered round him with the ABS. Didn't have time to think. There's also a pedestrian in London that just walked out in front of me that walked away due to ABS. Then there was that huge deer that just ran out in front of me - loads of roaming deer in Sussex, you just don't know how good a driver ABS makes you
Analog brakes = death
I know, I know. ABS is one of the few exceptions though, most of the rest is just tat and expensive shite.
On saying that, WE all seemed to have survived the non ABS era ey? rubschin:
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Can never see the attraction in owning cars that age. Fun to take a ride in one that someone else has sweated over, quite like to look at some of them at car shows but I will never buy a car that hasn't got ABS.
I wonder what Lotus Cortinas go for nowadays? Bet it's a lot higher but for its time jeez what a car
I know they weren't Lotus Cortinas but you mentioning them took me back to when I saw one of these "world cup" cars (http://www.rs2.co.uk/cortina.htm) on the road around 1979 cloud9:
Great pics, but the black and white one gave me goosebumps just now, some REAL football stars there, sadly at least two of them no longer with us cry:
*removes top from dobber* whistle:
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Can never see the attraction in owning cars that age. Fun to take a ride in one that someone else has sweated over, quite like to look at some of them at car shows but I will never buy a car that hasn't got ABS.
I wonder what Lotus Cortinas go for nowadays? Bet it's a lot higher but for its time jeez what a car
I know they weren't Lotus Cortinas but you mentioning them took me back to when I saw one of these "world cup" cars (http://www.rs2.co.uk/cortina.htm) on the road around 1979 cloud9:
Great pics, but the black and white one gave me goosebumps just now, some REAL football stars there, sadly at least two of them no longer with us cry:
;D And then there was the Escort Mexico. When you look at their specs now they were very tame but not for their time. Love looking at them at car shows
Back on ABS (which they didn't have) one more story that may amuse
Not long after my first saved by ABS incidents I was driving Mrs K in her brand new car when phreddie the pheckwitted pheasant decided to nip out in front of us. So I steered and braked hard and with no ABS skidded straight into the gormless pheckwit TWACK followed by SPLATt as the windscreen was obscured with rapidly expiring pheasant. Car continues to skid along depositing
expensive Michelin lines on the road and inevitably expensive CRUNCH into fence.
There are two things you should never do to your wife and one of those is crash her brand new car, think she may now have forgiven me
And the other moral of this story is once you've used ABS you will always brake as if you have it even if that bleeding car didn't
Now back to the Growler Mivan?
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Can never see the attraction in owning cars that age. Fun to take a ride in one that someone else has sweated over, quite like to look at some of them at car shows but I will never buy a car that hasn't got ABS.
I wonder what Lotus Cortinas go for nowadays? Bet it's a lot higher but for its time jeez what a car
I know they weren't Lotus Cortinas but you mentioning them took me back to when I saw one of these "world cup" cars (http://www.rs2.co.uk/cortina.htm) on the road around 1979 cloud9:
Great pics, but the black and white one gave me goosebumps just now, some REAL football stars there, sadly at least two of them no longer with us cry:
;D And then there was the Escort Mexico. When you look at their specs now they were very tame but not for their time. Love looking at them at car shows
Back on ABS (which they didn't have) one more story that may amuse
Not long after my first saved by ABS incidents I was driving Mrs K in her brand new car when phreddie the pheckwitted pheasant decided to nip out in front of us. So I steered and braked hard and with no ABS skidded straight into the gormless pheckwit TWACK followed by SPLATt as the windscreen was obscured with rapidly expiring pheasant. Car continues to skid along depositing
expensive Michelin lines on the road and inevitably expensive CRUNCH into fence.
There are two things you should never do to your wife and one of those is crash her brand new car, think she may now have forgiven me
And the other moral of this story is once you've used ABS you will always brake as if you have it even if that bleeding car didn't
Now back to the Growler Mivan?
And the second thing you should never do to your wife is?
I sit eagerly awaiting enlightenment. Popcorn:
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the phrase "betray her" comes to mind
well either that or say yes it does look big in that
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Some quite tasty ones here. rubschin:
'Arf tempted too. rubschin:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_odkw=&_stpos=ch664nn&_localstpos=ch664nn&_fcid=3&gbr=1&_osacat=29751&_clu=2&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313&_nkw=mini+van&_sacat=29751&_from=R40 (http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_odkw=&_stpos=ch664nn&_localstpos=ch664nn&_fcid=3&gbr=1&_osacat=29751&_clu=2&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313&_nkw=mini+van&_sacat=29751&_from=R40)
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Thought you were skint after the moggy. noooo: