'just bloody scrap it' - the eBay 'fuck me, what were they thinking' thread

[DSdriver]

Now reduced to JUST £500

[MrSteve]

I hope they rented a big road sweeper to follow this pile of shit down the road. I am not sure why a Mk1 Interceptor built in Italy is so special- it does what any italian car does after a few years on these shores...

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SUPER-RARE-MK1-JENSEN-INTERCEPTOR-6-3-BARN-FIND-OWNED-30-YEARS-99P-NO-RESERVE-/112478226502

 

 

 

[spike60]

It's good to see the Jensen has Service History!

[AlabamaShrimp]

That Jensen is exactly why I don't read ebay listings. I m on people joke about them but fuck me and as it written by a child?

 

"this car is super rare" said about a million times. No this car is a pile of rust and unless you nick someone else's it's all it'll ever be.

[Junkman]

This is epic.

[phil_lihp]

I hope they rented a big road sweeper to follow this pile of shit down the road. I am not sure why a Mk1 Interceptor built in Italy is so special- it does what any italian car does after a few years on these shores...

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SUPER-RARE-MK1-JENSEN-INTERCEPTOR-6-3-BARN-FIND-OWNED-30-YEARS-99P-NO-RESERVE-/112478226502

 

 

That Jenson has been known around the area for some time, it seems.  There's one or two mentions of people looking to buy it 10+ years ago and it being far too far gone and overpriced even then, it's amazing it held together long enough to be dragged out.  The seats had apparently fallen through the floor 11 years ago and it's been there since 93-95ish.

 

https://www.joc.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8012

 

http://www.joc.org.uk/Interceptor_Mk_1/Chassis_Number_Car_Albums_-1/Pages/115_2541_13_SDV.html

[Captain Furious]

Reading that description has given me brain damage

[twosmoke300]

Chassis seems good ! My big fat arse it will be

[John F]

 

"ALL GLASS IS GOOD AND ALL THERE NOT CRAKES FRONT AND REAR ALL GOOD TO"

 

I'm sure the RSPB will be pleased to hear that.

[Supernaut]

Now Jalopnik have featured it.

[Junkman]

 

JENSON

[Captain Furious]

THIS CAR CAN GO ANY WHERE ABOARD AS LONG AS CAR IS ALL PAID FOR FIRST I CAN HELP DELIVER TO DOCKS

 

 

I would really, really love to be there to see the look on the dockyard guys face

 

"err, we're going to need a container skip sweep it overboard."

[Wack]

I hope they rented a big road sweeper to follow this pile of shit down the road. I am not sure why a Mk1 Interceptor built in Italy is so special- it does what any italian car does after a few years on these shores...

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SUPER-RARE-MK1-JENSEN-INTERCEPTOR-6-3-BARN-FIND-OWNED-30-YEARS-99P-NO-RESERVE-/112478226502

 

Longer than 30 years, when I was a kid 13-14 my dad sold shoes on Rugby Market , this was mid 70s , we used to drive past that Interceptor every Saturday and it never moved, ever , I think it got parked up when the fuel crisis hit and never moved from that day to this.

 

A few years ago The A14 was stuffed so I came off , drove past the house and fuck me , under a sheet but there's no mistaking that back window , still there

 

Now I know what happens to an interceptor stood on mud for 40+ years, it looks like it's been in the sea

 

That's bought back some memories, I was a car nut from a young age, every Saturday I'd look at it for as long as it was in view.

 

I'm sure I'm adopted, my dad made 2 Volvo estates and a Subaru last from 1978 to 2011 , I've had more cars than that in 6 months, I've got 3 and a van now

[flat4alfa]

Jensen auction reached almost a grand but got pulled.

 

Relisted, now at almost 700 (after a rewrite with a tad less tosh) and with the splendid:

 

RELIST DUE TO HAVING A DRINK WHEN I DID LISTING 

 

 

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SUPER-RARE-MK1-JENSEN-INTERCEPTOR-6-3-PARTS-OWNED-30-YEARS-99P-NO-RESERVE-/112479553883

[skoda_fan]

Very scary that a car can deteriorate to that extent just by standing. In one of his undated pix it at least looks complete. Quite depressing, and a lesson to us hoarders!

[Felly Magic]

That Jensen does need sweeping into a bin, there can't be much salvageable, unless ringadingding from the VIN plates, and someone's Interceptor mysteriously vanishes

[Arthur Foxhake]

I just saw that Jenson relist with the "had a drink" admission.

Made me do a LOL.

[mk2_craig]

Loved the "thousands spent" comment in the original listing. Thousands spent on what?

[Wack]

Loved the "thousands spent" comment in the original listing. Thousands spent on what?

 

 

Environmental costs getting it out of the garden

 

Though I'm a bit confused by parts receipts dated 1991unless there are parts with it, as there's no way it's got that bad in that timeframe if it was on the road in 1991

[spartacus]

26 years uncovered on a damp garden. That would do it surely?

[Junkman]

To be fair, intact door handles are 400 a toss.

[flat4alfa]

To be fair, intact door handles are 400 a toss.

 

As much as that?  That explains why that Midlands firm has 3D-printed a batch in Epoxy

[sierraman]

For a starter the plate is no good. Needs to have an MOT for that. I'd just phone a skip, sweep the fucker into it.

[twosmoke300]

Don't think you need an mot for transfer now do you ? Sure I heard that somewhere

[flat4alfa]

If think that's answered above, but you won't need MOT if you have kept it on continunous SORN

 

Which that doesn't have, as it left the road years before SORN came into affect (1998)

 

Ringing material only.

[Bren]

To befair they did well getting it on the back of the lorry.

 

A road sweeper would have been better.

[richardthestag]

prob on the back of that Jensen fiasco

 

Mercedes 380 SL Barn Find Restoration Project for total restoration

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mercedes-380-SL-Barn-Find-Restoration-Project-for-total-restoration-/292185496723?hash=item44079cdc93:g:zXYAAOSwBxZZa-Es

 

Mercedes 380 SL approx 1983 no documents for total restoration

 

The car is an aborted restoration project and has been standing for a while

 

The engine was running sweetly when it was laid up

 

 

 

 

£1600 BiN

 

scrap the old duchess mate

[richardthestag]

and this poor old Rover

 

Rover SD1 2600 classic 1977/78 S Reg Barn Find for Spares or Repair or Donor

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rover-SD1-2600-classic-1977-78-S-Reg-Barn-Find-for-Spares-or-Repair-or-Donor-/272762633639?hash=item3f81eb7da7:g:F0oAAOSwbopZXCYy

 

 

 

 

1 year away from being like that one in Barnstaple

 

it's fucked mate, sell the bits off it and hiab the rest for scrap

 

No Keys, No V5, scrap it mate

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

A decent proportion of the 'good' tyres for sale on eBay qualify for this title. But I like this one because the listing includes a large amount of totally relevant information:

 

 

I did a complete tyre change on my wife's 1994 Mayfair 1275 Automatic when she was going for a new job which involved a round trip of 40 miles a day.

 

The job wasn't what she wanted so I put the now cleaned up old tyres in thick black bin bags and stored them in the loft.

 

You stored the old tyres because she didn't like her job? Eh?

 

Wear to the outer edge of the tyre. Could be fitted to rear with good tread to outside. The price reflects the defects.

 

The price isn't zero though.

 

She drove over fresh road markings prior to tyre change so small amount of white paint on tread.

 

I assume your local tip does not accept tyres. 

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rover-Mini-Pirelli-Cinturato-CN54-145-70SR12-Used-No-2/152592503285

[flat4alfa]

Local tips can be gits for accepting anything