How far have you travelled to view shite?

[AldridgePrior]

As stated. How far have you traveled to view a car you thought might have been a good one?

 

Only to get there and think, "What a waste of fucking time"

 

I`ve done West Scotland to Bosham. On the south coast near Chichester. It was to view a 2.8 Passat 4motion estate. Clean as fuck but engine was whistling like a kettle and was as flat as a witches tit.

 

The `trader` had said it was the best in the country and I would not `find better`. I should have known fucking better than listen to some fanny in a garage who`s job it is to sell cars. Still it wasn`t all bad, I stayed the night in Chichester and had a decent night.

 That pips my Saab 9000 2.3t debacle at the post. I went to the Swindon area to look at 3 Saabs. I couldn`t have made a decent car out of all of them.

 

Being a Hillbilly and liking cars, anything that`s unusual or different and I want one I have to travel for the bastard. Either that or drive another Astra.

[oldcars]

I have traveled from Edinburgh to Halifax for a motor and to Wakefield, both were good and were bought.

[AlabamaShrimp]

I went from Wakefield to somewhere near Barrow to look at a good* XR2 that didn't need much work.

 

Got there and it was the biggest pile of shit I've ever driven. Rotten everywhere shit mk2's rot, no suspension or breaks and the engine was fucked.

Needless to say I went home without it

[panhard65]

I went to Lyon from Essex for a peugeot 504 coupe. I had my eye on 2 in France one in Normandy and this one in Lyon. It sounded the better of the pair so I went for it.  It was supposed to be a sound running car with minimal rust. I get there and the track rod end has snapped off and the wheels are pointing in opposite directions. The sills were rotten but he didn't seem to worry about this. However it was cheap and luckily I had taken a trailer so I bought it and came home. I must of been unlucky with this French seller as every other one has been spot on with description.

[jonny69]

When I was younger I got mega excited about a hotrodded 100E that came up for sale in the back of Custom Car. The small Fords were still quite cheap back then, even once rodded. It looked perfect in every way: Rover V8, manual box, Escort front end, cage, bucket seats, tiny little pic in the classifieds, and the right price.

 

I rang the guy up and drove 120 miles down to Bristol only to find it was a right old pile. The front suspension had been hacked off including the strut towers and badly replaced with tubular "chassis" style stuff welded to the chassis legs and bulkhead. The engine was set right back in the engine bay and had a bit of top-end noise, usually not good for a RV8. The comical thing was he'd put in the world's largest transmission tunnel for this gearbox and you could barely get both feet down to the pedals. It would have been undriveable. On top of that, you had to be He-Man shouting BY THE POWER OF GREYSKULL to press the clutch pedal down, which was basically the size of a 10p piece. The quality of work was just shoddy all round and I walked away disappointed.

[dollywobbler]

Only this year I travelled from West Wales to Coventry to look at a Rover 600 diesel. It was doggier than a dogging session featuring Lassie and Scooby Doo. I was forced to buy a Rover 400 to get home. It must be bad if I turned it down.

 

I travelled some 160 miles on a round-trip to check out the XM, as I was short of brave pills. To be honest, when buying shite, most of the time I just assume that if it has an MOT, it'll probably be approaching ok (the Rover 600 was advertised as having MOT but actually hadn't moved for months and didn't have one at all). The economics rarely stack up for travelling to check a car before actually buying it.

[Jim Bell]

Furthest I've gone is Newcastle to Reading and Heathrow. I've never not come back with a car. Usually as I'm buying it from someone known to be reasonable honest. Sometimes just luck I supose.

[Angrydicky]

180 miles from Southend to Somerset and back again to collect my Austin A40 Somerset. I'd already agreed to buy it on the strength of a few photographs though! Furthest to view a car? Probably only Rainham, Essex to view a Triumph 2000 on Ebay that turned out to be a bit of a dog, it didn't run very well and we walked away. Had a few others but they were all unseen Ebay purchases that we'd already agreed to buy.

[garbaldy]

I am not far from being in the middle of britain for pretty much anywhere, distance is not something I consider usually as long as car is moted I will just take it. Furthest south was a sierra from Penzanse, vantmans colt from Ashford, an audi sport from Bristol, starlet and mgb south London and from the north would be an AE86 from Aberdeen an audi quattro from Elgin an escort from Saltcoats and all manner of others inbetween. Distance is just a number.

[cms206]

I am not far from being in the middle of britain for pretty much anywhere, distance is not something I consider usually as long as car is moted I will just take it. Furthest south was a sierra from Penzanse, vantmans colt from Ashford, an audi sport from Bristol, starlet and mgb south London and from the north would be an AE86 from Aberdeen an audi quattro from Elgin an escort from Saltcoats and all manner of others inbetween. Distance is just a number.

 

I just tend to buy blind. Once bought a burgundy Cavalier off a fella in Berwickshire that had been owned by a chimney sweep ffs!

[garbaldy]

Oh and I preffer cars from the south as nearly all I've bought up here have rust.

[Keymaster]

I live in Liverpool & bought my mr2 from ruislip, about a 420 mile round trip. I travelled all over the country last year looking for a cheap, dry motorhome.. I had just 3 weeks to find one before the 2013 silverstone grand prix. The furthest one I rejected was in sussex which was a fair old trek just to go home empty handed. Discovering it had OMGHGF forced my hand that time.

