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TVR Sagaris said:
TheWokeBlob said:
Oh yes! Got a real thing for those. Shame about the rear spoiler and the wheels look odd, but great buy. Is this the happy outcome of going through the police car wash every shift?
W00DY said:
Phwoar, that's the best thread purchase in ages.
Love a Caprice (I can see my little Matchbox NYPD version from here) and that spec looks perfect (aside from the spoiler). A bargain too.
Can't believe the $400 optional extra spoiler (with integrated 4th brake light) isn't getting more love. Clearly this 2000kg+ 260hp monster needs all the down force it can get.Love a Caprice (I can see my little Matchbox NYPD version from here) and that spec looks perfect (aside from the spoiler). A bargain too.
donkmeister said:
How on earth is there no rust? Canada salts its roads like an old man salts his dinner, and being a former cop car it would have been out in all seasons.
Is this the happy outcome of going through the police car wash every shift?
As you say the rust and corrosion out here is something else; grit and no annual inspections mean there are some alarming rust buckets out there Is this the happy outcome of going through the police car wash every shift?
In this case I think I think I got incredibly lucky. Looking through the history the police service was for 5-6 years and 190k km before being sold to the long term keeper of 23 years who kept it inside and hardly used it (it's done 6,000 miles in the last 13 years!).
The last keeper was supposedly an ex police mechanic and a bit of a hoarder for these cars so perhaps he had a bit of insight into where they were most prone to corrosion and kept on top of it.
I'm almost considering not using it when the snow hits its that nice
Thanks you for the comments everyone I'll be making a readers thread shortly for it
Edited by TheWokeBlob on Sunday 16th November 20:54
Well, that is a good find then!!!
Bit of an aside, but there's a couple of Canadian YT car detailers who show up in my feed from time to time. Washing cars indoors in a heated garage during winter. I watch with grim fascination at the crud getting blasted off and out of some of them!!!
We have salt and grit on the roads where I live (east Anglia) but we have (on average) 24 days a year where the air temperature drops below 0 at any point, it's rare for it to go below -2 and snow comes for a few days of 2 or 3 winters out of every 10. So we don't get the slushy salty stuff caking the undersides most years.
You absolutely must catch the "dirty winter cars" thread, you'll be able to win any prizes for most-caked car
Bit of an aside, but there's a couple of Canadian YT car detailers who show up in my feed from time to time. Washing cars indoors in a heated garage during winter. I watch with grim fascination at the crud getting blasted off and out of some of them!!!
We have salt and grit on the roads where I live (east Anglia) but we have (on average) 24 days a year where the air temperature drops below 0 at any point, it's rare for it to go below -2 and snow comes for a few days of 2 or 3 winters out of every 10. So we don't get the slushy salty stuff caking the undersides most years.
You absolutely must catch the "dirty winter cars" thread, you'll be able to win any prizes for most-caked car
Probably the wrong spec for this thread but this looks incredibly good condition for the mileage
https://www.carandclassic.com/l/C1974814
https://www.carandclassic.com/l/C1974814
TheWokeBlob said:
Canadian thread purchase
1996 Chevrolet Caprice classic with the 260hp 5.7 LT1.
Detective spec so a few goodies like a LSD, better cooling and revised suspension.
Its done less than 30000 miles in the last 20 years since it came off police fleet and was stored inside. No rust
$3500 CAD or ~£1750
What a wonderful thing.1996 Chevrolet Caprice classic with the 260hp 5.7 LT1.
Detective spec so a few goodies like a LSD, better cooling and revised suspension.
Its done less than 30000 miles in the last 20 years since it came off police fleet and was stored inside. No rust
$3500 CAD or ~£1750
Enlighten the thread on the Canadian buying/registering/insuring process.
If my Albertan adventures are anything to go by, it’s rather more than a haggle and a quick browse on GoCompare….
Hippea said:
Probably the wrong spec for this thread but this looks incredibly good condition for the mileage
https://www.carandclassic.com/l/C1974814
Petrol and 6 pots, what's not to like?https://www.carandclassic.com/l/C1974814
What do we think of these? 2.4 a bit wheezy? SE a bit bland? 111k on it seems low for one of these.
donkmeister said:
Well, that is a good find then!!!
Bit of an aside, but there's a couple of Canadian YT car detailers who show up in my feed from time to time. Washing cars indoors in a heated garage during winter. I watch with grim fascination at the crud getting blasted off and out of some of them!!!
We have salt and grit on the roads where I live (east Anglia) but we have (on average) 24 days a year where the air temperature drops below 0 at any point, it's rare for it to go below -2 and snow comes for a few days of 2 or 3 winters out of every 10. So we don't get the slushy salty stuff caking the undersides most years.
