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Re: WTF.....
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 12:00 pm
by mk1
I wonder how much a car would be worth if you pieced it together using all these bits
Re: WTF.....
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2011 11:30 pm
by 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
Re: WTF.....
Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 10:19 pm
by YMJ
Re: WTF.....
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 7:34 am
by mk1
Woo Hoo, I see my spare 1275 S engine goiong on the bay in the new year
Re: WTF.....
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 1:52 pm
by vegar
Surface rust???
Re: WTF.....
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 4:57 pm
by steve1071
Surely that's scrap?!
Re: WTF.....
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 6:28 pm
by 251 ENG
Rebuilt worse
Acid dipping will make it look new again
Re: WTF.....
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 6:53 pm
by mk1coopers
Re: WTF.....
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 8:14 am
by Old English White
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?
Re: WTF.....
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 8:17 am
by mk1
WHY Would that ever be worth £15 grand?
Not in a million years.
Re: WTF.....
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 9:06 am
by guru_1071
Old English White wrote:
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........
Re: WTF.....
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 9:48 pm
by 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
Re: WTF.....
Posted: Mon Dec 26, 2011 11:33 pm
by 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
Re: WTF.....
Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2011 8:52 am
by mk1
Can't get more blatant than that!
Re: WTF.....
Posted: Tue Dec 27, 2011 5:48 pm
by Etienne B.
It looks like an Elite in the back ground (right hand side), isn't it ?
Re: WTF.....
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 8:23 pm
by 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.
Re: WTF.....
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 10:36 pm
by 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
Re: WTF.....
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 11:28 pm
by ChrisB
That is crazy!
Re: WTF.....
Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 8:22 pm
by tedmcedd
now that shroud really is a WTf moment.... some people...
Re: WTF ?!?!?
Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 8:50 am
by 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!
