450SE for Sale
Discussion
Just not using it as much as I should do. If no one wants it, I will keep it, and not be too disappointed. I just don't seem to have the time to take it out for more than a 20 - 30 mile blast once a weekend and occasionally for a pose mid week if the weather is favourable. If you do the maths then it works out very expensive per mile done in the car. It seems a shame to keep it in the garage when it should be driven more often than it is.
Nige'
PS I love the car dearly and will probably change my mind about selling it after taking it for a blast !!
Nige'
PS I love the car dearly and will probably change my mind about selling it after taking it for a blast !!
(and she keeps the poxy MR2)rev-erend said:
Dicky
Just remind her that it's pronounced :
M
R
Deux
Just like the French word for Turd..
She'd better like it cos it just cost me a pair of tyres to get the MOT
It was BBWF that swung it though, She loved it. PS did i tell you She complained to the MD about the poor service at the bar and lack of advertised facilities? Didn't bother us a bit, but gave her something to do on Monday morning! And guess what..........we've been offered a free weekend VIP return visit
lovely jubbly 
So we will be selling BBWF 2005 to them (just in case its the return venue)Nige'
Good luck with the sale if that's what you want to do.
In the end though it can sometimes be cheaper to keep the car you have as a lot of "wedgers" do end coming back into the fold.
I sold my 350 because of impending fatherhood and still ended up needing two cars and driving one of them 99% of the time with just me in it so could have kept the 350. Also it's a sure rule that whenever you sell a car you feel like it's been given away but when it comes to buying you've paid too much. There was no way I could replace the 350 with another as good for anywhere near approaching the price I got for it.
Suggest the same may be the case with your 450 in the long run (can you really live without that noise - it might be for only 20 minutes a week but those 20 mins are priceless).
Good luck with the sale if that's what you want to do.
In the end though it can sometimes be cheaper to keep the car you have as a lot of "wedgers" do end coming back into the fold.
I sold my 350 because of impending fatherhood and still ended up needing two cars and driving one of them 99% of the time with just me in it so could have kept the 350. Also it's a sure rule that whenever you sell a car you feel like it's been given away but when it comes to buying you've paid too much. There was no way I could replace the 350 with another as good for anywhere near approaching the price I got for it.
Suggest the same may be the case with your 450 in the long run (can you really live without that noise - it might be for only 20 minutes a week but those 20 mins are priceless).
chunder said:
Nige'
Good luck with the sale if that's what you want to do.
In the end though it can sometimes be cheaper to keep the car you have as a lot of "wedgers" do end coming back into the fold.
I sold my 350 because of impending fatherhood and still ended up needing two cars and driving one of them 99% of the time with just me in it so could have kept the 350. Also it's a sure rule that whenever you sell a car you feel like it's been given away but when it comes to buying you've paid too much. There was no way I could replace the 350 with another as good for anywhere near approaching the price I got for it.
Suggest the same may be the case with your 450 in the long run (can you really live without that noise - it might be for only 20 minutes a week but those 20 mins are priceless).
Summed up perfectly.
:dickymint said:
PS did i tell you She complained to the MD about the poor service at the bar and lack of advertised facilities? Didn't bother us a bit, but gave her something to do on Monday morning! And guess what..........we've been offered a free weekend VIP return visit
You lucky G** .. enjpy you free weekend !
dickymint said:
we've been offered a free weekend VIP return visit
I had a word with one of 'the chase' staff in the White Horse in Ettington last night and she intimated that there will be no problem holding BBWF 2005 there if we want to.
Hello Chunder !!
I agree with your comments. The 20 minutes a week are priceless, I only have to drive the 450 and I don't want to sell it. So far, I have had very little response to the ad, which I am suprised at, as these cars only become available infrequently. So I am not too disappointed, as it is still mine, and I will go for a quick blast on Sunday. In between the rain last week, I went to town on her and gave her a thorough Valet. After I finished she looked great, its then that those doubts about selling her come back into my tiny head !!
I have just got promoted at work, so the financial constraints have been lifted somewhat and if I can scrape by until June next year when my lad qualifies for nursery grants, I should be ok. Still, if the right person came along with the dosh, then it would still be tempting. I can see the point about getting rid of a good car, in order to come back to wedge ownership at a later date only to get one not as good as you had. It would be very difficult to get one as good as mine, as well as waiting for one to turn up !!
