Fecking chancers, is it just me?

[Des]

Does anyone else get these?

 

 

Sadly I've discarded a couple of comedy grammar examples. I assume they're fishing for tomorrows OMG barnfind ebay listing, annoyingly I once pinged a 'call me about your car' note at a bin, got home and found a broken headlamp, I'd just chucked contact details of a bastard who'd backed into my motor.

[Tamworthbay]

No but I have left them in the past and got a couple of good cars that way. Sometimes people just can’t be bothered to shift a car due to the hassle so welcome someone taking the initiative.

[Timewaster]

When I had a beaten up Transit on the drive it was a weekly occurrence.

 

I found washing the green scuzz and brown rust streaks from the roof rack off (with washing up liquid and a broom naturally) reduced these visits by about half for a couple of weeks.

[richardmorris]

Twice when I’ve been to farnborough in the merc. In the last year I’ve had a card ( from the same guy) stuck in the window rubber. I was flattered until I googled him and read the reviews!

[fatharris]

Old lady in the house behind me died years before we moved in and her 53-plate Punto diesel has sat there ever since, the interior thick with mould.

Even that has had a "call me about your car" card!

[Split_Pin]

When my wife had the Corsa, looking pretty much how it does now, lowered, white Speedlines etc a chap came into her shop asking to buy it (she wasnt working that day). Fast forward some years and I am now using it and the same chap left a note on the windscreen asking the same. Even though I wasnt selling I took it as a compliment and we have been friends for years now!

 

There is a new start at my local garage who asked my dad about it too.

 

I also get a few "hw mch" messages, and some better worded ones on Facebook, again all for the Corsa surprisingly!

[overrun]

Bill has handwriting like a lass.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

When I had the 635, I only ever had one "are you selling" enquiry, and that was shouted across by a white van driver as we both sat in traffic. He offered £2500.

[Aston Martin]

Hello, I have just stumbled upon your vehicle. It appears to be absolutely rotten, despite the one lady owner and 3,000 miles on the clock. Fortunately I am an enthusiastic individual and I would like to pay you £75.

 

Yours Sincerely

KGF

[NorfolkNWeigh]

A complete weirdo in a Rover 600 left about 4 notes and practically stalked one of my daughters when she was running the ex- Fatha AngryDicky 600. He accosted her twice outside the restaurant she worked at , at midnight, saying he wanted to either buy it or just the leather interior.

When she finally ran it into the ground( also,a BMW 3 series and a tree) and I decided to scrap it, I called him on the number he'd given her, only to be told his mother wouldn't let him have another car at home- he must have been 60!

Still see him driving around in his 600 that looks worse than the one we scrapped 2 years ago.

[bramz7]

Despite the absolute cavalcade of crap I've owned, not one person has left a note.

 

I have left several myself but nothings come of it. Had a chat with an old guy about the BX he owns but not much more.

[DodgyBastard]

I was recently circled by a guy in a supermarket car park who was driving his Picasso around staring at me with about 7 children in the car.

He eventually stopped next to me and motioned me to put my window down, he then says what a lovely looking motor I have and he has one like it back home in Ireland.

 

RJC_1895 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

He then asks me a bunch of questions about it and how much I'm after, I said I wasn't selling and he said but if you were selling how much would you want? I said £2k just to put him off and make him go away and he said ok and gave me his number in case I ever wanted to sell.

Seemed a bit dodgy to me...

[Isaac Hunt]

I put a note on a windscreen of a 'somewhat forlorned car'.... parked at side of road, covered in shit, two flat tyres and only half an engine in the bay (Bonnett was open so I had a peeek).

 

That was in 2002 and I still have the car today, so not all of us 'noters' are tyre kickers and wime tasters, but I guess many are.

[mk2_craig]

I used to get these notes all the time when I routinely ran knackered old rammle and the price of scrap was high.

[New POD]

I bought a Mk2 Cavalier SRi (with dent) for £40 based on me following the owner to his work and giving him a business car in the january, and then about 4 months later leaving a note on the screen (Remember me? If you ever come to sell I'll be interested " 

Got to November and he's had his whiplash payout and has been offered £35 in PX against a newer car. 

 

It turned out he's bought it with 17K on the clock at 16 years old, and in 2 years taken it to 70K without servicing it. 

 

After replacing the head gasket, and changing the oil twice in a week, it lasted me three years and another 45 K before I sold it on. Regrets. 

[overrun]

I door knocked about an unused and unloved UK mk4 Supra twin turbo and was told to FUCK OFF. Ha.

 

I told my dad about it (his old stomping ground) and he said the guy is a weirdo.

[Tadhg Tiogar]

.....he then says what a lovely looking motor I have and he has one like it back home in Ireland....

 

Given what I've seen over there in the past, it's probably been sitting on the driveway or in the yard for years, with a growing coat of green.

 

Best one I caught there was a 1990 VW Jetta Mk.2 (with the big bumpers)....in a skip in Co. Mayo.

 

Then there was this on Achill:

 

[catsinthewelder]

We had a few enquirys about the camper which I should have taken up as it was a twat to sell.

 

There were a few earlier this year about the Disco from dodgy looking blokes who were told to F off by Ms C.

