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Richard H
Joined: 03 Apr 2009 Posts: 2148 Location: Lincolnshire, UK
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Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2018 11:17 pm Post subject: Don't judge a book by its cover |
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Served an elderly customer at work today, who brought two Austin Champ wheel cylinders in for us to sort for him. His first words to me were "You're too young to know what these are". I was happy to prove the gentleman wrong by pointing out of the front window at a car parked outside. "You see that Austin Somerset there? That's mine, one of a few classics I own, and I'm the only person who works here who owns old cars. I may only be 26 but I've been messing about with old cars since I was so high!".
He was very surprised and conceded that perhaps I did know what I was talking about!
Rich. _________________ Richard Hughes |
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winchman
Joined: 21 Feb 2014 Posts: 235 Location: Merseyside
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Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2018 9:42 am Post subject: |
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You can't beat meeting a self appointed expert.
I hate it when people prejudge you with out knowing you
I was once told by the Mitsubishi sales man that due to the location of my house I wouldn't be buying the Shogun I was looking at, well he got a rocket _________________ It will come in handy even if you never use it. |
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Kenham
Joined: 12 Mar 2012 Posts: 209 Location: Kent
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Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2018 11:37 am Post subject: |
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Years ago there was an old gentleman who lived in the next village who I used to see in the post office. Lovely man , always polite but very frail, a lot of people were impatient with him in the queue , sadly it wasn't until after he died I found out he was an Armstrong Whitworth Whitley pilot in the war, a very lucky man to have survived, what memories he must of had. |
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winchman
Joined: 21 Feb 2014 Posts: 235 Location: Merseyside
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Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2018 11:44 am Post subject: |
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People often forget it costs nothing to be nice _________________ It will come in handy even if you never use it. |
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Rootes75
Joined: 30 Apr 2013 Posts: 3788 Location: The Somerset Levels
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Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2018 11:56 am Post subject: |
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Just because you are younger doesn't mean you know nothing of classics, as discussed on here many times its not just an old mans hobby. _________________ Various Rootes Vehicles. |
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winchman
Joined: 21 Feb 2014 Posts: 235 Location: Merseyside
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Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2018 12:04 pm Post subject: |
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Rootes75 wrote: | Just because you are younger doesn't mean you know nothing of classics, as discussed on here many times its not just an old mans hobby. |
From what I see at the moment young people can't afford the classic vehicles, its just so hard for them financially _________________ It will come in handy even if you never use it. |
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badhuis
Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 1390 Location: Netherlands
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Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2018 1:02 pm Post subject: |
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winchman wrote: | From what I see at the moment young people can't afford the classic vehicles, its just so hard for them financially |
Classic cars are not all expensive. Parts are very cheap compared to modern cars. If you want you can pick up a 40+ year old car for a few hundred. Forget the popular makes/models and take a lesser known instead. They may not be in showroom condition but there are many for sale which needs work. It is just there are less people who want to work on old cars. There are still classics being scrapped because no-one wants them, however low the price. _________________ a car stops being fun when it becomes an investment |
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winchman
Joined: 21 Feb 2014 Posts: 235 Location: Merseyside
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Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2018 2:57 pm Post subject: |
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badhuis wrote: | winchman wrote: | From what I see at the moment young people can't afford the classic vehicles, its just so hard for them financially |
Classic cars are not all expensive. Parts are very cheap compared to modern cars. If you want you can pick up a 40+ year old car for a few hundred. Forget the popular makes/models and take a lesser known instead. They may not be in showroom condition but there are many for sale which needs work. It is just there are less people who want to work on old cars. There are still classics being scrapped because no-one wants them, however low the price. |
What can I get for a few hundred? I must be missing some? _________________ It will come in handy even if you never use it. |
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Rick Site Admin
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22429 Location: UK
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Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2018 3:04 pm Post subject: |
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winchman wrote: | badhuis wrote: | winchman wrote: | From what I see at the moment young people can't afford the classic vehicles, its just so hard for them financially |
Classic cars are not all expensive. Parts are very cheap compared to modern cars. If you want you can pick up a 40+ year old car for a few hundred. Forget the popular makes/models and take a lesser known instead. They may not be in showroom condition but there are many for sale which needs work. It is just there are less people who want to work on old cars. There are still classics being scrapped because no-one wants them, however low the price. |
What can I get for a few hundred? I must be missing some? |
There are projects around for mid-hundreds of ££, eg rubber-bumper MGB GTs, Austin 1100s, A40s, that kind of thing, or for a little more £ obscurer projects such as the Lea-Francis saloon that keeps popping up for sale. Triumph Mayflowers also pop up quite regularly needing TLC and aren't sky-high prices.
