ebay 'BARGAINS'

[Richard]

At that money I wouldn't be wanting a barried one.

[warren t claim]

Quite why Ford can't use a bit of the Halewood factory they still own to knock out RWD heritage shells for 4k a pop is a mystery. There are as many Scrotes needing a re-shell as there are MGBs, TR6s.....

[Pete-M]

Quite why Ford can't use a bit of the Halewood factory they still own to knock out RWD heritage shells for 4k a pop is a mystery. There are as many Scrotes needing a re-shell as there are MGBs, TR6s.....

 

Oh, I'd be sooooo happy if they did that.... and sooooo skint.

[Tayne]

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[barrett]

I'm going out on a limb here, and saying I quite like that. I am a bit of a purist, especially when it comes to something as lovely as a Guilietta coupe, but that does look like an authentic late 50s show rod - paint scheme, grille, wheels - I think it all works quite well and will probably look HOT when it's done.

[Tayne]

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[Rocket88]

I'm going out on a limb here, and saying I quite like that. I am a bit of a purist, especially when it comes to something as lovely as a Guilietta coupe, but that does look like an authentic late 50s show rod - paint scheme, grille, wheels - I think it all works quite well and will probably look HOT when it's done.

 

I agree, I like that, and if it's been done properly, that's quite cheap.

[flat4alfa]

I like the Giulietta Sprint too. I can see where he's coming from, it is a throwback to the sixties as quite a few of those Alfa shells were rodded with US iron lumps when their twinks expired.

...However, if he started off with a good complete car before he cut it about I'll not forgive him, for one

 

 

 

How about this lovely Passat?

 

 

Nice isn't it.

 

It's got

Mileage: 533

with

there will be lots of interest in this Classic Volkswagen so act fast

and added

reserve not met

[Pete-M]

I was unlucky enough to spend a year or so selling those Pisshats for a living. £24k is way past the realms of possibility.

 

Who in their right mind would even contemplating spending that kind of money on a VW that they cannot possibly use? It's never going to be worth more than, what, £6k? They weren't that nice to drive even when new - which possibly explains why the thing has only done such a low mileage, and the slightest little knock will cause your insurance company to say "Er, book price is £800..".

 

Some of the Golfs and old Fords I can almost justify the prices for. I'd pay £10k for a perfect Mk2 RS2000 (if I could find one, there don't seem to be any left), and I sort of understand the thing about Oak green with Recaro leather Mk2 Golf GTi 16vs, I'd probably go to £5k for a mint Mk1 Granada 3.0 Ghia in the right colour but £24k for a Pisshat GL? No mate.

[Mash]

24 grand?????

 

I reckon £3.5k is top whack for that and only then to someone who really really wants one. And for that price I'd also want some Doctor-stylee pics not some shitty midnight phonesnaps in his workshop that make it look just like any other shagged out 20 year old car.

 

Cock jockey.

[Alexg]

I actually think that's a missprint. I bet it's meant to be £2400 start...

[Rocket88]

I actually think that's a missprint. I bet it's meant to be £2400 start...

 

I've emailed him to ask that very question...........

[Cavcraft]

It's not even worth £2400.

[M'coli]

How can he ask that price before the application of paintstripper, banded steels, stick-on iron crosses, chopped springs and pineapples?

[trigger]

Jesus!, I hope that is a misprint!, I never knew the GL's came with leather interior neither.

[fiatdaft]

thats being sold by the vw main dealer.

[AlsoMike]

Jesus!, I hope that is a misprint!, I never knew the GL's came with leather interior neither.

 

I'm willing to bet that's not the only non-standard thing about it either, was the Passat even offered with those wheels as an option? Either someone's specced it to the sky from new, or it's more than it's fair share of mods-per-mile.

[Pillock]

GL was top spec as they never did a "Highline" VR6 Passat to match the Golf of the same age. So leather was a possibility, and back then you could pretty much spec any wheel from the range on any car, they were all dealer options. Those are Estoril wheels, fitted to similar age Corrados but available off the shelf.

 

But still, that's mong-money. Knock a zero off and you're still only really attracting people with more money than sense who will stick it in a garage and wait for it to reach RWD Escort prices, or they die. Probably the latter.

[Guest]

This.

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1995-VOLVO-480-CELEBRATION-GREY-No-001-480-ltd-edn-/120649128141?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item1c173f98cd#ht_938wt_1139

 

For two reasons.

 

1. The seller is on crack.

2. He threw all of his toys out of the pram on the VOC forum because he reckoned a dealership in Germany had given him £4k. The nicest 480 in the world will make about half that. Funny how he's had to relist it on eBay isn't it? Is it because the price he has in mind is only realistic in his head perhaps?

 

Read the whole jibbering affair here if you can be arsed.

 

http://www.volvoforums.org.uk/showthread.php?p=784885#post784885

[Pillock]

What a pleasant forum!

[Richard]

Isn't it! It's like being locked in a room with a load of Jeremy Vine callers. The advice is thin on the ground too- for something as simple and old as a RWD Volvo you would expect a quick and definitive answer to pretty much any question, but no.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

what a shower of wankers they appear to be on that Volvo forum!!! Defo one to avoid.

[boobydoo]

They sound absolutely vile.

 

To be fair to the bloke, it's up to him what he asks for the car, they don't have to buy it. Sounds like he's gone to the trouble to research the history of it aswell.

 

Some Volvo dullard ( who probably drives a 340 and thinks its the best thing since sliced bread) sarcastically said it was worth £1250 tops but its at £1900 on ebay already so what does he know.

 

With regards to the front spoiler missing, they actually came separate to the car when new and had to be fitted on PDI and I know some never got fitted, as did the silver plaques which came with instructions from Volvo as to EXACTLY where to put them above the glovebox. (I worked at a Volvo dealership at the time).

[Guest]

What a pleasant forum!

 

Yes, they've tested my patience on more than several occasions. My views on the VOC forum are well known. I have all the numbers of the people worth knowing there now, so I don't visit very often.

 

I still think the bloke selling the 480 Celebration is a penis though.

[Pete-M]

I found the T5D5 Volvo forum to be an alright place. Even went to a meet once, but they were all a bit "Who's he, and why's he got a mint T5 estate that cost fuck all?"

[Tayne]

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[Guest]

I can't pass any judgement on that Volvo forum as I have never spent any time there.

 

However the chap selling the 480 does seem to have just turned up to flog it, invented a lot of fake offers and then lied about selling it to a German dealer. He does seem to be a cock.

 

I would say he was treated a little better than eccentric-richard or that chap who wanted his Transit ambulance "pimped" so I can't write-off the VOC on the basis of that thread.

 

Trust me Tayne, having spent some time on the VOC forum, I can confirm it is full of brain donors.

 

E-R deserved some of the kickings he received here. He was more or less OK, it was just his pig-headed refusal to listen to anyone and tendency to regurgitate car facts that got on my tits. I was a cock when I was his age.

 

I genuinely didn't understand why Pimp My Transit man got everyone so annoyed.

[Tayne]

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[Rocket88]

Jesus!, I hope that is a misprint!, I never knew the GL's came with leather interior neither.

 

£24k is NOT a misprint...............I asked the seller via email........I wished him a merry "good luck", and resumed uncontrollable chortling

[Alexg]

The best of the best MK1 golf GTI is still no more than a third of the price of a new one, and the MK1 golf GTI is a desirable car. Yet that nutter really thinks that someone will buy that rather boring not-yet-scene Passat for the same price as new?

 

 

- Good luck indeed!