Why so high?

[rat rod]

SRT Hellcat said:

newsatten said:

Very eloquently put Rosco,
And always remember Caveat Emptor

absolutely.
RR Collecting Cars need to tell you where you stand legally with regard to non payment. They must have an agreed contract term for payment. But you need to be careful as the chap is a lawyer. Do not need any more headaches.
The Bird sounds like another PITA.

After 6 days of not hearing from the buyer i spoke to Collecting Cars and they said that if payment hasn't been made by 7 days i can walk

away from the deal which doesn't really help me but CC retain their commission , in this case over £4K,


Appararently the buyer has bought 9 cars from them in the last 2 weeks so they won't want to be upsetting him.

Me ,i'm so pissed off with the guy i want to cancel the deal and will be more than happy keeping the 430 if i can.

They sent him a email to see what's going on with only a day left of the payment deadline and he got in touch with me by phone

from Australia saying his secretary will be sendinga email,just wonder if and when he would have called if CC hadn't given him the

push with their emailed .Email with the cars details he needed came along with a purchase invoice for me to sign but i did not have the

necassary soft ware for that but gave him all the other info needed, I said that on payment i will email him a receipt.

Last Thursday was told by email that payment will be made over the weekend or by Tuesday of this week at the latest and replaced his

purchase invoice with a declaration that i agree to sell him the car at the hammer price which i did thinking i am going to get paid,

Now 14 days later i have given him double the time to pay ,missed 2 cars over the weekend that i could have bought if i'd been payed

on time.My main worry is barring in mind he is a lawyer does the declaraation i agreed to over weigh CC buyers rules which he has

broken big time.

Any legal people on the forum or with a bit of knowlegde

Up date on the T/Bird , seller has at last got back to me saying he has contacted DVLA and the V5 is being processed

and will be with him soon,it does state on the V5's that a registered keeper isn't proof of ownership so what is

Also by doing some digging i found that the car hasn't been taxed since 1998 and the last V5 was issued in 2006,

Can only assume it was being restored and then locked away in a collection somewhere.

The most important thing for me to find out is that the seller as title to the car and entitled to sell it.

Don't need someone knocking at my door with a court order asking for the keys to his T/Bird

Edited by rat rod on Wednesday 22 June 06:46

[Gtxxjon]

Time for all of us 'oldies' to assess our place 'in the market'?

There was a time 'the thrill' of owning an American car far outweighed its practicality.

If the 'real' War in the Ukraine was ten years ago, pre Covid and Brexit, it would be very different...

But there is obviously a World of pain going on overseas and overland!

Global warming and climate change is here now and we must be aware of our actions...

Driving a 'Gas Guzzler' is not viable both financially and for guilty pleasure?

I will own my Muscle cars at the great displeasure to the good wife and others...

They will stay behind 'closed doors' for my own 'guilty pleasure' and thoughts of a better time?

I have my memories and now its time for tiddlywinks and lawn bowls, back permitting lol...

[Gtxxjon]

I have 'worked on' several 'million dollar' Mopars back some twenty years ago!

They weren't million dollar cars then, just expensive cars that we couldn't personally afford...

Some of us knew the market for Yanks would get scary one day?
We tried to 'buy in' when prices were fairer, but some cars are always TOO much...

1.5 million dollar Fugly Mopars 'takes the biscuit' even for me lol...

[Gtxxjon]

We are back to the question ''why so high''?

Cars I can get (sometimes) badly painted 'sunflowers' is harder to imagine...

If I had a million pounds, what would I buy?

Ten years ago that was an easy one to answer...

Now I would give it to a Charity, that helped folks in NEED!

Or maybe this lol...



OR this?

Edited by Gtxxjon on Wednesday 22 June 10:16

[Gtxxjon]

But they are NOT me, as I am a simple guy with simple tastes...

So when I had the chance to buy this at $30,000, maybe I should have?

Famous and infamous all at once lol...





A good friend built this car and he did a fine job too.

Its very hard for a 'perfectionist' to get a mint Charger and make something THIS RUFF...

[newsatten]

Haha , I must be on the other page , the only reason I don’t got one is lack of cash
Couldn’t give a rats arse about environmental Bol—-s
One of the reasons I keep my guns is I know somewhere I’m pi—ing someone off!


If I was well heeled “oh ma dazs”
So it’s just looking and slightly dreaming now
Ces’t la vie it’s never been any different really
One car was always another car in waiting,
Johnny boy your lucky to still hang on to your turds
If only as you have the room to store such monsters
Big Mopars take up a lot of room

Why don’t you cash them in or at least make one good one ish out of the pile?? Lol

If a windfall ever drops my way
I’d quite like a 69” Zee with a 10 ltr Merlin thank you very much

[roscobbc]

Gtxxjon said:

We are back to the question ''why so high''?

