The grumpy thread

[cobblers]

All this dentist talk has reminded me it's been about 7 years since I went to see one.

[Angrydicky]

Down my road there is a house with an attached corrugated garage, one of those with windows across the front. Anyway inside is a very obvious 2CV, which has sat there for about 10 years I reckon. About 5 or 6 years ago (it might even be more than that) I knocked on the door and spoke to the old giffer who lives there and asked him what he was doing with the old car in the garage. He told me it belonged to his girlfriend, who was French, and he had been thinking about selling. Anyway we pushed it out (brakes were free due to the handbrake being left off) and I had a look round it, didn't seem too bad apart from the usual rotten front floors and a ripped hood that meant his cats had been using the inside of the car as a toilet.

Anyway he then started umming and ahhing and then said he was going to keep it anyway. We pushed it back in and it's been there ever since.

 

Well, I drove past today and there is a for sale sign outside the house. In addition the Skoda hatchback that used to be parked on the driveway is no longer there, and the local chavs (I assume) have smashed three out of four windows on the front of the garage. One of the bricks or whatever they used to break the windows must have landed on the torn hood and it's now completely ripped open and hanging down inside the car.

 

I suspect the old boy who lived there (who was well into his 80's back then) has popped his clogs and his little Citroen's days will surely be numbered. I might be jumping to conclusions, but I wouldn't forgive myself if I lost this car that I've been after for so many years. I can just imagine it being dragged out of the garage and straight onto a scrapyard low loader...I need another car like a hole in the head, but I do feel sorry for this one! The reg is D227 UAR IIRC, and it's a little green and white Dolly.

 

Cheers lads, and sorry for the moan

 

Rich.

[RedSparrow]

Down my road there is a house with an attached corrugated garage, one of those with windows across the front. Anyway inside is a very obvious 2CV, which has sat there for about 10 years I reckon. About 5 or 6 years ago (it might even be more than that) I knocked on the door and spoke to the old giffer who lives there and asked him what he was doing with the old car in the garage. He told me it belonged to his girlfriend, who was French, and he had been thinking about selling. Anyway we pushed it out (brakes were free due to the handbrake being left off) and I had a look round it, didn't seem too bad apart from the usual rotten front floors and a ripped hood that meant his cats had been using the inside of the car as a toilet.

Anyway he then started umming and ahhing and then said he was going to keep it anyway. We pushed it back in and it's been there ever since.

 

Well, I drove past today and there is a for sale sign outside the house. In addition the Skoda hatchback that used to be parked on the driveway is no longer there, and the local chavs (I assume) have smashed three out of four windows on the front of the garage. One of the bricks or whatever they used to break the windows must have landed on the torn hood and it's now completely ripped open and hanging down inside the car.

 

I suspect the old boy who lived there (who was well into his 80's back then) has popped his clogs and his little Citroen's days will surely be numbered. I might be jumping to conclusions, but I wouldn't forgive myself if I lost this car that I've been after for so many years. I can just imagine it being dragged out of the garage and straight onto a scrapyard low loader...I need another car like a hole in the head, but I do feel sorry for this one! The reg is D227 UAR IIRC, and it's a little green and white Dolly.

 

Cheers lads, and sorry for the moan

 

Rich.

 

Can you bung a note saying you want to buy it through the door of the house? Or on the garage door?

People have been chatting on here recently about the value of 2CVs so worth a try.

[autofive]

my grump today: cutting the grass

 

its rained almost solid for over a week, the grass in my back garden is about 6 inches long, and it's taken about 2 hours to cut it (badly)

 

ooooh i love british summers

[Angrydicky]

Thing is, I'm not sure if the house is currently occupied. But a note is definitely worth a try. If he has died I reckon I'd get a call from some solicitor armed with printouts from inflated Ebay auctions which would mean it would be priced way above my meagre budget. But rather that then see it scrapped, definitely.

[Station]

Ernest Borgnine Rest In P ... NO NO NO IT'S NOT CAR WELATED:

 

http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.c ... ead=132710

 

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no one rides Shack's train for free.......

[Tayne]

Ernest Borgnine Rest In P ... NO NO NO IT'S NOT CAR WELATED:

 

Have something to remember him by.

 

[cort16]

^^lol, I'm going to live until I'm 168.

[Negative Creep]

Anaesthetic has worn off, which now means I'm in a fair amount of pain and can't eat anything. On the plus side, I do have a day off tomrrow

[Cavcraft]

'How much do you want for the car?'

 

The price is on the advert.

 

'I haven't seen the advert'

 

How did you get my number then?

 

{pause} What is lowest price?

 

What is your highest price?

 

{cough, nervous laugh} erm just tell me best you can do.

 

Come and look at it and make me an offer.

 

'It sounds like nice car I would buy it'

 

How much are you offering?

 

'I've seen newer ones cheaper'

 

Well you can either go and buy one then or come and see mine, realise it's one of the better ones and make me an offer when you get here.

