Seriously?

[Othen]

Originally Posted by Steve 940

Well this one has got your name all over it Andrew, just down the road from you, and even better it's a red one

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/116139295...Bk9SR76I2YvZYw

Pricing, lets just say he's being a tad optimistic???

Cheers
Steve

… an absurd price (IMHO) for a cooking VWW with no MoT. I’ll probably be proven wrong and someone will buy it - some folk have much more money than sense.

[Othen]

Originally Posted by Steve 940

Well here might be one for our resident Skeggy Gangster….

https://www.mathewsons.co.uk/auction...pp=48&pn=3&g=1

Spotless MOT history to the last one done in 2018, perhaps the photos of the cills/ underside are a tad worrying.

Got to be worth a look??

Cheers
Steve

Originally Posted by ITSv40

Hmm, Pears, rotten, springs to mind.

The top side looks coolio, but I tend to agree: the bottom looks a bit crusty.

[Laird Scooby]

Originally Posted by Othen

The top side looks coolio, but I tend to agree: the bottom looks a bit crusty.

I was just imagining Bob stood on the back seat, front paws resting on top of the backrest between the rear headrests watching the cars following behind when i saw the sills and previous patches.

Pears have been mentioned, i'll see those pears and raise you a 3 week old curry........

[ITSv40]

Originally Posted by Laird Scooby

I was just imagining Bob stood on the back seat, front paws resting on top of the backrest between the rear headrests watching the cars following behind when i saw the sills and previous patches.

Pears have been mentioned, i'll see those pears and raise you a 3 week old curry........

There is one positive for the Shadow: the corrosion is there for all to see! Generally it is lurking under the cover of Davids finest Isopon and Holts Stonechip.

To repair that properly just isn't economic, hence it being shifted on 'as is'.

[Laird Scooby]

Originally Posted by ITSv40

There is one positive for the Shadow: the corrosion is there for all to see! Generally it is lurking under the cover of Davids finest Isopon and Holts Stonechip.

To repair that properly just isn't economic, hence it being shifted on 'as is'.

I can see someone buying it and because of the MoT exemption (it's 45 years old now) will run it as it stands until something breaks or too many bodily parts fall off due to corrosion then they'll ring Flying 8 and offer it up as an organ donor and get what they can for it.

[ITSv40]

Originally Posted by Laird Scooby

I can see someone buying it and because of the MoT exemption (it's 45 years old now) will run it as it stands until something breaks or too many bodily parts fall off due to corrosion then they'll ring Flying 8 and offer it up as an organ donor and get what they can for it.

Yes agreed. Or the unscrupulous will give it a good coating of Isopon and stonechip and punt it on to the unwary. It wouldn't be the first time!

Going back 60 years my father bought a secondhand Austin A35 van from the local garage in the next village to us. All immaculate in the Austin green of the time. Now anyone familiar with an A35 will know that the sill comes down vertically from the door and then bulges out in a nice rounded shape before disappearing under the floor pan. A few months after purchase the sills started to crack and upon investigation the whole length of the sill - on both sides - had been packed with bake bean tins laid end to end. The said tins had then been overlaid with damp newspaper and then encased in Isopon. Father then had to have two new sills welded on and a proper repair carried out, which cost more than the purchase price.

[Steve 940]

Originally Posted by ITSv40

Yes agreed. Or the unscrupulous will give it a good coating of Isopon and stonechip and punt it on to the unwary. It wouldn't be the first time!

Going back 60 years my father bought a secondhand Austin A35 van from the local garage in the next village to us. All immaculate in the Austin green of the time. Now anyone familiar with an A35 will know that the sill comes down vertically from the door and then bulges out in a nice rounded shape before disappearing under the floor pan. A few months after purchase the sills started to crack and upon investigation the whole length of the sill - on both sides - had been packed with bake bean tins laid end to end. The said tins had then been overlaid with damp newspaper and then encased in Isopon. Father then had to have two new sills welded on and a proper repair carried out, which cost more than the purchase price.

Wonderful, but I suppose it just demonstrates the lengths that 'some' people will go to, to punt on a motor.

Also the resourcefulness of that repair, it must have taken him longer to do the 'bean can' repair than a proper cill replacement, he didn't buy it from Yorkshire did he??

All this 'browsing' just gets me in a pickle, as I've found this little bundle of trouble a few days ago, that I'm trying to ignore, but it does seem to say buy me, and must be worth a look as its not a million miles away....

https://www.carandclassic.com/l/C1707306

Somebody talk some sense into me.....

Cheers
Steve

[ITSv40]

Originally Posted by Steve 940

Wonderful, but I suppose it just demonstrates the lengths that 'some' people will go to, to punt on a motor.

Also the resourcefulness of that repair, it must have taken him longer to do the 'bean can' repair than a proper cill replacement, he didn't buy it from Yorkshire did he??

All this 'browsing' just gets me in a pickle, as I've found this little bundle of trouble a few days ago, that I'm trying to ignore, but it does seem to say buy me, and must be worth a look as its not a million miles away....

https://www.carandclassic.com/l/C1707306

Somebody talk some sense into me.....

Cheers
Steve

Now that is a cute little thing. I'm not a pre-war man, but is even saying 'buy me' to me. I would be very happy to have that in one of the garages.

[Moomoo]

All this 'browsing' just gets me in a pickle, as I've found this little bundle of trouble a few days ago, that I'm trying to ignore, but it does seem to say buy me, and must be worth a look as its not a million miles away....

https://www.carandclassic.com/l/C1707306

Somebody talk some sense into me.....

Cheers
Steve[/QUOTE]

Mr. Jennings, who taught mathematics, Latin and classics used an expression, Andrew’s behaviour would be less distressing, in a younger boy.

Any bells? 🛎️🛎️🛎️

[Steve 940]

[/QUOTE]

Mr. Jennings, who taught mathematics, Latin and classics used an expression, Andrew’s behaviour would be less distressing, in a younger boy.

Any bells? 🛎️🛎️🛎️[/QUOTE]

Ah, a classics master is always going to have an exceptionally good withering ‘put down’ to express their frustration, in the dreaded school reports😀😀

Cheers
Steve