I spy With My Little Eye

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Re: I spy With My Little Eye

Post by germ » 10 Feb 2009 03:24 am

i made a very long post in a huff and now keeping quiet.. anyway its our own fault for not buying at home and all is lost pretty much.. im going to hide in a corner a go little wordle with my leet wordleing skillz
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Re: I spy With My Little Eye

Post by volvosneverdie » 10 Feb 2009 07:05 am

Im bidding on a singer gazzelle.
Just doingvmy bit to keep uk car industry alive!
Go team!
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Re: I spy With My Little Eye

Post by filthyjohn » 10 Feb 2009 01:41 pm

Superminxes for all!
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Re: I spy With My Little Eye

Post by volvosneverdie » 10 Feb 2009 02:04 pm

Tell a lie. Its a vouge.

Had a bid when I was half cut.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... :IT&ih=019

Have you got any space in the unit john?
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Re: I spy With My Little Eye

Post by jtbo » 10 Feb 2009 02:15 pm

I don't know what Superminx is, but I came up with http://www.superminx.com/home-mainmenu- ... ?task=view where I ended up to http://www.mp3.com.au/Track.asp?id=4125 It is quite good, yes? no?

Anyway I still don't know what Superminxes are, but now I can search with music on :mrgreen:

edit: Oh yes, you must mean Hillman's super minx, silly me :lol:
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Re: I spy With My Little Eye

Post by jtbo » 10 Feb 2009 02:19 pm

volvosneverdie wrote:Tell a lie. Its a vouge.

Had a bid when I was half cut.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... :IT&ih=019

Have you got any space in the unit john?
Good god, don't say that is mint condition car for silly pennies? Can't find such treasures here for sure :shock: Must be the weather, people go all crazy and forget zeros from price tags :roll:
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Re: I spy With My Little Eye

Post by volvosneverdie » 10 Feb 2009 02:29 pm

jtbo wrote:
volvosneverdie wrote:Tell a lie. Its a vouge.

Had a bid when I was half cut.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... :IT&ih=019

Have you got any space in the unit john?
Good god, don't say that is mint condition car for silly pennies? Can't find such treasures here for sure :shock: Must be the weather, people go all crazy and forget zeros from price tags :roll:
Well its not 'mint', but it looks well enough.
And not too far away.
Classic car prices are quite down at the minute, so its the right time (and time of year) to snag something cheap to pass on when summer sunny fever hits.
Get all the fun of poking round it in the meantime too.
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Re: I spy With My Little Eye

Post by filthyjohn » 10 Feb 2009 03:52 pm

Go for it! I'll make space!
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Re: I spy With My Little Eye

Post by volvosneverdie » 10 Feb 2009 04:03 pm

filthyjohn wrote:Go for it! I'll make space!
Good man.
Coz ive already tossed in.
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Post by jtbo » 10 Feb 2009 04:11 pm

It looks really clean for car of that age which has not been restored, hopefully you win that bid so we can start asking pics :D
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Re: I spy With My Little Eye

Post by volvosneverdie » 10 Feb 2009 04:49 pm

Fingers crossed. I'll post some pics of the last bargain classic i had when i get home. Now that WAS a bargain.
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Re: I spy With My Little Eye

Post by volvosneverdie » 10 Feb 2009 06:16 pm

Last years love........................................................................
UXG 220

Bought for 400 and change, spent 270 on it (ish), Moved it on for 1600.
A lad flew over from Lintz, Austria, and drove it home.

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And the lad that flew over, and drove it all the way back to Lintz.

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and it finally outside his house. Took 4 days to get there.

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Hope hes looking after it..............................................................................

Yeah. Pretty sure i want it back now. :(
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Re: I spy With My Little Eye

Post by jtbo » 10 Feb 2009 07:39 pm

There should be large garage coming with each car we buy, that way keeping them would be so much easier :D
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Re: I spy With My Little Eye

Post by filthyjohn » 11 Feb 2009 01:37 am

That oxford was a total honey! But considering the profit you did the right thing. Salty roads would have killed it sooner or later.
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Re: I spy With My Little Eye

Post by volvosneverdie » 11 Feb 2009 08:14 am

Yeah, not the most practical of daily runners, despite the cool factor. Lead replacement and many 'unexplained stops just becase it seems to want to stop for ten mins' grew a bit tiresome. Would love to have kept it as a second, but youre right, it would have rotted.
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