Cars I can get (sometimes) badly painted 'sunflowers' is harder to imagine...

If I had a million pounds, what would I buy?

Ten years ago that was an easy one to answer...

Now I would give it to a Charity, that helped folks in NEED!

Or maybe this lol...



OR this?

Edited by Gtxxjon on Wednesday 22 June 10:16

I the UK 'we' all give to charity............if you were to include our HMG as a Charity. The money raked-in from all forms of taxation, whether central government, local, on fuel, energy costs, vat on sorce products, vat on products with other taxes on them etc etc......all humped on to the ordinary person is IMHO much like a charitable donation to 'feed' the burgeoning administrative government classes. And when we see HMG's 'charity' to other often corrupt countries.........I'm off on one here.......charitable organisations (read businesses) where perhap only a single figure percentages of 'donations' actually make it past the wages and overheads of the organisations to the intended recipients........

[aeropilot]

roscobbc said:

charitable organisations (read businesses) where perhap only a single figure percentages of 'donations' actually make it past the wages and overheads of the organisations to the intended recipients........

Indeed.

Many organisations are just businesses operating under charitable status, often in sometimes open conflict of the charity commission rules...!

[aeropilot]

newsatten said:

One of the reasons I keep my guns is I know somewhere I’m pi—ing someone off!

[roscobbc]

roscobbc said:

In the UK 'we' all give to charity............if you were to include our HMG as a Charity - and why wouldn't you. The money raked-in from all forms of taxation, whether central government, local, on fuel, energy costs, vat on sorce products, vat on products with other taxes on them etc etc......all humped on to the ordinary person is IMHO much like a charitable donation to 'feed' the burgeoning administrative government classes. And when we see HMG's 'charity' to other often corrupt countries.........I'm off on one here.......charitable organisations (read businesses) where perhap only a single figure percentages of 'donations' actually make it past the wages and overheads of the organisations to the intended recipients........

[P5BNij]

rat rod said:

SRT Hellcat said:

newsatten said:

Very eloquently put Rosco,
And always remember Caveat Emptor

absolutely.
RR Collecting Cars need to tell you where you stand legally with regard to non payment. They must have an agreed contract term for payment. But you need to be careful as the chap is a lawyer. Do not need any more headaches.
The Bird sounds like another PITA.

After 6 days of not hearing from the buyer i spoke to Collecting Cars and they said that if payment hasn't been made by 7 days i can walk

away from the deal which doesn't really help me but CC retain their commission , in this case over £4K,


Appararently the buyer has bought 9 cars from them in the last 2 weeks so they won't want to be upsetting him.

Me ,i'm so pissed off with the guy i want to cancel the deal and will be more than happy keeping the 430 if i can.

They sent him a email to see what's going on with only a day left of the payment deadline and he got in touch with me by phone

from Australia saying his secretary will be sendinga email,just wonder if and when he would have called if CC hadn't given him the

push with their emailed .Email with the cars details he needed came along with a purchase invoice for me to sign but i did not have the

necassary soft ware for that but gave him all the other info needed, I said that on payment i will email him a receipt.

Last Thursday was told by email that payment will be made over the weekend or by Tuesday of this week at the latest and replaced his

purchase invoice with a declaration that i agree to sell him the car at the hammer price which i did thinking i am going to get paid,

Now 14 days later i have given him double the time to pay ,missed 2 cars over the weekend that i could have bought if i'd been payed

on time.My main worry is barring in mind he is a lawyer does the declaraation i agreed to over weigh CC buyers rules which he has

broken big time.

Any legal people on the forum or with a bit of knowlegde

Up date on the T/Bird , seller has at last got back to me saying he has contacted DVLA and the V5 is being processed

and will be with him soon,it does state on the V5's that a registered keeper isn't proof of ownership so what is

Also by doing some digging i found that the car hasn't been taxed since 1998 and the last V5 was issued in 2006,

Can only assume it was being restored and then locked away in a collection somewhere.

The most important thing for me to find out is that the seller as title to the car and entitled to sell it.

Don't need someone knocking at my door with a court order asking for the keys to his T/Bird

Edited by rat rod on Wednesday 22 June 06:46

Blimey RR, you're going through the mill a bit this week, I hope it all comes out in the wash as my old Nan used to say. Since you sold the 430 I've been half daydreaming about what I'd buy with the money if it were mine, my head is still spinning at the thought of it

[rat rod]

P5BNij said:

Blimey RR, you're going through the mill a bit this week, I hope it all comes out in the wash as my old Nan used to say. Since you sold the 430 I've been half daydreaming about what I'd buy with the money if it were mine, my head is still spinning at the thought of it

Mines just spinning

[rat rod]

Gtxxjon said:

But they are NOT me, as I am a simple guy with simple tastes...

