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Re: EBay Finds
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2020 10:30 pm
by mercrocker
Bloody hell, who knocked them out of an AEC - or was it a Gardner? I'll take mine black please. Got any hash cakes?
Re: EBay Finds
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2020 12:24 am
by Warren t claim
mercrocker wrote: ↑Mon Sep 28, 2020 10:12 am
Let me tell you, I was alive in the "Swinging" 60s. I don't recall an instance where we drank coffee IN A FUCKING BUS.
If things ever return to "normal" even what passes for "normal" in this fucked up century I pledge to continue my complete embargo on drinking tea, coffee or anything served out of a bus, horsebox, Citroen H, thruppeny bit Morris, J van, arsehole Italian scooter abomination or old ambulance.
Proper Ice cream vans will be exempted but only if correctly presented.
I think he's getting his Cliff films Expresso Bongo and Summer Holiday mixed up in his mind.
Re: EBay Finds
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2020 5:00 am
by mercrocker
Aye, as well as his decades....
Re: EBay Finds
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2020 8:49 am
by cros
mercrocker wrote: ↑Mon Sep 28, 2020 10:30 pm
Bloody hell, who knocked them out of an AEC - or was it a Gardner? I'll take mine black please. Got any hash cakes?
I think it had come like that from East Kent, even in early 80's a set of shells cost me £650 but they quietened it down enough to get us to Holland, thus beating Cliff. Those AEC 9.6l engines weren't exactly stressed-124 bhp from 9.6 litres!
Re: EBay Finds
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2020 7:26 pm
by 64A60
That London still turns up some interesting automotive finds.
https://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1269179
Bought by the owner for 2 things, Weddings and Funerals, he set out to buy a new black Hawk, he could not get one, maybe as they were all sold to Government, so bought a Maroon one and had it stripped and repainted black before registration, i assume arranged by the dealer who sold it.
The car was parked in a dark dry garage every night and 43 years ago never came out again.
It was parked ready to go to work, business cards, Vip private hire company Brochure, Both black and white umbrellas for each occasion and a Dunn & Co top hat in it,s box. All still there along with a complete book pack, showing supplying dealer, starting handle etc
Re: EBay Finds
Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2020 8:13 pm
by mercrocker
I was looking at that listing recently.....God, I hope that finds a good home. Squire???!
Re: EBay Finds
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2020 2:47 pm
by cros
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That's better, I'm sure it'll fly off the shelf now you've got a picture of the actual car you're trying to sell rather than one you think it looks like.
Re: EBay Finds
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2020 2:50 pm
by mercrocker
I should think about the only positive thing about that object is that it DOESNT look like a Bini.
Re: EBay Finds
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2020 7:49 pm
by fried onions
mercrocker wrote: ↑Tue Sep 29, 2020 8:13 pm
I was looking at that listing recently.....God, I hope that finds a good home. Squire???!
Yes, I 'watched' it first time around, too. He mustn't have been happy with the hammer price, and what he's asking now means it's unlikely to fall into the wrong hands.
Regarding the colour, the most likely reason why the original buyer wouldn't have been able to obtain a new one in black is that 1967 was the final year for Hawks and Rootes sold the remaining stock at massive discounts. Therefore, the colour depended entirely on what the dealers had left in stock.
Re: EBay Finds
Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2020 8:12 pm
by The Reverend Bluejeans
For £3995 it looks cheap tbh. On the road and looking fine for £6000, or 50% of some hateful 1300 Escort.
