CHEAP 2CV! - SOLD

[Jollyfckr]

Fair play but the lady selling it had never sold a car before and  she thought that to save time tell everyone to get there at 12. I was there early and the last to turn up had a single rail ticket from Northampton thinking him and his girlfriend were the only ones.

I said I'd have it, a quick drive around the block and a look at the receipts showed it to be a good car, the other two had a good look around, the auction thing just happened, instigated by the guy who arrived after me. I would've happily gone to 4 figures but felt sorry for the guy with the single ticket and to be fair on the vendor I had to push her to take the highest bid as she was happy to sell to me, so there you have it, it was sitting on the road uninsured so it had to go, and go it did!

[Rusty_Rocket]

Years back I went to look at an XUD'd 306 that was pretty cheap. The vendor had thoughtfully* arranged for three of us to view at the same time, just like this 2CV.

I walked away as soon as I'd sussed it out, no way I'm playing that sort of game for an old shitter!

[HMC]

Sounds a very bizarre way to sell a car, wether or not shed sold a car before certain general principals apply to selling goods in this way and arranging 3 potential buyers to arrive at once is either naive or clever. Either way not making the scenario clear to all parties before they make travel arrangements is bad form IMO.

[Vince70]

My old boss would do this on a regular basis when selling off the staff company cars...

 

He would put an ad in the Sunday telegraph then tell the prospective buyers to come at a set time during the week without telling them of his auction plan.

 

It would normally be a BMW M3 cabriolet for sale and be the cheapest price one in the country that week and he would blatantly lie about the history and condition and I would never of touched one of his old cars with a barge pole knowing there history and would warn prospective buyers if I could about the real condition but he tried to rely on people's greed for a bargain.

 

I remember working one Sunday and the phone wouldn't stop ringing but me and a couple of work mates had some fun answering the phone.

 

I was answering the phone as South London scrap metal and would put on a good delboy persona and tell them the car was clean and Straight once I asked which car it was and I would always give the motor a hint of cut and shut lol..

 

Of course Fred would have to get the forklift out first to remove the crash damaged Metro or Montego from the pile before we could get to the BMW.

 

But I guess that's why the devious C£&t is a multi millionaire..

[Lankytim]

A seller doing that to me would piss me off to the max. I'd tell her to ram her 2CV and go home.

[plasticvandan]

These stopped having any appeal as soon as their value exceeded their price when new.

I was lucky enough to buy a bamboo in 2007 for 650,ran it till the oil feed pipe to the heads blew then sold it for spares.

[forddeliveryboy]

The lady who sold it is a professional actress (EastEnders/Casualty fans may recognise her), who usually live in a bit of a different world. Fair enough if she genuinely organised this out of incompetence and had to be encouraged to sell it to a higher offer, but people aren't always as daft as they can appear...

 

I bought a car (a 2cv - some very interesting characters in that world back then) 20 years ago or so, travelled 400+ miles round to Suffolk to collect with an A-frame and was about to hand over money when somebody else turned up. It was a peach of a low mileage seventies car and wouldn't start, but cheap. So told the other geezer I had a couple of grand in my pocket and was going to pay whatever it took. He thought a bit, then offered the seller £300 - twice the asking price, cheeky fucker. "I'll give you six hundred" was my reply to that. So he slid back into his car and smoked off.

 

At this point, the seller was trying hard to keep a straight face. "Seems like you know what you're doing", he said. I handed him £150 and suggested he readvertised the car if that wasn't enough - it was out of mobile area and I already knew he had to have his mate's borrowed garage clear that weekend. Bit of a gamble, but he could see I was pissed off and prepared to leave empty-handed. He wasn't pleased and left with the money in a shoddy Scirocco, to the tune of wheelspin. 

 

Total contrast with a female opera singer in some South London backstreet who was so pleased to see her gorgeous old Kermit escape the crusher, we were invited in for a sumptuous dinner with home-made meringues which were so good I still remember them. I nipped to the corner shop for another couple of bottles of wine after the main course, it was in the wee hours when we left (gf nervously at the wheel).

[dollywobbler]

Well, she managed to sell a car in one day for a goodly amount, so perhaps she deserves more credit than I gave her! A sub-grand 2CV with MOT is always going to attract moths like a lightbulb. I still reckon it was quite cheap for what it was, though I guess it really depends on chassis condition...

[Angrydicky]

Mine was £350, but the chassis was rotten and the body well plated up. Even then I only managed to buy it because it was just parked at the side of the road in my small village with a for sale sign taped to the bootlid, and hadn't been advertised elsewhere. This one looked and sounded 100 times better.

[forddeliveryboy]

Twouldn't cost an arm and a leg to have this welded together, it looks a belting car for the money (relatively speaking). You'd just need to check the make of chassis, first - there's one which should be avoided at all costs, no matter how shiny. Could even be tempted myself if cash was less tight.

 

Forgot to post link, going back to ebay it seems it's vanished, rather proving my point. Will search for it...

 

... here it is, sold since I looked this morning. 

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Citroen-2cv-Charleston-1986-for-restoration-with-Galvanised-Chassis-new-parts-/191772265026?hash=item2ca6848a42%3Ag%3AMNMAAOSwwPhWhoLz&nma=true&si=Hmi%252FyS5hbTHHKJRFtiTX%252BnezvHE%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

[Six-cylinder]

If I was looking for a lower price 2CV I think I would go and have a look at this one.

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Citroen-2cv-Dolly-1988-long-MOT-and-Galvanised-Chassis-/191773016850?hash=item2ca6900312:g:UBMAAOSwJkJWh6nW