Classic cars forum & vehicle restoration.

clan chieftain · Joined: 05 Apr 2008 Posts: 2041 Location: Motherwell

It would be about 1985 I saw a Vauxhall Friary advertised in Liverpool. It was not MOTd or taxed. I had made arrangements with him and a deal was struck over the phone. I got a loan of a spec frame and off I went. When I got there he was not in and his wife told me it had been sold that morning. I was not a happy bunny. I probably should have phoned before I left but he seemed a genuine enough bloke. Great looking estate the Friary. However ..lesson learnt. Embarassed

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Roger-hatchy · Joined: 07 Dec 2007 Posts: 2135 Location: Tiptree, Essex

Last year
A Rover P4 for £300 had been garaged for five years

I sounded too good to be true, But I um'd and ar'd once to often and it was bought by someone else in the club.

Not a lot wrong with it from what I have heard.

V8 Nutter · Joined: 27 Aug 2012 Posts: 605

Back in the early 60's I could have bought a badly knocked about 1953 Cadillac Eldorado Convertible. I thought it was too expensive at £125. I didn't know at the time only about 400 of that model were built. A restored one went for a quarter of a million dollars a couple of years ago. I have often wondered how such an expensive car came to be in such bad condition on sale in the U.K.

MVPeters · Joined: 28 Aug 2008 Posts: 822 Location: Northern MA, USA

Just to really annoy you, Caddy's are now at $300,000!

http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/2012/12/04/1956-cadillac-series-62-convertible-sells-for-nearly-300000-at-staluppi-sale/?refer=news
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2002 MINI Cooper 'S'

V8 Nutter · Joined: 27 Aug 2012 Posts: 605

Mike

I am not too upset. I don't like red cars

Churchill Johnson · Joined: 11 Jan 2011 Posts: 359 Location: Rayleigh Essex

A 1935 M/B 1.7l 4cyl rear engine saloon one of only two in this country so i was told at the time for £100 but that was 50yr's ago and i could not borrow the money and i was only earning £5 a week then.

troutrunner · Joined: 03 Dec 2012 Posts: 185 Location: South Lincolnshire

A Pontiac Chieftain, a mate owned it and wouldn't sell it to me because it had a crack in the block, I knew this but he still wouldn't sell it to anyone he knew, sad..................Wonderful looking 50's motor.
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1937 Ford Model Y.
1939 Austin 10.
1955 Austin A30.
1958 Ford 300E van.
1961 Austin A40.
1964 Wolseley Hornet.
1965 Series2a Land Rover.
1968 Wolseley Hornet.
1994 Peugeot 405 Est. 2of.
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roverdriver · Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 10:46 am Post subject:

January 1964 I moved into a 'flat' which was really a third of a rather old house in a Melbourne suburb. The owners lived in another third of the house and there was a very large shed out the back. The owners found out that I was interested in early cars, and remarked that they had a Hurtu in the shed. My excitement was somewhat dampened upon being told that it had been sold only a few days before.

Here is the Hurtu that got away, as it was removed from the shed before being driven away.

And here it is a few years later, fully restored.

........and to think- it could have been mine!
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