Buying a stag

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varsas

4,004 posts

201 months

Friday 27th November 2015
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I'd be interested to hear what you find. I spent last winter restoring mine (not that I did any of the difficult work, but spending days in a freezing cold workshop stripping the underside, and driving round the country delivering/collecting parts means I did at least some hard work) and I'm interested in what it's worth.

I wish you luck, there are so many bad cars out there (or there were when I last looked 7 years ago, maybe I wasn't spending enough). Drive plenty, so you know what they should look and drive like.

Edited by varsas on Friday 27th November 21:55

anonymous-user

53 months

Friday 11th December 2015
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varsas said:
I'd be interested to hear what you find. I spent last winter restoring mine (not that I did any of the difficult work, but spending days in a freezing cold workshop stripping the underside, and driving round the country delivering/collecting parts means I did at least some hard work) and I'm interested in what it's worth.

I wish you luck, there are so many bad cars out there (or there were when I last looked 7 years ago, maybe I wasn't spending enough). Drive plenty, so you know what they should look and drive like.

Edited by anonymous-user on Friday 27th November 21:55
The trouble is that there are a lot of ropey ones out there but people advertise them as being perfect normally asking mediocre money, hence to the uninitiated they use these as guide prices so a sorted car for a few thousand more looks dear.
Stags cost a lot of money to restore as you must be aware.

varsas

4,004 posts

201 months

Friday 11th December 2015
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Raygun said:
varsas said:
I'd be interested to hear what you find. I spent last winter restoring mine (not that I did any of the difficult work, but spending days in a freezing cold workshop stripping the underside, and driving round the country delivering/collecting parts means I did at least some hard work) and I'm interested in what it's worth.

I wish you luck, there are so many bad cars out there (or there were when I last looked 7 years ago, maybe I wasn't spending enough). Drive plenty, so you know what they should look and drive like.

Edited by varsas on Friday 27th November 21:55
The trouble is that there are a lot of ropey ones out there but people advertise them as being perfect normally asking mediocre money, hence to the uninitiated they use these as guide prices so a sorted car for a few thousand more looks dear.
Stags cost a lot of money to restore as you must be aware.
Well, it's all relative. At least you can get parts (mostly), you're not having to make wings or doors from scratch, engine and gearbox parts are plentiful...it could be worse!

Dr Interceptor

7,743 posts

195 months

Saturday 12th December 2015
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I'm contemplating selling mine in the Spring... Sept 74 car, pretty much all original (unrestored). She's a manual in Pimento red with a brown (chestnut) interior. Proper 70s. In very good original condition, but needs the sills doing, I had one repaired two years ago, and now the other needs doing, but in an ideal world, a body shop would cut out both and replace with new panels.

Every MOT back to 77
Every single bill for anything ever spent
This year I had the engine professionally rebuilt - +40 bore, all new pistons, so should be good for another 50k miles.
One owner from 77 to four years ago



Edited by Dr Interceptor on Saturday 12th December 10:07

anonymous-user

53 months

Saturday 12th December 2015
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My manual o/d 74 pimento stag with chestnut interior had an unhappy ending back in 2005 DR Interceptor.


Dr Interceptor

7,743 posts

195 months

Saturday 12th December 2015
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Raygun said:
My manual o/d 74 pimento stag with chestnut interior had an unhappy ending back in 2005 DR Interceptor.

Ouch, that looks painful. Don't see many Pimento/Chestnut cars...

I do love the interior in mine though.




anonymous-user

53 months

Sunday 13th December 2015
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Dr Interceptor said:
Ouch, that looks painful. Don't see many Pimento/Chestnut cars...

I do love the interior in mine though.

Nice car, the well padded seats in chestnut look good, my front drivers seat had a rip on my car so I bought another chestnut seat cover from Rimmers, it was my first encounter of remanufactured items that were not the same as the originals, the colour match was dreadful.

Grandad Gaz

5,090 posts

245 months

Sunday 13th December 2015
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Dr Interceptor said:
I'm contemplating selling mine in the Spring... Sept 74 car, pretty much all original (unrestored). She's a manual in Pimento red with a brown (chestnut) interior. Proper 70s. In very good original condition, but needs the sills doing, I had one repaired two years ago, and now the other needs doing, but in an ideal world, a body shop would cut out both and replace with new panels.

Every MOT back to 77
Every single bill for anything ever spent
This year I had the engine professionally rebuilt - +40 bore, all new pistons, so should be good for another 50k miles.
One owner from 77 to four years ago



Edited by Dr Interceptor on Saturday 12th December 10:07
Do you have a figure in mind?

Dr Interceptor

7,743 posts

195 months

Monday 14th December 2015
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Grandad Gaz said:
Do you have a figure in mind?
In the height of summer, and with the sills done, she'd be £15k... as she is, probably £12k.

It's the history file that really sells her though. There is literally every receipt back to 77, including some bodywork that was done around 1988. The file includes an exchange of letters between the owners and the garage, as the works to replace wings and paint were costing a lot more than the estimate. The owners offered the garage cash plus their Austin Cambridge in part-ex to cover the bill.

They bought her from 'The Haven Hotel Garage' in Sandbanks, Poole (now demolished and flats built there), and lived in Preston. They owned the car up from 1978 to 2011, then sold it to a chap who only kept her a year, probably because the engine needed doing and he wasn't brave enough. I bought her in 2012.

Anyway, she's far from being a concours car, but has character in spades that something that has had a nut and bolt rebuild can only dream of.

dc2rr07

1,238 posts

230 months

Saturday 9th January 2016
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Any look, if you have not made your mind up on spec I would go with a MK2 with manual + overdrive and obviously original engine, the old horror stories of engines failing was more due to the fact BL could not build them properly rather than poor design, Channel 4 for the love of cars did an episode on one (series 1 episode 3)and proved the engine and cooling were OK when put together correctly.

m9fdb

24 posts

180 months

Monday 25th January 2016
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I could be tempted to sell my Stag if the right offer was made

Its Sapphire Blue, Manual o/d with Black trim

Its body colour underneath and has been fully polybushed as well - it also had a bottom end rebuild last November by Carlow Engineering and drives perfectly.

If your interested let me know as i think we have spoke on the stag forum

Here's a recent picture of it





Edited by m9fdb on Monday 25th January 16:04

dc2rr07

1,238 posts

230 months

Monday 25th January 2016
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m9fdb said:
I could be tempted to sell my Stag if the right offer was made

Its Sapphire Blue, Manual o/d with Black trim

Its body colour underneath and has been fully polybushed as well - it also had a bottom end rebuild last November by Carlow Engineering and drives perfectly.

If your interested let me know as i think we have spoke on the stag forum

Here's a recent picture of it





Edited by m9fdb on Monday 25th January 16:04
Like the colour, lovely looking example.

BurblingBrownOne

300 posts

214 months

Tuesday 26th January 2016
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dc2rr07 said:
Like the colour, lovely looking example.
Agree - that is one of the best colour combinations for a Stag!

m9fdb

24 posts

180 months

Tuesday 26th January 2016
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Thanks for the comments

laserblue

68 posts

220 months

Sunday 28th February 2016
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My lhd Stag is for sale.
I bought the Triumph from an owner who had this car for 30 years......

laserblue

68 posts

220 months

Sunday 28th February 2016
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Hardtop in the garage.
See my advert on mobile.de and autoscout24

laserblue

68 posts

220 months

Sunday 28th February 2016
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And now on Pistonheads also.