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[DodgyBastard]

If I do end up with it I'd be making it look as standard as possible, steel wheels etc.

[cobblers]

Definitely the way forward, 4x100 will have loads of steel wheels easy available that you can put decent tyres on.

I love surprising people in my works caddy van - 192bhp but it looks like a base model 75bhp one. Great fun

[DodgyBastard]

 

[Mr_Bo11ox]

brilliant!!!

 

[DodgyBastard]

I really should get an award for dodgiest used car salesman of the year,  during lockdown I've managed to sell quite a few cars including cars that don't actually belong to me...

 

I sold this for £600

 

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This for £600

 

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This for £600

 

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This for £150

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All of these cars were owned by other people and I didn't actually make any money from selling them...

 

These were mine..

I sold this for £600

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I raffled this for £1100

 

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Sold this for £500

 

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Part exchanged this plus £1k 

 

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For this

 

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I bought a scrap Chevette for £700

 

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and ended up chopping it up and probably only making £300 from the parts I sold off.

 

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It's funny, people must be looking at my fire sale thinking I'm selling up because I'm skint but at this moment I think I have more in the bank than I've ever had and I'm still being paid in full from work...

I've just been enjoying having a clear out.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

That Civic and MX5 were particular bargs.

[DodgyBastard]

 

 

[DodgyBastard]

 

[Matty]

Till I looked down that list I figured that every car from foadworks was £600

[mk2_craig]

Like that thing in Chewin The Fat where everything was £24.80

[DodgyBastard]

 

[Austat]

On 5/2/2020 at 5:05 AM, DodgyBastard said:

 

 

Who owns the Imp?

[DodgyBastard]

2 hours ago, Austat said:

Who owns the Imp?

 

Derskine, he doesn't frequent the forum very often. It's not for sale.

[DodgyBastard]

 

[dave j]

Sounds good! Looks like great fun

[DodgyBastard]

A couple of new arrivals today, first up a 2.5 tdi Audi A6 on 230k, drives well and has the 6 speed box for ultimate fuel economy. It was covered in dog hair and mud in the back and had about 20 air fresheners stuffed into various places. We vacuumed the majority of the hair and chucked out the air fresheners and didn't seem to bad inside.

 

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The other car was also a 2.5 and smelled a lot worse inside...

 

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It has a v6 from a Vectra under the bonnet and goes very well.

[Mrs6C]

In your Saab 99 GL Super Auto video, there is what looks like a piece of narrow-gauge railway track and a building with a series of doorways with rails going into some of them. What were they? Was that an internal rail system for the mine complex or is it somewhere/something else?

[bramz7]

I really like that Audi. Still miss my (more or less identical) old one. 

[HMC]

Also love the Audi. I remember reading a 1990s Parker’s guide as a teenager and seeing the separate used pricing for the model with (6) at the end of the designation. SIX speeds. I was in awe*

* pathetic but true

[DodgyBastard]

18 minutes ago, Mrs6C said:

In your Saab 99 GL Super Auto video, there is what looks like a piece of narrow-gauge railway track and a building with a series of doorways with rails going into some of them. What were they? Was that an internal rail system for the mine complex or is it somewhere/something else?

That video is from when we had a unit at Gateside mill, a different location.

[Mrcento]

That Nova looks lovely. Reminds me a little bit of an Astravan i tried to buy about 10 years back, was gold, lowered, had a 3.0 v6 from an Omega under the bonnet, cracking thing.

Cheapest insurance i could get on it was 6 grand a year, so that was that.

[J-T]

I’ve got a right lob on for that Audi, what’s the intel on it?

I remember seeing Nova V6s in mags back in the day and thinking they must feel like the engine is trying to escape at full chat. How is it?

[DodgyBastard]

 

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[Mr_Bo11ox]

Ive always found that once you pass a dozen or so air fresheners, the laws of diminishing returns mean the next 10 or 20 fresheners are really a waste of time

[They_all_do_that_sir]

Watched the Nova V6 video - that thing shifts! You'll be putting your tyre machine to regular use by the looks of things

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[DodgyBastard]

On 5/4/2020 at 11:16 AM, J-T said:

I’ve got a right lob on for that Audi, what’s the intel on it?

I remember seeing Nova V6s in mags back in the day and thinking they must feel like the engine is trying to escape at full chat. How is it?

 

The Audi is just being used as a bland anonymous car I won't particularly stand out in. It runs  fine  and everything seems to work apart from the full beam. It's had a Volvo fuel pump fitted when the original one broke, I'm not sure what difference it makes to performance.

The Nova is hilariously quick, there's already a queue of people asking me to sell it but I wan't to at least mot it and use it for a week before selling.

[bramz7]

Volvo engine is the same tune so should be more or less the same. 

They were available as 115bhp and 140bhp in the Audi, yours is the latter. 

[DodgyBastard]

Nova has found a new home already!

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It must have been sold too cheap!

 

[DodgyBastard]

 

Anyway, a small amount of progress has been made on the Chevette (for those not following the videos).
I got all of the welding and painting done on the front end and got the wings and front panel fitted.

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I have new headlights and bumpers still to fit but there's not much point in doing so until it's painted. I haven't decided whether to keep it blue or respray it another colour like black. A darker colour might hide the shonky welding...
It still has a bit of welding to finish then needs a new engine, gearbox and steering rack and it will be a lot closer to an mot.