And the winner of dreamer of the year is...

Cormic

Quazzie wrote: »

http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/2493174
:eek:

And it's on UK plates!

Delancey

Quazzie wrote: »

http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/2493174
:eek:

A '' replica '' Cosworth - what sort of person would drive or own such a car ?
Magnet for thieves I would think as well.

Damokc

In fairness its a cool car but in this "current climate" I cant see anyone paying over 10K for that! the cars he would swap it for are a bit out there too!
http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/vintagecars/2611376

Delancey

Damokc wrote: »

In fairness its a cool car but in this "current climate" I cant see anyone paying over 10K for that! the cars he would swap it for are a bit out there too!
http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/vintagecars/2611376

But did you not know that by declaring it as a '' Vintage '' or '' Classic '' you can command any price you want

dougie-lampkin

Damokc wrote: »

In fairness its a cool car but in this "current climate" I cant see anyone paying over 10K for that! the cars he would swap it for are a bit out there too!
http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/vintagecars/2611376

Performance wise, the cars he's looking to trade with are on par with the Mini. VTEC Minis are few and far between in this country. To get the conversion subframe landed here from England is almost €1500, and that's before you even source a donor engine or touch upon driveshafts, looms, running gear, etc. When you add up what it would cost you, it's not far off the price of the Mini for sale. Add to that it has €48 a year for tax and is NCT exempt for something that could be taken to the track and driven home afterwards. Having seen and heard this Mini and other VTEC conversions in the flesh, it's something that has to be seen to be believed

Compared to a true dreamer like this guy (I've seen taxis with lower mileage), it's a pretty sweet deal.

Hal1

Quazzie wrote: »

http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/2493174
:eek:

The wheels are wrong and I'm not a fan of those headlights :eek:.

Damokc

nah...the mini is still crazy man.:D

johnos1984

Not a bad price but it comes all original including oil filters

http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/vintagecars/2612710

squod

johnos1984 wrote: »

Not a bad price but it comes all original including oil filters

http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/vintagecars/2612710

The current location is Poland and these are re ccent pictures

Scammer?

johnos1984

squod wrote: »

Scammer?

Possibly but could be a genuine ad

Eric Cartman

squod wrote: »

Scammer?

id say more likely a lad who upon paid deposit would bring it back over with him or send it to a relative here , doesnt necissarily look like a scam to me

ugglasdav

must be having a laugh http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/vintagecars/2614252

Damokc

squod wrote: »

Scammer?

haha!! only one left in the world.. I know its a golf but for a second it looked like there was another just in the background

Seweryn

ugglasdav wrote: »

must be having a laugh http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/vintagecars/2614252

One or two zeros to many in that figure. Simple typing error .

onemorechance

Are the RS models not worth something in that region, like the RS 1800? I cannot tell what model the one in the ad is!

Hal1

Vary intervesting:

Free report, vehicle details...

Ford Escort
MARK 2 1300 L
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Registration: ZV26150
Engine: 1.3L
Fuel Type: Petrol
Colour: Red

onemorechance

Hal1 wrote: »

Vary intervesting:

That would put it more in the 5k range right? That's the a basic model.

Hal1

onemorechance wrote: »

That would put it more in the 5k range right? That's the a basic model.

I would knock 10k off at least. There's a fair amount of work been done on it in fairness reading the description. If I was a serious buyer, I would be checking every inch of it, sills, arches, floor pan for any evidence of rust. It would really want to be as good as it looks in the pics.

Quazzie

Hal1 wrote: »

I would knock 10k off at least. There's a fair amount of work been done on it in fairness reading the description. If I was a serious buyer, I would be checking every inch of it, sills, arches, floor pan for any evidence of rust. It would really want to be as good as it looks in the pics.

A mate of mine bought one fully restored, to an even better finish than the one in them pics and all he paid was €3500.

