Autoshite gold?

[Bren]

Just wondering if anyone has hung onto stuff for so long that when they have moved it on they have had a pleasant financial surprise?

 

When I bought Pete's SD1 it meant my heinz 57 project in the garage (cost me £50) had to go. I had the car that long SD1's had practically disappeared off the face of the earth. So I broke it up.

 

The HIF6 carbs with manual choke netted £150. Gearbox £150. Bellhousing £75. Other bits sold meant I got nearly £700 for everything - I sold the shell for £100 - not for scrap but to an enthusiast who will use it at some point.

 

I did'nt look on the car as any kind of investment- it's just that I had it for so long parts had practically dried up.

[Tamworthbay]

I sold a load of crap from my old VW camper. I expected to get about £30-50 total off eBay, ended up making over £600. A steering box I paid a fiver for went for nearly £150. I was glad I posted it as I don't think I could of faced the buyer but he was very happy with it.

[richardmorris]

The 2cv was bought for £400 and now insured for £4500 twenty years later. Of course twenty years of bills add up to far more!

[AMC Rebel]

Not car stuff (!) but had a few eBay victories - my wife at the time telling me to get rid of what she thought was junk was a bit surprised at what it fetched.  Conversely, couldn't even give away some of my old Mark 2 escort bits last time I tried - I may have another go.

[Dan the van]

i swapped a 400 superdream that cost me £25 for my Kawasaki 500 triple in about 1989.Worth 4/5k now.Glad i hung on to it,one of my better deals.

[Asimo]

500 Kwacker? We need pictures!

[Junkman]

Looks like I'm onto something with my Peugeot 405.

[RoadworkUK]

We're probably hanging onto Nicola's 306 until the day comes that it can't be moved for archaeologists crawling over it with brushes and magnifying glasses.

 

At which point it will be worth £75.

[lexi]

I have held money on a few but only the ser 11 Landy was profit. A 62 bought for £450 with galvy chassis. Spent a grand doing it up, ran for 4yrs and then sold for £3800.  Never done working on it mind. That was sold about 4yrs ago........they have went up a bit.

[Fabergé Greggs]

NOS Gear shifter from a Raleigh chopper. A bike shop was chucking it out years ago and I thought it looked cool. Sold it on eBay a while back for about nine million.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I bought an Isuzu piazza for £30 off eBay, had it picked up by a scrapyard, I then removed its axle at the yard and sold that for £250

[M'coli]

Even when I bought the Cavalier 1300L back in 2007 the engine was worth as much as what I'd paid for the car(95 quid) - when I scrapped it last year, I got over £175 for the engine and gearbox, and about £40 for the shell. If I'd had more time to pick over it when I made the decision, I'd have taken the pedalbox and the gearlever out of it too, as these fetch £50 or so to convert automatic cars to manual.

[wuvvum]

I think even I will struggle to make a loss if I ever sell the CX.  Assuming it hasn't gone bang or dissolved in the meantime.

[Cavcraft]

I'll just revert back to the £500, 412,000 miles Sharan Tdi I had. Put it on eBay and watched it go up and up and up and up to £1,800. The only fly in the oitment was my missus was there as he arrived and started counting the cash out. Not that I'd have lied to her about how much I had, of course.

[RobT]

I bought my Metro for £90 in 2008 and it's now probably worth around £1,200, being in decent nick with low miles and one giffer owner.  Won't be selling it anytime soon though (and the £660 a year storage costs make such gains irrelevant!).

[lisbon_road]

I am finding now that I can sell almost anything out of my stacks of old Sierra parts.  The prices have gone up very well.  Makes me think that the stuff I sold years ago would now be worth more, but can't just horde forever.

[sierraman]

I sold 2 parcel shelf hangers last month on eBay for a Sierra for £8. Anything trim related or panels are worth some cash now for them. I've saved a few Mondeo spares on the off chance. Worthless shit now but 10 years time who knows!?

[Bren]

I remember gping to Tatton park and picking up three sets of new old stock SD1 nivomats for £150. Sold for £450.

 

Wish I could have bought more.

[dieselassist]

bought this rusty heap of shit South African import mk1 1.8 carb Citi Golf for €150; dragged it outta a young horsey type lads yard n back from Cork, after my mate spotted it, did the deal/agreed the price, but got 'cold feet' about actually consumating the deal...

 

I ended up breaking it, n making over a grand, selling 90% of its bits, all totalled up; the shell was totally rotten n I cut it up into bits n stacked  the front/rear end ontop in readiness for the next scrap run... a Polish lad with a LHD mk1 GTD spotted its remains n offered me €30 for the remains of the its rear end; I brought out the grinder n a half worn out 1mm disc, n 20 mins later he had it cut into sections to fit inside his mk1 gtd...

 

 

[DodgyBastard]

I thought the thing to do was buy cheap from here and punt it for a profit on the blue forum?

[anonymous user]

I always snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, either throwing stuff away just before it becomes sought after, or needing it just as it becomes unobtainable