HENRY - EXPECT A VISIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I am in Edinburgh and hidden from that much money, THANK GOD. to busy for there PA to arrange the dealer to pick it up/drop off. Must be to busy to enjoy the car as well, it surly just a status symbol
I actually watch my service getting done, all part of the ownership experiance.
Good luck with the GT2 if you go for it.
I actually watch my service getting done, all part of the ownership experiance.
Good luck with the GT2 if you go for it.
jonny996 said:
DanH said:
If thats the gumball car, wasn't it run for several years and never serviced? At least its history is pretty well documented in video footage.
do you not think that is just a bit of bravado from the owners . I reckon he would get it serviced in secret.
Well if you can find the records you'll be getting a bargain potentially, but frankly I'd pay more for a car that I know has been looked after rather than buy one for less that I know hasn't. He's done trackdays in it too, and personally I swap the oil out after a few. He's potentially never done it! I'm sure I saw some dodgey footage of this car being aimed at pedestrians on the pavement somewhere in Africa at some point.
Put it this way, the only way he managed to sell it was through auction a year ago. So it seems a bit of a gamble for 50k.
what i find amusing about the whole thing was that a year or so ago when i was trying to chop in my gt2 i phoned up henry who politely declined to buy mine, stating (and correct me if time has distorted my memory of things henry) it was too much of a specialist car and the time of year i was selling (about september last year in fact) was a bad time of year, and that it would sit around for too long.
he has subsequently gone on to buy possibly the worst example of a gt2 in terms of everyone knowing of its thrashed history.
now i'm not bitter or anything, but at least mine was owned by porshce gb, had full documented history etc etc and was a very well looked after example.
clearly the price this one is being sold for can mitigate some of the possible concerns one may have, but as the old saying goes, if it's too good to be true...
caveat emptor...
he has subsequently gone on to buy possibly the worst example of a gt2 in terms of everyone knowing of its thrashed history.
now i'm not bitter or anything, but at least mine was owned by porshce gb, had full documented history etc etc and was a very well looked after example.
clearly the price this one is being sold for can mitigate some of the possible concerns one may have, but as the old saying goes, if it's too good to be true...
caveat emptor...
To the right person I'm sure its a bargain.
I mean, if you intend to 'tweek' it then there's the possibility of buying it for late 40's, sending it to somewhere like RUF & getting them to rebuild the engine to an increased specification.
For another 25k you would end up with a very very nice car warrantied by RUF themselves.
If however you just want a standard GT2 then I suspect this is no the car for you.
I mean, if you intend to 'tweek' it then there's the possibility of buying it for late 40's, sending it to somewhere like RUF & getting them to rebuild the engine to an increased specification.
For another 25k you would end up with a very very nice car warrantied by RUF themselves.
If however you just want a standard GT2 then I suspect this is no the car for you.
p4lny said:
it is possible to contact him through email, i did this a year ago and managed to obtain a contact no from him, try M5board or just google lonman, you'll find all the info you need.
He's on here too: www.pistonheads.com/gassing/profile.asp?h=0&memberId=18912
Tracing the service history can't be very hard. So we conslude that the reason it's not provided with any, and that the mileage isn't waranted, is (I suspect) because the last owner and also Henry think it's easier to sell without them.
So they have concluded this car will shift more easily, with a better margin with no history than with the history it does have through the OPC network.
That doesn't make it a bad car. But it does mean the you'd probably buy the exact same car for less if it had a documented (presumably very poor) history and a relatively large mileage.
So what's out bet? 60,000 miles and only serviced once at 12k (I found a post on another board to suggest it had been done then)?
So they have concluded this car will shift more easily, with a better margin with no history than with the history it does have through the OPC network.
That doesn't make it a bad car. But it does mean the you'd probably buy the exact same car for less if it had a documented (presumably very poor) history and a relatively large mileage.
So what's out bet? 60,000 miles and only serviced once at 12k (I found a post on another board to suggest it had been done then)?
hobo said:
But why would it not have been serviced ? I mean the guy was hardly short of a penny or two & they don't even cost that much to service, so ?
Whilst I'd agree about the mileage being a bit 'shy' I wouldn't have thought service history would be that bad.
Whilst I'd agree about the mileage being a bit 'shy' I wouldn't have thought service history would be that bad.
So why doesn't Henry phone around, put it together, and sell the car with a partial history and fill in some of the blanks, so sell it for £x,000 more? I would suggest he has, and found it to be v. poor, and so decided he'll get more for it and shift it more easily without anything.
Maybe it hasn't got a service history because:
1st service - 6,000 miles (in 2002)
2nd service - 12,000 miles (in 2003)
3rd service - 18,000 miles (in 2004)
4th service - 24,000 miles (in 2005)
5th service - 30,000 miles (in 2006)
Then it gets re'pod & suddenly appears back on market with only 20,000 miles on it ?
A lot easier to bin the service history than to explain the mileage.
Binned.
Just doesn't make sense that someone with a 110k car wouldn't pay for a £1k service IMO.
1st service - 6,000 miles (in 2002)
2nd service - 12,000 miles (in 2003)
3rd service - 18,000 miles (in 2004)
4th service - 24,000 miles (in 2005)
5th service - 30,000 miles (in 2006)
Then it gets re'pod & suddenly appears back on market with only 20,000 miles on it ?
A lot easier to bin the service history than to explain the mileage.
Binned.
Just doesn't make sense that someone with a 110k car wouldn't pay for a £1k service IMO.
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