Damokc

Hal1 wrote: »

Vary intervesting:

Throw a roll cage in that and you basically have a rally car. even the rally cars still aren't worth that though and a rally car usually comes with spares! he's a serious dreamer.

ottostreet

dougie-lampkin wrote: »

Performance wise, the cars he's looking to trade with are on par with the Mini. VTEC Minis are few and far between in this country. To get the conversion subframe landed here from England is almost €1500, and that's before you even source a donor engine or touch upon driveshafts, looms, running gear, etc. When you add up what it would cost you, it's not far off the price of the Mini for sale. Add to that it has €48 a year for tax and is NCT exempt for something that could be taken to the track and driven home afterwards. Having seen and heard this Mini and other VTEC conversions in the flesh, it's something that has to be seen to be believed

Compared to a true dreamer like this guy (I've seen taxis with lower mileage), it's a pretty sweet deal.

What? 194,000km isnt ridiculous...its only 110k miles or so? 5K isnt out of the ballpark for an Altezza?

Saab Ed

I win

http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/2620531



Only 180,000 miles, 11 years old and totally fOOked.

Chuck_Norris

Saab Ed wrote: »

I win


Only 180,000 miles, 11 years old and totally fOOked.

Was gonna say "When good 'felt goes bad". But there's no such thing!!!

Chuck_Norris

Saab Ed wrote: »

I win

http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/2620531

On phone so can't copy: "Reason for sale Car was wrote of on drivers side"

So the other side's alright to go then?

166man

Saab Ed wrote: »

I win

http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/2620531



Only 180,000 miles, 11 years old and totally fOOked.

Wow you really have won my good man well done!Who in christs name would pay more than a tenner for that!

squod

Makes massive amounts of smoke.

Fishtits

Re previous post on the virtues of a VTEC Mini Vs an Altezza...

The Vtec Mini will strip your skin off (trust me on this one...) but its not something you'd really bring the Mother shopping in...

An unfair comparison perhaps?

As an aside, mini's have been around with VTEC power outputs for years but the weakness has been the mini transmission, there seems to be a limit at 145 bhp after that you'd end up with a bust box.

All kinds of people have claimed to have surpassed this problem, strange that the wo't gaurantee their work...

Not an expert in this field

Sobanek

Sitec wrote: »

€8,800 for a MK4 Golf:D



http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/2381133

These are actually quite hard to come by these days. It's a 25th Anniversary Golf. I wouldn't pay 8.8k but it is worth around 5.5k.

alias no.9

Sitec wrote: »

€8,800 for a MK4 Golf:D



http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/2381133

I was coming on to post a 12 year old mkIV with the asthmatic 1.4 and chocolate gearbox advertised for 2400 but prepared to listen to sensible offers as it needs 4 new tyres :eek:.

I'm not sure how he'd take to my sensible offer of €900 provided it passes the nct next week but I think your Veyron beating tractor trumps this and

Saab Ed wrote: »

I win

http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/2620531



Only 180,000 miles, 11 years old and totally fOOked.

just thrashes everything, PMSL.

dougie-lampkin

Fishtits wrote: »

Re previous post on the virtues of a VTEC Mini Vs an Altezza...

The Vtec Mini will strip your skin off (trust me on this one...) but its not something you'd really bring the Mother shopping in...

An unfair comparison perhaps?

As an aside, mini's have been around with VTEC power outputs for years but the weakness has been the mini transmission, there seems to be a limit at 145 bhp after that you'd end up with a bust box.

All kinds of people have claimed to have surpassed this problem, strange that the wo't gaurantee their work...

Not an expert in this field

You'd hardly bring the mother shopping in a Tezza with a LSD either :pac: There are some sleeper VTEC conversions, there's a lad on the English mini forum that's putting together a B20 bottom end with a B18 VTEC top end, going into a standard 80's roundnose, complete with original 12" steelies and hubcaps. He's claiming about 230 bhp conservatively, madness.

There are 1380 turbos that claim up to 250 bhp that come up for sale on eBay every now and then. As you say, anything over 150 bhp is trouble, sure even the Metro turbo was known to shred gearbox bearings, hence why the ERA had a "turbo ECU" to dial down torque below ~3500 RPM.

On topic, why not have a '01 felted A4 for 5 grand? http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/2604532