Attn Vamp: Posted your ZX on retro-rides.

And to compliment Vamps ZX Bluebird, anyone in Essex want a free BMW 5=20 series needing work.

--=20 Carl Robson Car PC Build starts again.

hmmm, E28 520i with no T&T.

That's more than it's worth :-P

E34, ITYF. Read the text again.

E36 he said.

It's on an E plate, which makes it an E28.

The E34 came in on an F plate.

Hint: Don't try to out-anorak an anorak :-P

OK, I'm wrong.

My anorak lead me to look up the actual production dates.

That probably makes it worth even less, then ;-)

Though if it was a good clean one, it'd still be a nice car, though still not worth much.

I personally reckon the really clean ones will appreciate though, as they are still a great looking design, and one of the nicest looking cars in their class for their generation - possibly amongst the nicer/nicest looking in their class of all time (though I'm sure people will quickly say I'm wrong).

I reckon a clean one now bought for £500-600 could increase in value in the coming 4-5 years though. Ok, this isn't really comparing like with like, but Mk3 Escorts have - the one I had with all the stick-on s**te was bloody clean and very solid, and had I taken all the crap off it and got it sorted nicely, that could be about £700 worth now. Still an old POS at the end of the day though.....

They aren't all that common, but I've seen an E plater before... and yes, I too scratched my head when I saw it.

It's a 520, almost certainly with cloth...

'Nice' :'(

-- JackH

It's free FFS. if it is as solid a shell as suggested, whey not make it a project, stick in any engine you want, even by a rusted out early 300ZX, bit of mig work and send off the new engine number to the DVLA, you got a 3 litre V6 BMW modded trackday road legal car.

Yes, and your point is?

Almost all cars without MOT are worth more in bits than they are as a whole. In fact, as a whole, it's not unknown for a car to have negative value, but be worth around a grand as parts.

This would be a special prototype BMW E34, then.

Hmm, might be worth breaking actually...

...shame I've no space for any more sheds.

Because it would, with respect, be pretty pointless when for a few hundred quid you can now pick up a 525i 24v or a 535i with MOT that works. Even something as well built as an E34 is going to suffer big style at that age, when left to sit for years - all the rubbers underneath perish, and chances are the lump will be all but seized, never mind the brakes.

Not... worth... the... hassle.

Yes, it's that easy just lobbing a lump into something, isn't it, especially when it's out of something made by a completely different manufacturer...

I mean, who needs wiring anyway... :-P

Waste of time, when you can pick up E34 540is for less than £1500 now - any which have lasted this long will have either been rectified, or will never succumb to nicosil problems.

-- JackH

Heh - well I've seen both a Carlton and a Senator on an M plate. Beat that!

Or will idle roughly, with the seller pleading ignorance, as was the case with the one PeteM looked at up in ScouseLand a while back for me.

Nope, it would be a free 5 series with a Nissan engine.

Whatever you're smoking...... I want some.

Y reg Maestro (2001, not 1983)... R reg Montego.

-- JackH

The M-plate Carlon/Senator are easily explained (ex police). The Y-reg Maestro is no problem (CKD kits from Belgium bought, assembled and sold here from 1998 by some blokes in a shed somewhere dahn sarf). The R-plate Montego, though... that must have hung around a LONG time.

They made them up to 1995, IIRC, for minicab drivers. I'm sure I remember the last one being sent to the Heritage Centre.

Richard

I'll take that Montego, and raise you an R reg Pug 205 (yes, two oh five).

Ledburys... aye.

Not aware of the CKD tag - thought they were all Rover stock meant to have been originally for the Bulgarian taxi market.

I believe they're ex MOD.

There used to be a mint J plate Mk1 Orion around here - local car, looking at the plates... and the old giffer who used to crawl along at 30 everywhere in it.

-- JackH

Yep, that's about when they killed the damn things off, finally.

Jack: CKD - see

Richard