Old Car Brochures

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Carfolio said:

Won't be very soon I'm afraid, but I'll get around to it eventually ;-)

In your own time lad

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Chrisw666 said:

I remember promising to send a pm about some TVR wedge stuff I have in this thread, was it to the OP?

I don't think so sir

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Nice selection there Rob. I was up til real late checking them out!

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Negative Creep said:

On the whole they are worth very little, which is handy when you're buying them. Still need them for 3 of the cars I've owned - 96 Colt, mk1 mx5 nad Golf GTi mk2 all of which seem like gold dust. Was bidding on the latter toay but it went for over £10!

No spares of those three...sorry!

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williamp said:

I have a few aston brochures I am thinking of getting rid of. I also have a (sort of) brochure which is very rare, and now, possibly unique. When Aston tried to buy MG in 1980 (see the car, below for the story)

http://www.nutleysports.co.uk/AstonMGB-Silver.htm

Their board prepared documents showing what their proposal would be. I believe these were made for the directors of both companies, so must be very rare. The advert above shows something simmilar, but not quite what I have. If anyone is interested I'll scan some images for you.

That very car is for sale right now! (I saw it in Classic & Sports Car Mag)

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Chrisw666 said:

Chris_w666 said:

I do have a TVR wedges sales pack that comes with quite a number of 80's TVR magazine cuttings that I dug out the other day though.

It's been more than a year since I posted the above but I still have them. I'd rather get them to a PHer than eBay so if someone is interested and covers postage....

I also have a massive pile of Sprints cluttering up the place

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FunBusMk2 said:

williamp said:

I have a few aston brochures I am thinking of getting rid of. I also have a (sort of) brochure which is very rare, and now, possibly unique.

Now. Despite me parting with my collection, what you've said above has grabbed my attention! Should you ever be parting with any of it I'd be interested (even if £'s are involved).

Re-cluttering?

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NelsonR32 said:

I've got some mint Jaguar XJ Coupe brochures from the late 70's in my loft that my Dad had. Are they worth much?

You'd probably get £5-£10 each on eBay

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wildcat45 said:

Not just me then!

Plenty of us!!

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GBB said:

there is someone somewhere who could do with a 1982 Nissan Sunny Brochure.

I sold that very brochure for £5 a couple of weeks ago!

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Negative Creep said:

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GBB said:

there is someone somewhere who could do with a 1982 Nissan Sunny Brochure.

I sold that very brochure for £5 a couple of weeks ago!

I have more Nissan/Datsun brochures than anything else

I have a shed load of Datsun/Nissan Haynes manuals, some still sealed up!

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Old brochures are fascinating, thanks for sharing!

I too collect/trade.

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A bit un p.c.

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Simply lovely!

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5 USA said:

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So....anybody else got some boxes taking up space that I can help with?

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So..again If anybody has some boxes they want shifting (and want some silver to cross their palms ) please give me a shout!

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M7 ATW said:

Hi everyone,

Great post - reminded me that i used to try to get a brochure for each car i've owned.

This has dropped off over recent years, but this thread has made me want to try and get them retrospectively.

How easy do you think mk4/mk5 escort and a fiesta XR2I brochure would be to get hold of?

I'm going to go and try and find my existing brochures now :-)

As said, on Ebay, probably around a fiver?

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Baked_bean said:

I am not a Brochure collector but In work we have a Lexus lfa hardback brochure complete with box etc....... It is lovely and I want it. Is it rare or collectible in anyway?

I would say so.

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droopsnoot said:

I used to collect brochures, not so much now though. I can't actually remember whether I've still got them all or chucked most of them out years ago, and unfortunately I've got so many magazines piled up in front of the side-loft door it's the work of a couple of hours to shift them just to get inside.

The mice like them for bedding