ebay 'BARGAINS'

[Skizzer]

22 hours ago, Jerzy Woking said:

Buy a £800 Diversion...

Of all the bikes to start with...

That’s the bike equivalent of a Toyota Avensis monster truck.

[DavidB]

All of this terrible advert:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/184245976252

Quote

Interior made of material.

 

[1duck]

https://www.gumtree.com/p/other-cars/morris-marina-vintage-car/1371818449

[Nev]

Hey @DavidB & @1duck both of those should have gone in the eBay Tat thread, this is mainly for massively overpriced old shit...if that Marina was £4000 not £400 it'd qualify for instance. (As it also could go in the "Just scrap it" thread)!

The "bargain" bit in the title is meant as sarcasm, and had it been written now, would have had the obligatory asterisk. ?

Keep on shitin'

[flat4alfa]

Yeah but the Marina comes with CREOSOTE

CREOSOTE IS GOLD.  Janet on Facebook said so.

[1duck]

1 hour ago, Nev said:

Hey @DavidB & @1duck both of those should have gone in the eBay Tat thread, this is mainly for massively overpriced old shit...if that Marina was £4000 not £400 it'd qualify for instance. (As it also could go in the "Just scrap it" thread)!

The "bargain" bit in the title is meant as sarcasm, and had it been written now, would have had the obligatory asterisk. ?

Keep on shitin'

Cheers! couldn't find the just scrap it thread!

[Nev]

@1duck There you Chuff 

 

[Jikovron]

'Bargain' 3500 p6 gearbox

Dilemmas dilemmas for those with a failed BW type 35 either look about for a 'cheap' unknown or pay the going rate for a reconditioned unit, not sure I could decide haha

Reconditioned 3500 box

 

[2flags]

On 4/14/2020 at 10:02 AM, Billy - Medhurst said:

Yes that's a high price - but one day it will command such. This will be the next "Morris Minor" - I see more nova's than early poverty spec Corsa B's. I love it too.

We had these when I first started as a driving instructor. They were horrid! Couldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding going down hill with a following wind! Steering, 4 turns lock to lock. Vague? Made my Landrover seem direct! Electrics, would eat rear brake light bulbs for a pass time. I then changed companies and went over to Metros. Much better car. 1.4GTA if my memory serves me. 8 valve but a proper little pocket rocket. Much better handling. Loved it. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Comedy asking price for CX S1 GTi. 

I think this might be the same car that DD Classics in Kew were flogging for 25 grand a few years back.

[lesapandre]

11 minutes ago, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Comedy asking price for CX S1 GTi. 

I think this might be the same car that DD Classics in Kew were flogging for 25 grand a few years back.

Illegal plates. LHD - you could knock off at least 10,000 if you bought in France. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

4 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

Illegal plates. LHD - you could knock off at least 10,000 if you bought in France. 

I doubt the owner's ever been pulled for those plates - the Met's traffic section just aren't interested in that type of infringement.

Even so, twenty bags is one way of ensuring he'll be stuck with it for some time to come. It's a ten bag car, but no more than that. LHD not a help.

[busmansholiday]

6 hours ago, lesapandre said:

Illegal plates.

Actually they are not illegal.

It's a 79 car so more than 40 years old and therefore tax and test exempt but interestingly it also means you can ditch the reflective plates and put those on, despite it having reflective as new.

[lesapandre]

Ok. Hmmmm...I did not know that!

Personally I think period plates look  correct - but all a personal thing. 

[STUNO]

Anyone fancy a 1985 Toyota Crown Hardtop Saloon for a lot of money. And it just might be worth it at $NZ49,000

https://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/used-cars/toyota/auction-2599473280.htm?rsqid=d893202343fb4624a15f6467fbc3aa2a-003

[MondeoBlues]

Cars with non-reflective plates that are meant to have reflective plates look utter wank and I will fight anyone who disagrees. 

[puddlethumper]

48 minutes ago, MondeoBlues said:

Cars with non-reflective plates that are meant to have reflective plates look utter wank and I will fight anyone who disagrees. 

My mechanic says that black and whites don't come up on police ANPR or in car parks.

[camryv6]

46 minutes ago, puddlethumper said:

My mechanic says that black and whites don't come up on police ANPR or in car parks.

Interesting...…………………...so who is willing to put this theory to the test ?

