pogweasel Posted June 22, 2009 Share Posted June 22, 2009 Presumably the buyer has to do all the hard graft and then hand the plate back once it's MoT'd. If that was the case I would simply tell the bloke to STFU when he asked for his reg number back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pompei Posted June 22, 2009 Share Posted June 22, 2009 Nice pics of that hearse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 22, 2009 Share Posted June 22, 2009 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/DATSUN-NISSAN-COU ... mobiles_UK?http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FORD-ESCORT-1300- ... mobiles_UK?http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/AMC-PACER-VERY-VE ... mobiles_UK?http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1982-AUSTIN-METRO ... mobiles_UK?http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FORD-ESCORT-MK1-1 ... mobiles_UK?http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1994-Carry-On-JAG ... mobiles_UK? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twiggy Posted June 22, 2009 Share Posted June 22, 2009 Alaways fancied one of these: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 0362006192 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigger Posted June 22, 2009 Share Posted June 22, 2009 I Want!!111! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 22, 2009 Share Posted June 22, 2009 Alaways fancied one of these: Well, you can go fancy it in Mombasa in a few weeks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twiggy Posted June 22, 2009 Share Posted June 22, 2009 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Spares-or-repair_ ... 7C294%3A50 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mouseflakes Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 Apologies for being so predictable... Both have the reliable old 8 valve engines. TX. Lower powered GTS - did these use a carb even in the mark 2? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 Lower powered GTS - did these use a carb even in the mark 2?Yes. At least mine did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pogweasel Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1986-BMW-518I-WHI ... 0386810722Mmm, 4-banger. Not GR8 4 overtakin'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1997-METROCAB-MAN ... mobiles_UK?http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/US-AIRFORCE-COLEM ... mobiles_UK?http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MITSUBISHI-STARIO ... mobiles_UK?MITSUBISHI STARION EX TURBO BOX ARCH PROJECT DRIFT LSD http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1979-Mitsubishi-C ... mobiles_UK?http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1983-PEUGEOT-104- ... mobiles_UK?http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Mitsubishi-Stario ... mobiles_UK?ex Jeremy Clarkson Top Gear, Autographed by Clarkson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pompei Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 look at the seller's legs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mash Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1979-Mitsubishi-C ... mobiles_UK?This one seems to be doing the rounds, wasn't it the one Ratdat spotted at the farm sale?. This car really attracts attention, just because it is so rare. I cannot imagine there is another in this colour in the country.Funny that because about half a dozen in the same hue have turned up variously between AS, OJC and eBay this year! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seth Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 Understeer you say? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 To be fair that ex Clarkson Starion looks alright, and it's a decent advert.The silver one is bollocks though. Has he clouted something whilst trying to do a SIK DRIFT? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mash Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 RWD RATLOOK NOT VIVA OMG http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/OPEL-KADETT-BROWN ... 0438886170 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AXrescuer Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
outlaw118 Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 Am i opening myself up to massive amounts of ridicule by admitting to liking this??!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 Am i opening myself up to massive amounts of ridicule by admitting to liking this??!! Not by me anyway. I like that myself but would paint it another colour and ditch the stupid exhausts though I wonder about the 2 weeks mot and wheather the work has been checked ok for strength etc though. That would need an engineers report/vosa check wouldnt it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocket88 Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 [i wonder about the 2 weeks mot and wheather the work has been checked ok for strength etc though. That would need an engineers report/vosa check wouldnt it?I think that would depend on wether the V5 has been changed to state that it's now a convertible [which, of course, it won't have been.]. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Bo11ox Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 That elf/hornet thing looks like a fuggin deathtrap to me, those mini shells make a terrible soft-top. Theres absolutley no depth to the sills and the shell has no proper 'chassis' as all the bits are hung on separate subframes, that doesnt seem to deter people from trying to build them though. did Rover ever offer an official one? I have some vague recollection of a hideous thing with a massive folded roof that looked like a pram. I would like to see what they did to strengthen the body shell. Whatever it was I imagine there was a lot more to it than a poxy bit of bed iron fastened to the inner sills and a plate bolted through the kick panel like that one. I can only imagine that the talented and experienced engineer who fitted those dumb-ass exhausts, was the same one who decided to saw the roof off. Pass the crusher! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocket88 Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 There was an "official" mini covertible, badged as an ERA, I think most of them were green, and they were all turbocharged. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torsten2001 Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 There was a Rover one too, built in Germany I believe, I had three as wedding cars! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 The Rover one ( by Autohous, based in in Achern in Germany)was like this-pram like as Mr B statesThe Elf posted above is a good looking car IMO but Mr B is right in the Deathtrap quote-I thought so myself which is why I posted the pic of the comedy strenghening. With the right work (to stop it folding) and paint I would have it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dollywobbler Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 The only difference between Scrappage and that RIley is that at least the government didn't bung £1000 into the creation of that! It looks quite cool, but as has been said, probably an absolute wreck - so a good car wasted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pompei Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 Would that chop top have had 848cc for page 848? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pompei Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 Doh! 849 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlo Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 Didn't Heinz sell 50 special edition Riley Elf convertibles in a competion? Or perhaps they were saloons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pillock Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 ISTR an article on the Rover ones, and they basically had strips of box section welded the entire length of the floor to keep the car square. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conrad D. Conelrad Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 The only difference between Scrappage and that RIley is that at least the government didn't bung £1000 into the creation of that!It'll cost the taxpayer more than £1000 when it folds in half on the drive out of Bournemouth and the police have to close the road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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