Sold 1990 Eunos Roadster - now SOLD

[KruJoe]

You know it'd be rude not to.

[Pillock]

Holy shit, £550 insurance with 8 years NCB. Time to hit the specialist insurers. Any suggestions?

[loserone]

Footman James is the usual answer, I was 25 when I got this and it has never been more that £300.  FJ will require you to be a member of the Owners Club (£30?) and be using it as a second car, though.

 

They're also shut on weekends.

 

Where are you, Mr Pillock?

[Pillock]

I are Leicester ish. It will be a second car, garaged with small mileage since I now have company eurobox

[Pillock]

I did want to use a standard policy to keep my ncb going, bit I've got 23 months till I need to use it so it's not a major issue.

[loserone]

That are long way for L1 AS free delivery services, but wouldn't mind meeting halfway somewhere if you didn't mind buying blind.  

 

Those 50 limits down half the M1 were a PITA last weekend on the Subaru's first outing to Coventry

[Pillock]

Aye, I did there and back yesterday with cruise set to 53mph for a fair chunk. Duuuuuulllllllllllll.

 

I'm going to press pause on this til I can speak to an import-friendly insurer tomorrow.....

[Jim Bell]

I got even worse insurance quotes as have 0 NCB. (£900)

 

Import insurance is effing stupid.

[loserone]

Car insurance? Stupid, just stupid.

 

_{To be honest, I've never had more than a years NCB on this car as my 'main' car has been something else until February.  Both the 323F and the Impreza were more to insure - my excess has just jumped from 100 to 350. But I've never had any luck with comparison sites, even for the Micra and the Almera.  I was paying 450 for this one with Admiral, as a male under 30 with the car parked on the street, including SWMBO as a named driver who only passed her test in December.}

 

Good luck!

[KruJoe]

Footman James have gotta be worth a try... they're happy to cover my 1990 imported MR2 for about £120.

[Pillock]

That's the kind of number that would see me typing the words "collection thread" into the forum

[Fat_Pirate]

Give Adrian Flux a go, they were pretty reasonable for my much-modified import Eunos.  

[loserone]

The other name that comes up a lot for these is Sky insurance, but they always quoted four figures for me.  

[xtriple]

When I had my MK1 Eunos auto Adrian Flux were the cheapest by far - about £190 fc without no claims (used elsewhere) and I was happy with that. For my MK3 the AA were the cheapest, but I used my no claims on that.

[loserone]

Too lazy to put the wheels on tonight, but here's an old picture with the other wheels on.

 

[forddeliveryboy]

Heck, has it not sold yet? I'd rather like this and Bob's MGF, so I could do a back-to-back Dollywobbler+ comparison road test - with footage of both cars extended on bleak moorland roads.

 

Oh to still be in my thirties, no little ones, no beginnings of grey sideburns and cash in the bank.

[loserone]

I know, I wonder what I can do to perk up interest a little.

 

How's about this; I'll take the amp out of the boot, and any autoshitist can then collect the car before the end of Thursday by handing me only £150.

 

Hardtop and other bits obviously not included at this price.  If you want the alloys instead of the steels, then you can swap them on the 'drive' before you leave.

 

That means even if you don't weld at home, you can buy this, drive it home, and have it welded up and re-taxed before the MOT runs out for less than the asking price at the start of the thread.  In the worst case (that the sill is much worse than the other one was and can't be sorted for a good price) you can scrap it, sell the wheels, seats and wooden bits, and make a tidy profit barring your time.

 

Sound OK?

[Cavcraft]

Messaged you

[barefoot]

Phoned up direct line for a quick* quote to see how much more it would cost me to insure this than the Scirocco.

You would have thought that I was asking for the answer to life, the universe and everything.

Apparently to change, it would cost an additional £10.24 plus a £15.00 admin fee, I currently pay £156.

'OK', says I, 'How much for the full year?' It expires in October.

Ah...

27 minutes & three people later, we finally arrive at £169.

So, £13.00 extra for the full year but £25.24 extra for 3 months.

Direct Line, Fuck off, I won't be renewing.

[loserone]

To be fair, both of those numbers are probably close to the interest some people pay on their car insurance payments.

 

Comes with thick brown deep-pile original carpet mats, for those who like to drive with bare feet.

[loserone]

Provisionally sold, pending A-frame escapades tomorrow.  Cheers for that Billy!

[alfetta]

UK 5s have a bigger towing limit, I understand it's simply that most importers couldn't be bothered to find out what the limit should be and just put 0.  Two 5s sounds like an extremely sensible way to do it.

 

Do you think there would be much difference between the 95 and the 115 after 20-25 years of driving? Suppose there could be.

 

The late UK 1.6 was quoted as having only 89bhp, however most people reportrd around 95-100, so not too bad. Could always charge it!

[Tetleysmooth]

Billy bangerman strikes again.

Are you sure being a postman is your ting, Billy?

[hairnet]

Oioi kfw would like contact details please if billy doesn't have it

 

Ta

[hairnet]

OK I slow YEAH IM WORKING NOT TAT SURFIN

[loserone]

Took me a while to realise that a chap named Kev who lives in Wales might be identified as KFW.  Oh, that's KFW!

[Cavcraft]

Aye, it's not for me (only due to circumstances this week I'd have snatched your hands off) but it's for KFW.

[New POD]

Holy shit, £550 insurance with 8 years NCB. Time to hit the specialist insurers. Any suggestions?

 

 

We paid £230 on a classic policy, and now pay £220 on a normal policy with 1 year NCB. (Both in our 40's and 3000 mile estimate)

[Station]

£150 - ridiculous.

[Pillock]

Aaaah well, life got in the way of insurance quotes and I lost out..... Well purchased Billy.