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Old Jun 24th, 2024, 14:10   #6621
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So, chumney is now asking a mere £14,000 for the 244 with a Rover V8 motor… form an orderly queue.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/156255609...mis&media=COPY

I can’t help thinking this is a slightly odd way of trying to sell an unusual motorcar that will have a minuscule market.

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Now this one really is a ‘Seriously?’:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/156190343...mis&media=COPY

… £17,000 for a 240! Okay, the parts fitted are like a wish list from the custom car sweet shop: Rover V8, 5 speed gearbox… the list goes on. On the negative side it remains a 136,000 mile, 39 year old (so tax exempt next April - good) cooking motor car.

The seller says he has spent £60,000 on the 240 over the past 5 years, that may be the case, but is it worth £17,000 now? I suppose that depends entirely upon one perspective. It is nowhere near original, and it is a bit too good to use without it losing its show condition status, so what is the potential market? For £17,000 one could buy a much better sports car (say a 10 year old Porsche Boxster), a very nice luxury car (any number of Jaguar, BMW, MB) or a brand new hatchback, all of which would be much more reliable, safer and either faster or more economical (maybe both). What market remains? Someone with considerable expendable income and garage space that is perhaps interested in trailering the motor car to shows in Lincolnshire farmers’ fields? There is one other possibility of course: someone setting out to build the ultimate parts-bin 240 (they appear in these pages from time to time - I can think of a few offhand) - for that person spending £17,000 on this motor car would be a far cheaper way of achieving the aim without bothering to do the work.

My own opinion (as if that matters) is this 240 is gauche - I’d feel a bit embarrassed - so it certainly isn’t one for me.

I can’t help thinking the seller may be one of us from this excellent forum - I do hope I have not in any way offended him/her.

… so the V8 240 still didn’t sell, and chumney is now looking for only £13,000…

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/156270976...mis&media=COPY

… at this rate of price reduction it should be sold be Xmas.

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… I’m coming to think I might like to organise my own DIY funeral Andrew: a nice wicker casket, maybe buy a little plot of woodland… and what about owning my own hearse… now that would be coolio.

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… I’m coming to think I might like to organise my own DIY funeral Andrew: a nice wicker casket, maybe buy a little plot of woodland… and what about owning my own hearse… now that would be coolio.

Could give it a Viking twist!🔥🔥🔥
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Could give it a Viking twist!🔥🔥🔥
Arthur Brown strikes again!

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You really need a Viking longboat; or visit the Shetland Isles for Up Helly'a and ask them to torch you!
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Mentioned this one several weeks ago, and been keeping an eye on it, for weeks now it’s been showing deposit received, but advert still listed.

https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1730375

A few weeks ago, I did email them asking if the ‘sale’ had stalled, or what was happening, no response.

Anyway, been away on hols, and had five mins to spare, so I called them.

Surprise, surprise, the alleged ‘sale’ was clearly a marketing ploy to create supposed demand at very high listed asking price, as he said that it was available and would I like to view………

Not at that price, thanks you.

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Mentioned this one several weeks ago, and been keeping an eye on it, for weeks now it’s been showing deposit received, but advert still listed.

https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1730375

A few weeks ago, I did email them asking if the ‘sale’ had stalled, or what was happening, no response.

Anyway, been away on hols, and had five mins to spare, so I called them.

Surprise, surprise, the alleged ‘sale’ was clearly a marketing ploy to create supposed demand at very high listed asking price, as he said that it was available and would I like to view………

Not at that price, thanks you.

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That sounds like a very daft marketing ploy Steve.

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… I’m coming to think I might like to organise my own DIY funeral Andrew: a nice wicker casket, maybe buy a little plot of woodland… and what about owning my own hearse… now that would be coolio.

By Jove Alan!!!! I think you’ve finally succumbed to VWWitus, we’ve been telling you for ages that these ‘vans’ were sort of ‘cool’ 😀😀😀😀

As for that very expensive 245, it was most odd as it appeared and almost immediately it had the ‘deposit accepted’ added to the listing. After a few weeks, it just didn’t sit right that a deal hadn’t been completed, if not, take the deposit bit off the listing would be most dealers first course of action.

I may of course be completely wrong, but it just seems to me that they were fishing, trying to make out the car is in demand, and by association, at that extortionate price, perhaps hooking a buyer.

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This brings back memories, dad had a Mercedes-Benz (W111) 220B and was looking for a change, try as I might to talk him into buying a 164 he ignored me and bought a Rover 3.5 Litre Coupe https://auctions.wbandsons.com/aucti...-164/?lot=1795
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