And the winner of dreamer of the year is... Part 2!

Titzon Toast · 18-05-2021 08:01PM

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/toyota-levin-bzr-rare-recaro-confetti-model/28147030

Looks clean, it's not worth 13k though.

passatman86 · 18-05-2021 08:06PM

Titzon Toast wrote: »

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/toyota-levin-bzr-rare-recaro-confetti-model/28147030

Looks clean, it's not worth 13k though.

Had a Levin years ago but couldn't see any one paying more than 6k. Stranger things have happened. That Levin is ek9 type R money

Speedline · 18-05-2021 08:19PM

Titzon Toast wrote: »

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/toyota-levin-bzr-rare-recaro-confetti-model/28147030

Looks clean, it's not worth 13k though.

Completely original. Except for the superstrut suspension missing as the owner didn't want to pay the money to replace it. And the drilled and grooved discs matched with Blue Print brake pads. And replacement alloys. (14 inch I may add.)

But apart from that, completely original.

wotzgoingon · 18-05-2021 08:19PM

I have a Levin and I have never seen one that price well apart from many years ago when they first imported.

It doesn't even have Super Strut suspension. Mine doesn't either as it was changed out for McPhersion but still if I was going to be paying that high of a price(which I doubt anyone will) it would have to have got a brand new SSS fitted not one that has been on the car for the past number of years.

My car has higher mileage but the steering wheel isn't as worn as that one.

CianRyan · 18-05-2021 08:25PM

Chancer, making out the super strut taken out is a bonus. Haha

Yeah, good luck. It's clean but it's far from original.

wotzgoingon · 18-05-2021 08:28PM

CianRyan wrote: »

Chancer, making out the super strut taken out is a bonus. Haha

Yeah, good luck. It's clean but it's far from original.

I never even read the description till now I had seen the pictures and seen it didn't have SSS.

The line deposit secures as if the phone is going to be hoping or something.

PsychoPete · 18-05-2021 08:29PM

It really annoys me when people take the superstrut out of levins and try to make it out to be a good thing

Midnight_EG · 18-05-2021 09:20PM

PsychoPete wrote: »

It really annoys me when people take the superstrut out of levins and try to make it out to be a good thing

It's a good thing for cheap people... Because Levins were a sub 1k car at one point and SS was touching 2 grand to replace at the time.

wotzgoingon · 18-05-2021 09:22PM

Midnight_EG wrote: »

It's a good thing for cheap people... Because Levins were a sub 1k car at one point and SS was touching 2 grand to replace at the time.

It probably costs that now if not more as I doubt Toyota is still making them. Some Celicas have super strut also but they are different from Levins as in you can not just pick up a Celica set and hope it works in your car.

CianRyan · 18-05-2021 09:32PM

The ST205 stuff is totally different, all cantilever but more like an old Mazda Xedos 9.
I worked on Gerry Ryan's old Xedos a few times, so cool.

colm_mcm · 19-05-2021 07:06AM

And it’s on the more expensive Co2 tax!

Wibbs · 19-05-2021 08:43AM

passatman86 wrote: »

That Levin is ek9 type R money

Not any more. Having had a look out there on the back of this thread an EK9 R now would be over double that. The Japanese are looking at their own heritage now and pushing up the prices and of course the US market is in play now.

19-05-2021 01:49PM

bladespin wrote: »

Vury Dempsey and Makepeace

Miscreant · 19-05-2021 02:43PM

^
You need to catch up on your 1980s UK detective TV shows then

I believe it was a convertible XR3i in Dempsey & Makepeace though.

Wibbs · 19-05-2021 03:06PM

Yup, it was

IIRC the "Yank" cop drove a Merc convertible, Fords filled out the rest of the fleet. As was the case with British cop shows back then. They were usually a rolling advert for Fords.

yamaha4life · 20-05-2021 05:36PM

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/318187596550704/

€5500 for a non 20 valve levin, does this qualify?

PsychoPete · 20-05-2021 05:38PM

I like his honesty at the end of the ad

Toyotafanboi · 20-05-2021 05:40PM

Rear subframe looks red rotten too.

wotzgoingon · 20-05-2021 05:42PM

I wouldn't even ask for that much for my own 20v Levin. And mine has new alloys and new premium tyres.

wotzgoingon · 20-05-2021 05:45PM

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

Rear subframe looks red rotten too.

