Ebay Tat Volume 2 - Sadly deceased.

[flat4alfa]

No this is hers

 

 

Her publicist reported the whole lot cost £100k.

 

The old tart.

[morris_ital_lover]

GOOD GOD.

Someone spent £18k doing this, and then drove it 63,ooo miles!

 

 

And now someone else thinks it's worth £40k.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/57-08-Range-R ... 0625250956

 

If you'd spent that much you'd at least hope that they'd have learnt how to spell phantom...

[trigger]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1987E-CITROEN ... 3cc31492c4

 

It's a Visa GTi 115ch! I want to take this outside and take it's virginity away.

[worldofceri]

Three grand though?

 

It does look nice, but that plus rarity doesn't always equal £££.

[ashmicro]

That Visa if magic. Proper quick if I recall. They're seen as a bit oddball, so it'll most likely be an enthusiast who buys it. I reckon the seller should get the guts of three large without too much bother.

[Negative Creep]

 

hi i have a 106 rally its a 1.8 turbo engin in it but on the log book its a 1.3 so its cheep toe tax and insure its was done pofechenly

 

has a 421 branch manifold to a full jap spec stanless exzurst stistem i wud pefur chash on pick up thanks tom it will need towing as has no tax the only reson for sale is cuz my other car has broke and need the money as that the family car.

 

 

Two points:

 

1- that appears to be the 1.6 Saxo VTS/106 GTi engine

2 - there's no turbo

[ProgRocker]

Maestro project, anyone?

 

28k Maestro 1.6 Auto

 

Probably used just to go shopping in once or twice a week.

[Pillock]

Two points:

 

1- that appears to be the 1.6 Saxo VTS/106 GTi engine

2 - there's no turbo

 

Third point:

 

3 - The seller appears to be a weapons-grade mong

[meggersdog]

That Visa if magic. Proper quick if I recall. They're seen as a bit oddball, so it'll most likely be an enthusiast who buys it. I reckon the seller should get the guts of three large without too much bother.

 

From six-cylinder's story of his Oltcit purchase last month.

 

I met Franklin at an East Midlands Citroen Car Club event and was very pleased to see the Oltcit had now been MOTed and was at the show. Franklin then explained having done all the work he now did want to sell it, only because he had found a Visa GTi he wanted and could not keep everything, so I bought the Oltcit. Now at the end of summer I did not have time to collect it let alone use it so I sent Franklin the money so he could buy his Visa GTi (nice dealing with people you can trust) and collected it some weeks latter and have just put it away for the winter. So 2012 will be the year of the Oltcit in my life!

 

 

The Visa GTi is from Franklin Rugg's collection of obscure Citroens

[Ross_K]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1987E-CITROEN ... 3cc31492c4

 

It's a Visa GTi 115ch! I want to take this outside and take it's virginity away.

 

Boinnnnnnng! if I had three grand that would be mine right now.

 

Then I'd Mi16 it...

[Negative Creep]

 

as the fastest car in its catagory what i will say is the carpets are crap and it needs a new roof u no the score jealousy is the root of all evil but like i say it as been rebored to a racing engine

 

this car will double in price within a year

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/251008960668? ... 500wt_1361

[HillmanImp]

Apparently the deal to cast Kenny Baker the new Batman fell through and this is now surplus stock.

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/UNFINISHED-PROJECT-CAR-KIT-CAR-PROJECT-BATMOBILE-FIBREGLASS-/220963937920

[Largactil]

 

as the fastest car in its catagory what i will say is the carpets are crap and it needs a new roof u no the score jealousy is the root of all evil but like i say it as been rebored to a racing engine

 

this car will double in price within a year

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/251008960668? ... 500wt_1361

 

I owned one of these back in 1999 - Unsurprisingly, quite a bitsa of period GM group parts (Mk2 Astra calipers, glove box lock, instrument stalks etc, with added Isuzu oily bits).

 

Reasonably reliable - But managed a couple of seized calipers, snapped gear linkage, roof detaching from the frame - Prices do seem to be firming slightly, but choddy cars will need much TLC (panels, trim and roof's are fragile, rear wishbones rot, cam angle sensors leak).

 

Lotus do tend to have a big factory parts clear out at least once per year, flogging bits from obsolete models (including the Elan) for much cheapness; almost stock is obviously dwindling as the years tick by...

[willswitchengage]

Like the nineties? Like coupés? Then pop on your sneakers and baseball jackets:

 

 

Ford Probe, low miles, 10 months ticket and history, £759

 

 

Is that a battery booster? 9K Favorit looks good for £200 though, including indisputable evidence that the car hasn't been clocked:

 

the car is genuine 1 owner from new with guaranteed mileage as my best friend who i purchased from is a good friend from who got it from his grandma whos husband passed away some time ago and wanted to sell so my friend bought it and i then i purchased with every intention to getting back on the road as i no now for a fact its totally solid and i no with no effort will get a good old car for a song with low mileage

 

 

Piss off the neighbours by using up all of their car parking spaces then crush them to death when they start cycling to work instead

[pompei]

^ ^ ^ ^

GR9 for parking outside Boris Johnson's gaffe

[Cavcraft]

OMG UR SO Fi AT

 

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/FIAT-TIPO-DGT ... 3f148ebe72

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

The airport bus sounds like a bargain at that sort of price.

