sierraman Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 What is the reserve? As a running concern I can't see it achieving more than £6-700. With a fucked engine it ought to be pennies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BorniteIdentity Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 What is the reserve? As a running concern I can't see it achieving more than £6-700. With a fucked engine it ought to be pennies.We never found out. Excitable, autistic car nerds aside - who is going to spend £700 on an Audi that’s been to the moon AND back again? I’d have thought, personally, it’s £400 with an MOT measured in weeks and declared as a non-starter. On top of that, you’re bidding blind and whacked for fees at the end. I thought a bid of £320 was fair. Not generous, but fair. warren t claim, GrumpiusMaximus and egg 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 Sometimes you have to accept that a cars had its chips, its had a good life driving drunks around but its now had it. Unless its got some sort of sentimental attachment, its about time to bale it. You've really got to see an ex taxi to know how worn out they are once they are sold off. Driven for possibly 24 hours a day by a multitude of drivers, repaired when it absolutely must be, mechanically shagged out from going up and down the box all day. Its a tool of someones trade, its chucked away when its no good any more and its becoming an inconvenience, in the same way a Joiner chucks a saw in the skip when its blunt. Paul Dupart and davehedgehog31 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crispian_J_Hotson Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 ... and I then retrieve the saw to use on garden duties... Along with some wood and a bit of guttering... BorniteIdentity, GrumpiusMaximus, oldcars and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CortinaDave Posted April 26, 2018 Author Share Posted April 26, 2018 it did look very tidy given the miles and gig its had. Even if its shagged it should really be in a museum, probably on the IOW purely because it deserves it after it stayed in its job so long. Shame we never got the car, but we did get a hell of a thread out of it! Datsuncog, Wingz123 and egg 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiC Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 Sometimes you have to accept that a cars had its chips, its had a good life driving drunks around but its now had it. Unless its got some sort of sentimental attachment, its about time to bale it. You've really got to see an ex taxi to know how worn out they are once they are sold off. Driven for possibly 24 hours a day by a multitude of drivers, repaired when it absolutely must be, mechanically shagged out from going up and down the box all day. Its a tool of someones trade, its chucked away when its no good any more and its becoming an inconvenience, in the same way a Joiner chucks a saw in the skip when its blunt. But the average taxi isn't a 33 year old car. It will be worn but if its lasted this long, the owner would have looked after his tool. At that age and mileage it would have had to have things replaced to keep it going. Especially as the IoW is hilly, bumpy roads, no motorways and a lot of speed changes. Possibly, if anything, it might be a bit of a triggers broom? Lacquer Peel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave_Q Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 If the seller has got a load of other old stuff going through, he/she is probably a trader/chancer that is aiming for $$OMGRETRO$$ when really it should be priced as a fucked old car. £320 should have won it. BorniteIdentity, Laseraligningfoofooflanges and Wingz123 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alf892 Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 I will buy it. I’m satisfied enough that we went through every potential and possible cause of failure with the last Audi 80 ALF892 and I saved last year. In the case of the (admittedly) newer one last year, it was a distributor. Being optimistic, there aren’t a whole lot of things it can be. What I don’t have is a Copart account. If anyone can help with that, we’ll be off and running.Loony BorniteIdentity 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 We are that cars target market. God help the fucking shoe that set the reserve. I bet it was like 1750 euros. Laseraligningfoofooflanges and warren t claim 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Nigelb Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 I'd like VAG UK to buy the car, restore it and place it in that Audi dealer next to the A40 in order to remind people that Audis were once rare, exclusive, innovative, well-made and interesting and not the banal monochromatic preserve of overworked sales reps and angry office workers that they've been since the turn of the 21st century.Unfortunately such cars won't make them money. Even when launched, the C3 100 & B3 80 a few years later, they were competitively priced, offering a basic rep special to temp the fleet market. Prime example being my 100CC Avant company car. Next I had a D-reg 80 1.8S which felt a real step up, with 4 electric windows, central locking & sunroof, but strangely no power steering & a manual choke. My earlier 100 with the same 1.8 egine had a very good auto choke. I know it seems trivial, but not when it's your business tool, covering many '000 miles a year. When they were on the market, the 100 wasn't seen as interesting. They were marketed as well engineered, basking on the Quattro's glory, perhaps different, but reliable & a comfortable long distance car. That's why I lioved them, but the initial novelty of low cd had worn off by the first facelift. Now Citroen CX, later XM & Alfa 75's were interesting! They weren't on the co. car list though.... not till I joined my next co. a few years later when I got an XM, but that's another tale. SiC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hawkeyethenoo Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 Says on approval. Are they not just waiting on the seller accepting the highest, fair, bid? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod/b Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 Haha you see anything you like anywhere - shout me.... other members may not know this but Copart are into Spain, France, India, UAE and continously opening yard all over the world. Of course they have many in the states too but you heard it here first......Copart purchase in Europe and drive back!!!! Simply luvleh ai ai ratt a tatt tattUAE Copart you say? This can only end well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mk2_craig Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 Looks awfully like the number plates are of that font which *every* VAG sold in these here British Isles during the 1980s years was fitted with since new. I think in the year 2018 its amazing that the car hasnt ever been fitted with at least one 2001-on style plate, and a pretty good sign that each and every one of those nearly half a million "recorded" miles was carefully driven? Angrydicky, Shep Shepherd, Laseraligningfoofooflanges and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catsinthewelder Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 There is a temptingly shite LeBaron in AS racing beige. Jim Bell, Wingz123 and BorniteIdentity 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingz123 Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 Yes UA3 as in... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingz123 Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 And... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
somewhatfoolish Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 Flood damage in Dubai? Did it get driven into the fountain at the Burj? Wingz123 and egg 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Reverend Bluejeans Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 There is also this at Cofart: Wingz123, oldcars, Shep Shepherd and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingz123 Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 Errrrr YES!! Lacquer Peel, The Reverend Bluejeans, Laseraligningfoofooflanges and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingz123 Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 Calm down Bramz...we got you covered... Lacquer Peel, The Reverend Bluejeans and Laseraligningfoofooflanges 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bramz7 Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 That 5 is alright, yeah. 190k though....Christ. Wingz123 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chodweaver Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 I expected Arab emirate dollars to be worth a bit. They're not. They're worth 20p. Making the starting bid on that Ghost £70.. Lacquer Peel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave_Q Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 I expected Arab emirate dollars to be worth a bit. They're not. They're worth 20p. Making the starting bid on that Ghost £70..Shiply quote to get it back here is likely to be on the high side though. The Reverend Bluejeans 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chodweaver Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 Oh yes, and really, my appetite for going to Dubai to buy a fecked ghost is not very high, even if it is dirt cheap... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted April 26, 2018 Share Posted April 26, 2018 I wonder how roughly that Prairie has been bummerised. Looks lovely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod/b Posted April 27, 2018 Share Posted April 27, 2018 Flood damage in Dubai? Did it get driven into the fountain at the Burj?Loads of flood damaged septic shite ends up here, given a haircut and sold on. Laseraligningfoofooflanges 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BorniteIdentity Posted April 27, 2018 Share Posted April 27, 2018 The Sandy CoPart™ is 10 mins from mine if someone fancies taking advantage. Jim Bell 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Honda Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Look what the cat's dragged in... https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/1985-audi-100/23510415 Price €2,950 €2,500 Sudsprint, Spurious, warren t claim and 12 others 12 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 I missed this thread first time around. That mileage, and general decent condition of the car and interior beggars belief. Proper Audi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 And not a steroid filled meathead in sight! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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