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Re: At The Auctions
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2023 3:15 pm
by Gareth Brandt
no idea
Re: At The Auctions
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2023 3:21 pm
by MiNiKiN
I am very tempted. Can you experts see anything obviously wrong with this set?
Re: At The Auctions
Posted: Tue Sep 12, 2023 10:05 pm
by Oneball
Irrespective of the guff, why’s it got a mk2 interior?
Re: At The Auctions
Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2023 7:27 pm
by Pete
Another Black Tulip GT, low miler by the looks of it ..
https://www.classiccarauctions.co.uk/19 ... fwsRl9tglg
Re: At The Auctions
Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2023 10:30 am
by nick@dunsdale
Loads of pictures here Pre barn dust lol
https://collectingcars.com/for-sale/197 ... Ox9aVgkPGQ
Looks in pretty good shape just a few alarm bell's or maybe alarm bells is a bit strong maybe inconsistencies is a better word
Re: At The Auctions
Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2023 10:35 am
by rolesyboy
Re: At The Auctions
Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2023 10:48 am
by Pete
Possibly used a few pots of this , they don’t look that big! Looks a nice car to be fair but spotted the hole on the front of the O/S sill which would usually mean further rot. Been flipped before through a dealer so must have been cheap to start with
Re: At The Auctions
Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2023 11:28 am
by Old English White
Haha. What will somebody think of next!
Re: At The Auctions
Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2023 11:38 am
by tweedy998
Good Lord, that 1275GT with freshly applied 'barn dust'! I've seen it all now!
Re: At The Auctions
Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2023 1:35 pm
by Metronick
Re: At The Auctions
Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2023 5:34 pm
by Costafortune
The early GT's are fabulous.
You've seen one Mark 1 S and you've pretty much seen all of them. Bitsas with invented history and a thick layer of bullshit - it's bordering on tedious.
But these GT's......you can almost taste the history. They're the real thing.
Re: At The Auctions
Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2023 7:28 pm
by mab01uk
tweedy998 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 20, 2023 11:38 am
Good Lord, that 1275GT with freshly applied 'barn dust'! I've seen it all now!
Last weeks 'Bangers and Cash' auction episode on TV said 'barn find' cars fetch more money if they have a good layer of dust on them.
They also said sometimes they come back to auction a few weeks later cleaned up and sell for a lower price.....
Re: At The Auctions
Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2023 7:31 pm
by Oneball
Costafortune wrote: ↑Wed Sep 20, 2023 5:34 pm
The early GT's are fabulous.
You've seen one Mark 1 S and you've pretty much seen all of them. Bitsas with invented history and a thick layer of bullshit - it's bordering on tedious.
But these GT's......you can almost taste the history. They're the real thing.
I know what you mean, my Dad’s had a slightly mouldy Iced Gem stuck on the parcel shelf.
Re: At The Auctions
Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2023 2:33 pm
by mini_surfari
Seems odd how there's so many 1275gt's up for sale at the moment, always seemed to be slim pickings.
I can only assume that now they are sort after behind early Coopers, people are taking the opportunity to cash in!
Re: At The Auctions
Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2023 2:43 pm
by Oneball
mini_surfari wrote: ↑Thu Sep 21, 2023 2:33 pm
Seems odd how there's so many 1275gt's up for sale at the moment, always seemed to be slim pickings.
I can only assume that now they are sort after behind early Coopers, people are taking the opportunity to cash in!
They’re just catching up on desirability. You couldn’t give a Clubman type Mini away years ago. There’s probably not many left. I bought a yellow 69 in the 1990s. We took the engine out with a torch and threw the rest in the bin.
Re: At The Auctions
Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2023 3:41 pm
by mk1
Now thee have been a couple of examples of Clubman GT's making Cooper S type money, it is inevitable that a few owners will choose to cash in.
Will they ever be as desirable as a good Cooper S, personally, I doubt it, but each to their own.
M
Re: At The Auctions
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2023 4:05 pm
by bryan
Anybody know anything about this one, other than its shell looks like its been well filleted before lots of new panels have been let in to rebuild the it.
Looks a nice one on the face of it
https://www.historics.co.uk/buying/auct ... mk-ii-mrp/#
Re: At The Auctions
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2023 6:05 pm
by Old English White
"Work carried out to the highest standard" "A matching set of Camac tyres". Two sentences seldom placed together
Tyres aside, that looks a decent car. Nice to see one with Hydrolastic retained too. Quite a fan of the Mk2.
Re: At The Auctions
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2023 10:11 pm
by Peter Laidler
Looks like a Mk1 type pointed speedo bezel too. Or is it camera angle.....?
Re: At The Auctions
Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2023 11:00 pm
by bryan
Yes, I agree it could be the wrong bezel - good spot .
The actual speedo is right though. The rest of the car looks pretty correct I think, and skilfully restored