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4 hours ago, jamescarruthers said:

I am thanks but really only a Petrol one. For which I will be waiting a long time! 

Yeah, I looked at the sales figures once and I think they only sold 6 of them with petrol engines in the whole run. 

Was a while ago so could be wrong but sure it was something like that. 

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36 minutes ago, HillmanImp said:

Yeah, I looked at the sales figures once and I think they only sold 6 of them with petrol engines in the whole run. 

Was a while ago so could be wrong but sure it was something like that. 

It was more than that but not much more. I think there were like 30-60 UK petrol cars.
 

If I was flush I’d just go and buy one of the 10 petrol C6s for sale in Japan but I can’t see me ever justifying the import costs  

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35 minutes ago, HillmanImp said:

Couple of small French cars at Albert Looms.

That one-owner AX which has been in storage is probably a really good little car and well-worth saving. Presumably, like most scrap yards, this place will ask an outrageous amount for complete cars and will be completely inflexible on the asking price, and instead weight it in for £50 of scrap when nobody stumps up the £800 or whatever

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Just now, jamescarruthers said:

It was more than that but not much more. I think there were like 30-60 UK petrol cars.
 

If I was flush I’d just go and buy one of the 10 petrol C6s for sale in Japan but I can’t see me ever justifying the import costs  

Pretty sure France is nearer, and with a wider selection. Granted it might not actually be much cheaper to import one these days thanks to the 50% of thick racists that makes up this country

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3 hours ago, barrett said:

Pretty sure France is nearer, and with a wider selection. Granted it might not actually be much cheaper to import one these days thanks to the 50% of thick racists that makes up this country

FFS, give it a rest. I voted remain and it is what it is. Most of my mates voted leave and I can assure you  they aren't "racist" and they're far from "thick".

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11 minutes ago, DVee8 said:

An Irish farmers favourite with the lovely Liam Byrne engines. Usually the boot was full with a square bale of hay and held half shut with bailing twine. 

I've a funny tale about the those Carina's. My cousin's father had one and it was that very mentioned car. A car that just worked, no more. It got reversed into by a contractor in a JCB fastrac and mangled the bodywork. 

So it became a field car. One day my cousin tried to kill it. I was passing and he told me what he'd done with it.  He had gone and left the brick on the accelerator and walked away from it, it bouncing off the rev limiter. Walked up to the next field, I was distraught at the thoughts of expecting it to have spat a con rod out of the block. But no. It had only run out of petrol.  Probably blew the cobwebs out. It started up fine later. 

What a car. 

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18 hours ago, barrett said:

Pretty sure France is nearer, and with a wider selection.

True! But if I’m picky about the engine you can imagine I’m probably also pretty picky about the wheel being on the wrong side!

And you are right, it would be expensive from France. If I were to spend a huge amount more there is actually a petrol one coming up for sale in London that I know of but he wanted about double the price of a diesel. I imagine he will be keeping it... the market for a petrol C6 is basically me and the guy I sold me last one to!

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1 hour ago, Isopon said:

Was the GT an actual trim level, or is that a dealer special or something ?  Don't think I've seen one before, let alone a mark 2 Astra as early as that. 

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3 minutes ago, Amishtat said:

Was the GT an actual trim level, or is that a dealer special or something ?  Don't think I've seen one before, let alone a mark 2 Astra as early as that. 

My best guess is that it is a warmed-up dealer special, the cheesy graphics and the OTT spoiler lead me to think it is, likewise it could be a sort of launch edition or a giffer special.

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3 minutes ago, Amishtat said:

Was the GT an actual trim level, or is that a dealer special or something ?  Don't think I've seen one before, let alone a mark 2 Astra as early as that. 

I was just going to ask that. The car doesn't show as a GT on totalcarcheck. 

Is it just a badge from Halfrauds? 

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