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Re: EBay Finds

Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2020 10:40 am
by mercrocker
One-and-a-half, John....None of your decimals on a Nuffield Riley....Even when they adopted Frog-ness they still spelled it out...
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Re: EBay Finds

Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2020 10:50 am
by DodgeRover
Lovely bit of script that

Re: EBay Finds

Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2020 1:08 pm
by John F
mercrocker wrote: Tue Feb 18, 2020 10:40 am One-and-a-half, John....None of your decimals on a Nuffield Riley....Even when they adopted Frog-ness they still spelled it out...

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It is indeed nice script, and I thank you for that anecdote from the latter days of our once-great Empire, but that doesn't change the fact that the car won't go (or sound) anywhere nearly as well as it looks. Which is a shame.

Re: EBay Finds

Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2020 3:39 pm
by treehugger
Yes it will, we've left the EU. :lol:

Re: EBay Finds

Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2020 3:49 pm
by captain_70s
SiC wrote: Mon Feb 17, 2020 11:20 pm This doesn't seem a too outrageous price imo for an early 50s luxury car if the description of its condition is reasonably accurate. Low owner count too.
Lovely.
ALL ORIGINAL FOR RESTORATION
Get fucked.

Re: EBay Finds

Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2020 6:19 pm
by 64A60
Rostyled Farina in typical surroundings

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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Austin-Cambr ... SwUrxeNwiD

Re: EBay Finds

Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2020 6:30 pm
by 64A60

Re: EBay Finds

Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2020 8:39 pm
by Nibblet
That Rover is the car for rain sodden wind swept weekends on your own in a lay bye wearing a beige mac considering doing some flashing.

Re: EBay Finds

Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2020 9:47 pm
by richardthestag
Me and my sibs besides fatha thestags FD 2000
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Re: EBay Finds

Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2020 9:52 pm
by richardthestag
SiC wrote: Mon Feb 17, 2020 11:20 pm This doesn't seem a too outrageous price imo for an early 50s luxury car if the description of its condition is reasonably accurate. Low owner count too.
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Got a nice arse to it too
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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/133334744120
the issue with these cars has always been the ash frame under the steel skin. Rots away slowly but surely and is the mother of all jobs to fix properly.

But they are things of beauty