The banger auction thread.

[warren t claim]

Edited title to make the thread more relavant and hopefully we'll be able to add local auction reports and maybe AS auction meets.

[cort16]

His was fly away hair unfortunately it'd flown away about 30 years ago.

[dugong]

I'd be up for a bit of that. Why do they call him Pingu?

[Cavcraft]

Because he sounds like a certain cartoon penguin. After he'd inhaled helium.

[cort16]

Just looking on the Central Auctions website and this was on the first page in the under £2000 section

 

http://www.centralcarauctions.com/private/vehicles/search/details/?lot=31043&sale=2334&type=General

[Lord Sterling]

When I went with my mate a rew years ago to Moseley Road, during the bidding, I had fun taking a look at the cars and walming away shaking my head. If I shaked my head postively, the bidding got stronger, if I walked away shaking my head in disbelief, the bidding got weaker and cars seemed to sell for less.

 

I gave up after a while as I didn't want to be seen to influence bidding.

 

Oh yeah, not long after, I passed by the same auction house and noticed they were chucking OEM floor mats out, I asked the cleaner if I could have a select few and came away with great stuff including some seemingly brand new OEM floor mats for a Passat.

[Split_Pin]

I'd be well up for a Scotoshite Auction visit. I wouldn't be buying but it sounds v. Interesting

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

 The first car auctioin I ever went to was Witney Auctions (WOMA) in 1988. I bought a wanked Cortina Mark 4, VGN655R. I bought loads of cars there between 1988 and 1996, all cheapies and the fees were low. I hear it's still a good auction.

Milton Keynes auction was also good, both for the cheap shit cars and the spectacular wildlife that formed a large percentage of the buyers - both pasty faced overweight MK inbreds and the Eastern Europeans that looked like they had been herding goats in far flung Eastern Russia the week before.

I also bought a few from Baw Try Auctions, who have now renamed themselves "Motor Vehicle Remarketing", the pretentious twats. For decades it was a centre of excellence for clocked write offs and borderline MOT failures but their website shows that the cars being remarketed now are a bit above the old shit that used to come through. For years there was an old geezer that sounded a bit like Jimmy Savile, bidding off the wall so it was impossible to buy anything from him, but he's gone now. Week after week though, the same pack of council estate inbreds are there with fat wife and fat kids, munching chips as cars come through. I swear they never actually buy anything.

 

BCA is getting expensive on fees, and Mannnnheim are just fucking outrageous. I've not been to an auction for a year or so now as you can buy the same thing from Ebay for the same $$$ and at last drive it to make sure it has all its gears and doesn't boil its tits off after 1/2 a mile.

 

I should add - I never got stung at auction apart from one Metro 1.3S that smoked on the over run  - I just blocked it again and broke even. But I did get a few good ones - a 1988 E reg 316 that, according to the temp gauge, was boiling its bollocks off after a mile, but all it needed was a new circuit board for the dash cluster. And a rough-as-arseholes D reg M535i that I bought from Bawtry for £290 fees paid, arrived home pissing hot coolant out but which made over a grand profit after breaking it.

[beko1987]

Thats the one, WOMA! Witney Oxon motor auctions or something.

[Crusty Sills]

^{I've bought my last 5 general run about cars from car auctions and in general I've not had a problem.}

^{The only one that let me down was a hateful piece of shit of a Mk4 Vauxhall Astra estate, which broke down 1/2 a mile away from the auction house,it smelt like the previous owner allowed his entire workforce to use the car as a smoking shed aswell as the occasional wet skunk!}

 

^{There are only really two choices of auction out in Norfolk}

^{East Anglian Motor Auctions (EAMA) in Wymondham, they have a new purpose built site just of the A11 which is conveniently situated opposite the new Police headquarters for Norfolk! They have a chod night on a Tuesday and a Friday.}

^{And Anglian car auctions (ACA) in Kings Lynn. The general car auction is generally full of shit and your bidding against eastern Europeans for anything cheap. They do have a very good classic car auction every 3 months  or so.}

^{Unfortunately ECA shut down a few years ago, which always had a lovely selection of choice crap bought a lovely Suzuki Baleno from there.}

[drum]

I bought my first car from an auction - mk2 escort for £375. That was a wee car auction in Forfar back in '86. Also got a late cavalier on an N plate at the Kinross auction after I wrote off the Volvo 480. Should have had my magnet with me for that one.

 

Is the Perth one still on the go?

[warren t claim]

Going to Ewloe car auction on Wednesday and for a laugh I might just lash a cheeky bid or two on something. 

