At The Auctions

[Catmint]

That Nomad is erm interesting

[Peter Laidler]

The 1999 Rover MPi, the last one on the list is a good example of how a few hours and a few £££'s on Supertrol, spent protecting a car, a known rust-box - can really pay off. Now looks like a total rust box. A garage 'locally' have one, same year/colour, and are what they call '.....sympathetically tidying it up.....'

[snoopy64]

That Nomad is erm interesting

In the same way chicken pox is ?

[Costafortune]

Let's keep up the great British tradition of knocking a successful business.Nobody is obliged to put their car in these auctions and nobody is obliged to bid for them.Anybody who buys a car unseen is clearly foolish.I would imagine a potential buyer would have done their homework.To expect the
staff to have in depth knowledge of everything they are selling is a bit optlmistic and the youngster was probably still learning to walk when the last
mini came off the line.Just an old car to him.
If they cleared three hundred and fifty thousand after their last auction good luck to them but i think this figure comes from someone who has
possibly never run a business and has never heard of overheads.The taxman,customs and excise,rates,insurance,utility bills,vehicles,wages and more.
I think it's time to give them a break.

I've bought cars from them, and they're fine.

[mab01uk]

The 1999 Rover MPi, the last one on the list is a good example of how a few hours and a few £££'s on Supertrol, spent protecting a car, a known rust-box - can really pay off. Now looks like a total rust box. A garage 'locally' have one, same year/colour, and are what they call '.....sympathetically tidying it up.....'

Looking at the photos confirms MPi Minis rust much worse than earlier Minis and pretty much everywhere if not protected by the first owner when new. The MOT failure history on corrosion makes interesting reading....however no photos in the auction details of how the floor, sills, etc have been patched up/bodged each time to get the MOT passes though...
https://www.gov.uk/check-mot-history

[Catmint]

That Nomad is erm interesting

In the same way chicken pox is ?

they are butt ugly to start with, didn't think it was possible to make it much worse( I can say that as I have one !). Give who ever built it their due though, there is a lot of hard bespoke work gone into that

[Peter Laidler]

That Nomad thing........ Looks like those armoured Land Rover things that we had in Ireland during the beastliness era

[Brynmor]

Goodwood members meeting

https://cars.bonhams.com/auction/30542/ ... s-no-7434/

https://cars.bonhams.com/auction/30542/ ... 74-147447/

https://cars.bonhams.com/auction/30542/ ... s7s695531/