[Cavcraft]

I went quite far North East (somewhere near Grimsby?) to buy the 306 estate from someone on here. Anyhow, I didn't regret it at all, it was an ace car that I got loads of use out of. And then weighed in.

[Pillock]

I went Mansfield to Surrey to look at a Beetle, got a lift down without thinking that if the car was crap, I'd have to spend about half the money I had in my pocket to get a train home. Thankfully, the car was good.

 

Same deal with the MG from Blackpool, however it was easier since it was from a forum member so unlikely to be sold a pup.

 

Staying closer to home normally finds me with a complete dog.... Newark to Lincoln got me a Leon with bodges all over.

[scruff]

Rutland to Exeter for my 205 STDT; Peterborough to Sussex for a V8 Defender 110; Sussex to Cardiff for a Range Rover.

 

I've never not come away with something but SKOZE_ONE has a killer of a story about a wasted journey.

[garbaldy]

 

I just tend to buy blind. Once bought a burgundy Cavalier off a fella in Berwickshire that had been owned by a chimney sweep ffs!

Yes you did but is it still kicking about?

[cms206]

Yes you did but is it still kicking about?

 

According to the DVLA it's still taxed and tested until November; I sold it to a bit of a Vauxhall apologist in Pitlochry and I've seen it about half a dozen times since; oddly enough the first time I saw it after I sold it was the day I picked up the Council Estate - it was at the lights at the end of Scooters' street!

[Split_Pin]

I travelled to Northampton from Falkirk to view a car that looked shiny but the engine was almost completely fucked. Seller said there was nothing wrong with it but in a few sentences was saying 'im not really an engines man'. He was also a massive cock about the whole thing, claiming 'd wasted his time.

 

Eh, who'd hired and endured a Nissan Note for the whole thing?

 

Still, the missus and I enjoyed an overnight stay in Chester on the way down.

[saucedoctor]

Londonderry. 140 mile round trip to see a supposedly tidy 944. In terms of distance, not really that far. As a "cultural" experience, though, poles apart from my neck of the woods. Everyone seemed to be called Collum, but it could just as easily been Gollum.

 

The seller just kept saying "She's a Porsh, sur". He also didn't think the fact that he had no documents, the doors didn't lock and the boot wouldn't stay shut was a big deal. And he wanted 4 bags for it.

 

Still, it was a nice day for a drive all the way across Northern Ireland, and back.

[Junkman]

How's USA? Been there many times just to look at chod.

In those days, it also wasn't unusual to do 1,000 mile trips across Yeeropp, Scandinavia, and the sub-continents, just to drag another heap out of a shed.

Here in the Yookaye, I've been as far as St. Agnes, Ramsgate, Kirkcudbright, Sunderland, and pretty much everywhere within this Bermuda Rectangle.

[Cavcraft]

Still, the missus and I enjoyed an overnight stay in Chester on the way down.

 

Nothing else matters now, you have reached the very pinnacle of shiting.

[cort16]

I'm pretty lazy I tend to stick to ones within 100 miles or so. I've not got the time anymore to spend a day going to get something plus by the time you add travel and fuel onto it it can add an extra couple of hundred quid to the purchase price.

[AldridgePrior]

Appears there are wanks all round the UK with no regard for your inconvenience in viewing their junk then.

 

I`ve had a few Berkley Hunts but in saying that, I traveled to Oxford to buy my Camaro off a guy that did nothing but swear on the phone. He didn`t even wash the car or prepare it as he didn`t even think I was going to show as he had umpteen timewasters. He was as honest as they came.

 

Loved the car. Shouldn`t have sold it. Fucked up. Sorry, I`ve already said that.

 

Bollocks. *cough cough* `was a keeper.` *cough*.

[Split_Pin]

Ha Billy I knew you'd like that one! Did 'the walls' as you call it!

[Rocket88]

Jersey to Brum to collect an already "won on  ebay" Bitter coupe. It broke down 9 times between Brum and Portsmouth...........................

[brickwall]

I think Stirling to Milton Keynes was the farthest.

[chaseracer]

Cannock to just outside Aberystwyth via Birmingham, by Trenau Arriva Cymru and its attendant dubious joys, to look at a Mercedes.  Which I had already bought.

 

So, errrmm...

 

[trigger]

Hmm... My Cortina came from Evesham which was a 300 mile round trip, It wasn't quite as nice as it sounded/looked in the advert but after traveling so far i decided to buy it anyway and still drove it home with only one front brake.

 

The 1602 came from Brigg which is a 360 mile round trip, again that was fine and made the drive home without any issue which was good going seeing that it hadn't been used for years.

[spike60]

I drove 60 miles to Newcastle airport then flew to Exeter where the car owner collected me and took me to Torquay to see a Corvette. I bought it, he paid the fare! About 800 miles return, plus going back the next day to get my car from the airport.

It's a well travelled car, it was first registered in Germany and had a German VIN plate and when I sold it it went to Stuttgart.

[Bren]

Warrington to Stamford, Lincs for my busa.

 

Not the same as looking for shite though, it was a case of travelling for the right one, which sometimes you do.