All manner of PH goodness vieled what car
All manner of PH goodness vieled what car
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digger_R

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Thursday 24th March 2011
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The 10k in a sock thread yesterday gave me a link to the site www.targetcars.eu

Yhey advertise on here and so I took a drive by this morning to take a look - does anyone have a clue what the setup there might be, ie why so many Uk cars in the Netherlands?

It's an 'easy' way for me to buy another car as they are local to me. Took a look at one of the Tuscans there along with all manner of Cobra replicas and other lovely motors. There are some very nice cars in that list but I get the impression that there might not be too much history with some of the cars in there.

dibblecorse

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221 months

Thursday 24th March 2011
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Exchange rate, for a while now a lot of UK cars (and bikes) have been making their way out of the country as they are regarded as very very cheap at the moment, kind of reversal of when we were busy buying stuff from Holland etc when the grey market was at its peak.

digger_R

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Thursday 24th March 2011
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So I guess these things are likely to have been shipped over and simply awaiting sale, the thing that gets me is that say they are all private sales so no tax is due on them.

shirt

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230 months

Thursday 24th March 2011
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they do have an interesting array of mental and being dockside are clearly set-up for import/export.

i've always wondered how good a rep. they have and what their spanner twirling skills are like. a cheap ferrari from a non-specialist, for example, would make me run a mile.

in the m/// thread recently, loony hinted at not touching them with a barge pole. any substance to this?

digger_R

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Thursday 24th March 2011
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They aren't near a dock, Eindhoven is about 1 hrs drive from Amsterdam

I had a walk around this morning, some of the stock looked like it had been sitting there for a while. Lot's of dust etc.

I couldn't see a workshop when I was there but they do have a fairly big unit with much more than just mental motors. They seemed to have a line up of heavy diggers/cranes and various other bits and pieces too.

I primarily went to look at a Tuscan and the Cat-C NSX. That NSX does look to be quite cheap (without having a clue as to what has been done to repair it thus far)

Whitean3

2,197 posts

227 months

Thursday 24th March 2011
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A lot of their cars are damaged-repaired. Their prices do seem to be on the cheap side for a lot of their stock! I think I've read someone's review of looking at a car there, and it wasn't altogether complimentary- massive warehouse by the airport; dusty cars etc.)

I've also heard them mentioned in the same breath as Douglas Valley Breakers- make of that what you will!

NoelWatson

11,710 posts

271 months

Friday 25th March 2011
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digger_R said:
That NSX does look to be quite cheap (without having a clue as to what has been done to repair it thus far)
I think that one has been discussed on NSX forum

digger_R

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Friday 25th March 2011
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Can you provide a link Noel?

Uhura fighter

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Friday 25th March 2011
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shoutdinkel



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NoelWatson

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271 months

Friday 25th March 2011
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digger_R said:
Can you provide a link Noel?
If you can give the link to their website, I will do a trawl

digger_R

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NoelWatson

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Friday 25th March 2011
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digger_R said:
http://www.nsxcb.co.uk/showthread.php?8819-Back-Up-For-Sale-Again-quot-CAT-C-quot-Something-lol

digger_R

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Friday 25th March 2011
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boxedin

thanks for heads up