Rover 220 SLI up 4 grabs

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Things have changed as I get an advance fair of £7.00 from Milton Keynes to Crewe, could you collect me from Crewe station at 13:24 5th Feb? If you can I would like to go for the great £100 Rover.

 

Chris

 

Soz, thats right in the middle of a Tuesday right? I'm gonna be at work then. It would need to be out of office hours.

[Six-cylinder]

I will look again and see if there are any cheap trains that arrive latter. Is Crewe the best staion for you?

Chris

[Mr_Bo11ox]

yes, I normally get home from work about 6pm.

[Six-cylinder]

My search for a latter train has show a higher price but my wife was telling me about some £5.50 fares she had found, but she is at work so I have to wait for her to be free.

 

Do you think the Rover is ok for its 125 miles trip back to Buckingham?

 

Kind regards

 

Chris

[barefoot]

Bloody Hell, the cars only £100, you could afford to go up first class or take a taxi.

[catsinthewelder]

Or sit in a cafe for a few hours.

[Six-cylinder]

Bloody Hell, the cars only £100, you could afford to go up first class or take a taxi.

 

No, it’s part of the challenge to get a cheap rail fare, I am now being quoted £13.00 for arrival at 18:24 which is not a deal breaker but does not have that good feel factor.

 

I have never been to Crewe apart from to change trains, if I took the earlier train what is there to do in Crewe on a wet Tuesday afternoon?

 

I love getting a new car and collecting it is all part of the event. Buying the sort of cars I do always seems to lead to meeting interesting people.

 

Chris

[Cheggers]

Let me get this straight...you're buying a decent Rover 220 for £100, but paying an additional SIX POUNDS to travel later is lacking "that feel good factor"??

 

Have a word with yourself fella, even I'm not that tight!!

[Six-cylinder]

Let me get this straight...you're buying a decent Rover 220 for £100, but paying an additional SIX POUNDS to travel later is lacking "that feel good factor"??

 

Have a word with yourself fella, even I'm not that tight!!

 

I know, I know but paying all that extra money to the train company must be worth a whinge!

[Cheggers]

Buckingham to Crewe for £13.00?, that must work out at about 10p a mile. Hardly highway (or even railway) robbery. I've used National Express & Megabus for chod-collecting trips and always found them cheap & cheerful enough.

[warren t claim]

Megabus drivers will even let you A frame the Rover behind the coach for an extra fiver.

[Pillock]

Yeah it's worth a whinge about how they charge a million different fares depending on the time of day, but it's NOT worth pissing around with! Get the thirteen quid train, and then have a moan on the GOM thread about it as you look out of the window at your new HUNDRED POUND CAR.

[triumph1300]

My god I've heard it all now. I can't believe you are complaining over that price. I have used train and coach to pick up plenty of my cars. I even went to Scotland (from near Canterbury) to collect a £400 mercedes, not worth it at all, but its part of being into cars.

Just pay the fare and get it bought. I would've snapped it up but the insurance is far too high for me.

 

Good luck bol

[scruff]

^^

[Hertz]

Your moaning about a £13 train fare, I'm just about to spend more than that on my lunch

[trigger]

This thread is brilliant!

[RedSparrow]

How much is a prozzie in Crewe? Can't be more than £5.99?

[freebird]

Megabus drivers will even let you A frame the Rover behind the coach for an extra fiver.

Ive just laughed my man tits off at that.

[Skizzer]

 

 

 

Or ride a horse along the track, obviously.

[Volksy]

This is exactly why I fragged my Escort and Volvo, rather than offering them up for bargainous prices. The lower the price, the more hassle you get...

[HillmanImp]

I am now being quoted £13.00 for arrival at 18:24 which is not a deal breaker but does not have that good feel factor.

 

Can you not hammer a smaller fare over it?

[Cavcraft]

+1 Volsky.

 

This is a fucking joke now, it really is. A trusted member of this forum offers a half decent, useable car for peanuts and there's hand wringing about location (despite it being probably one of the easiest place to get to in England) and train fares of six pissing quid.

No bastarding wonder people weigh useable cars in, all this shit does it help cement other sellers opinions to do themselves.

I don't want the car and can't really afford it but I WILL end up with it as a garage ornament soon if it doesn't sell to someone else.

[RobT]

There's something wrong with the world if this motah can't even sell on Autoshite, at that price

 

My excuse for not handing over 100 sovs to Mr B is the lack of classic insuranceness.

[warren t claim]

I hope you've taken into account the 7% that Coinstar charge when you're paying Mr Bollox for your new Rover?

[Split_Pin]

I've sat here trying to think of something to say about all this but I really can't.

 

If there is any redemption required for AS, I sold a set of winter tyres to a member on here no bother amd so far I have very kindly been given 2 model cars completely free.

 

I do hope Uncle_Bol gets a genuine offer for this car which looks fantastic to me!

[warren t claim]

If you can blag a set of trade plates you could not only use them to drive your new Rover home but also use them to hitchhike up to Crewe to collect it and save yourself £13. Worth thinking about?

[outlaw118]

I'm looking at it for my step daughter, i have no problem with the distance, cost of the train fare, whatever. I'll meet Reg_Boll at 4 in the morning if that's whats required, I just need her to give me the nod. If i've not heard by close of play today, i'll chase her up.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Calm down everyone!!! I’m sure it will get sorted one way or the other before too long. At the end of the day it might only be £100, but the windscreen seeds sorting and that is going to cost money so its not like some awesome free gift where you can’t possibly go wrong.

[shedvan]

I think this lynch mob response is getting a little unseemly.

 

The guy hasn't dicked around so much to warrant gentlemen.

 

So he is close to a pound and wants to have a yarn-worthy experience to tell of when nights are cold back in the Shire - so what?

 

Part of that is to him to travel to Crewe for less than an Ayrton and to avoid putting a penny more than he has to into a psuedo-privatised publicly funded sink hole (although I would caution him against gambling on finding distractions in Crewe to while away the hours, imvho the extra few pounds will be well spent travelling later with a more snug time-margin).

 

Of course I reserve to howl like a dog at the moon like any other 'wronged liberal' if 6-cylinder does subsequently act the goat on the actual purchase of the car.

[cort16]

Have you considered taking the springs out it to increase it's marketability?

 

If six cylinders looking at car for 100 quid then things might be tight for him (we don't know). He also needs to tax it for £120 or what ever so the extra few quid on the train might make a big difference to what he has to spend on petrol/food or whatever to get him home.