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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #160 on: June 20, 2017, 09:08:40 pm »
Cars that might be worth buying as a future classic...

Maybe a BMW 850.....



About 12 years ago I knew a scrap dealer who had an 850 as a run about, gave something stupid like 3 grand for it, they were something like £75k new. Lovely cars



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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #161 on: July 8, 2017, 01:18:27 pm »
Cars that might be worth buying as a future classic...

Maybe a BMW 850.....



Pretty car.

I like watching Wheeler Dealers despite that irritating Brewer.
A show from 2010 just had a 840 they picked up for £3500 & sold nicely tuned & spruced up for £5750.
I'd have bitten their hands off for that!
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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #162 on: July 8, 2017, 02:13:10 pm »
I like watching Wheeler Dealers despite that irritating Brewer.
A show from 2010 just had a 840 they picked up for £3500 & sold nicely tuned & spruced up for £5750.
I'd have bitten their hands off for that!

He's a cock, but the programme is was pretty enjoyable. Its mad watching the repeats and seeing the cars they bought and sold for relative low amounts and what they would go for now.  Recent repeats I've seen them do a Sapphire Cosworth, Audi Quattro (the proper one),  Impreza, Delta Integrale, Triumph TR6, Lamborghini, Ferrari to name but a few.
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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #163 on: July 8, 2017, 02:18:36 pm »
loads of these were I live. They are noisy, and most not as pretty as this fine example, but they always bring a smile to my face (O Fusca/Beetle)


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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #164 on: July 8, 2017, 03:54:01 pm »
loads of these were I live. They are noisy, and most not as pretty as this fine example, but they always bring a smile to my face (O Fusca/Beetle)



They are a rare sight on British roads these days.

My first two cars were Beetles, a 1961, followed by a 1955 Oval Window, stupidest thing I ever did selling that.

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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #165 on: July 8, 2017, 05:21:30 pm »
loads of these were I live. They are noisy, and most not as pretty as this fine example, but they always bring a smile to my face (O Fusca/Beetle)



My Galway grandparents had one in the 70s. About eight of us in it at times.

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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #166 on: July 9, 2017, 08:01:09 am »
Just watched the old wheeler dealers where they did a very tidy BMW 635csi, sold it for £3750. Checked it and the tax expired Aug 2014, Mot Feb 2015 - wonder what happened to that, it'd be worth about £15 to £16k if it had been looked after.

The Ferrari 308 GT4 they did is still taxed and tested though

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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #167 on: July 9, 2017, 10:53:52 am »

My Dad was very angry about the strike, probably for the same reasons as yours. Hard times.

I'd love to hear some stories about those days, it's amazing to think that Triumph and BL cars rolled out of Hunts Cross. All renowned for their unreliability.
But like all of Liverpool's industry it's gone. We're luck to still have Jag.

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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #168 on: July 9, 2017, 02:24:54 pm »
I'd love to hear some stories about those days, it's amazing to think that Triumph and BL cars rolled out of Hunts Cross. All renowned for their unreliability.
But like all of Liverpool's industry it's gone. We're luck to still have Jag.

Its a crying shame that we managed to lose our car companies. We lost Triumph motorbikes but John Bloor had vision and brought them back to life and once again they are one of the worlds top manufacturers and are the new engine supplier for the Moto2 Grand Prix series (one level down from MotoGP).

I'm not speaking to my Dad anymore so can't ask him about things.

When I was a kid he used to take me to both Triumph No1 and No2 plants. I always get the two plants mixed up, If I remember right, No 1 plant was Woodend Road, my wife's mate bought a house on the estate where it stood and the No2 plant was where they assembled the TR7 and is where the Asda now stands. That's the one I went in when they were on strike and got to see the line. I remember my telling me tales that the cars where a pile of shite, and things like of whole shipments of TR7's being sent back from the States due to poor paintwork. Shame as they were such a modern looking car.

I now drive an X Type Jag so I own a Liverpool built car.
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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #169 on: July 9, 2017, 08:46:38 pm »

I'm not speaking to my Dad anymore so can't ask him about things.

Yep, and the only remnant is the road by KFC is called Triumph Way. Fucking shame mate, fucking real shame.

Go and talk to your dad mate. You'll spend the rest of your live wanting one last conversation.

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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #170 on: July 9, 2017, 09:06:20 pm »
Yep, and the only remnant is the road by KFC is called Triumph Way. Fucking shame mate, fucking real shame.

Go and talk to your dad mate. You'll spend the rest of your live wanting one last conversation.

Is the TR7 still there in the glass case.

Sadly, I really won't. My Mum I miss, I wish I saw more of my Step-Dad but the last time I saw my Dad was when he stayed with us in a caravan and couldn't wait for him to leave.
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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #171 on: July 10, 2017, 05:11:34 am »
Go and talk to your dad mate. You'll spend the rest of your live wanting one last conversation.

