Seriously?

[Laird Scooby]

Originally Posted by Moomoo

The history does not fill one with confidence. Thick under seal mentioned more than once.

£1800, max. Possible money pit!🤨

You put the decimal point in the wrong place Andrew - i'll fix that for you £18.00 max.

Originally Posted by Steve 940

Sorry chaps, I saw that last night, and the advert photos just made me giggle with the tartan blanket already in the boot😀😀, I didn’t mean it to be a serious contender as I hadn’t even looked at the MOT history.

See what you mean Andrew, underseal mentioned virtually every year back to 2014 or so, either covering up sins, or a pedantic tester, methinks the former is more likely👍👍

Happy Volvo hunting for the new year.

Cheers
Steve

I suspect the underseal mentions are a combination of a pedantic tester and a multitude of sins Steve..............

[Steve 940]

One for Dave perhaps ??

https://www.swva.co.uk/classic-car/c...3-pallas-1975/

Looks a nice clean motor, clear MOT history, but I think you’d just live in permanent fear of wallet emptying at any moment.

Cheers
Steve

[Moomoo]

Originally Posted by Steve 940

One for Dave perhaps ??

https://www.swva.co.uk/classic-car/c...3-pallas-1975/

Looks a nice clean motor, clear MOT history, but I think you’d just live in permanent fear of wallet emptying at any moment.

Cheers
Steve

That’s how I see it Steve, something lurking to shock!😱😱😱

[Laird Scooby]

Originally Posted by Steve 940

One for Dave perhaps ??

https://www.swva.co.uk/classic-car/c...3-pallas-1975/

Looks a nice clean motor, clear MOT history, but I think you’d just live in permanent fear of wallet emptying at any moment.

Cheers
Steve

Not a chance - it's French!

[Steve 940]

Originally Posted by Laird Scooby

Not a chance - it's French!

Thought you’d appreciate that one Dave, a true Francophobe at heart😀😀

The rose tints suggest wafting the back roads in France with the compulsory Gauloises at a jaunty angle, heading to a leisurely lunch with the mistress. But I fear the reality would be far removed.

How can they design something so complicated…..

Makes me think of the awful Alfa Arna, Japanese design, but built by Italians designers and manufacturers t’other way round, it might have had a chance👍👍

Cheers
Steve

[Laird Scooby]

Originally Posted by Steve 940

Thought you’d appreciate that one Dave, a true Francophobe at heart😀😀

The rose tints suggest wafting the back roads in France with the compulsory Gauloises at a jaunty angle, heading to a leisurely lunch with the mistress. But I fear the reality would be far removed.

How can they design something so complicated…..

Makes me think of the awful Alfa Arna, Japanese design, but built by Italians designers and manufacturers t’other way round, it might have had a chance👍👍

Cheers
Steve

Worked on too many French cars (and electrics in general) and still have nightmares about it Steve! No way would i subject myelf to something like that!

In fairness, the DS cars are one of the very few French cars i actually have a modicum of respect for, the ideas were good, just poorly executed.

As for the Alfa Romeo Arna aka Datsun Cherry Europe, it was a joint venture between Nissan and Alfa Romeo, if memory serves the Alfa version got a version of the 1.5 Alfasud engine or at least there was one on the drawing board and/or prototyped.

The reality of it was it was a huge tax fiddle as Itally taxed foreign cars quite heavily at the time so Nissan teaming up with Alfa dropped that import tax and i think there was a similar arrangement in Japan.

As you allude to, it was mostly successful at rusting faster than it travelled. Sad really as they were actually quite a good, underrated car. They were from a time before Nissan and Vauxhall got tied up with Renault and the resultant downfall of both..............

[Wagon Sailor]

Alfa teaming up with Nissan got them a replacement for the Alfasud and a brand new factory in a place that needed a lot of investment. Nissan got an entry into a reluctant European market. It should have worked ...

Within 3 years, the Italian government sold Alfa Romeo. Hooray for Fiat!

[Steve 940]

Am I out of touch........

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/375165306...Bk9SR6KYrteaYw

No MOT since 2019 and needs trailering away, so basically a project, but asking £1750????

I'd expect them to be asking for quite some time at that price, or am I missing something???

Cheers
Steve

[Laird Scooby]

Originally Posted by Steve 940

Am I out of touch........

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/375165306...Bk9SR6KYrteaYw

No MOT since 2019 and needs trailering away, so basically a project, but asking £1750????

I'd expect them to be asking for quite some time at that price, or am I missing something???

Cheers
Steve

I think the starting bid should be £175 instead Steve - arguably you could book an MoT near to home and drive it from wherever it is (Essex?) to your local test station and then home legally, it might pass but looking at the history, it seems to have had a few rust problems over the past few years and last test was 2018.

It appears to be a new ebayer as well, feedback score of just 1 at the moment. Joined ebay 9/11/23 so definitely new!

[Blitzp]

maybe for a grand it would be worth a punt if you had time and effort to make it a decent daily.
to be fair mine isnt far off that but it runs and drives .....just