eBay tat volume 3.

[D.E]

Ford Escort L Wagon 1987

[Weird Car]

£700 740 in Chichester 

https://ebay.us/m/jcNqAg

[grogee]

9 hours ago, Hertz said:

£1125

https://www.facebook.com/share/1FcyxmEzJd/

 

@Yoss do you know anything about this one? 

The ad doesn't even mention what engine it has. 

[grogee]

48 minutes ago, urpert said:

I never understood the whole 3-door estate thing (these and Escorts in particular). Though I suppose they already needed to make the bodyshells for Astravans. 

Nor me. Was there a door tax in some markets maybe? 

[jim89]

5 minutes ago, grogee said:

@Yoss do you know anything about this one? 

The ad doesn't even mention what engine it has. 

X683HCT might elucidate?

[jim89]

4 minutes ago, grogee said:

Nor me. Was there a door tax in some markets maybe? 

& /Or backseat tax ?

[D.E]

£1,500

Lanchester 10hp 1935

[jim89]

20 minutes ago, D.E said:

£1,500

Lanchester 10hp 1935

Kin where?

[High Jetter]

19 minutes ago, jim89 said:

Kin where?

Foreign parts

[Yoss]

1 hour ago, grogee said:

@Yoss do you know anything about this one? 

The ad doesn't even mention what engine it has. 

Nope, none the wiser. I know one thing, it's not a rally car. It's just a standard Felicia with fancy seats and some stickers on it. There's no roll cage and the dashboard is totally standard. 

[jim89]

47 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

Foreign parts

Fife & thensum....

[Knotty Ash Towers]

MK 1 Opel Manta.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/116936926384

[jim89]

[adw1977]

4 hours ago, urpert said:

I never understood the whole 3-door estate thing (these and Escorts in particular). Though I suppose they already needed to make the bodyshells for Astravans. 

Until the 1980s smaller estate cars were generally three door, even when the equivalent saloon was available as a four door.  Think Morris Minor, Chevette, Allegro.

[jim89]

45 minutes ago, adw1977 said:

Until the 1980s smaller estate cars were generally three door, even when the equivalent saloon was available as a four door.  Think Morris Minor, Chevette, Allegro.

Viva

[Momentary Lapse Of Reason]

5 hours ago, urpert said:

I never understood the whole 3-door estate thing (these and Escorts in particular). Though I suppose they already needed to make the bodyshells for Astravans. 

I only wish they were still available.

Make perfect sense in stopping little brats misbehaving.

[High Jetter]

3 minutes ago, Momentary Lapse Of Reason said:

I only wish they were still available.

Make perfect sense in stopping little brats misbehaving.

Estates or escorts? 😀

Seatbelts with childlocks

[Metal Guru]

5 hours ago, Momentary Lapse Of Reason said:

I only wish they were still available.

Make perfect sense in stopping little brats misbehaving.

Kills your back getting little kids into child seats in a 2 door car. 

[jim89]

9 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Estates or escorts? 😀

Seatbelts with childlocks

Backdoors with child locks for the win*

[Bmwdumptruck]

My dad struggled to find us a five door estate for mum to run us about in.  She’d been using an Imp van which had been stolen twice, the second time it came back with engine troubles so he decided it was time to find a proper car even though carrying us kids in the back of a van wasn’t so much an issue back then.  
We ended up with a Renault12 estate which mum ran for some years.  Can even still remember the reg no EAR589K.  
Over that period Dad had Triumph 2000 and 2500 estates and then a succession of Citroen CX Safari’s.  
The Imp van got donated to my school vehicle engineering department.  Was still there when I left in 81, but no idea how long they kept it.  It would have stayed pretty solid being kept in the workshop, just had all the usual Imp engine issues.  Reg started OGJ, we use to call it Oggy. 

[TheIsleofShite]

https://ebay.us/m/Xu0JGI

[grogee]

51 minutes ago, TheIsleofShite said:

https://ebay.us/m/Xu0JGI

That looks incredibly un-rusty (from above). I like it. Correctly engined, too. 

[cort16]

Not quite sure what's going on here but it's £2500 and has an MOT until March

https://www.facebook.com/commerce/listing/1551892742514925/?media_id=0&ref=share_attachment

[cort16]

Build your own cherry turbo kit

 

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1613421849648691/?ref=marketplace_profile&referral_code=undefined

[cort16]

Body by B&Q

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/794040453654724/

[Knotty Ash Towers]

South African MK 1 Granada.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/236536685050

[worldofceri]

19 hours ago, Knotty Ash Towers said:

MK 1 Opel Manta.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/116936926384

I saw this on a beavertail, heading south on the M74 last week. Still sporting its South African number plates. Thought it was funny to see it heading back south having travelled all the way from the southern hemisphere. I notice the Granada above is a ZA car located in Scotland so perhaps the same folks brought them both in.

[worldofceri]

On 19/12/2025 at 07:38, D.E said:

1995 BMW 5 Series 525 td 4dr SALOON Diesel Manual

This might be the Coors Lite talking but I’ve got the serious hots for this. One owner from new, it just looks old money as fuck. I’ve been semi-seriously looking at cars that I can have my 17 year old son insured as a named driver and inexplicably this is coming up as one of the least ludicrously expensive (nearly a grand cheaper than the Rover 45 for sale on here for example). Even if none of the original 115 smokey horses have escaped in the last thirty years, he’ll still never get up enough speed to kill himself too badly. And what a cool thing to rumble around in. Hnnnnnggg…

[Cavcraft]

This has @purplebargeken written all over it, and local(?) too

triumph 1500 tc barn find | eBay UK

[Cavcraft]

Fuck knows if this one of those that the real Leaf fans detest, but it might be really cheap

Nissan Leaf 2016 30kWh Tekna Auto 5 Door 121,000 miles, failed MOT | eBay UK

*Edit: the quote they had to pass the MOT seems excessive, but that garage are not specially well recommended locally.