Laydee Di-Shite

[Guest Breadvan72]

Fack me, are people twunts, or what?

 

 

http://www.classicandsportscar.com/news/classic-car-auctions/diana’s-audi-smashes-estimate-at-coys?utm_source=Silverpop&utm_medium=EMAIL&utm_campaign=CLS%20email%20newsletter%203%20July%202013%20(1)&utm_content=header_article_2

[Cavcraft]

Stupid for what reason?

[Guest Breadvan72]

Paying 32K for a boggo mid 90s Audi just because Her Mooney-eyed Bintship's designer-clad arse once touched the driver's seat strikes me as more than somewhat stupid, as does the whole fixation with Royals in general. 

[Rocket88]

Twunts they may be, but I suspect that this is a pretty safe investment. It's not a car anymore, it's a large piece of memorabilia, which, I suspect, will never see the road again.

[cort16]

It's a pretty safe bet she's not going to do a saville.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Maybe, but 'tis a bonkers world in which the association of a very ordinary car with someone invested by a fawning public with a spurious fame turns that car into a rare treasure.  Still, at least this is a safer bet than that laid by the bloke who shelled out top wong on Jimmy Savile's motor only to find out that Savile was a perv and the car is now worth a quid. 

 

EDIT: Spooky telepathy moment do do do do, do do do do etc.

[Rocket88]

Must find out whether Mr Mandela has a driving licence..................

[cort16]

Na, surely Kate Middleton and Willz had some kind of sticky fumble in a Y Reg Talbot Horizon or something that's now sitting in someones drive waiting to be unearthed and auctioned off.

[cort16]

I was wrong on the Talbot Horizon front it was a Mk4 Golf

[Guest Breadvan72]

I am off over to ebay to see if I can up my chances of selling a cranky old grid by adding "car reputed to have been the scene of a casual noshing-off of Prince Harry by some ditsy Kensington slapper when parked up just off Fulham Palace Road". 

[vulgalour]

"Diana's Audi Smashes..." unfortunate turn of phrase there.

[Lacquer Peel]

No one's bought it yet, it might go for £300.

 

/the worst kind of skim reader

[dollywobbler]

Read again Dr Brule - it sold for £32,900, which is presumably excluding premium. Insanity. The person who bought it isn't stupid though, but it terrifies me how wealthy some people are. 

[Mr Lobster]

Pretty safe investment I should imagine even if it is a lot of money for an old Audi.

[jonny69]

Having read this thread throughout, I think I would like a sticky fumble.

[worldofceri]

Na, surely Kate Middleton and Willz had some kind of sticky fumble in a Y Reg Talbot Horizon or something that's now sitting in someones drive waiting to be unearthed and auctioned off.

Didn't someone try to flog Kate Middleton's first motor (her Mum's mkII Golf or summert) for squillions just after she got married, but fail?

[worldofceri]

Ex-Di Metro.  

[cort16]

^^ Yes that's how I found out she had a mk4 Golf. Maybe they're planning to clone her from the seat juices like they did with the insects in the amber in Jurassic park.

[cort16]

She had a Mk3 Escort as well didn't she? Did you know Princess Margaret drove a Reliant Scimiter ?

[Guest Breadvan72]

Nope, it was Princess Anne in the Scimitars, and she was always getting busted for speeding in them.  Margaret was too pissed 24/7 to drive. 

[cort16]

I was trying to be smart but failed by being stupid

[Guest Breadvan72]

'tis the Autoshite way.

[Guest Breadvan72]

"Diana's Audi Smashes..." unfortunate turn of phrase there.

 

 

Paris Ritz Concierge:  "Excuse me, Princess Di, will you require a room at the hotel tonight?"

 

Di:  "No thanks, I'll crash with my boyfriend."

 

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[Lacquer Peel]

We all have our own dead Princess Diana jokes, but I got into a lot of trouble for what I did, which was to do a whole stand-up comedy routine consisting entirely of dead Diana jokes, five minutes after the crash. While in Paris. Going through an underpass. In a white Fiat Uno.

[Spiny Norman]

Anything owned by somebody famous is likely to be 'worth' way more to a collector than it's actual value as a 'thing'.

 

You can buy an Eric Clapton replica Fender Strat guitar for a couple of grand, but if you'd wanted Eric Clapton's Fender Strat when it appeared at an auction years ago, half a million quid wouldn't have bought it.

[Cavcraft]

 

You do know this isn't Facebook don't you?

[Guest Breadvan72]

???

[pandamonium]

I think he means that out of taste jokes belong on there, not here.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Since when?  Did I miss a meeting?  

[Justin Case]

Fack me, are people twunts?

 

 

 

Audi convertible driven by a royal clothespeg - £31k

Mercedes SL (arguably a better car) driven by Britain's greatest motor racing hero ever - £13k

 

I think that you can safely say  'yes'