Edit

Actually @NorfolkNWeighwill probably know !

[puddlethumper]

Just had a rummage on the net about this and it seems it may be true. Classicsworld.co.uk/older plates confusing ANPR.

I didn't know that any vehicle now 40 years old can legally have black and white plates.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

3 hours ago, puddlethumper said:

Just had a rummage on the net about this and it seems it may be true. Classicsworld.co.uk/older plates confusing ANPR.

I didn't know that any vehicle now 40 years old can legally have black and white plates.

Never mind the forty-year-old mark, there are cars four years old out there that are carrying black-and-white plates.....although I've yet to see them half-hidden on the dashboard. 

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Salty

[hairnet]

On 5/8/2020 at 8:08 PM, Skizzer said:

Of all the bikes to start with...

That’s the bike equivalent of a Toyota Avensis monster truck.

800 to start with - theres insania right there

[paulplom]

There's a garage up the road from me selling cars. They do seem slightly over priced though.

2009 mondeo £3k. 

2010 mitsubishi £3k. 

2009 panda £4k it is a 4x4 though.  

2010 saab 9-3 cab £6k.

There are a lot worse there as well.

 

[Rod/b]

On 5/21/2020 at 9:05 PM, busmansholiday said:

Actually they are not illegal.

It's a 79 car so more than 40 years old and therefore tax and test exempt but interestingly it also means you can ditch the reflective plates and put those on, despite it having reflective as new.

I don’t think that’s right. They set a 40 year mark in 2015 - so as at 1975 - but it’s not a rolling date. 
https://classicmotorhub.com/blog/ask-footman-james-the-rules-and-regulations-for-black-and-silver-number-plates/

 

EDIT:

Actually that is right! Provided the vehicle is 40+ yrs old, you’ve applied to the DVLA, and have registered the vehicle in the Historic Vehicles class:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/878990/vehicle-registration-numbers-and-number-plates-inf104.pdf

 

Edited May 24, 2020 by Rod/b
Talking SHIT

[lanciamatt]

1 hour ago, Rod/b said:

I don’t think that’s right. They set a 40 year mark in 2015 - so as at 1975 - but it’s not a rolling date. 
https://classicmotorhub.com/blog/ask-footman-james-the-rules-and-regulations-for-black-and-silver-number-plates/

 

EDIT:

Actually that is right! Provided the vehicle is 40+ yrs old, you’ve applied to the DVLA, and have registered the vehicle in the Historic Vehicles class:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/878990/vehicle-registration-numbers-and-number-plates-inf104.pdf

 

It's now a rolling year thing for the black plates, I didn't know that, shame my oldest car at min is a H reg. 

[lesapandre]

On 5/21/2020 at 11:47 AM, Tadhg Tiogar said:

Comedy asking price for CX S1 GTi. 

I think this might be the same car that DD Classics in Kew were flogging for 25 grand a few years 

Loads of nice CX on Le Bon Coin at mo. In France they are not particularly collected - not treated as unobtanium as some think in UK. Why pay that much when you could have one like this LWB leather and wood hunny for €3000?  Even has black plates. 

 

[lesapandre]

£30,000...only 4 of these...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/153940055396

[EyesWeldedShut]

4 hours ago, lesapandre said:

Loads of nice CX on Le Bon Coin at mo. In France they are not particularly collected - not treated as unobtanium as some think in UK. Why pay that much when you could have one like this LWB leather and wood hunny for €3000?  Even has black plates. 

 

Yes please - even has those rear sun blinds like my old BX - wonder if t'missus would notice if I swapped it out for her little black Mini?

[NorfolkNWeigh]

This Rover 800 is pretty clean, the ad reckons it’s a Sterling , certainly got leather but the exterior is very basic and the wrong alloys.

https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1226267

Price? About 10x what I’d happily pay and at least 5 x what it’s worth!   £8,500.

[RoadworkUK]

10 hours ago, NorfolkNWeigh said:

"....the exterior is very basic and the wrong alloys"

Hmmm, I'm kind of alright with the Tickford wheels and colour-coded bumpers, although I'm not sure what they're doing on a Sterling. I'm not at all happy about deletion of the rubbing strips, though.

Doesn't look terrible, but I can't imagine an "enthusiast" paying well over the odds for something that's been quite so plainly dicked about with. My bone-stock 825Si must be worth millions.