 

Anyone else fancy coming along?

 

http://www.clwydauctions.co.uk/

[phil_lihp]

No doubt you'll be in fierce competition for the Streetwise!

[sporty-shite]

Going to Ewloe car auction on Wednesday and for a laugh I might just lash a cheeky bid or two on something. 

 

Anyone else fancy coming along?

 

http://www.clwydauctions.co.uk/

 

I dare you to buy this!

 

[warren t claim]

Glasses Guide give that Streetwise a trade in value of £315. 

hmm...

[CortinaDave]

I dont actually mind the streetwise. Id rather have a ZR but for 300 odd quid....

 

 

was meaning to pay a visit to kinross tonight.. apparently they had a v6 ZT previous write off going through.

 

I figured itd be lucky to lift 300 quid and mine needs some bits and bobs... the 190 brakes would be nice too.

 

plan was to buy it, rob it and fire the rest into u pull it for most of my cash back. But I forgot.

[ruffgeezer]

The trouble with the nu-banger category is that any one electrical gremlin can see it as an uneconomic repair, we sent a tidy 307 hdi to auction recently after we couldn't pin down an ABS fault, it just wasn't worth gambling on.

[dome]

I've bought a few memorable cars from auctions. When I was 17 I bought a 1.8 Manta from the one at Ayr racecourse.  It was quite remarkably fucked but I still had fun ragging it about, quite often sideways and quite often in conjunction with my mates Capri

 

I bought a Fiat Strada from he same auction, mainly because I'd walked all he way there and couldn't be arsed to walk back. £120 I think I paid for it to smoke about in whilst a different Manta was off the road. 50 odd thousand miles on the Strada with one owner. Sills were MIA on it but it ran well, allegedly reaching 90mph heading to Dumfries on the back roads. Took me ages to work out what the giffer added switch was on the dash-turned out it was for the reversing lights. Cue me revving the tits off it in front of my mates new Nissan Sunny about to make a quick* getaway- A well timed clunk into 1st gear whilst flicking the switch had him absolutely shiting himself at the thought of my Italian stallion taking out his Nissan, rapidly followed by confusion as the Strada rocketed* off forwards with the reverse lights lit.

 

Bought a Primera eGT from Intercity in Glasgow for £200, was nearer £290 by the time I'd paid the fees. It had a mashed rear door but was otherwise sound. Swapped it for a Nissan Saliva Turbot Hawkingomatic which I in turn swapped for 2 Range Rover Classics, the best of which I sold for a grand. Happy days

[Sloth in a bowl]

At the Cannock auctions last week, top prices included:

 

£380 for a 63,000 mile, X Reg 1.7 Puma with MOT till end of June.

A 130.000 BMW 530 (petrol, X reg) got just £950, with 7 months MOT

And with a full 12 months MOT you could have driven a tidy looking mk3 MR2 away for just £800

 

over 70 cars sold and not one of them raised £2000 and the money was good compared to the Tuesday evening auction when the auctioneer was almost suicidal with the money at hammer fall.

Auctions are a great place to pick up a very cheap car between 8 and 15 years old.

[Barry Cade]

At the Cannock auctions last week, top prices included:

 

£380 for a 63,000 mile, X Reg 1.7 Puma with MOT till end of June.

A 130.000 BMW 530 (petrol, X reg) got just £950, with 7 months MOT

And with a full 12 months MOT you could have driven a tidy looking mk3 MR2 away for just £800

 

over 70 cars sold and not one of them raised £2000 and the money was good compared to the Tuesday evening auction when the auctioneer was almost suicidal with the money at hammer fall.

Auctions are a great place to pick up a very cheap car between 8 and 15 years old.

If you add indemnity and probably lack of tax, all the cars you mention sold for twice what I'd expect to pay. That's why I don't do auctions anymore. Last Puma I bought was £350. X plate BMW is a £500 motor tops and MR2's are just about worthless up here.

[Sloth in a bowl]

If you add indemnity and probably lack of tax, all the cars you mention sold for twice what I'd expect to pay. That's why I don't do auctions anymore. Last Puma I bought was £350. X plate BMW is a £500 motor tops and MR2's are just about worthless up here.

So pumas that are usable in Brum go for about 6-800 and I've just done a national gumtree search on BMW530. There are 2 of them availible for under 2000 and the cheaper of those at 1250 quid is not a runner.

 

With the buyers premium of 25 ponds then you could be saving 500 on the BMW. As for TAX, the catalogue doesn't list but as we know soon no car will be sold with tax.