WTH??!?! Have you seen this item on ebay.

[mk1]

I wonder how much a car would be worth if you pieced it together using all these bits

[Tim]

Or the other way of looking at it, how much profit would there be in breaking a perfectly good car and selling it off one piece at a time? Its horrible to contemplate but happens regularly in the classic motorcycle world.

Tim

[YMJ]

Shorely shome mishtake?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/160697111801? ... 1423.l2649

[mk1]

Woo Hoo, I see my spare 1275 S engine goiong on the bay in the new year

[vegar]

Surface rust???

[steve1071]

Surely that's scrap?!

[251 ENG]

Rebuilt worse

Acid dipping will make it look new again

[mk1coopers]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/mini-classic- ... 1890wt_922

I think I would rather have a MK1 S at that price!

[Old English White]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/mini-classic- ... 1890wt_922

I think I would rather have a MK1 S at that price!

It does seem rather over-priced doesn't it. Not much sign of the claimed "stried down to bear sheel" respray in the photos either or am I translating it wrongly?

[mk1]

WHY Would that ever be worth £15 grand?

Not in a million years.

[guru_1071]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/mini-classic- ... 1890wt_922

I think I would rather have a MK1 S at that price!

It does seem rather over-priced doesn't it. Not much sign of the claimed "stried down to bear sheel" respray in the photos either or am I translating it wrongly?

too be fair, it must be a prototype mk3, as it has a rod change floor pan........

[Tim]

I'll bet that is what the owner has spent doing it up, so he thinks that's what its worth. It doesn't work like that.

Tim

[YMJ]

'ello, 'ello, 'ello....what's goin' on 'ere, then?
lots of dodgy stuff going on in the Q&A column

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1960s-MINI-CO ... 0901430381

[mk1]

Can't get more blatant than that!

[Etienne B.]

It looks like an Elite in the back ground (right hand side), isn't it ?

[sandman]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/220928308203? ... 1423.l2649



'just painted and fitted a NOS one to my car some monts ago.... and that I got for free.

[Tim]

Mine was rusty, greasy and bent and had a bolt broken off in one of the captive nuts. I drilled out the broken bolt, stuck it in the bead blaster at work and hosed off all the grease and rust. gave it a couple of taps with a hammer and a squirt with some satin black paint and it looks like NOS one.

I've discovered that a bead blaster can convert scrap metal into gems, its amazing.

Tim

[ChrisB]

That is crazy!

[tedmcedd]

now that shroud really is a WTf moment.... some people...

[YMJ]

By the look of the bidding patterns, I suspect that the winner (whilst probably pissed) thought, "I'll have this at any cost", put a daft bid in and then at the last minute another bloke came along in an identical frame of mind!

I'm not sure, but I doubt whether this episode has just "set the price".

Rather, just an unfortunate twitch at an auction!