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16 hours ago, Supernaut said:

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/516847989431116

£1,925 is strong money for an MGF, but perhaps it's a fairly tidy one.

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Looking good so far.

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Oh...

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Hmmmm...

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Why yes. I'd like a car that requires a tetanus booster every time I get out, and no way of pulling the door shut from inside.

 

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Ironically, it will cost you over half of that price just for the hard top of a Black MR2 Roadster

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4 hours ago, New POD said:

Ring it. 

Basically this. M140s of that era are worth an absolute mint.  They're actually increasing in value.

The M140i is a 3 litre turbocharged engine with absolute bags of torque. Its replacement, the M135i has less BHP and a more sanguine 2 litre.

Thing is, it looks fairly OK at a distance - a straight swap into a chassis of a similar era. The wheels look OK too. Someone will pick that up, swap it in its entirety into a shell that has a blown engine or something and sell it off as the real thing. And arguably, this is a more honest ringer than one that's a cut-and-shut.

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12 hours ago, Jamie said:

banana'd 140i - seriously what the FUCK could you do with this when your in it for 9 grand? 

2017 BMW 140i UNRECORDED DAMAGED SALVAGE SPARES OR REPAIRS | eBay

 

"I WILL ALSO GIVE THIS IN WRITTEN WRITING"

What other sort is there? Unwritten writing? But then that's not writing at all...

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https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C13074271998-audi-a4-60185acd27712.thumb.jpg.06efa3c7745695df37017c5acd887894.jpg

 

£2,000 Audi A4 "limo".

Interior looks good. Body looks alright, had a timing belt and water pump, suspension work and wheel bearings...sounds pretty good, right?

 

Well...

200k miles

SORN since 2012

engine has seized 

work is required on the Auto box

 

Wonder if the timing belt was done in 2012...

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On 9/26/2021 at 9:06 PM, 808 Estate said:

Lots of bullshittery going on too.

Says on the advert that the MOT "expires" on 22/7/2021. Except it doesn't. It expired in February and doesn't appear to have been at all dealt with.


So we've got a 2006  poorly spec'd import (that says 2017 on the advert, except that's when it was imported) that hasn't had an MOT for 8 months and they want £7k for it. Bonkers.

It looks like something from the 1980s.

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  • 2 weeks later...

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202109137300599?model=Defender Unspecified&onesearchad=New&onesearchad=Nearly New&onesearchad=Used&advertising-location=at_cars&sort=relevance&radius=1500&make=Land Rover&postcode=sy81ay&include-delivery-option=on&page=1

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25 grand Land Rover 'hybrid' with a TVR V8. Registered as 1967 E reg so Tax and MoT exempt.

Land Rover hybrids existed mainly in the late 80s and early 90s when poor people with beards and cable knit sweaters wanted a coil sprung utility Land Rover but couldn't afford to buy a 90 or 110. The solution was simply* to buy a Range Rover with rotten bodywork but a good chassis and either shorten the chassis from 100 inches to 88 inches to fit a short wheelbase Series Land Rover's bodywork or leave it as it is and shorten the bodywork from a long wheel base Land Rover. A bonus was that the donor chassis usually came with a factory fitted V8 engine already installed for more power. Back then there was nothing especially dodgy about hybrids, there wasn't any Mot exemption for classic cars and Tax exemption hadn't yet been introduced. 

The pictures don't show the engine or the chassis, but I'd suggest that this is in fact a Land Rover 90, made in the 80s or early 90s fitted with a Rover V8 engine which could be from a TVR (I don't think they were especially different to the ones fitted in contemporary Range Rovers and Discoveries). I reckon the only bit of this that dates from 1967 is the vehicle identity, presumably taken from a scrapped vehicle to save on the hassle of having to pay for tax and MoTs. Not the first person to have done this but distinctly dodgy nonetheless. 

 

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10 hours ago, 808 Estate said:

I've got a mk1 Santa Fe 2.7 V6 and it is surprisingly good. AWD and a rear LSD. I've got a thread on here about it (somewhere)

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