Fook me!

[Bren]

On the rover SD1 forum, it turns out Rimmer brothers are asking £38.50 for an air filter for a carb SD1. Each. There are two of them.

 

The classic car world really has gone silly....

[Skizzer]

Christ.  That made me check out K&N - even more at £45-odd, but at least they're washable and reusable.

[Bren]

I think owning an SD1 will become a more expensive propostion.

 

Ford are out of reach of most people now, their non ford brethren destined to have rising prices due to supply and demand.

 

Get one now before it's too late.

[captain_70s]

That's Rimmer Bros prices though, they are my last resort if I can't buy a part anywhere else...

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Yeah, I don't use Rimming Bros too often but just sometimes they come up megatrumpz, I love their online parts catalogues.

[Junkman]

http://www.eurocarparts.com/ecp/c/Rover_SD1_3.5_1985/p/car-parts/car-service-parts/regular-service/air-filter/?502670059&1&40f60b455b395a8ffe2053e5627c6d3f329b9c4f&000008

 

£5.64 a piece. You can continue to drive your SD1.

[Junkman]

Or how about £4.00 including postage?

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rover-2000-3500-1976-1986-New-Air-Filter-Coopers-AG602-/251748949292

[Six-cylinder]

I bought 4 spring eye bushes with bolts and 2 x U bolts today for my MGB GT £40!

[Bren]

Some washers and split pins for my SD1's rear brakes cost me £11.

 

A brake pad anti rattle spring cost me £5.

 

Inclusive of P&P but not cheap - I will have the KY ready next time....

[EssDeeWon]

On the rover SD1 forum, it turns out Rimmer brothers are asking £38.50 for an air filter for a carb SD1. Each. There are two of them.

 

The classic car world really has gone silly....

 

I imagine this will get them into a frenzy, they (some on there) are desperate for SD1 values to rise, thats all I ever read about when I occasionally go on the SD1 forum.

[Bren]

No fun in any form of car ownership that prices people out of the market.

 

I can go on pistonheads for that.....

[Skizzer]

...and no fun in any single model owner's club/forum, in my experience.  I dare say there are exceptions, but I haven't found one.

[Negative Creep]

...and no fun in any single model owner's club/forum, in my experience.  I dare say there are exceptions, but I haven't found one.

 

MX5nutz was a good place, and although I haven't posted there much the 406 Coupe club seem like a nice bunch

[tooSavvy]

On the POC-UK forum they are salivating at the prospect of 'non rotted/un shedd' L8 model Proton saloons collapsing* to chipshop prices. Nobody cares for any whiff of an ££upsurge.

 

Just mostly saving up for rr sessions with their Evo installations.

 

* J reg Mpi prices can vary.

 

 

TS

[New POD]

...and no fun in any single model owner's club/forum, in my experience.  I dare say there are exceptions, but I haven't found one.

 

mk2cav.com was great until you could no longer get an SRi130 for under a £1000, and people started throwing LET's into genuine low mileage 1.8 Sri's and sticking 18 inch alloys on them.

 

Mx5nutz is still great.

[fordperv]

Sierra owners club is good, as is capri power

[Albert Ross]

I was a SOC user in the early days, very quiet.... I lived around the corner from Steve Green, the Club Sec, and just up the road from the "Jim" that ran the forum.

[cort16]

Rimshot Bros was always a last resort when I had my sd1 but when stuck they usually came up with the goods . I even got new washer jets from them when my ones blocked .

[Junkman]

...and no fun in any single model owner's club/forum, in my experience.  I dare say there are exceptions, but I haven't found one.

 

I said the same thing and was a lone wolf all these decades, even throughout my Imperial phase. I actually detested clubs and single-handedly shot down the first Imperial club in the States, just to see it die (I'm mean, remember?).

Then I joined the P6 Club because I suddenly found myself among the same total lunatics completely normal guys like I am one. Contrary to the SD1 guys, P6ers do not wish the cars to raise in monetary value, but in popularity, hence the club's primary interest is to get as many out there on the road as possible. The most beaten up old banger usually attracts the biggest interest at meetings.

They constantly beg me to put my car on the club stand at shows, because they want to demonstrate that P6es are daily driver material, and not supposed to be overrestored trailer queens. They laugh about the P6 Owners Club "them guys with their polished SU dashpots".

 

So here is my advice: Finally buy a P6, which is long overdue anyway, and join the P6 Club, so you, too, can revise your opinion.

 

P6 Club Manchester Chapter members:

 

Would you like to meet them in a dark alley?

 

 

P6 Club members' idea of exhibiting a car at a show:

[tooSavvy]

Not really 'trailer queen' types - some a bit anal, but , hey!

 

50th Anniversary of the Hillman IMP 02/05/2013 Li…:

 

 

TS

[Skizzer]

I am happy to be corrected about one-model owners clubs.  To be fair, the Mk1 Golf forum used to be mostly ok until the expected morons took over - though even then there's only so many Golfs you can talk about before you start to glaze over and long for a Tagora or something to come along.  Which of course can never happen.

 

I am also now looking thoughtfully at P6s, and it's all your fault.

[Junkman]

And I'm planning my holidays around tatty R16s for sale, so let's call it even.

[oldcars]

...and no fun in any single model owner's club/forum, in my experience.  I dare say there are exceptions, but I haven't found one.

The Kia Shuma owners club is a great place, the one lad on it is a bit of a prick, oh hang on its only me in it.................................

[sierraman]

Would it therefore be a good idea if you had the space to start hoarding decent bits of escorts fiestas Etc before the values of spares go stratospheric?