So when I had the chance to buy this at $30,000, maybe I should have?

Famous and infamous all at once lol...





A good friend built this car and he did a fine job too.

Its very hard for a 'perfectionist' to get a mint Charger and make something THIS RUFF...

Just perfect,won't change a thing,

No more polishing,worrying will it fit in the garage ,who cares just drive the wheels off it, Pure bliss

[newsatten]

Yep that’s something I’d love now , pure Road Kill
Motor, was always a thing I’ would have liked to do, make the car Uber strong
Reinforce the rails front and back,
Big heavy duty subframe connectors fully welded to the floor,
Fully sorted brakes all round, and update the steering and suspension,
The dream being get the car to run and drive like it was new, but look like a POS,

But the restorer in me kept getting in the way !
Ironically I really think I could achieve it now,

That hideous custom TA would be the perfect car, big motor, 4 speed, and ideal base car for a full on Road Kill
type jobbie!

I wonder

[aeropilot]

newsatten said:

That hideous custom TA would be the perfect car, big motor, 4 speed, and ideal base car for a full on Road Kill
type jobbie!

I wonder

Nah, that needed a bullnose putting back on, painting Brewster Green, adding some scuffs, dents and lots of dust.......

[rat rod]

newsatten said:

Yep that’s something I’d love now , pure Road Kill
Motor, was always a thing I’ would have liked to do, make the car Uber strong
Reinforce the rails front and back,
Big heavy duty subframe connectors fully welded to the floor,
Fully sorted brakes all round, and update the steering and suspension,
The dream being get the car to run and drive like it was new, but look like a POS,

But the restorer in me kept getting in the way !
Ironically I really think I could achieve it now,

That hideous custom TA would be the perfect car, big motor, 4 speed, and ideal base car for a full on Road Kill
type jobbie!

I wonder

Had that 64/65 can't remember which now resto-mod El Camino, sounds silly but i found it

boring, drove to well ,to easy , like a old car to feel old up to a point.

Probably wouldn't say that if i lived in and around London though.

[newsatten]

aeropilot said:

newsatten said:

That hideous custom TA would be the perfect car, big motor, 4 speed, and ideal base car for a full on Road Kill
type jobbie!

I wonder

Nah, that needed a bullnose putting back on, painting Brewster Green, adding some scuffs, dents and lots of dust.......

Yeah cool looking car !

[aeropilot]

rat rod said:

Had that 64/65 can't remember which now resto-mod El Camino, sounds silly but i found it

boring, drove to well ,to easy , like a old car to feel old up to a point.

Probably wouldn't say that if i lived in and around London though.

Absolutely.
I've had people shaking their heads in disbelief when I mention my '32 won't be getting a LS motor, disc brakes, rubber band tyres, IFS, door poppers and leccy windows, tilt column and a bad case of billet rash......

I might relent and later fit a set of those bias ply looking WWW's that Coker make.....as have heard good reports about them (and I'm not a VHRA member anyway)

[rat rod]

aeropilot said:

Absolutely.
I've had people shaking their heads in disbelief when I mention my '32 won't be getting a LS motor, disc brakes, rubber band tyres, IFS, door poppers and leccy windows, tilt column and a bad case of billet rash......

I might relent and later fit a set of those bias ply looking WWW's that Coker make.....as have heard good reports about them (and I'm not a VHRA member anyway)

For longer journeys would be better on bias whites,,got them on the 3 window along with disc brakes and a 727

and cross-ply whites ,40's brakes and box on the roadster,

roadsters good for shorter trips leaving the longer ones to the 3 window.

[newsatten]

rat rod said:

newsatten said:

Yep that’s something I’d love now , pure Road Kill
Motor, was always a thing I’ would have liked to do, make the car Uber strong
Reinforce the rails front and back,
Big heavy duty subframe connectors fully welded to the floor,
Fully sorted brakes all round, and update the steering and suspension,
The dream being get the car to run and drive like it was new, but look like a POS,

But the restorer in me kept getting in the way !
Ironically I really think I could achieve it now,

That hideous custom TA would be the perfect car, big motor, 4 speed, and ideal base car for a full on Road Kill
type jobbie!

I wonder

Had that 64/65 can't remember which now resto-mod El Camino, sounds silly but i found it

boring, drove to well ,to easy , like a old car to feel old up to a point.

Probably wouldn't say that if i lived in and around London though.

Haha
All pretty academic really ,
205 here for Super unleaded !
Blimey it’s relentless