I couldnt agree more. I always wanted my dad to tell me he loved me, and those were the last words he ever spoke to me. Im glad i told him the same.  Speak to your dad mate.
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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #172 on: July 10, 2017, 12:30:10 pm »
A few random convertibles,tried to keep it sort of competetive..no 944 or SL's etc..

Which one would you have?



'62 Fiat 1200 Cabrio.












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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #173 on: July 10, 2017, 01:43:16 pm »
I had to Google the second, its a Fiat isn't it? I'd go for that or the Herald.
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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #174 on: July 10, 2017, 03:24:21 pm »
The Citoren all day long for me.

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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #175 on: July 11, 2017, 08:24:55 pm »
Is the TR7 still there in the glass case.

I'm not sure to be honest mate, I don't think it is.

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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #176 on: July 11, 2017, 08:33:26 pm »
The Citoren all day long for me.
Oh yes...  so unmistakably French..

So cool... the triumph looks like a carry on film cast off
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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #177 on: July 11, 2017, 08:57:48 pm »
Caught another Wheeler Dealers earlier, featuring the Lamborghini Urraco. Car went up for sale about a year or so after Brewer sold it for £35k for £56k

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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #178 on: July 11, 2017, 09:10:21 pm »
It was an utter beauty...
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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #179 on: July 11, 2017, 09:30:00 pm »
It was an utter beauty...

It was. Its been on SORN for over two years now - all that work that went into getting and fixing it and its not being used as intended, probably bought as an investment, shame that.
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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #180 on: July 12, 2017, 07:39:19 am »
Thats a cracker that Rob.

£21k+ profit in just over a year.. :o

Brewer will have been pissed!  :D
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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #181 on: July 12, 2017, 08:06:08 am »
A lot of that show is obviously staged for telly, but I bet that Lambo sickened him.

Read on a Ferrari forum a poster claimed about how in one episode (he wouldn't name the car but 2 + 2 and all that) the producers were contacted by a dealer they'd previously asked to let them know when a car came in and they picked it up - they asked what it would be worth after a light restoration and they sold it back to him once finished. Apparently, they had to use an employee of the dealer to play the role of the buyer, the same fella can be seen at the start of the programme when they load the car onto the trailer. I'll have to keep my eyes peeled to see if thats true.

On the same forum, a poster said he later bought the 308 2+2 Ferrari, for less than Brewer sold it for on the show.

Still enjoyed the show, some cracking cars were featured on it.
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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #182 on: July 12, 2017, 08:08:57 am »
The best bit about the Lambo was when they got that engine tuned up..

Phenomenal sound...
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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #183 on: July 12, 2017, 08:50:16 am »
Yeah i have always felt it was staged a bit & as good a mechanic Ed is..i doubt he does half the work too.
Despite that i still enjoy it a lot.
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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #184 on: July 12, 2017, 10:22:23 am »
A few random convertibles,tried to keep it sort of competetive..no 944 or SL's etc..

Which one would you have?




I had one of them, looked very much like that one, same colour etc. Good fun in a straight line but when you took a corner the doors flew open. Ended up getting ripped off by a so-called specialist garage and got rid of it.

Hardly ever used it to be honest, the days when it would have been nice to take it out for a drive I was in work, and the days I was free it pissed down.
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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #185 on: July 12, 2017, 10:40:02 am »
I had one of them, looked very much like that one, same colour etc. Good fun in a straight line but when you took a corner the doors flew open. ...

I also remember that a common sight by the side of the road back in the 60's-70's would be a Herald with the back suspension collapsed and the wheels splayed out.

They also had a bit of a reputation as decapitators too, that bonnet apparently weakly mounted and having a propensity to slice through the front pillars and windscreen at neck height in a head on.
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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #186 on: July 12, 2017, 10:48:27 am »
They also had a bit of a reputation as decapitators too, that bonnet apparently weakly mounted and having a propensity to slice through the front pillars and windscreen at neck height in a head on.

Sounds like I got off lightly then
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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #187 on: July 12, 2017, 12:32:00 pm »
A few better class cabrio from the same neck of the woods..

Which one would be your favourite?


Merc..




Audi..


Beem..


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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #188 on: July 12, 2017, 01:09:21 pm »
Hard choice there. To me a convertible is more about cruising along taking it easy, the Audi has that 50's American look about it, but the Beemer draws me.
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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #189 on: July 12, 2017, 01:09:49 pm »
If you're looking for a classic convertible you can't overlook the Jaguar E-Type.

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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #190 on: July 12, 2017, 01:26:39 pm »
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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #191 on: July 12, 2017, 01:52:59 pm »
The Beemer or the E-Type.

The classic Merc convertibles are still really nice.
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« Reply #192 on: July 12, 2017, 04:38:48 pm »
Hard choice there. To me a convertible is more about cruising along taking it easy, the Audi has that 50's American look about it, but the Beemer draws me.

