The Reverend Bluejeans wrote: ↑Mon Dec 16, 2019 12:33 am
A very early Spitfire 4 for a couple of grand would be a pleasant tram for a nice day. But when you see a lot of old toss for 3.2S Boxster money.......no thanks.
Got Boxster, have more fun driving the MGB...
If cars were bought on numbers, stats and reviews alone, we'd all be driving around in leased Golf R's and the world would be an even more boring place than it is.
If you keep a car for 10 years or so the original purchase price becomes insignificant and you spend much more money on maintenance. This is even more true with older vehicles where the market can roller-coaster in the ownership period.
Talk of value and/or perceived desirability is as interesting as dinner-party babble about house prices.
There's a great long bar in Rock & Roll heaven.......
It's not an eBay find but no point starting it's own thread. I've been offered a very tidy, full service history 1999 Nissan QX 2.0 v6. Anybody want it?
SiC wrote: ↑Sun Dec 15, 2019 9:33 pm
This seems a good price. When stuff like this doesn't sell for this sort of money, it does make me wonder what the classic car market is doing at the moment.
mercrocker wrote: ↑Mon Dec 16, 2019 9:08 am
If you keep a car for 10 years or so the original purchase price becomes insignificant and you spend much more money on maintenance. This is even more true with older vehicles where the market can roller-coaster in the ownership period.
Talk of value and/or perceived desirability is as interesting as dinner-party babble about house prices.
Hmmm that's not always true. In the 12+ years I've owned my V6 Calibra it has only needed one replacement alternator, a radiator, some replacement fuel pipe and a couple of wishbones. Plus the usual consumables.
I've bunged a couple of replacement engines in during that time, but not because the original one was borked. It's currently got a 3.0 Omega lump.
On the road:
1998 Disco 4.0 V8 (manual)
1994 Vauxhall Calibra 3.0 V6
Running but need fettling:
1986 Honda CBX750F
1991 Maserati 222 SE
1990 Yamaha XJ900F
CLINT wrote: ↑Mon Dec 16, 2019 9:17 am
It's not an eBay find but no point starting it's own thread. I've been offered a very tidy, full service history 1999 Nissan QX 2.0 v6. Anybody want it?
Anybody in the UK at all want it? Thought not...
Oh and he wants £1300...
Nice cars but weren't the 2.0 v6 with auto box something like 11 seconds to 60 and had same economy as the 3.0 v6? I'd have thought finding parts maybe slightly difficult too!
Yes, but of a pointless car really in the UK. I think the yanks liked them though. Good for cruising at 55mph and it will probably never go wrong other than rust.
CLINT wrote: ↑Mon Dec 16, 2019 9:17 am
It's not an eBay find but no point starting it's own thread. I've been offered a very tidy, full service history 1999 Nissan QX 2.0 v6. Anybody want it?