You absolutely must catch the "dirty winter cars" thread, you'll be able to win any prizes for most-caked car
What's scary is Saskatchewan uses a mixture of sand and salt as opposed to Ontario where I have heard they just use neat salt so are even worse than cars here. My mind can't comprehend how bad they must be!Bit of an aside, but there's a couple of Canadian YT car detailers who show up in my feed from time to time. Washing cars indoors in a heated garage during winter. I watch with grim fascination at the crud getting blasted off and out of some of them!!!
We have salt and grit on the roads where I live (east Anglia) but we have (on average) 24 days a year where the air temperature drops below 0 at any point, it's rare for it to go below -2 and snow comes for a few days of 2 or 3 winters out of every 10. So we don't get the slushy salty stuff caking the undersides most years.
You absolutely must catch the "dirty winter cars" thread, you'll be able to win any prizes for most-caked car
DRE7 said:
What a wonderful thing.
Enlighten the thread on the Canadian buying/registering/insuring process.
If my Albertan adventures are anything to go by, it s rather more than a haggle and a quick browse on GoCompare .
In sask 3rd party insurance is included with the plates and I think it's a great idea.Enlighten the thread on the Canadian buying/registering/insuring process.
If my Albertan adventures are anything to go by, it s rather more than a haggle and a quick browse on GoCompare .
Prices are almost entirely vehicle dependent. They don't care about your age, gender, occupation or what you had for dinner last night like for profit insurance. There is a points system for not making claims as well as demerits for traffic violations but it's relatively small.
It's £450 for the registration and insurance for the year for this Caprice for me a new driver here.
So providing the car was last registered in the province all you do is take the title into a local sgi agent location, pay sales tax if over $5000 (6% private, 11% from a dealer), pay your set amount, they give you plates and off you go.
It gets much more complicated if you want to buy an out of province vehicle though. You can register a 30 year old rust bucket death trap that was last inspected in 1997 no problems if it never left the province, but try and bring a 5 year old car from Alberta and you have to go through a inspection that makes a MOT look soft, so it's a very captive market
Hippea said:
Probably the wrong spec for this thread but this looks incredibly good condition for the mileage
https://www.carandclassic.com/l/C1974814
This warrants many oooofs. https://www.carandclassic.com/l/C1974814
macron said:
Petrol and 6 pots, what's not to like?
What do we think of these? 2.4 a bit wheezy? SE a bit bland? 111k on it seems low for one of these.
I believe GOL's view is this is the most reliable engine of the lot, but thirsty. I wanted a V70 for so long, but in my mind they've tipped over the edge of desirability into looking proper old now. Unless grey and very tidy - that would still turn my head What do we think of these? 2.4 a bit wheezy? SE a bit bland? 111k on it seems low for one of these.
https://www.carandclassic.com/l/C1975076
Body looks super tidy and cloth, no sunroof as a spec works for me. Headlights awful and it needs a little love mechanically.
W00DY said:
https://www.carandclassic.com/l/C1975076
Body looks super tidy and cloth, no sunroof as a spec works for me. Headlights awful and it needs a little love mechanically.
biggbn said:
Crook said:
Slightly over thread x3 (late Friday entry)
If it wasn t for the weird ruching on the backs of the seats this would be like new:
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Love these. Have to be in that dark bronze/brown colour with a caramel interior...well,.preferably, in reality I'd have any decent one. If it wasn t for the weird ruching on the backs of the seats this would be like new:
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However I’d still like one one day.
Bear-n said:
macron said:
Petrol and 6 pots, what's not to like?
What do we think of these? 2.4 a bit wheezy? SE a bit bland? 111k on it seems low for one of these.
I believe GOL's view is this is the most reliable engine of the lot, but thirsty. I wanted a V70 for so long, but in my mind they've tipped over the edge of desirability into looking proper old now. Unless grey and very tidy - that would still turn my head What do we think of these? 2.4 a bit wheezy? SE a bit bland? 111k on it seems low for one of these.
TheWokeBlob said:
...So providing the car was last registered in the province all you do is take the title into a local sgi agent location, pay sales tax if over $5000 (6% private, 11% from a dealer), pay your set amount, they give you plates and off you go....
My eldest son is in BC and he has treated himself to one of these;And one of these for winter;
The tax thing is nasty - in BC it also applies to the guitars he buys and sells occasionally, but the insurance deal benefits him. The GMC truck is great - more than 200k on the clock (kilometres) and no rattles inside. Very much a barge, but not like your lush Caprice.
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