[Faker]

I had an old nova in my drive for years... I was tortured about it. Got rid of it 4 odd years ago when I'd to move home. I mean I was tortured! Folk calling at the door... not just notes! I'd a Toyota hiace van which I only used to tow my race car. It was another vehicle to draw attention to the door. Members of the travelling community. Called on a regular basis asking if it was for sale...

[paulplom]

Ahh, so it's actually us lot that are leaving the notes. I would take them as compliments anyway. I once left one under the wiper of a run down 850 t-5 about two years ago. The guy did actually get back to me (respect) but he wanted 2k for it! Fro.

[Wack]

I was recently circled by a guy in a supermarket car park who was driving his Picasso around staring at me with about 7 children in the car.

He eventually stopped next to me and motioned me to put my window down, he then says what a lovely looking motor I have and he has one like it back home in Ireland.

 

RJC_1895 by srblythe, on Flickr

 

He then asks me a bunch of questions about it and how much I'm after, I said I wasn't selling and he said but if you were selling how much would you want? I said £2k just to put him off and make him go away and he said ok and gave me his number in case I ever wanted to sell.

Seemed a bit dodgy to me...

 

 I've got a a transit pickup I use for light haulage , I don't do anything like the work I used to so sometimes it can sit there for a week unused, a man who cuts trees down on a 6 monthly basis in various parts of the UK enquired about the possibility of purchasing it in his most politest voice as he was expanding his business.

 

I declined telling him it wasn't for sale

 

2 days later when I pulled off the drive both back tyres on the same side had nails in them , the side where it's dark against the wall, both right in the edge so they were fucked, coincidence, maybe i'd run over 2 nails right next to each other the perfect distance apart

[Timewaster]

Most (like me) have only still got the car sat there because they have a mad inflated idea of what it is worth.

 

Except the transit. That was just shit.

And typically when I did want to sell it I got messed about by 3 or 4 potless eidjets. I couldn't give it away.

[Wack]

It can work though, a few years ago a mate drove past a house every day on the way to work for about 2 years, knocked on the door to ask about a VW camper that hadn't moved in all that time, the squarer one after the bay window, proper devon conversion but knackered inside

 

The guy said he'd thought about selling it as he'll never get round to doing it but wouldn't take less than £1000 for it

 

Wait there , i'll be back in 20 minutes

[The Moog]

A complete weirdo in a Rover 600 left about 4 notes and practically stalked one of my daughters when she was running the ex- Fatha AngryDicky 600. He accosted her twice outside the restaurant she worked at , at midnight, saying he wanted to either buy it or just the leather interior.

When she finally ran it into the ground( also,a BMW 3 series and a tree) and I decided to scrap it, I called him on the number he'd given her, only to be told his mother wouldn't let him have another car at home- he must have been 60!

Still see him driving around in his 600 that looks worse than the one we scrapped 2 years ago.

Did you point him in this direction??

[warninglight]

Given what I've seen over there in the past, it's probably been sitting on the driveway or in the yard for years, with a growing coat of green.

 

Best one I caught there was a 1990 VW Jetta Mk.2 (with the big bumpers)....in a skip in Co. Mayo.

 

Then there was this on Achill:

 

Irish Trabant!.jpg

Achill used to be brilliant for totally abandoned tat. I remember a Granada hearse with grass growing up through it that I last saw maybe 10 years ago, definitely wasn't there on my last visit!

 

There was an old 60s Foden or similar tipper half stripped and abandoned on the bog by the road into Keel for years as well, that must have gone 10 years ago.

 

These days it's a sea of second homes, half built hotels and Achillhenge, with half the pubs it used to have. Very different place!

 

I bought my first Volvo V70R via a note. Owner had cooked the autobox stuck on an icy hill. Towed him to the top to let it cool off but it was still in the layby the next morning. Left a note and owned it by that evening!

 

My second V70R used to be a magnet for notes under the wipers, oddly enough everyone who was really keen wasn't remotely interested once I told them what I was selling for, and indeed did sell it for.

[rantingYoof]

One of the first threads I enjoyed here was someone taking on a Safrane after leaving notes at the owner's house.

[sutty2006]

I had a pair of scrap men turn up on my drive asking to buy my old discovery off roader. Told them it was a pile of shite, rotten and broken (mostly true) in an attempt to put them off. Last thing I wanted was that going missing off my driveway. Just dont trust anyone anymore.

[D Spares & Tyres]

There is a mk3 Transit in the front garden of a large but tatty house Wednesbury, right off junction 9. It's been there as long as I can remember. It used to have a 'not for sale' sign on the back door, probably due to them being pestered. They have now hacked off the cab part so it's clearly just a shed now

[Kiltox]

This is one of the strategies employed by the kind of people who buy cars for £40...

[AlabamaShrimp]

Only ever been back to one note stick on my mk1 Fiesta years ago. They wanted me to join a Fiesta club? Er no thanks.

 

Have t had anymore though I have been randomly shouted at by people asking is what I'm driving (mk1 and 2) for sale. I don't get* this it's hardly like I'd stop and go 'yes sir it is. Why not take it now and I'll walk home'.