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Rick
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 Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 8:16 pm Post subject: Found at the side of a road |
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Have you ever gone on to buy something, after spotting it up for sale at the side of a road?
The only roadside "buy" that I can think of was a Series 1 Daimler Sovereign (XJ shape). Someone had it parked on a grass verge with a For Sale notice in the window. It had quite a few months MOT on it, the paint was a bit ropey but beneath the finish it was fairly solid. The interior was showing its age, and the flora establishing itself on the mouldy back seat wasn't a factory option as far as I recall.
Despite appearances, it went like a train, and provided enjoyable transport for a while before heading off for a new life down south somewhere.
RJ
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kevin2306
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| Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 8:24 pm Post subject: |
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I bought a lovely 1973 beetle many years ago from the roadside near chester, the lady was selling as her daughter had left home for uni.
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Rootes75
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Location: The Somerset Levels
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| Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 11:54 am Post subject: |
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| On the same sort of lines...I was driving locally down a road just past the scrapyard. All the 'likely' types dump tyres etc that they wont take in the scrap down into the ditches. To my surprise I noticed a nice Rostyle wheel so I stopped and lo and behold found 4 of them!! |
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kevin2306
Joined: 01 Jul 2013
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Location: nr Llangollen, north wales
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| Rootes75 wrote: | | On the same sort of lines...I was driving locally down a road just past the scrapyard. All the 'likely' types dump tyres etc that they wont take in the scrap down into the ditches. To my surprise I noticed a nice Rostyle wheel so I stopped and lo and behold found 4 of them!! |
sadly, i always look in the skip yard at the various rims and tyres.
not found anythink as desirable as that but did get some nice 14" steel rims for my friends mx5 (winter wheels) |
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smiffy220
Joined: 22 Nov 2010
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Location: Southminster, Essex
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I bought my very first Manta back in the day from a guy on a petrol station forecourt. He wasn't selling it, but pulled up next to me at the pump. I loved the look of the car, asked him if he wanted to sell it, and we made a deal there and then and shook on it.
5 months later I had to scrap it as it was riddled with rot on the chassis!
Hard lesson learned - Manta's rot!!! Haha.
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Riley Blue
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I once bought a house at the side of the road...  |
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