 

'I'll text you my best price in a minute'

 

What's the fucking point in that, why didn't he just offer me a price over the phone ffs?

[cobblers]

 

{pause} What is lowest price?

 

What is your highest price?

 

I'll remember that one.

[Parky]

I won some steel wheels for my Bini earlier - no tyres but 4 steel wheels which I could use for winter tyres (or even just non run flats).

 

I got 4 wheels for three pound twenty and the seller was about three miles away. Shortly after paying I got a note confirming my payment had been returned as she had sold them last week and relisted them accidentally. Why not remove the ad beforehand? Personally I reckon she wanted a lot more then three quid. If they get relisted I will get onto the bay and neg that bint.

 

Neg them anyway stating what happened. If you put something like 'Mini steel wheels, seller refused to sell at end price' that should knacker them up if they try and relist them anyhow.

 

 

Unbelievably the silly bint relisted them an hour later and immediately closed the sale for £30. Whats with that? First she sells them for £22, then "accidentally" relists and gets my £3.20 final bid, and then sells them again instantly for £30?? WTF? I checked her out and by sheer fluke she works for one of my companies counterparties. I can see them getting a bit less business going forward on the grounds that their staff are "ethically unsound".

[Cavcraft]

It could be something that happened to me recently. I bid late one on a BMW Mini alloy wheel (I kid you not) which was badly advertised. I was the only bidder so shyster/inbfred seller messages me saying 'sorry, wheel been sold'.

Knocked out a reply saying 'No it wasn't, it was on eBay, it ended when it should have and I'm the highest and only bidder'. Few minutes later I checked his eBay profile so I could grab his name and add it to my blocked bidder list and I notice he'd relisted the wheel for (lots) more money then within minutes put on the advert 'sold do not bid'.

H still kep saying he'd sold it and to check the (new) advert thinking I was thick so I just got bored and negged him. I do have him on my favourite sellers list though so next time he advertises something badly again I'll be bidding on it last minute.

[Parky]

The annoying thing is if she'd said she wanted a bit more I'd have been happy to go up a bit. She was including a couple of tyres and some trims which I didnt want so if she'd let me have the wheels for £20 she could have sold the part worns separately for extra moolah. Still, there will be others I am sure.

[autofive]

The annoying thing is if she'd said she wanted a bit more I'd have been happy to go up a bit. She was including a couple of tyres and some trims which I didnt want so if she'd let me have the wheels for £20 she could have sold the part worns separately for extra moolah. Still, there will be others I am sure.

 

 

sounds like: 'just noticed you only got 3.20 for the wheels, i ll give you 30 quid if you relist them"

 

neg the bitch and call her a liar

[Parky]

Neg'd her for that. Doubt she will be bothered but ultimately I cant force her to sell the item and I'm not interested in getting in an email war with some dopey girl from Rainham. I will however be asking her "Have you actually got the item, and will you sell it for the end auction price? Just noticed you've pulled out a couple of times in the past" for every item she sells from now on. At least until I get bored.......

[Pete-M]

I'm busily thinking of inventive and amusing ways to kill the 604.

 

Once again, it's not going to sell. I can just sense it. If it doesn't, I'm gonna do something very spectacular with it that'll involve a huge amount of Peugeot devastation and destruction. There will be nothing left. Ideally, destroy it to sub-atomic levels. I'll have to film it, obviously, and then I'll have the enjoyment of being called a cunt by 'classic car fans' on forums all over the place for not offering it to 'classic car folk'... Because it's not been offered for sale anywhere like. Oh no, just Car and Classic, Ebay (three times), Pistonheads, Classic and Sportscar, Retro Rides (ebay section, admittedly), PC and Classic Car Weekly.

 

Fucking unbelievable "That's cheap at £1500" say the classic folk, I list it at £1500, nothing. It ain't going for any less, I will destroy it if it doesn't fetch the money, and no, there'll be fuck all left other than the spare front valance Phil DNJ wants. Possibly the alloys will survive.

 

Never again will I save something old and obscure from destruction. What's the fucking point? The thing owes me well over £2k and I may as well have just set fire to the fucking cash.

 

Peugeot, you have 15 hours and 48 minutes left to live, and counting.

[sporty-shite]

Thing is, I'm not sure if the house is currently occupied. But a note is definitely worth a try. If he has died I reckon I'd get a call from some solicitor armed with printouts from inflated Ebay auctions which would mean it would be priced way above my meagre budget. But rather that then see it scrapped, definitely.

 

Have you tried getting in touch with the estate agent? See if they'll pass a message to the old boy or his family saying you want to save the car before it ends up vandalised or, worse still, the garage gets torched. Must be worth a go?

[Parky]

Peter, it's an odd suggestion but have you thought about upping the price? There might be a 604 perv out there who thinks that if it's only 1200 quid it can't be that good, etc. what have you got to lose? Or....

