What little gems (but sheds) have you found, and where?
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Want a shed to work on, just for something to do really.
Ebay is the obvious choice but was wondering where else people find their project sheds.
And what decent ones have people found? Every had a decent barn find?
My Uncle recently got a 1986 fiesta from an old woman for £300 which had done about 15,000 miles in its life.
It still smelled new, the back seats and front pass seat had never been touched, still had the original wheel trims, no modification and not a scratch on it at all, and it had been serviced nearly every 8 months for the whole of its life by the same garage.
I was very jealous :P
Ebay is the obvious choice but was wondering where else people find their project sheds.
And what decent ones have people found? Every had a decent barn find?
My Uncle recently got a 1986 fiesta from an old woman for £300 which had done about 15,000 miles in its life.
It still smelled new, the back seats and front pass seat had never been touched, still had the original wheel trims, no modification and not a scratch on it at all, and it had been serviced nearly every 8 months for the whole of its life by the same garage.
I was very jealous :P
One lady owner, 12,000 miles from new. £1500.
Found parked in corner of double garage next to central heating boiler, Southend on Sea.
Hadn't been started for 25 years.
Needed thermostat, by pass hose, water pump, master cylinder and wheel cylinders and a new carpet, as the original one had turned to powder.
I fettled it, pottered about in it and then sold it for £2700. Should have kept it.
Found parked in corner of double garage next to central heating boiler, Southend on Sea.
Hadn't been started for 25 years.
Needed thermostat, by pass hose, water pump, master cylinder and wheel cylinders and a new carpet, as the original one had turned to powder.
I fettled it, pottered about in it and then sold it for £2700. Should have kept it.
Pat H said:
One lady owner, 12,000 miles from new. £1500.
Found parked in corner of double garage next to central heating boiler, Southend on Sea.
Hadn't been started for 25 years.
Needed thermostat, by pass hose, water pump, master cylinder and wheel cylinders and a new carpet, as the original one had turned to powder.
I fettled it, pottered about in it and then sold it for £2700. Should have kept it.
Wow! Found parked in corner of double garage next to central heating boiler, Southend on Sea.
Hadn't been started for 25 years.
Needed thermostat, by pass hose, water pump, master cylinder and wheel cylinders and a new carpet, as the original one had turned to powder.
I fettled it, pottered about in it and then sold it for £2700. Should have kept it.
Pat H said:
One lady owner, 12,000 miles from new. £1500.
Found parked in corner of double garage next to central heating boiler, Southend on Sea.
Hadn't been started for 25 years.
Needed thermostat, by pass hose, water pump, master cylinder and wheel cylinders and a new carpet, as the original one had turned to powder.
I fettled it, pottered about in it and then sold it for £2700. Should have kept it.
The hate i have for you is greater then the voice of Brian Blessed.Found parked in corner of double garage next to central heating boiler, Southend on Sea.
Hadn't been started for 25 years.
Needed thermostat, by pass hose, water pump, master cylinder and wheel cylinders and a new carpet, as the original one had turned to powder.
I fettled it, pottered about in it and then sold it for £2700. Should have kept it.
Pat H said:
One lady owner, 12,000 miles from new. £1500.
Found parked in corner of double garage next to central heating boiler, Southend on Sea.
Hadn't been started for 25 years.
Needed thermostat, by pass hose, water pump, master cylinder and wheel cylinders and a new carpet, as the original one had turned to powder.
I fettled it, pottered about in it and then sold it for £2700. Should have kept it.
Wow, that's beautiful. Found parked in corner of double garage next to central heating boiler, Southend on Sea.
Hadn't been started for 25 years.
Needed thermostat, by pass hose, water pump, master cylinder and wheel cylinders and a new carpet, as the original one had turned to powder.
I fettled it, pottered about in it and then sold it for £2700. Should have kept it.
sim16v said:
Mate spotted this looking unloved on someone's driveway.
Seller wanted rid, but thought it wasn't worth much as it had a "massive engine oil leak"
Paid £400 for it, fixed the oil leak by replacing the leaking power steering pipe
Sold for about 7 times the purchase price.......
Damn >_>Seller wanted rid, but thought it wasn't worth much as it had a "massive engine oil leak"
Paid £400 for it, fixed the oil leak by replacing the leaking power steering pipe
Sold for about 7 times the purchase price.......
Im looking for one of them myself
Not very exotic. But my dad's just bought and sold a 51 plate Micra, with just over 5k genuine miles on it, that's been serviced twice a year from new and has receipts for even stupid things like windscreen washer fluid from halfords.
Soon we will be 'taking in' an 'A' reg E30 316, that we have been looking after for the past 10 years. Just a shade over 40k miles from new, guy has lost the use of his left leg and can't drive it anymore. So i'll be trying to get it for myself
Soon we will be 'taking in' an 'A' reg E30 316, that we have been looking after for the past 10 years. Just a shade over 40k miles from new, guy has lost the use of his left leg and can't drive it anymore. So i'll be trying to get it for myself
Piepiepie said:
5k miles?!?! :O
five thousand four hundred and something. Now sold to a recently test passed teenage girl, who i'm sure will run it dry of oil as when her and her dad came to see it, she asked what the yellow thing was for. Dipstick. Which I had to point out on my driving test...ad551 said:
Pat H said:
One lady owner, 12,000 miles from new. £1500.
Found parked in corner of double garage next to central heating boiler, Southend on Sea.
Hadn't been started for 25 years.
Needed thermostat, by pass hose, water pump, master cylinder and wheel cylinders and a new carpet, as the original one had turned to powder.
I fettled it, pottered about in it and then sold it for £2700. Should have kept it.
Wow, that's beautiful. Found parked in corner of double garage next to central heating boiler, Southend on Sea.
Hadn't been started for 25 years.
Needed thermostat, by pass hose, water pump, master cylinder and wheel cylinders and a new carpet, as the original one had turned to powder.
I fettled it, pottered about in it and then sold it for £2700. Should have kept it.
LuS1fer said:
ad551 said:
Pat H said:
One lady owner, 12,000 miles from new. £1500.
Wow, that's beautiful. But it was far too nice to butcher.
So it was used for pottering about on Sunday afternoons. We used to take the kids to the seaside and buy fish and chips.
And whilst it was desperately slow, it was lovely family fun.
If I am honest, I had far more fun rattling around in that old Mini with my daughters that I ever did poncing about in the F328 that I had at the time.
In fact, I really must buy another Mini, 2CV, Morris Minor, old Landie or similar.
Happy days...
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