Yep the Beemer is the most stylish but that Merc..just oozes class.
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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #193 on: July 12, 2017, 04:56:07 pm »
Its not a convertible, but this one is parked in the Trafford Centre on display

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« Reply #194 on: July 12, 2017, 10:47:05 pm »
I also remember that a common sight by the side of the road back in the 60's-70's would be a Herald with the back suspension collapsed and the wheels splayed out.

They also had a bit of a reputation as decapitators too, that bonnet apparently weakly mounted and having a propensity to slice through the front pillars and windscreen at neck height in a head on.

If I remember rightly, like my 2 Spitfires didn't they have transverse springs?

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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #195 on: July 13, 2017, 06:20:53 am »
If I remember rightly, like my 2 Spitfires didn't they have transverse springs?

Yes, seems to be on the rear...

Spitfire...


Herald..


All somewhat agricultural by more modern standards.

My memory may be faulty on the rear suspension though, it looks like it could be the front that caused the trouble...



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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #197 on: July 13, 2017, 12:02:31 pm »
Anyone fancy an Interceptor? ...

The FF varieties were high on the desirable car list for any car mad teenager back in the late 60's early 70's.

Like a lot of lazy tuned but huge engined sports cars of that era, they largely became unloved and plummeted in price by the late 70's early 80's.

I worked with a girl in the late 70's and early 80's who picked up a plain Interceptor for around £1000 and drove it into the ground, scrappy finally taking it away.

It was a right bag of nails though, leaking water everywhere and rotting in places and very tired, though with that size of engine it was difficult to know as it was still pretty quick off the mark.

Running costs were ridiculous though, things like tyres would be worn very rapidly, they were really heavy vehicles with power everything so you would take corners like a small saloon but paid for it all afterwards, and fuel consumption was around 12 mpg if you drove it carefully.

Like the Interceptor, I also worked with a guy who had a shabby DB5 that he got in the late 70's (it's hard to believe now but they too had become unloved by then) for less than £1000. He partly restored it and was refusing offers in excess of £70k by the end of the 80's when the classic car boom started to get going fueled by the Yuppie bonus money. I haven't seen him since 1988 but I believe he still has it.

And on the theme of desirable big engined sports cars, I could tell you the story of helping to push start a big block AC Cobra from the Bells of Ousely car park on the Thames at Old Windsor one lunch time in around '82 or so. It was untidy and obviously had starting problems but burbled like the monster it was once it got going.

The driver had just driven it back from France where I think he paid less than £4000 for it.....weep.
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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #198 on: July 13, 2017, 02:51:37 pm »
The FF varieties were high on the desirable car list for any car mad teenager back in the late 60's early 70's.

Like a lot of lazy tuned but huge engined sports cars of that era, they largely became unloved and plummeted in price by the late 70's early 80's.

I worked with a girl in the late 70's and early 80's who picked up a plain Interceptor for around £1000 and drove it into the ground, scrappy finally taking it away.

It was a right bag of nails though, leaking water everywhere and rotting in places and very tired, though with that size of engine it was difficult to know as it was still pretty quick off the mark.

Running costs were ridiculous though, things like tyres would be worn very rapidly, they were really heavy vehicles with power everything so you would take corners like a small saloon but paid for it all afterwards, and fuel consumption was around 12 mpg if you drove it carefully.

Like the Interceptor, I also worked with a guy who had a shabby DB5 that he got in the late 70's (it's hard to believe now but they too had become unloved by then) for less than £1000. He partly restored it and was refusing offers in excess of £70k by the end of the 80's when the classic car boom started to get going fueled by the Yuppie bonus money. I haven't seen him since 1988 but I believe he still has it.

And on the theme of desirable big engined sports cars, I could tell you the story of helping to push start a big block AC Cobra from the Bells of Ousely car park on the Thames at Old Windsor one lunch time in around '82 or so. It was untidy and obviously had starting problems but burbled like the monster it was once it got going.

The driver had just driven it back from France where I think he paid less than £4000 for it.....weep.


It's interesting what you say about the big engined sports cars. I had a long and informative chat with the chairman of the Sunbeam Tiger Owners Club a few years back. He talked about how the club was trying to change the image of the car, which in the 70s and early 80s was seen as a bit of a "chavvy", "lads" car. Cheap, but big engine, fast, etc - I suppose a bit like Imprezas and Evos are (or were - prices for originals are starting to fly).

There's nothing like a big-engined British sports car though .... but I am biased  ;) ;D

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Re: Classic Car choices
« Reply #199 on: July 13, 2017, 07:57:59 pm »
Great photos gulley mate, not sure if it was on the Triumph or another car, but we called those links a Wishbone.

Those transverse springs made the wheels noticeably pull inwards at the bottom when following behind the car. Great stuff mate.