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Lester H said:
Also remarkable is the number of classics for sale reputed to have been maintained by aeronautical engineers. There must be more who service Boeings and Airbus than there were reputed to be dentists and architects cruising around in Saabs.
Actually, I did buy an immaculate e36 328 coupe from a chap who seviced 747s at St Athan, so there are some out there.SS427 Camaro said:
Yes, John Brown ! Whatever happened to him ?
This has reminded me of the great half-page descriptive ramblings from Ivan & Tim Dutton, the Bugatti specialists, in Motorsport each month . I miss these highly entertaining and stylish adverts...same with John Peel and Alistair Cooke on Radio.4. I fear this may be showing my before time age but thank heavens for iPlayer and such like...v8250 said:
This has reminded me of the great half-page descriptive ramblings from Ivan & Tim Dutton, the Bugatti specialists, in Motorsport each month . I miss these highly entertaining and stylish adverts...same with John Peel and Alistair Cooke on Radio.4. I fear this may be showing my before time age but thank heavens for iPlayer and such like...
Yes loved Ivan D’s crazy adverts !rallycross said:
v8250 said:
This has reminded me of the great half-page descriptive ramblings from Ivan & Tim Dutton, the Bugatti specialists, in Motorsport each month . I miss these highly entertaining and stylish adverts...same with John Peel and Alistair Cooke on Radio.4. I fear this may be showing my before time age but thank heavens for iPlayer and such like...
Yes loved Ivan D’s crazy adverts !
Auto810graphy said:
That was my Dad - he loved unusual cars and didn't care if it was £250 or £250k
I used to see some of them and say "Who the hell wants to buy that ?"
His reply "Someone will and we've got the only one !"
He was never that worried about selling them, some remained in stock for 10+ years
Sadly he died last year at 81 - trading until the end - I'm still selling off the last of the stock
Lester H said:
Just come across a superb example of classic dealer ad-speak: ‘Previously supplied by myself’.
The premise of that is fine: it implies they actually have some prior knowledge of the car. The use of "myself" throws it off-balance, of course. A pet hate of mine at the moment is people who photograph seemingly irrelevant details, like every tiny scratch on a wheel (which they've mentioned in the blurb), but forget critical stuff like, you know, the interior.
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That was my Dad - he loved unusual cars and didn't care if it was £250 or £250k
I used to see some of them and say "Who the hell wants to buy that ?"
His reply "Someone will and we've got the only one !"
He was never that worried about selling them, some remained in stock for 10+ years
Sadly he died last year at 81 - trading until the end - I'm still selling off the last of the stock
I always - over many years - enjoyed your Dad’s ads, both the eclectic stock and the homespun descriptions (and the sometimes rather random asking prices).
That was my Dad - he loved unusual cars and didn't care if it was £250 or £250k
I used to see some of them and say "Who the hell wants to buy that ?"
His reply "Someone will and we've got the only one !"
He was never that worried about selling them, some remained in stock for 10+ years
Sadly he died last year at 81 - trading until the end - I'm still selling off the last of the stock
I always - over many years - enjoyed your Dad’s ads, both the eclectic stock and the homespun descriptions (and the sometimes rather random asking prices).
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