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[Skoze]

A guy just came and picked up my Capri Turbo Tail. In a Mini. With a passenger. If anyone sees a burgundy Mini going round the M25 with a big black slab of fibreglass hanging out the rear window, worship him. 

 

Also still waiting on my beer from yesterday's business deal. 

[EssDeeWon]

A guy just came and picked up my Capri Turbo Tail. In a Mini. With a passenger. If anyone sees a burgundy Mini going round the M25 with a big black slab of fibreglass hanging out the rear window, worship him. 

 

Also still waiting on my beer from yesterday's business deal. 

 

Are you starting to get that feeling youve been done? LOLZ

[dugong]

There's an absolute belter of a 205 Rallye for sale on a local Facebook page. Proper, stripped down and full respray with new graphics job, lovely looking car.

 

Except it's not a Rallye, it's a 1.1

UK market Rallyes weren't Rallyes anyway - they were XSs with a sticker kit. Got screamed at by a bloke at a past job for that.

[Partridge]

UK market Rallyes weren't Rallyes anyway - they were XSs with a sticker kit. Got screamed at by a bloke at a past job for that.

Well that's shot down my dreams of having a RHD, phase two 106 Rallye. Shot down in flames. Literally.

[dugong]

Well that's shot down my dreams of having a RHD, phase two 106 Rallye. Shot down in flames. Literally.

205 Rallyes. Not 106 Rallyes. We got the 106 Rallye PH2 just fine in right-hand drive. 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Man in van follows me onto a side street and starts tooting and flashing. Okay, what? He wanted to let me know I'd shed a hubcap a couple of miles back (busy road, no chance to stop) and he'd seen it roll up someone's drive into their garden. 

 

So I went back on the bike later to have a look and found it lying in some soil behind a car. I didn't hear it fall off, and even if I knew I'd lost it today I'd have never found it without knowing what house to check out. So, thanks, man in van! 

 

Oh, and you know the universal law that says every branch of Halfords must have one tin of paint which is a hundred years old and never ever going to sell? Spotted a good one today.

 

A portmanteau of "rattle can"? by cdconelrad, on Flickr

[quicksilver]

Wow, I remember those blue cans with the Granada. There's been at least two different designs of silver can since then so I reckon that must be at least 15 years old. I wonder if they'll ever sell it or rmaybe they're keeping it as an historical artefact so they can charge eleventy hundred quid for it in the future?

[saucedoctor]

I still have a rattlecan somewhere with a mark 3 Escort on it. I'm pretty sure my Dad retains an old TIN of T Cut, bearing a red mk4 Cortina. I took the lid off it one time, about 20 years ago, and it dam near knocked me on my ass.

[Sloth in a bowl]

The Moog has collected a welder from Birmingham, we will be expecting tales of learner steel stitching in the near future. 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

I still have a rattlecan somewhere with a mark 3 Escort on it. I'm pretty sure my Dad retains an old TIN of T Cut, bearing a red mk4 Cortina. I took the lid off it one time, about 20 years ago, and it dam near knocked me on my ass.

I only just finished a tin of T-Cut last month. I was quite sad because I've never bought T-Cut, just used that seemingly bottomless can which I stole from my dad. Here's its last hurrah:

 

[Asimo]

Bought a tin of Isopon for the first time in years and years, made me smile 'cause it still has an Austin Maestro picture on the lid!

[dave j]

I used a rattlecan at the weekend I have had for about 17 years! I only used it to put some paint on some repair panels but it lasted for ages and was still a good finish!

[cobblers]

Back when I worked at frauds you would sometimes walk down the paint aisle and smell some fresh paint, it would more often than not be an ancient can in one of the undershelf drawers that had rotted through and was pissing out all over the place.

 

If you want an obscure BL old colour can in halfords, look under the shelf, there's usually loads of old cans in the hidden drawers on the floor.

[Junkman]

I became uncle twice today!

 

The Junkclan added two boys to the world population this morning.

Please welcome

 

Leo Castor:

 

Ole Pollux:

[Shep Shepherd]

 

[dugong]

Not even. They were XR spec. 70bhp...

 

All the UK Rallyes I've seen were stickered up XSs with XS engines. Five bhp difference. 

[Cavcraft]

I'm getting a form of debate about this now on eBay. A lad asked if the engine in my 106 is a JP3 engine, I said I believed it to be the TU 'suitcase' engine as fitted to the BX amongst others.

He's now saying something about the XN and XSi, but in truth I just don't care.

[Richard]

The TU isn't the suitcase is it?

[messerschmitt owner]

It's £250. It has an engine. What more does he need.

[dugong]

The TU isn't the suitcase is it?

Correct. 'Suitcase' was the X series Douvrin that the TU directly replaced.

