My Ebay "Bargain" Alfa Romeo 166 3L V6
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Hello all.
Decided to start a thread in here as it goes forward. So Tuesday afternoon during a pitstop at a services on the way home from "the other side of the country" as it were I was sitting going through Ebay looking for an Alfa Spider 916. Decided to simply do a generic catch all Alfa Romeo search.
As I was trawling through all the 147's, 156's etc I came across a 3L 166.It's a car I have always liked and wanted but never been able to justify. Looked really pretty in the pics all green exterior and cream interior. Write up was a little poor but the seller had put a phone number in so figured what the hell give him a call can't hurt.
Called him up and as a bonus off the mark he could speak proper English. He was very polite and friendly seemed a bit of a fan of cars overall. Answered all my Questions quite honestly which was refreshing.
Then went a little further and mentioned a few things without prompting from me that weren't listed due to them not being overly important but based on my questions wanted me to have a clear picture of the car I was buying just so I didn't feel I was being cheated if I won and turned up and found things he felt were not overly relevant.
Basically was left feeling he was a pretty straight chap. Pondered the situation on the way home and then around 15 mins before end of auction thought "f
k it what's the worst can happen" and placed a bid at £700. I felt it was max I was willing to gamble as even if it all goes wrong I then only stand to lose maybe 1-200.
In the end won the auction at £660.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2000-ALFA-ROMEO-166-V6-2...
Looks pretty clean in the pictures and hopefully only needs a spring to get it through its mot.
My goal is to to get it mot'd and taxed all in at roughly no more than £1200. It would make it the cheapest one in the country that I could find in this spec.
So far therefore.
Car cost me £661.
2 new springs at a cost of £87.92
Will update as things progress including pics of car in the flesh.
Decided to start a thread in here as it goes forward. So Tuesday afternoon during a pitstop at a services on the way home from "the other side of the country" as it were I was sitting going through Ebay looking for an Alfa Spider 916. Decided to simply do a generic catch all Alfa Romeo search.
As I was trawling through all the 147's, 156's etc I came across a 3L 166.It's a car I have always liked and wanted but never been able to justify. Looked really pretty in the pics all green exterior and cream interior. Write up was a little poor but the seller had put a phone number in so figured what the hell give him a call can't hurt.
Called him up and as a bonus off the mark he could speak proper English. He was very polite and friendly seemed a bit of a fan of cars overall. Answered all my Questions quite honestly which was refreshing.
Then went a little further and mentioned a few things without prompting from me that weren't listed due to them not being overly important but based on my questions wanted me to have a clear picture of the car I was buying just so I didn't feel I was being cheated if I won and turned up and found things he felt were not overly relevant.
Basically was left feeling he was a pretty straight chap. Pondered the situation on the way home and then around 15 mins before end of auction thought "f
k it what's the worst can happen" and placed a bid at £700. I felt it was max I was willing to gamble as even if it all goes wrong I then only stand to lose maybe 1-200.In the end won the auction at £660.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2000-ALFA-ROMEO-166-V6-2...
Looks pretty clean in the pictures and hopefully only needs a spring to get it through its mot.
My goal is to to get it mot'd and taxed all in at roughly no more than £1200. It would make it the cheapest one in the country that I could find in this spec.
So far therefore.
Car cost me £661.
2 new springs at a cost of £87.92
Will update as things progress including pics of car in the flesh.
Quality purchase there! 
Weekend project. Or just something for the weekend rather than a project. I honestly don't know why I bought it other than i have always wanted one. If its as simple to get on the road as seems then I will have to decide whether to keep or move on.
Have limited parking and no need for two saloons. My thought process was as described above. Common sense doesn't really apply :-)
Personally I think it could be a future classic if looked after as there are a lot of very used and abused ones out there and the styling is met with either love or hate. It could potentially be money in the bank therefore especially if my plan to move to Aus comes off.
Looking around eBay auto trader etc there are very few of this shape for sale and a lot of them look like sheds.
Have limited parking and no need for two saloons. My thought process was as described above. Common sense doesn't really apply :-)
Personally I think it could be a future classic if looked after as there are a lot of very used and abused ones out there and the styling is met with either love or hate. It could potentially be money in the bank therefore especially if my plan to move to Aus comes off.
Looking around eBay auto trader etc there are very few of this shape for sale and a lot of them look like sheds.
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