ebay 'BARGAINS'

[seth]

Perfect car to enter into the world of vintage & classic car ownership..Get that picnic hamper ready!

 

Read: Perfect to enter into the pain of rotten old heap ownership. Get that Mig welder ready!

[Angrydicky]

Isn't that the one that was sold recently on RR for £650?

[Polystratus]

Isn't that the one that was sold recently on RR for £650?

 

Same one - did a quick search, also was on eBay with starting bid of £400 and no bids.

[Angrydicky]

What a bastard.

 

http://www.retrorides.proboards.com/ind ... read=88198

 

No way that's worth any more than a grand tops. Funny how all the faults listed in the RR ad seem to have miraculously disappeared...

 

I bet the sills have been plated over the rust as well.

[mattblack]

Ready for Hednesford

 

EFA

[BMC Dan]

Ready for Hednesford

 

EFA

 

 

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C136069/

 

1300 auto so a proper weapon. Excellent storage skills too...

[Mr_Bo11ox]

To be fair, anyone who even contemplates going to look at that Rootes thing at £2750 deserves everything they get, one glance at it tells you its full of pigeon shit welding and wob.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

That Gazelle is utter scrap, a patched up, wag laden old snotter.

 

 

But I like it all the same. It's just like the ones I remember as a kid in the seventies, either in scrapyards or council estates. There are more than enough nice ones at shows driven by BO ridden paedos, but a proper seventies spec MOT borderline shitbox has an appeal.................for 250 quid. 650 was way more than it was worth.

[seth]

That Gazelle is utter scrap, a patched up, wag laden old snotter.

 

 

But I like it all the same. It's just like the ones I remember as a kid in the seventies, either in scrapyards or council estates. There are more than enough nice ones at shows driven by BO ridden paedos, but a proper seventies spec MOT borderline shitbox has an appeal.................for 250 quid. 650 was way more than it was worth.

 

I agree that it is wobbly but I don't think 650 was too bad a starting price when the R-R chap was flogging it - it was an MOT'd '50s car, wrap around back window and all. We don't know what he ended up selling it for and he's sold a fair few cheap old cars in the past too and is always honest with descriptions.

 

The "new" advertiser is clearly hoping that putting the word "Goodwood" in his advert will have the same effect as a Ford advertiser putting the word "Escort" in theirs.

[RedSparrow]

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C136069/

 

1300 auto so a proper weapon. Excellent storage skills too...

 

Only one man (and his production team) would pay that much for a Marina...

 

 

 

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

[the same effect as a Ford advertiser putting the word "Escort" in theirs.

 

 

Yeah, but nobody will pay the 6 million pounds that 'rough as arseholes' 1100 Popliers sell for.

[pogweasel]

A friend of mine has put his "thing" up for sale on eBay. Bit on the steep side for a big boys toy...

in fairness it is obscenely fast though.

[trigger]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Left-Hand-Drive-c ... 45f7f1923d

 

Now I'm no expert on 2CV prices, but £8850 for a LHD Jap import one does seem a bit on the steep side!

[Angrydicky]

It would still "get it" though, phwooooor

[Richard]

If that 2CV had started life in Japan it wouldn't be a left hooker.

[Pete-M]

If that 2CV had started life in Japan it wouldn't be a left hooker.

 

Not necessarily. In their usual unfathomable way, the Japs quite often order LHD on imports as LHD is viewed as being a bit exotic.

 

However, as it's a 2CV, it'd have to be a particularly mental Jap to order one in the first place, so anything is possible.

[Richard]

I suppose it makes sense in a way, if you're going to drive a French oddity you might as well have the French layout.

[Pete-M]

Indeed.

 

Audi have just put a touch sensitive pad on the centre console of the A8 to control their version of idrive.

 

Supposed to be brilliant. If you're left handed.

[CIH]

And yet the yank JDM crowd go wild for right-hand drive.....funny how that works eh ?

[Negative Creep]

I suppose it makes sense in a way, if you're going to drive a French oddity you might as well have the French layout.

 

 

It's not like you'd ever have to worry about overtaking anything

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

I've read that RHD Citroëns are highly prized in France.

[flat4alfa]

Hey, a nice Imp van

 

Rare opportunity

£6995

Oh.

[dollywobbler]

I've read that RHD Citroëns are highly prized in France.

 

Aye. There's a club dedicated to buying right-hand drive 2CVs! Always get plenty of attention when we're over there. Perhaps they can't believe that Citroen didn't bother moving the handbrake for RHD and need to see it for themselves. (Good job it's a narrow car!).

 

That Charleston is rather over-priced. The sort of people who are paying big money for 2CVs are either getting their own pride and joy restored, or looking to get into 2CVs for the first time and want the best - which will be RHD really. £5k is still top money. Maybe he's hoping for £6k.

[Tayne]

Err, where is the handbrake on a 2CV?

[Louise2cv]

Overthere <-------, under the parcelshelf. About four or five inches left of the gearstick and down a bit.

[trigger]

Everyday is a school day!

[dollywobbler]

Overthere <-------, under the parcelshelf. About four or five inches left of the gearstick and down a bit.

 

Yup, next to the driver's leg in LHD, passenger's leg in RHD (which occasionally has its advantages, and occasionally very much a disadvantage!)

[warren t claim]

I've always found the 2cv gear pattern more suited to LHD.

 

On a similar subject, I got trapped in a Renner 4 once when I couldn't find the interior door handle.

[dollywobbler]

I've always found the 2cv gear pattern more suited to LHD.

 

On a similar subject, I got trapped in a Renner 4 once when I couldn't find the interior door handle.

 

Aye. The CX and Dyanes are great for trapping people too. The French really do have a sense of humour!

[wuvvum]

I've always found the 2cv gear pattern more suited to LHD.

 

On a similar subject, I got trapped in a Renner 4 once when I couldn't find the interior door handle.

 

Aye. The CX and Dyanes are great for trapping people too. The French really do have a sense of humour!

Early R4s were even worse - my 1967 4L had a bit of bent metal rod that you had to reach down inside the door to pull. At least the later cars had something vaguely resembling a handle, if you knew where to look for it.