A blast from the past - 90's AutoTrader

A blast from the past - 90's AutoTrader

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Shnozz

27,419 posts

270 months

Tuesday 25th October 2016
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Best thread on PH in a long time this.

Brings back many, many happy memories as a kid. Like others here, a copy of this (and later Top Marques) would keep me entertained the entire week until the next edition was out.

Rossco2010

133 posts

167 months

Tuesday 25th October 2016
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Brilliant thread; oh for a time machine and some fun money...

This does show it cuts both ways though - I can see a couple of 996 Carreras in there for £50k+ so we can't be too ungrateful for the passage of time!

Shnozz

27,419 posts

270 months

Tuesday 25th October 2016
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Rossco2010 said:
Brilliant thread; oh for a time machine and some fun money...

This does show it cuts both ways though - I can see a couple of 996 Carreras in there for £50k+ so we can't be too ungrateful for the passage of time!
Part of the amusement of these is seeing a £15k clown's shoe 1.9 Z3 next to a £5k E30 M3. Or a £50k 996 advertised next to a £4k 964.

wormus

14,497 posts

202 months

Tuesday 25th October 2016
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In the days before the internet and email. Didn't they used to send a man out to photograph the car ? Or did I just make that up?

helix402

7,832 posts

181 months

Tuesday 25th October 2016
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mx5ian

467 posts

189 months

Tuesday 25th October 2016
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wormus said:
In the days before the internet and email. Didn't they used to send a man out to photograph the car ? Or did I just make that up?
Yes they did, Spent many an hour stood around at the "meeting point" waiting for him to show up to take one pic! The guy we used to have was also a taxi driver so would often show up with a customer in the back of his cab!

ozzyt17

65 posts

95 months

Tuesday 25th October 2016
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Not exactly classifieds but these are adverts from a regional Hertfordshire magazine in 1995 my parents had from their wedding day (their picture was in a wedding dress maker). They are only a couple of ads but they still show how cheap SUV's were, and how Ssangyong were using the Mercedes trick even back then.



Edited by ozzyt17 on Tuesday 25th October 19:51

STOWE

97 posts

215 months

Tuesday 25th October 2016
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Not exactly Autotrader but just as annoying

STOWE

97 posts

215 months

Tuesday 25th October 2016
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Oh and this


andymac

112 posts

282 months

Tuesday 25th October 2016
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Well check these Aston's and ferrari'sclassic car and sports car mag 1986

rtz62

3,340 posts

154 months

Tuesday 25th October 2016
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My godparents lived in Alford, London, and I remember the famous Mike You HS RS Soecialist there;




helix402

7,832 posts

181 months

Tuesday 25th October 2016
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Here's a choice: 316 or 3.0CSI?


pSynrg

238 posts

181 months

Tuesday 25th October 2016
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Lovely stuff. Stirred my interest.

It's not just the cars that have lost it. Check out eBay prices for old Auto-Traders. Around 20 odd quid!

myhandle

1,180 posts

173 months

Wednesday 26th October 2016
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STOWE said:
Not exactly Autotrader but just as annoying
Wow. What year was this? I didn't think the DB5 and Miura ever dropped this low.

As an aside, what a brilliant thread. This is what PH should be about. Brilliiant.

myhandle

1,180 posts

173 months

Wednesday 26th October 2016
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STOWE said:
Not exactly Autotrader but just as annoying
Wow. What year was this? I didn't think the DB5 and Miura ever dropped this low.

As an aside, what a brilliant thread. This is what PH should be about. Brilliiant.

myhandle

1,180 posts

173 months

Wednesday 26th October 2016
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s m said:
They'd still got a way to fall from then though

Here at 6k - albeit a few more miles and years



Can't recall them ever sinking as low as the E34 Ms though

They were going, on occasion, for half that at the bottom
Back in '98 a good friend of mine who now has many interesting cars went to test drive an E28 M5, and it turned out to be an an automatic M535i. Back then some dealers thought the customers didn't know the difference, or actiuslly didn't knot themselves. The bodykit pictured was on all M535i E28s, and on very few M5s. The car in the advert may be an M535i.

dimik

14 posts

159 months

Wednesday 26th October 2016
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That should be posted outside some of the recent auctions which have taken place to wake people up to the madness that is today's Porsche classic prices.....1975 Turbo for under 12k - even by 1993 standards surely that is cheap, but I do remember that 930 turbos had fallen to under 20k in the early 00's and you won't even find a knackered one for under 70-80k now

JNR77

279 posts

237 months

Wednesday 26th October 2016
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Can we have dates of the adverts!!

Best thread in ages.

I remember going for a test drive with my dad in 1992/93 in a DB5, they wanted £25,000 he thought it was too much!

People seem to have forgotten the Classic car boom of the late 80's and crash in early 90's!

mwstewart

7,553 posts

187 months

Wednesday 26th October 2016
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Cracking thread!

I also did the early morning thing with AT - usually with my Dad when he or I were looking for a new car.

Origin Unknown

2,293 posts

168 months

Wednesday 26th October 2016
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A term you don't see anymore, T&T!

Much like the image that was doing the rounds a while back of a cassette tape and pencil stating that only those of a certain age and above will understand the relationship.