Old barges, where do they fit in?

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

With fuel prices the way they are, that makes a big difference and as someone who's currently skint, economy means a lot.

 

According to this, petrol prices have only gone up 26% in real terms in the last 27 years. I bet a 1995 barge is frugal enough to offset the increase compared to its 1975 predecessor...and that's without factoring in the possibility of using LPG (currently cheaper in real terms than petrol was back then) or veg oil (ditto).

 

Plus ca change....

 

[of course, the above doesn't make the broader 'developed-world' economy any less terminally ill]

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

 

According to this, petrol prices have only gone up 26% in real terms in the last 27 years.

 

Lies, damn lies and statistics!

Those numbers can be manipulated to say anything.

 

Petrol has gone up 30% in real terms in the last two years.

 

Petrol has gone up 15% in real terms in the last three years.

 

Petrol has gone up 90% in real terms in the last 19 years.

 

 

That's absolutely correct. Still, the increases aren't in the orders of magnitude that the Daily Fail et al. would have you believe. Having to adapt to an evolving environment is one thing, waking up to an ice age/nuclear war/insert world-changing catastrophic event is quite another.

[trigger]

320 CLK with 87k miles and all for £995.00.

 

Holy crap!, That's a hell of a lot of car for under a grand!, I was impressed when i saw one of those for £1500 the other day on the side of the road!, I bet I've lost more then that on my Mondeo in 6 months then that would cost to buy!

[chaseracer]

Not really had a sniff of interest in the Saab...

 

Range Rover... will cost money to keep. Mind you, I reckon it'd cost me to sell it as well, so perhaps I'll keep that too...

 

But then the Mini has refused to sell as well... Not a sniff...

Sadly Ian, the above might well be not unrelated to where you live...

[dollywobbler]

That's definitely true. Low population here and everyone else considers it in the back end of beyond, despite good (and cheap!) rail links. Certainly had more joy flogging motors when I lived a few miles from a motorway, rather than two hours from one.

[trigger]

It's funny you say that, I had a bit of a job selling my Escort for what i wanted for it, even getting comments at shows from people telling me it was never worth £995 ono until i was lucky enough to find someone form South Wales (Newport) willing to come across and buy it, Since then the new owner reckons he's had a few offers on it, One chap even following him into a supermaket car park to offer him "Silly money" for it, what's that about?!

[r.welfare]

I just think selling anything old and/or leggy that's <£500 or so is more hassle than it's worth these days, even if the car is a good'un like a lot that we're seeing here at the moment. I even had a massive ballache selling my wife's Fabia three years ago, which I thought would fly out the door. On the flipside, I was surprised to be beating off interest in the 405 last year, to be honest.

 

I'll be running my two motors until something major goes wrong then fragging them I think.

[Guest]

It would be interesting to get everyone's views on this old thread 10months later...10 months of squeezed budgets sky high premiums and silly fuel...

I have a 605 (V6/slushbox, 84K miles from new) as occasional toy and yep, you notice the fuel thirst - if only by how frequently hand goes in pocket to fill up! That helps me to not drive it much (and thus keeps total mileage low)... Only dislike is the chavvy wheels it came with; looking forward to when the tyres are shot and it will revert to correct alloys.

 

Cheers, Adam.