I buy lemons : classic fleet
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Right. Im pretty crap at posting and getting on with stuff generally so this will be a stalinesque five year plan.
Anyhoo, have a:
1) Roary - Lotus Elise Cat C highly modified 1.8 K turbo 1998 bought 2013 for £9,800. Rough in parts, anazing in others.
2) Rupert - Austin Healey Frogeye Sprite 1958 early 9 pin windscreen model bought 2014 for £6,200 generally rough.
3) Rio - Ferrari Mondial 3.2 Cabriolet bought 2015 for £19,200 but more like £22,000 once i paid shipping and duties etc. Spots of rust, engine runs well. not registered.
4) Roquefort - Mystery Dadwagon, just paid for collect in three weeks £2,000.
5) Reinhardt - Mystery barge £4,000, currently being lusted at here in Sweden and likely to be purchased to also ferry my crap home whilst having a Euro trip via Denmark, Germany, Holland. Moving back to Blighty in 3 weeks.
Daily is a Renault Megane Megane CC 1.6VVC which has been faultless for 15000 miles except for switch of starter motor fuse from 25Amp to 30Amp during a moist/cold snap late Autumn - assume moisture was building in the starter motor causing it to resist. Bought (in Sweden) for £3700 shortly to be sold for £2500 in Sweden if im lucky.
The Mrs does not know about (4) and thinks we are just getting (5) although (4) was tentatively approved before (5) was revealed.
More later.
Im not talking about (4) or (5) in case I get gazumped.
The logic behind the spread will be revealed in the next post in a couple of weeks once Ive inspected (5) which is an hours drive.
Its at a dealers so i need to polish up the Renault (Rollo)*.
Yes, im a saddo who has names for the cars. All beginning with R.
Anyhoo, have a:
1) Roary - Lotus Elise Cat C highly modified 1.8 K turbo 1998 bought 2013 for £9,800. Rough in parts, anazing in others.
2) Rupert - Austin Healey Frogeye Sprite 1958 early 9 pin windscreen model bought 2014 for £6,200 generally rough.
3) Rio - Ferrari Mondial 3.2 Cabriolet bought 2015 for £19,200 but more like £22,000 once i paid shipping and duties etc. Spots of rust, engine runs well. not registered.
4) Roquefort - Mystery Dadwagon, just paid for collect in three weeks £2,000.
5) Reinhardt - Mystery barge £4,000, currently being lusted at here in Sweden and likely to be purchased to also ferry my crap home whilst having a Euro trip via Denmark, Germany, Holland. Moving back to Blighty in 3 weeks.
Daily is a Renault Megane Megane CC 1.6VVC which has been faultless for 15000 miles except for switch of starter motor fuse from 25Amp to 30Amp during a moist/cold snap late Autumn - assume moisture was building in the starter motor causing it to resist. Bought (in Sweden) for £3700 shortly to be sold for £2500 in Sweden if im lucky.
The Mrs does not know about (4) and thinks we are just getting (5) although (4) was tentatively approved before (5) was revealed.
More later.
Im not talking about (4) or (5) in case I get gazumped.
The logic behind the spread will be revealed in the next post in a couple of weeks once Ive inspected (5) which is an hours drive.
Its at a dealers so i need to polish up the Renault (Rollo)*.
Yes, im a saddo who has names for the cars. All beginning with R.
Ahh the abuse/attention.
In Gnesta / Västerås Sweden shipped my stuff home in a container for £1400 on a boat that left 5 miles from my flat in the middle of sweden (takes mainly timber to the UK, brings back rubbish to burn in the power station, all art of the carbon credits b
ks).
Yeah parking a Mondial for two years is a bit stupid but life etc. Starts virtually first key turn and idles perfectly.
I think these look like concept cars, eye of the beholder delusion.
Port of Hull, chaps were very helpful. They get wood a lot.
Fixing a twisted brake hose, remove caliper spin round, job jobbed. Problem identified by the MOT garage. They dont allow MOT garages to fix things over here so there is no motivation to find stuff - except the retest fees of course. The husband and wife team told me how to do it, I kind of knew but was grateful all the same and provided my best surprised face.
Shared a garage with a friend but was incredibly cramped so any fixes happen in the forest.
The legendary tourettes inducing headlamp bulb change on a Megane.
That'll do.
