Seriously?

[Othen]

Originally Posted by BicycleBoy

An as I'm going quite off-road, so to speak, here's an early Volvo SUV. Lol.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/334587512676
...well, it has a redblock.

Relative to the 544 this one will have an even smaller pool of potential buyers. I can't really think of anyone that might be interested in this at any price; perhaps I just lack imagination?

[Othen]

Originally Posted by Othen

I'm coming to suspect the red motor car may be subject to some shill bidding as well. The price continues to nudge upwards: currently £3,250 with 13 different bidders. There is a day or so to go yet. I think a correspondent reported this one had been on sale at £6,500 for some time - so I rather suspect the seller is trying to get bidding close to that level.

:-)

Bidding on the red 240 ends today, so we will be put out of our misery. I can't help thinking we may see this one again next week; I do so hope I'm wrong.

Alan

[Moomoo]

Originally Posted by Laird Scooby

Someone pressed the trip reset button with the car moving between 2014 and 2015 from the look of it!

In fact, it looks like the trip reset button is jammed in............

Seems like the bare minimum has been done each year to get it through the test!

He’s sold another barn find within the last six months, so probably not a bereavement in his family.
A bit like Grandad’ s Barge!🤔

[Othen]

Originally Posted by Moomoo

He’s sold another barn find within the last six months, so probably not a bereavement in his family.
A bit like Grandad’ s Barge!🤔

Perhaps the seller should have put ‘Barn Find’ in the title?

[BicycleBoy]

Originally Posted by Othen

Relative to the 544 this one will have an even smaller pool of potential buyers. I can't really think of anyone that might be interested in this at any price; perhaps I just lack imagination?

Take one of these over a forward control Land Rover any day: More exclusive and portal axles, in case you hit a really big kerb. This is a real off-road tool, ergo maximum kudos at the local.4x4 club meet.

Or get a 110 and be like every fifth house on the street?

[Othen]

Originally Posted by BicycleBoy

Take one of these over a forward control Land Rover any day: More exclusive and portal axles, in case you hit a really big kerb. This is a real off-road tool, ergo maximum kudos at the local.4x4 club meet.

Or get a 110 and be like every fifth house on the street?

I'd never heard of a 'forward control Land Rover' - they always were called the 'One Tunney' in the military - and were mostly used by RA units for towing the 105mm light gun.

I can't imagine myself coveting kudos at a 4x4 club, and my point remains I don't think there would be many others seeking a 45 year old, bashed around LHD truck that probably wouldn't manage 10 MPG either. I think the price is almost arbitrary, if it was £2,000 the number of interested parties would be much the same. The seller might as well leave the asking price at £20,000 in case one of the 3 people in the country that might buy a vehicle like this comes along.

I suppose we'll see if this bargain gets snapped up by some fortunate punter on the next 89 minutes (or perhaps not).

;-)

[Wagon Sailor]

A Pinzgauer for me, please.

[Othen]

Originally Posted by Wagon Sailor

A Pinzgauer for me, please.

… have you ever driven one of these? We had them in the military (mostly RA units for towing guns). They were fast but had a reputation for turning over quite easily and damaging the crews. For military use the Humvee was much more versatile, but neither would be much use for shopping at Waitrose :-)

[Wagon Sailor]

All true.

I went to look at a Haflinger but it had already been sold. The vendor had a Pinzgauer and asked if I'd like to give it ago. It was brilliant, insofar as it dealt with terrain our Land Rover couldn't touch. It very quickly went from interesting to 'do we have to' when we got on the public highway.

Our lad lives in the Eifel. Were I to move out there, I think I'd go for a first generation Fiat Panda 4x4 or a Lada Niva for shopping in the winter.

[Othen]

Originally Posted by Wagon Sailor

All true.

I went to look at a Haflinger but it had already been sold. The vendor had a Pinzgauer and asked if I'd like to give it ago. It was brilliant, insofar as it dealt with terrain our Land Rover couldn't touch. It very quickly went from interesting to 'do we have to' when we got on the public highway.

Our lad lives in the Eifel. Were I to move out there, I think I'd go for a first generation Fiat Panda 4x4 or a Lada Niva for shopping in the winter.

When i dropped the RB at its new home in Selkirk its new stablemate was a Pinzgauer:



... amongst others :-).

Very few people in the UK need a proper 4x4, almost all the ones I see around (BMW X5s and so on) would be completely unsuited for use off a metalled road. They mostly seem to be used for dropping kids at school and shopping at Waitrose.

:-)