 

It's £250. It has an engine. What more does he need.

Lordy, what a muck trumpet. Reminds me of the time I worked at a well known electronics retailer and we had AV geeks ringing up wanting to check the serial numbers of 32" Samsung TVs 'because the screens within a certain number range have superior panels'. They were going into stores with sheets of paper and asking them to unbox TVs so they could check them out.

 

Also, it's £250. You don't get to be a picky sod at £250, sorry. The fact the car has tax, test and tyres is doing extremely well for the money. People in the UK don't realise how cheaply we can pick up second-hand cars in comparison to other European nations and the USA.

 

Lacquer Peel seems to think service history is a given on a car at this price point. I think he's on another planet. Does the car work? Is it £250? Right, where's the cash point?

[Cavcraft]

It's £250. It has an engine. What more does he need.

Lord knows. He's 'having a think about it' apparently.

[Jon]

£250 for a road legal car would be an absolute gift over here. I'd buy it off you in a flash even though I don't need it, just on the strength of the pocket money price alone. That said, insurance isn't compulsory over here and you can't lob in claims for whiplash, etc. so policies are much cheaper and it's overall just an easier system. I bet that 106 will fly, with it being a 1.4. All things are relative but such a large engine would've been a pipe dream when I passed my test at 17 in '98.

 

Don't you ever tire of dealing with the great unwashed for not much profit margin, Billy?

[Cavcraft]

Sometimes, bordering on the often! I still don't like binning useable cars but you can't save them all. I (mistakenly) thought a buy it now would detract from the usual crowd. To be fair I reckon the immediate payment bit has put loads of knobheads off though.

[dugong]

Lord knows. He's 'having a think about it' apparently.

I wouldn't speak to him again even if he called \ messaged back.

 

Although this will sound suspiciously like 'Autoshite Stock Reply #89' (between 'Aren't I clever I've saved £10 by getting my discs and pads from a scrapyard' and 'I can't possibly like a popular car because it will dent my inverted snob standing') I'd send a car like that straight over the bridge. Life is too short to deal with people like engine code boy for so little return.

[Cavcraft]

Oh aye, I'm not getting back to him. He asked me a question then basically answered it himself, seemed a bit odd.

Anyhow, maybe he's just hoping I'll mail him back and suggest a lower price or something, that's something that won't be happening.

[Micrashed]

Spent weeks waiting for a hospital appointment.

 

Went today

 

Waited for two hours to be seen

 

Got told that they cant operate on me at this hospital and need to refer me back to my GP To send me to another hospital.

 

Utter utter utter wankbarrel.

 

Here have a picture of a Skoda I papped today.

[catsinthewelder]

That's a bugger M,  hope they sort something out for you soon.

 

Whys the 106 buyer automatically an idiot for asking questions about a car?  It could be the case that certain models of 106 are significantly cheaper to insure or suitable for a one make race series or whatever.  Surely it's better that he asks first than wastes Billy's afternoon by turning up to view and then turning it down over something that could be established beforehand?

 

I realise that he might not know what he's talking about but certain posters just seem to be moaning that he's asking questions at all.

[Micrashed]

Indeed, a lovely lady phoned me up about the Mav today.

 

I bored her silly for about 10 mins I have no doubt, but she seemed interested and I would rather be honest and not waste her time than lead her a merry dance. Had another one email me through eBay, seems interested but "has to sell her car first".

[dugong]

I realise that he might not know what he's talking about but certain posters just seem to be moaning that he's asking questions at all.

Right - but it's a £250 car. Who gives a flying toss about what engine code it has? Insurers base premiums off capacity and voodoo logic.

 

The sort of questions purist engine code boy's asking would be appropriate on a 106 Rallye S1 at £2500. I'd want the engine to be the right one and for everything to match. A £250 shitter? I'd be happy if there was air in the tyres and the door didn't drop off at the end of the road. What's a season train ticket these days?

 

People's elevated tendencies irritate me when cars are this cheap. Sensible questions - are the tyres good, does it pull up straight, do the gears and clutch engage properly, are there any knocks and bangs from the suspension (because, after all, you aren't buying a £250 car for it to be pristine, it's a serviceable knockabout) - I'd listen to. Gibbering bollocks about engine codes would get your message deleted.

 

Spend some actual money and I might listen to a buyer's pedantic drivel if it's a car that warrants it.

[Cavcraft]

'I am interested but I have to sell my car first' actually means 'I'm hoping you'll ask me what car it is and let me part exchange or swap it'

 

Then what happens is when you ask them what car is and they'll gush on about it and value it at three times what's its value because 'I know what they're worth.'

 

 

Now, in a couldn't make this up if you tried manor, the 106 engine expert has now told me that he can collect Saturday and 'pay cash with a little discount' if I take it off eBay.