RJ _________________ Rick - Admin
Home:https://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk
Videos:https://www.youtube.com/user/oldclassiccarRJ/videos
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Rick Site Admin
Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22429 Location: UK
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Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2018 3:06 pm Post subject: |
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But back to the topic in question. I remember years ago taking my E83W pickup to a show, and an old boy swearing blind that Ford never sold an E83W with this style of rear body on it, so it must have been removed from another vehicle and fitted to the Ford. He simply wouldn't believe that this 22yr-old would know anything about them, and perhaps more than him. I even showed him a period brochure that showed the exact same vehicle in it, and he still wouldn't have it, at which point I gave up
RJ _________________ Rick - Admin
Home:https://www.oldclassiccar.co.uk
Videos:https://www.youtube.com/user/oldclassiccarRJ/videos
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winchman
Joined: 21 Feb 2014 Posts: 235 Location: Merseyside
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Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2018 3:06 pm Post subject: |
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I will have to have another look all the cheap stuff I have ever seen usually needed work costing two or three times its value.
I would like a classic to use not spend the next ten years restoring so had almost given up. _________________ It will come in handy even if you never use it. |
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JohnDale
Joined: 19 Mar 2008 Posts: 790 Location: Kelvin Valley,Scotland
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Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2018 3:14 pm Post subject: |
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Rick wrote: | But back to the topic in question. I remember years ago taking my E83W pickup to a show, and an old boy swearing blind that Ford never sold an E83W with this style of rear body on it, so it must have been removed from another vehicle and fitted to the Ford. He simply wouldn't believe that this 22yr-old would know anything about them, and perhaps more than him. I even showed him a period brochure that showed the exact same vehicle in it, and he still wouldn't have it, at which point I gave up
RJ | + 1 Rick. I enjoy listening to the 'experts' at the shows talking a load of rubbish(I am getting polite?) sometimes while the vehicle owner is standing in earshot. The owner's face going from red to puce as he tries not to put the bloke right & almost blows a gasket. All the best,JD. _________________ 1958 Ford Zephyr Mk2 Convertible
1976 Ford Granada Ghia. |
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peter scott
Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7113 Location: Edinburgh
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Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2018 3:22 pm Post subject: |
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I tend to get folk who think that the Jaguar mascot shouldn't be on a pre-war car.
Peter
_________________ http://www.nostalgiatech.co.uk
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alastairq
Joined: 14 Oct 2016 Posts: 1950 Location: East Yorkshire
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Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2018 4:58 pm Post subject: |
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[quote="winchman"][quote="badhuis"] winchman wrote: | From what I see at the moment young people can't afford the classic vehicles, its just so hard for them financially
What can I get for a few hundred? I must be missing some? |
I have tracked...as a matter of interest only....several old vehicles appearing on ebay these past few months....that have gone for what I consider to be very reasonable prices. Of course, success at obtaining a 'cheaper' old car/vehicle depends on where one sets one's sights?
The biggest disappointment for me is when the word 'value' starts to rear its ugly head.
Why does everything have to come down to monetary value every time?
If one has a task to perform...either fork out & pay someone else to do it....or, do something about acquiring some necessary skills, and do it oneself. Or, the third way [OAPs favourite?]..find someone who can do the task, in exchange for something you can do for them? [Won't be the first time I have received a fresh fruit pie every week for a year!]
Even rolling restos can be had for the price of a modest few years old modern......much depends on expectations...and I suspect, today's expectations don't quite match reality in a lot of cases?
Edit......just posted one on the ebay forum...no bids, currently 1500....got to be a reasonable rolling resto in anybody's mind?
A short while ago, a Standard Ensign went for just over a grand...pretty complete, if scruffy looking....unfortunately I deleted it from My eBay a while ago...
Several Austin A40s have appeared recently for modest sums....
All depends on how rosy one's tints are? |
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winchman
Joined: 21 Feb 2014 Posts: 235 Location: Merseyside
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Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2018 5:32 pm Post subject: |
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Thats a lot of car for not much money. _________________ It will come in handy even if you never use it. |
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