[Cavcraft]

Welding practise.

 

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SPARES-REPAIR ... 20c355716b

 

'I BOUGHT THE CAR 10 YEARS AGO WITH THE INTENTION OF BUILDING A KIT CAR'

 

Obviously one that had it's own floor and electrics.

[Cavcraft]

PHWOARR!

 

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/TRIUMPH-1300F ... 1e6be246aa

 

Bloody lovely that. *You'll need sunglasses to look at the interior shots.

[cms206]

 

Piss off the neighbours by using up all of their car parking spaces then crush them to death when they start cycling to work instead

 

 

Go-Ahead just transferred a shitload of these from their London subsidiaries around the place, including a bit pile of them to the North East.

 

Their book value at no more than seven years old, or thereabouts?

 

Five Thousand Pounds.

[willswitchengage]

Go-Ahead just transferred a shitload of these from their London subsidiaries around the place, including a bit pile of them to the North East.

 

Their book value at no more than seven years old, or thereabouts?

 

Five Thousand Pounds.

 

Considering a similarly aged Trident (or older) will set you back 25 grand, and that they cost half the price of a bendy in the first place.

 

has a weird reality to it when you sell off a 500 strong fleet halfway through their useful lifespan at a fraction of their market price.

[cobblers]

First of all I thought "surely the engine can't be in the back half, it would make the thing drive terrifyingly on wet surfaces etc", so assumed you could make a bendy bus into a normal bus by just chopping the back half off, and riveting the back panel off of the bendy bit over the remaining hole. But then I saw the floor level and vents - the engines right at the very back end isn't it?

 

Still, for 5 grand I'm surprised they don't get bought up and converted into "something" more often?

[loserone]

Feel the Gold

 

 

 

Price: £995 Make Offer

 

* third time on

This post is where the board thinks I've read to, and I see it's been relisted again. Now 875 and surely worth a punt.

[RedSparrow]

Sooo, forgive my ignorance, but where are the driving wheels on that bus? They can't be the ones right at the back 'pushing' the thing can they? But is the power sent forward to the middle wheels then?

 

Also, that Favourit is ace, despite it's rusty arches. I like that style of front grille better than the later ones.

[Ross_K]

 

Piss off the neighbours by using up all of their car parking spaces then crush them to death when they start cycling to work instead

 

Hey! It's based at Bruntingthorpe. Think if you asked nicely they'd let you take it around the proving track?

[Guest]

 

Piss off the neighbours by using up all of their car parking spaces then crush them to death when they start cycling to work instead

 

Hey! It's based at Bruntingthorpe. Think if you asked nicely they'd let you take it around the proving track?

 

If you manage to do this, PM me and I will turn up with a spare PCV licensed driver and a small film crew. That shit needs to be filmed.

[cms206]

Sooo, forgive my ignorance, but where are the driving wheels on that bus? They can't be the ones right at the back 'pushing' the thing can they? But is the power sent forward to the middle wheels then?

 

 

These are pusher units, so the engine is right at the back and power is sent to the trailer wheels, much like most of the UK's bendibus populations (Volvo B7LA, Volvo B10LA and I think the Scania Omni range). Old bendis caused a bit of a hoohar back in the day because if the engine wasn't in the back the rear section was considered a trailer, and as such couldn't be used to carry passengers; laws were changed, so the older bendis such as the South Yorkshire DAK-V registered MANs and the early 80s DABs were powered and driven in the forward half, as are Volvo B10MAs such as the Stagecoach Megasleepers.

 

Some foreign artics like Van Hool's AGG-series from memory are 100% low floor with a side-mounted engine, but I'm buggered if I can work out how they manage it.

[willswitchengage]

^^ like cms says, a bendy bus is just a normal rigid low floor, but with a tag axle and articulation in the middle. In the mercedes the engine is horizontally mounted at the back on the left (you can sit on top of it), so that on LHD versions you can have an extra door at the back. The Volvos First sometimes uses are the same but with a vertical engine you can't sit on. Scania have a transverse mounted engine like a double decker, albeit with a longer overhang.

 

Having this "pushing" arrangement (hence why bendy-coaches use a puller, like an artic lorry) is hideously unstable which is why they only really work in urban environments, but it's a lot simpler just to elongate a normal rigid like this and keeps noise away from the driver.

 

If you remember that old Top Gear bus racing episode, one was the Mercedes RWD and the other was the Leyland-DAB MWD.

[KruJoe]

I bet bendys are GRcrap in the snow.

 

 

Also, that Favourit is ace, despite it's rusty arches.

Amen to that, brother. I can't help thinking how it would do in a comparison test against my J-reg Samara... I suspect it would wipe the floor with mine. Fairly local too. Fugg, I wish I hadn't seen that, I know what I'll be dreaming of tonight. There's no chance I'd get away with another purchase. If anyone needs help collecting or storing it on the quiet, I'm your man.

[RedSparrow]

Cheers for the info guys. I still can't get my head around the physics of how they're not completely uncontrollable!