Buying off Gypsies.

[Negative Creep]

[D Spares & Tyres]

No such thing as a bargain Land Rover anyway, just set a budget and you will usually get what you pay for as everyone knows their value

[stripped fred]

I think I'd rather tackle a gypsy than a farmer...

[D Spares & Tyres]

I can tell you live in a large town

[sierraman]

I think I'd rather tackle a gypsy than a farmer...

I'm not sure you would, farmers don't give pastings out quite as much as a traveller might, so unless you are used to 'having a row' I'd steer clear of the caravan site.

[dieselassist]

Gypsies or 'Travellers' here, don't usually sell anything mechanically driven, to outsiders, unless its got some type of issue re; reliability, or running - like most social groupings, they have a strata or hierarchy- if the vehicle is decent 'known to be good' etc - they'll sell it to 'one of their own'...

...I know this as I used to work in breakers yard - the proprietor was particularly 'no shit'/not to be messed with 'businessman' - even the travellers feared; but they knew they'd get a 'cash deal'  'there n then- we'd have the 'transient folk' rocking up in eg. a t4 van, with it running etc looking for us to buy it, for breaking'... they'll talk their way into getting a lift back to the halting site, in it - drop them off  - id stop off  on the return journey to work at the shop for fags a coffee n a skive - on trying to restart it again- the starter was fecked... similiarly the rock up in vehicles with very little in the way of a clutch left,  n the had swopped any decent tyre off the car (but that's the same with most punters looking to cash in their steed for breaking)....we knew the craic the vehicles were usually well cheap after much haggling, for recent enough cars, good for breaking - we'd write off the resale of any interior bits, as these were totally unsaleable...dash n gloveboxes full of dried old baby sick etc

 

The boss used to also sell a few cars; particularly high end ones, and he bought a recent (at the time) rangerover owned by a well heeled 'monied' Traveller, who was into the furniture biz; in good condition but a 'fusty interior' - it smelled fusty 'like goats' to quote the boss... we changed out the interior- seats (leather)carpets n headliner  from another Rangie breaker in the yard, but we couldn't get the smell out after endless cleaning - we opened up a few dozen magic tree n threw them in to fester over the weekend, but the following week, the interior smelt worse for this - even being in it to manoeuvre it round the yard, brought on a headache.... he never didn't manage the 'huge profit' sale to one of the well heeled horsey type knobs here  that used to love them, n he eventually sold to a couple a pair of dodgy looking 'prison romance' looking Iraqi exporter types.... 

[the judge]

Pa the judge used to be a recovery driver in the 80's for a ford main stealer. Anywho,he got a call,a lovely old Irish dude with a mk2 escort which had threw a "leg out of bed".(conrod through the block). He winched it up,took this lovely old dude 30 miles home,then as he pulled up to a makeshift site,it dawned on poor pa. Lots of kids on the back of his recovery truck,throwing the spare wheels and tyres down to little more than toddlers who ran off with them. Then pa asked for the 30 excess tow fee and had a shotgun shoved under his nose and told,"what fucking car are you talking about cunt? Now,fuck off!" To which poor pa dropped the escort and raced off.

 

Lovely people. Only a small majority spoil it for the rest.

 

No idea why they have such a bad name. Sweaty twats.