Do people think they are owed the world?

[Albert Ross]

This beauty* is a 1.8L CVH in White, with a blue "tweed" trim.... The doors are rotten, but I have a set, in white.... well I have 6 extras. A full set and two from one side........ steel rims, manual, sunroof, C/L, and keep fit windows. Hire car spec (Seriously, I think it was a hire car!) and if I was arsed to pop a good battery on it, and fuel it up, it would run. Hopefully. Been off the road nearly 5 years.

[sheffcortinacentre]

for £200 i'm interested,

[Junkman]

I've got a soft spot for a Sierra Sapphire!

 

Had a 'lovely' (?) Silver one with a Cvh on an auto box as my second car and was blindly in love with it.

 

Nah, you'll race it.

[Junkman]

The counterpoint is, lets say with a not particularly rare mass produced car, thats not worth much more than scrap even in ok order. Been there several times The trouble is some people expect say a 3-400 quid car to be perfection and the possible time wasted and aggro arising from the whole thing has made me consider weighing the thing in and dropping 100 or so- not that i did but i can see the appeal.

 

Yeah, I wish all sellers of MoT-less white Peugeot 405s with dented bootlids and inoperable handbrake mechanism would think like this.

[Sean]

Nah, you'll race it.

Sierras don't make great bangers to be honest. Rotten shells that come through my hands get panels and running gear sold to stock car and kit car boys.

 

Albert, where are you located?

[Partridge]

I imagine Sierras as kit car donors are getting very thin on the ground indeed.

[Rocket88]

When buying, pulling out wads of notes usually gets a positive reaction when getting down to "brass tacks".

When selling, if he's turned up with a "mate", or, as happened to me recently, his entire family, 90% of the time he won't buy it. When people are on their own, you can always lock them in the cellar until they cough the full asking....................

[Sigmund Fraud]

When selling, if he's turned up with a "mate", or, as happened to me recently, his entire family, 90% of the time he won't buy it.

 

I did get that a few months ago... An ignorant, cocky 'I IZ WELL TRADE M8, I IZ WIKKID I-C-E EXPERT AT HALFRAUDZ' teenager arrived to view one of my old shitters with his brother, father and girlfriend on tow !

 

The eclectic* group of experts* spent over half an hour poking and prodding the car, then asked me to allow them some time for a family conference before they could announce their findings and intentions.

 

Five minutes later, I returned and was offered half the asking price. I smiled and shook my head. Further offers were made, with more smiley head shaking on my part. The last offer was almost at asking price, but I had made up my mind. I politely asked them to leave.

 

Two hours later, a polite, well-spoken gentleman came to view the car. He quickly made sure the thing was not terminally borked and offered the same amount of money. His name was on the V5 a couple of minutes later.