 

1. paint it up like the Starsky and Hutch car and go an a banger rally

2. Tell Top Gear it's rubbish and let them drop a piano on it

3. Pop a VW badge on the grill, sand the paint off it, install roof rack of scrap and sell it to the V Dubbers for mega coin

4. Didn't Fred Transit run a film cars agency? Something left field like the Pug is tailor made for a tough uncompromising ex SAS private detective who takes no prisoners, etc etc. Or Gene Hunt could ram it into the Thames......

[Cavcraft]

I'd find the next classic car auction going and put it into that with a relatively low reserve.

[Des]

I'm busily thinking of inventive and amusing ways to kill the 604.

 

Once again, it's not going to sell. I can just sense it. If it doesn't, I'm gonna do something very spectacular with it that'll involve a huge amount of Peugeot devastation and destruction. There will be nothing left. Ideally, destroy it to sub-atomic levels. I'll have to film it, obviously, and then I'll have the enjoyment of being called a cunt by 'classic car fans' on forums all over the place for not offering it to 'classic car folk'... Because it's not been offered for sale anywhere like. Oh no, just Car and Classic, Ebay (three times), Pistonheads, Classic and Sportscar, Retro Rides (ebay section, admittedly), PC and Classic Car Weekly.

 

Fucking unbelievable "That's cheap at £1500" say the classic folk, I list it at £1500, nothing. Try again at £1200 nothing. Now the reserve is at a grand and although it's close, it ain't close enough. It ain't going for any less, I will destroy it if it doesn't fetch a grand, and no, there'll be fuck all left other than the spare front valance Phil DNJ wants. Possibly the alloys will survive.

 

Never again will I save something old and obscure from destruction. What's the fucking point? The thing owes me well over £2k and I may as well have just set fire to the fucking cash.

 

Peugeot, you have 15 hours and 48 minutes left to live, and counting.

 

 

Swap for a Ford Explooger? No, didn't think so.

[Negative Creep]

At a guess, the 604 is too obscure and lacks the brand cache that would make people want to buy it. The fuel consumption and lack of parts would also put off younger or first time classic car fans

[Parky]

Convert it into a pick up and send it to Africa? Surely the export market would appreciate a big old Peugeot.....

[Pete-M]

It's been advertised at pretty much everywhere between £1200 and £2200. Other than a few losers, a multitude of banger racers and one chap who's not got the cash at the moment it has had no real interest. Nobody has actually turned up to see it during three months of advertising.

 

This, to me, says that nobody wants it and that erasing it from the face of the planet isn't going to upset anyone.

 

A chemistry professor mate of mine has just volunteered his services. Reckons he can dissolve pretty much all of it in a very spectacular manner, he was wibbling on about using all kinds of volatile things which will blow some things up and melt others. . Reckons it'd give November 5th a run for its money and there'd not be much to sweep up afterwards.

 

I have never felt like this before with a car. It actually drives well. I'd always wanted one, but after owning it I just despise that PRV engine, cannot abide it. The power delivery is pretty much exactly the opposite of how I like cars to behave. It's made me hate the car. I cannot be bothered doing an engine transplant to it, I just want it away from the house and somewhere I'll never see it again.

 

The PRV engine has made me not care about old cars anymore. Seriously. It has exterminated my old car mojo.

 

At the moment I'm feeling like I've wasted 30 years of my life learning about and working with old cars only to end up with one I don't even want to look at. Once it's gone I'll give up all the old car stuff I've been doing and go and play with boats or summat instead.

 

It may just get one last chance and an entry into H&H classic auctions, but only if Professor Greg doesn't arrive with the items needed to do something hyper destructive first.

[mattblack]

May be worth sticking a post up on here?

 

http://www.unitylowriderforum.net/

[triumph1300]

What a shame...its a cool car, I had never seen one before joining up here. If I was in a situation where I had some cash I would have it, I can't bear to see older stuff get destroyed, I've bought plenty of cars in the past just for that reason. Shame I can't this time

[eddyramrod]

I deliberately haven't weighed into the 604 conversation before because I'm not in a position at the moment where I could do anything positive, though I am expecting that to change in a matter of weeks. I'd love it myself (how much more of a mistake could it be than a manual Granada ffs??????) but short of that, please give the lowrider boys a crack at it Pete. Your pain is extremely familiar to me, as you know (much consolation may that be), but one more forum can't hurt, can it? Otherwise, wouldn't Fred be interested for filming purposes? It's an ideal car for a quirky maverick detective....

[Lankytim]

Swap you for a Volvo 240 estate? Actually, you'll probably hate that MORE than a 604!

 

Just stick it in a classic auction with no reserve, if it goes for £750 odd that's £750 more than you'll get by blowing it up.

[Spiny Norman]

Just stick it in a classic auction with no reserve, if it goes for £750 odd that's £750 more than you'll get by blowing it up.

 

It's making £915 on the bay of E right now, so there could be hope. Surely you'd rather take that than destroy it?