Dadwagon reveal once i get the V5 in the post. Tuesday
In Gnesta / Västerås Sweden shipped my stuff home in a container for £1400 on a boat that left 5 miles from my flat in the middle of sweden (takes mainly timber to the UK, brings back rubbish to burn in the power station, all art of the carbon credits b
ks).Yeah parking a Mondial for two years is a bit stupid but life etc. Starts virtually first key turn and idles perfectly.
I think these look like concept cars, eye of the beholder delusion.
Port of Hull, chaps were very helpful. They get wood a lot.
Fixing a twisted brake hose, remove caliper spin round, job jobbed. Problem identified by the MOT garage. They dont allow MOT garages to fix things over here so there is no motivation to find stuff - except the retest fees of course. The husband and wife team told me how to do it, I kind of knew but was grateful all the same and provided my best surprised face.
Shared a garage with a friend but was incredibly cramped so any fixes happen in the forest.
The legendary tourettes inducing headlamp bulb change on a Megane.
That'll do.
Dadwagon reveal once i get the V5 in the post. Tuesday
jamiebae said:
What have you done with an un-registered Mondial for 2 years? Where did you import it from?
My purchases seem to be net based and begin with mouth frothing / sense out of the window.My mrs has amazing very occasional grumpfests and once claimed i have sociopathic tendencies (hence the attention seeking thread).
Naturally miffed, googled classic traits of nutters.....one of them is financially irresponsibility and impulse purchases. Words can hurt.
Bought from ebay USA from a trader, was registered to a dude in the Hamptons new york. It still had some grass in the exhaust (fire risk, now removed) so good knows what happened. Googled his house and it was not next to the beach so hopefully wasnt a flood car from a while back, Hurricane something.
Right, given up with the Reinhardt idea for now due to financial pressure (got married two weeks ago/new management etc), so will be sticking to Roquey the dadwagon which we have had a three of weeks now. Its neoclassic/youngtimer, iconic and practical.
This picture will be expanded over time until someone guesses it.
Its running OK, but needs a going over, unfortunately have an urgent errand to run this morning 120 miles, yikes.
Done 300 miles since purchase OK, but there is a list of fairly urgent and low prio jobs as long as your arm.
Not least rattly exhaust hanger and a hose on top of the engine that looks 100 years old.
Edited by Hugh Jarse on Thursday 20th July 08:55
Panord wins the internet.
Series 1.
As transport its worth 50 quid.
So paid 1950 quid for the novelty factor.
Been on 'How many left' (fantastic website) and the pre facelift car has 6 on the UK roads.
According to Wikipedia A Pollock designed it but Im sticking to Geoff Matthews who gave me my first job.
Some French blokes at Matra also lay claim.
Anyway, its the first monospace people carrier supposedly, though not really cos the fiat 500 multipla and others.
The headlining has leprosy.
The junction between the A-pillar and door is hilariously bad,as someone who sat in meetings where automotive plastic panel tolerance adjustments of 0.1mm are routinely discussed, the junction brings pure joy with every glance.
Hugh Jarse said:
2) Rupert - Austin Healey Frogeye Sprite 1958 early 9 pin windscreen model bought 2014 for £6,200 generally rough.
Forgive my ignorance, but what is the relevance of the 9 pin windscreen?Here is our froggy
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
S100HP said:
Forgive my ignorance, but what is the relevance of the 9 pin windscreen? Here is our froggy
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
Nine pins are a more fiddly but show it as an early model, interesting tobeards! Great handling cars and receptive to tweaks.https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
Hugh Jarse said:
S100HP said:
Forgive my ignorance, but what is the relevance of the 9 pin windscreen? Here is our froggy
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
Nine pins are a more fiddly but show it as an early model, interesting tobeards! Great handling cars and receptive to tweaks.https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
The beauty.
Left headlight backing has started to corrode hence the bozzeyed look.
So far have had tables and chairs, marquees, booze for awedding, hay bales as loads.
Not to mention people on a trip to Skegvegas.
Unfortunately one ofthe two barrels of craft brew beer carried exploded after the jiggly ride and flooded it with 70 pints of beer on the flat floor {also killing my laptop}. So the very filthy carpet got extra stickiness. Luckily the smell of old uncle was replaced by beer. Hmmm.
Handles pretty well, cruises at 70 at 2700 revs, East Anglia is generally about 55 to60 though.
Edited by Hugh Jarse on Saturday 22 July 16:41
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