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Post by Humph on Jul 9, 2021 11:20:04 GMT
You’d need the shoes, of course. And the medallion. Although I suppose I could include one of mine in the deal. (Although what you’d do with one size 13 shoe…) I suppose the shoe would make an unusual garden planter, or maybe a Christmas tree stand and the medallion could be put to use in decorating the tree. The car would need privacy glass too with all the kit I carry. Pity it's the Billy Basic model... 😉 |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2021 11:24:52 GMT
There's something kind of cool about that Subaru Al. Long way from you mind. Yes they're not very common. I'm only in the window shopping phase still. There's one within far fewer miles of me but it's twice the price because of Soft Southern Mug Tax. |
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Post by Humph on Jul 9, 2021 11:31:18 GMT
I guess if you'd decided that it was "the one" you'd make the journey anyway?
Once, years ago, an Italian friend bought a Series 2 Land Rover online in the UK. I was due to go to Italy anyway a couple of weeks later and drove it down for him. Which seemed like a good idea at the time. No mechanical woes, but I did feel like getting my fillings checked on my return to the UK.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2021 11:51:17 GMT
Yeah I'd travel for the right car, would have to be pretty sure to commit to going that far though. Of course this last year has seen a boom in cars being delivered rather than collected, so could pay for that service. Still fells a bit risky buying old crap unseen though. I bought a LHD FIAT Ulysse unseen from a dealer in Grenoble once, flew out there and drove it back. Never used the bloody thing (long story), and sold it to someone who exported it to his holiay home in Italy.
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Post by bpg on Jul 9, 2021 13:48:26 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2021 13:54:30 GMT
That second one is right up my alley. The Sud being my favourite car of all time. That first one...what can I say. Way, way too expensive, and covered in unncessary tat. What are those wing mirrors doing on it? Horrible mess. I like factory originality.
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Post by bpg on Jul 9, 2021 13:57:02 GMT
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Post by Humph on Jul 9, 2021 14:01:44 GMT
Brown interior too.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2021 14:08:31 GMT
That. Is. A. Honey. I are want. |
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Post by Humph on Jul 9, 2021 14:13:05 GMT
The deeply depressing thing about that car is that I'm more than old enough to have been its first owner, had I been wealthy enough and living in Germany enough of course. Which I wasn't.
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Post by bpg on Jul 9, 2021 14:20:57 GMT
I'm off down a rabbit hole now, Alfettas, GTV6s...see you next week.
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Post by Humph on Jul 9, 2021 14:24:49 GMT
A girl I knew bought one of those Alfa Sprints new, way back when. She lived in St Andrews which is by the sea, and in Scotland, so it was exposed to salt and wet from the get go. It more or less dissolved within 3 years.
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Post by bpg on Jul 9, 2021 14:30:35 GMT
Same story with my Dad's 1975 FIAT Coupe. At five years it needed roughly the bottom third of the doors replacing, the corners of the boot lid rebuilt, the rain channel below the rear window above the boot lid cut out and replaced and a full respray. North East coast of England and that car was garaged.
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Post by Humph on Jul 9, 2021 14:51:16 GMT
My father had a Wolseley 6/110 from new in 1965. By 1970 it was terminally rusty. He started buying Volvos after that, but he even changed those more regularly after the bad experience with the Wolseley.
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