Furthest distance travelled to buy a car........

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Trying to sell my Mitsubishi GTO and losing the will to live with waste of time enquiries from guys living miles away who never show. What's the furthest anyone has travelled to buy a car?

[Finlandia]

From mid Sweden to London.

[sinizter]

Epic Roadtrip "Live"

[twazzock]

My best so far is about 350 miles for a £450 Pug 205...

[DrTre]

Chap working in Korea got off the plane at Heathrow, came up to mine on the train, gave me the cash, took the integrale and off he went (on the offchance he's reading this, I'll have the car back!)

ETA he didn't drive the car back to Korea...

Edited by DrTre on Monday 17th October 22:36

[Rsohyes]

Me and my brother travelled 650miles from the West coast of Scotland to Plymouth, by train, to pick up a £1k Mk5 RS2000

[ewan221]

600 mile round trip for a Boxster. Same car was sold to a guy in Wales who flew up to Glasgow then 445 miles home

[stick100]

hertford to aberdean for a evo5 rs

[Dino D]

Went from Canterbury to Edinburgh to get mine.
The car was sold new in Southhampton and bought by the guy I got it from in Birmingham - been up and down the country this one!

[TNTom]

thinking about going from slough to edinburgh to pick up a £600 primera gt, am i mad??

Edited by TNTom on Monday 17th October 23:58

[A.J.M]

62 miles, i dont win this one.

[twazzock]

TNTom said:

thinking about going from slough to edinburgh to pick up a £600 primera gt, am i mad??

Edited by TNTom on Monday 17th October 23:58

Quite a lot for a fairly cheap car but I'd happily do it (assuming it still makes financial sense after trains/fuel costs!)

[NiceCupOfTea]

Peterborough, Luton, Aylesbury, Portsmouth, all from SE London.

[Leigh996tt]

Mallorca to North Yorkshire. Guy who bought my last 911 did the journey 2 weekends on the trot to view and buy, then pay and drive it home. Good effort

[martin mrt]

Aberdeen to London to buy a £300 16v Mk3 Golf GTI, it was from a fellow PHer and once all the small niggles were fixed it was the best £500 I've spent (includes air fare and fuel home)

[HD Adam]

UK to Houston for a truck.

[Parabola]

Manchester to Belfast for an MGB.

Beautiful sunset drive back on the A75.. followed by torrential rain and wind on a dark M6. Pretty soon decided on a headlamp upgrade!

[sleep envy]

London to Telgte in Germany

[irf]

A friend went from west London to past aberdeen, I think near fraserburgh to pick a car up.

I've not had to go too far yet for a car but I do remember going from London to Glasgow to pick up two alloys. Yes, 800 mile round trip for two alloys even though the guy said he'd get them courier'd down to me. Me being impatient couldn't wait that long and just drove up.

[Donatello]

Finlandia said:

From mid Sweden to London.

When my OH's brother sold his Evo, a young lad called Sven flew over from Sweden, to London, then got the train up to Norwich and then onto us in Great Yarmouth.

Looked at the car, took him to the bank, he paid cash and drove it home.

Emailed 2 days later to say he had a lovely road trip and the car was brilliant! In my eyes, that man is a hero...