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Re: WTH??!?! Have you seen this item on ebay.
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 2:47 pm
by billycooper
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MORRIS-SHERPA ... 6016.l4276
Now we are talking !!
, had one of these as a "service" vehicle
Re: WTH??!?! Have you seen this item on ebay.
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 2:50 pm
by mk1
£7,800
FOR A SHERPA VAN!
Re: WTH??!?! Have you seen this item on ebay.
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 4:16 pm
by Matt_Tupman
A shame it's not RH drive as I'm sure it would be on a ferry back to the mother land.
Re: WTH??!?! Have you seen this item on ebay.
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 5:34 pm
by Old English White
We had one as a works van too but a petrol version. The reason we had a petrol one was that we'd already tried the diesel
To say it was slow and underpowered would be an understatement of extreme proportions
Re: WTH??!?! Have you seen this item on ebay.
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 5:47 pm
by STG95F
When working for the West Midlands Police . they had The V8 sherpa . Wow they used to move
Re: WTH??!?! Have you seen this item on ebay.
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 6:10 pm
by zbarbera
Old English White wrote:Pete wrote:"The car was believed to have been raced"
Still not totally 'bullshit-free" then.
He probably means that a previous owner overslept a couple of times and had to put his foot down a bit to get to work on time ....THAT is a sort of race isn't it?
Nice story though. About as likely as the genuine 19,000miles......
No photos of the current state in the ebay ad either?
I'm sure it is a perfectly viable project at the right price.
I wonder why (and how) the registration came to be "on retention" as the car would have had to be MOT'd for this?
The car will have been issued with a replacement won't it and the current V5 will show that?
But at least the reasons for not completing the resto are "legitimate"
Re: WTH??!?! Have you seen this item on ebay.
Posted: Wed May 25, 2016 1:54 pm
by STG95F
Re: WTH??!?! Have you seen this item on ebay.
Posted: Wed May 25, 2016 1:57 pm
by rich@minispares.com
.....'In the coming two year's Europe's Leading Collector of MINI's has informed us this car would be worth in excess £45,000...'
I wonder what someone who collects BMW MINIS knows about the values of classic minis.......
Re: WTH??!?! Have you seen this item on ebay.
Posted: Wed May 25, 2016 2:13 pm
by mk1
PLEASE CAN I ASK THAT WE NOW DROP THE SUBJECT OF THIS CAR!
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/182144457958? ... EBIDX%3AIT
The subject has been done to death. Its a not very appealing 997 Cooper restoration project with a story that has more holes than a cullinder. It once belonged to a man called T. Sopwith, this T Sopwith had nothing whatsoever to do with the WW1 aircraft pioneer, he just had the same surname & initial. The above has been established without a shadow of a doubt. It may or may not have been tuned by Oselli at some point, but who knows. Whichever way you look at it, it is not worth the £12,000 the bid currently sits at.
There is absolutely NO POINT repeating the same thing over & over again.
Re: WTH??!?! Have you seen this item on ebay.
Posted: Wed May 25, 2016 3:51 pm
by zbarbera
Another group for auction. Considering he's got a 1071 engine hiding down there in the listing, the title of the auction is pretty awful. And if you want the motor you have to take all of the other stuff, too? Good luck with all that.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Garage-sale-C ... 1586831965
Re: WTH??!?! Have you seen this item on ebay.
Posted: Wed May 25, 2016 3:59 pm
by mk1
Interesting the one above, he will only allow viewing AFTER the auction
Re: WTH??!?! Have you seen this item on ebay.
Posted: Wed May 25, 2016 4:10 pm
by rich@minispares.com
zbarbera wrote:Another group for auction. Considering he's got a 1071 engine hiding down there in the listing, the title of the auction is pretty awful. And if you want the motor you have to take all of the other stuff, too? Good luck with all that.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Garage-sale-C ... 1586831965
.........'although due to a fire in their office they can't supply a detailed spec of the rebuild'........
yeah right......
Re: WTH??!?! Have you seen this item on ebay.
Posted: Wed May 25, 2016 4:25 pm
by zbarbera
rich@minispares.com wrote:zbarbera wrote:Another group for auction. Considering he's got a 1071 engine hiding down there in the listing, the title of the auction is pretty awful. And if you want the motor you have to take all of the other stuff, too? Good luck with all that.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Garage-sale-C ... 1586831965
.........'although due to a fire in their office they can't supply a detailed spec of the rebuild'........
yeah right......
Well, it was either that or the dog ate the paperwork. Fire sounds more legit.
Re: WTH??!?! Have you seen this item on ebay.
Posted: Thu May 26, 2016 7:06 pm
by Nick W
£1800
you'd think you would get the original box with them for this money!
Re: WTH??!?! Have you seen this item on ebay.
Posted: Thu May 26, 2016 7:19 pm
by zbarbera
And, indeed, the ones that sold recently for considerably less, did have the original boxes
http://www.ebay.com/itm/IRVIN-3-Point-S ... 7675.l2557
Re: WTH??!?! Have you seen this item on ebay.
Posted: Thu May 26, 2016 7:50 pm
by Nick W
Zak
They wern't correct boxes either. He allways says the boxes have done there job. Which is Bollocks if there not the originals
They should look like this
Re: WTH??!?! Have you seen this item on ebay.
Posted: Thu May 26, 2016 8:09 pm
by zbarbera
I was wondering because he didn't put an actual good picture of the box in the photos and you'd think he'd want to showcase them in this time of crazy prices for original packaging!
Anyone want to pay me 1700 for some B&G bonnet pins still on the original card?
Re: WTH??!?! Have you seen this item on ebay.
Posted: Thu May 26, 2016 9:28 pm
by Pete
rich@minispares.com wrote:zbarbera wrote:Another group for auction. Considering he's got a 1071 engine hiding down there in the listing, the title of the auction is pretty awful. And if you want the motor you have to take all of the other stuff, too? Good luck with all that.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Garage-sale-C ... 1586831965
.........'although due to a fire in their office they can't supply a detailed spec of the rebuild'........
yeah right......
Isn't that the firm that were on the rogue traders TV prog? Dished pistons and hardy Spicers is odd for a 1071? Could be a cheap S lump in there somewhere though?
Re: WTH??!?! Have you seen this item on ebay.
Posted: Thu May 26, 2016 9:55 pm
by Tupers
Pete wrote:
Isn't that the firm that were on the rogue traders TV prog? Dished pistons and hardy Spicers is odd for a 1071? Could be a cheap S lump in there somewhere though?
I went and looked at it this evening. It's not an S block unfortunately just a pre A+ 1275 with +.030 TRW pistons (Dad used to buy them for £9 each) a 286 cam and a light flywheel.
I had high hopes but sadly it wasn't all that special.
Re: WTH??!?! Have you seen this item on ebay.
Posted: Thu May 26, 2016 11:14 pm
by STG95F