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I'm no expert though, so I'm probably wrong. Alan
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During the Cold War era the USAFE leased based from the host country - e.g. RAF Ben****ers, Lakenheath, Alconbury etc - and were the sole occupants EXCEPT in Holland where they were co-located with RNethAF units. Consequently the Soesterberg-based USAFE units were referred to as "Royal" by the plane-spotting and military aviation enthusiasts. A further indication that the Dutch car was ordered by someone associated with USAFE is the taillight clusters - like the RB it has 5-segment lamps, but the RB's rear fog lamps have been replaced by reversing lamps; this was standard on US-market cars ad may have been standard for at least some European markets.
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It has a certain charm. Unless it's covered in rust scabs, I'd have to just stabilise it and keep it fairly clean. Is only unrestored once! ![]() |
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That said it's manual so not for me anyway and as for the handlebars being on the wrong side, i've driven a few and just couldn't get on with them, they just felt "wrong".
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This is something of an academic discussion as the motor car is 400 miles away in the Netherlands, none of us is likely to see it in the flesh but people are pontificating on how scruffy the paint is. Alan
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There is so much subsidance, particularly on rural roads here where the edges of the road are sinking into dykes or the edge of marsh and/or agricultural land that driving within a metre of the kerb/verge would have you visiting a chiropractor followed by a dentist - first to get your back sorted out so you could walk again and the second to repalce the fillings and/or teeth shaken loose in the process of doing your back in! ![]() One particular place has recurrent subsidance despite having been resurfaced about 3 times in the 9 ish years i've been here. When it's bad, it's perfectly capable of writing off dampers if you catch it wrong at anything over 30mph (and has done on more than 2 of my cars) so i now either slow down to ~20mph or swing over to the other side of the road (if safe to do so) to avoid it. Might upset other people but they're not paying for my dampers or time to fit them and repairing any other damage caused.
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I was referring there to the mainstream market but in particular cars 5-10 years old, cars I’d actually want to source for clients, by that I mean decent full service history, mot history bodywork paintwork condition and decent tyres. I don’t deal in the tight wad price important over condition end of the market such as eBay or Facebook. My personal experience in sourcing cars is the dealer market is paying 25% over just to replenish stock, the market is wild, I see many cars sell trade to trade for 25% more than the main dealer gave as px, now whilst some cars have always traded higher than book value I’ve never seen it so widespread as it has been of late, it has made my job extremely difficult due to the market. Of course it’s supply and demand, and the crud that no one wants doesn’t make good money for that simple reason, but then I’m not looking to source stuff like that. As you’ve gathered by now, I’m nearly 2 decades within the motor and motor racing arena and I am talking of my own recent experience here which for me is good enough evidence, but like I say it’s a big wide market. I don’t think we disagree, I think we are just looking at different areas of the market and maybe the Volvo 240 niche has no price increase, and that’s why I was asking the question, but that doesn’t mean other areas of the market have not seen the increase though alan. For instance the motoring press reported a 16% increase in just one month |
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