Watch this space.
Dazed and slightly confused
Nige'
I agree with your comments. The 20 minutes a week are priceless, I only have to drive the 450 and I don't want to sell it. So far, I have had very little response to the ad, which I am suprised at, as these cars only become available infrequently. So I am not too disappointed, as it is still mine, and I will go for a quick blast on Sunday. In between the rain last week, I went to town on her and gave her a thorough Valet. After I finished she looked great, its then that those doubts about selling her come back into my tiny head !!
I have just got promoted at work, so the financial constraints have been lifted somewhat and if I can scrape by until June next year when my lad qualifies for nursery grants, I should be ok. Still, if the right person came along with the dosh, then it would still be tempting. I can see the point about getting rid of a good car, in order to come back to wedge ownership at a later date only to get one not as good as you had. It would be very difficult to get one as good as mine, as well as waiting for one to turn up !!
Watch this space.
Dazed and slightly confused
Nige'
Gun metal said:
can somebody tell me where I can buy a seac
Try here, but theres probably a queue!
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/wedgies/gallery%20SEAC.htm
or here (Tas may well throw in some tools as well
) www.pistonheads.com/sales/detail.asp?i=23285&s=5
Thanks for the Plug. Got some interest in the car.
At £8k it's cheap - around £4k to finish will put it in the £12k region. A mega Wedge chassis, full race car with SEAC style for £12k - bargain of the century. I tallied up the bills -
£21k to date 
Problem selling Wedges is that Griff's and Chimps are in the £10 - £12k region now (may be nails but ce est la vie) - Steve Reid has seen this as a growing Wedge sales issue as well. Hope you can sell the car okay
TaS
At £8k it's cheap - around £4k to finish will put it in the £12k region. A mega Wedge chassis, full race car with SEAC style for £12k - bargain of the century. I tallied up the bills -
£21k to date Problem selling Wedges is that Griff's and Chimps are in the £10 - £12k region now (may be nails but ce est la vie) - Steve Reid has seen this as a growing Wedge sales issue as well. Hope you can sell the car okay
TaS
Hi Nige'
I spent 7 years wedgeless and add this to the couple before I got the first and it's a long wait sometimes before the finances do allow to get back into the fold. I can't really afford mine now but what the hell, the money would only go on something else that other people would consider more sensible (hmmm - like bread and milk sometimes).
I justify it as being my hobby as well and with a car allowance from work I need something and it is also a means of transport that is capable of being used everyday.
Maybe it's just me but I found that when wedgeless there was always this empty nagging feeling you carry round and despite owning and driving countless other vehicles, and some of them being a bit different, only a BBW filled the hole.
Regarding Tas's comment on prices it's a hard call - I would say you're in the right price range. With most marques once the cars are 15 odd years old they plateau out and condition is the key. Once they get to be collectors or classics then rarity must also come into it as well. I've always thought of the bigger engined wedges as being the natural upgrade for someone with a smaller wedge allowing others to experience V8 TVR ownership at an affordable price.
>> Edited by chunder on Wednesday 25th August 14:46
I spent 7 years wedgeless and add this to the couple before I got the first and it's a long wait sometimes before the finances do allow to get back into the fold. I can't really afford mine now but what the hell, the money would only go on something else that other people would consider more sensible (hmmm - like bread and milk sometimes).
I justify it as being my hobby as well and with a car allowance from work I need something and it is also a means of transport that is capable of being used everyday.
Maybe it's just me but I found that when wedgeless there was always this empty nagging feeling you carry round and despite owning and driving countless other vehicles, and some of them being a bit different, only a BBW filled the hole.
Regarding Tas's comment on prices it's a hard call - I would say you're in the right price range. With most marques once the cars are 15 odd years old they plateau out and condition is the key. Once they get to be collectors or classics then rarity must also come into it as well. I've always thought of the bigger engined wedges as being the natural upgrade for someone with a smaller wedge allowing others to experience V8 TVR ownership at an affordable price.
>> Edited by chunder on Wednesday 25th August 14:46
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