Triumph Acclaim

"Ash" realised it was Mon, 18 Apr 2005

A classic is in the eye of a beholder.

Hmmm...

| Since I have owned this I have collected the following | spares: [...] and the original sales brochure

As far as spares go, that's stretching it a bit, don't you think?

Auction ends 22nd April....MOT till 28th April...LOL!

"John Redman" wrote in message news:d41ino$r7$ snipped-for-privacy@newsg2.svr.pol.co.uk...

At the current bid (£27) it would still be a lot cheaper than hiring a car for 6 days.

I have often tried to explain to people that buying a good runner with some mot and tax at a low price is a cheap way of motoring, but few listen, for instance a little while ago I had a Granada 2 litre for sale, I knew it's history and it drove really well, had tax and mot but would not have gone through another mot easily, I asked for 150 quid for it , you could have used it for three months legally, but no-one even looked at it. I broke it up and got a refund on the car tax (75 quid) some petrol (20 quid) and ended up with a total of nearly 300 quid and some bits left over ! Daft I call it !

mrcheerful

In my yooft a guy up the road used to buy old cars (sadly I'm not sure where from). His rule of thumb was only to buy if the value of the petrol in the tank was more than the cost of the car. He liked Lagondas - had a V12 and lots of tourers, And a few Bentleys.

About the same time I used to see huge tank transporters (Scammel?) parked up the road with scrap Hurricanes and Spitfires on the back. Wanted one, but my sixpence per week pocket money didn't reach.

Geoff MacK

Some years ago, I advertised a FWD Triumph 1500 in my local paper with 2 months MOT and 3 months tax. I had a few people look at it and drive it around the block, but they all said they wished it had a longer MOT. I was only asking 125 quid for it because I had already got another car and just wanted to move the 1500 on.

When it got to 1 months MOT, I took it to the garage I always used and got a new MOT - no work needed, so just the MOT to pay for, about 20 quid in those days. I then advertised it in the local paper with 13 months MOT and 1 months tax, and asked 200 quid for it. It sold the day after the advert appeared - I accepted an offer of 195 quid. Someone could have had a cheaper bargain if they had bought it earlier.

I came unstuck in a similar way myself. Someone at work some years ago asked if I wanted a MkI PI, which his neighbour had told him he wanted to get rid of after it had sat in garage for the last 9 months when the tax and MOT ran out. He didn't want a lot for it. I suggested that the neighbour put it through an MOT and then I would make him an offer depending on how much work needed to be done to get it roadworthy. When the neighbour took it for the MOT, it passed, and the trip there and back reminded him how much he had enjoyed driving the car, so he decided to keep it instead of selling it. I kicked myself!.

Jim