You're right in all(just went back to look). If that part is rusted so is the rest of the underbody. You just cannot see it from the pictures he took.

Wibbs · 20-05-2021 05:59PM

PsychoPete wrote: »

I like his honesty at the end of the ad

Same here.

In terms of body its ugly as fúck, needs respray badly was gonna do it but ran out of time, wheels are ugly as well the chrome is fúcked

Defo a cut above compared to most out there.

Toyotafanboi wrote: »

Rear subframe looks red rotten too.

Could well be just surface too T. Unless that's a known fail on them and that's what it looks like? 90's Jap car of course so.... It's got an NCT too. Wouldn't they have spotted a rotten rear end(matron!).

i don't think he's taking the piss too much, especially these days with JDM stuff?

Toyotafanboi · 20-05-2021 06:07PM

Ah i'd say it's probably ok strength wise for another while but it's probably beyond the point of tidying up. I wouldn't think anything is servicable on it anymore by the look of it, i'd say if you want to adjust anything the nuts and bolts will be snapping like nobodys business.

Looks like the rest of the car has been shultz'd at some point as they weren't undersealed from the factory so it should be body coloured under the car. Rear chassis legs look like they are starting to get some action too.

21-05-2021 08:32AM

Why the hell is there such an increase in people using Snapchat screenshots with the captions on them in car ads????

colm_mcm · 21-05-2021 08:34AM

MetzgerMeister wrote: »

Why the hell is there such an increase in people using Snapchat screenshots with the captions on them in car ads????

You’re just not with it.

CianRyan · 21-05-2021 09:58AM

I can accept it (somewhat) when it's the only shot they have of new parts. Sure it's short sighted but better than nothing.

When they out up a Snapchat to the 9's picture of the car sitting in their drive though... Just walk outside and take another one!

oldsmokey · 22-05-2021 08:54PM

Titzon Toast wrote: »

I couldn't agree more, I hate when sellers do that.

Donedeal have a lot to answer for....they’ll take ads off anyone, even tens of ads, and accept them as “ private”, sickening racket...the homes section is rotten with businesses posing as privates, flogging 3piece suites, and suchlike. Pity dd has no opposition.

oldsmokey · 22-05-2021 09:20PM

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000 wrote: »

And it's a waste of time reporting ads like that to donedeal. My head was melted a few weeks ago with a similar seller. Reporting did nothing.

Loadsa sellers masquerading as privates..donedeal don’t give a toss...and then they give this bs about “made with love in Wexford “ ..grabbers..
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oldsmokey · 22-05-2021 09:25PM

Wibbs wrote: »

That's another problem with the Irish market. Irish owner sees Hondyota GTZx 3000 Type R gets 20k in the UK or US or Japan and thinks it's worth that here and there are enough potential buyers willing to pay. Only there's not. A few years back when the glut of JDM imports post celtic tiger hangover was hitting rock bottom prices here, the same cars were at least a third and often double or more the price in say the UK and even higher in the US and Japan. I pointed a couple of UK lads to cars for sale here that when they saw the prices they couldn't hotfoot it to the ferry quick enough with cash in hand.

Ireland is a very different market. We tend to be suburban aspirational and stuff that's seen as a bit non U tends to go out of fashion fast. The insurance industry, that bastion of measured fairness and transparency :rolleyes: hated the JDM stuff, or anything too lairy so pushed them as boyracer machines while taking genuine owners roughly from behind without lube or the decency of a reach around come renewal time. Oh and the arbitrary cut off of 20, the 15 then 10 years old was verboten(while peddling their usual bullshíte). SIMI of course had plenty to say. How dare Irish consumers seek out better specced cars at lower prices... And the government just loves the oul "easy credit" to buy new cars as it garners more tax and makes the books look good. Plus because of the small number/percentage of petrolheads here support is low enough. It's not like England where if you walk 2 miles you'll trip over a specialist who will rebuild your 1920's Armstrong Siddeley from a single bolt and a chassis plate.

So a Glanza like the above could have potentially hundreds of buyers if they were selling it in London, but a half dozen selling it here.

Mr Wibbs makes a measured argument.

Wibbs · 23-05-2021 08:41AM

For a nice change.

I Was VB · 23-05-2021 07:59PM

https://www.donedeal.ie/view/28224210

€7k for a 1995 Volvo Diesel estate?

And the winner of dreamer of the year is... Part 2!

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