This weeks Classic Irish bargains that I'm not buying

Greybottle · 25-01-2018 2:07pm

elperello wrote: »

It's genuine - https://www.motorcheck.ie/free-car-check/78rn600/

Just the 600th 78 car registered in Roscommon after the year first system came in.

I think that they started at 500. A lot of counties did that for some reason.

Testacalda · 25-01-2018 2:20pm

Greybottle wrote: »

I think that they started at 500.

Correct

Duke O Smiley · 25-01-2018 7:44pm

I'd love to know how people come up with prices for cars sometimes! Seriously the mind boggles

€2750

https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/89-citroen-bx-1-9-petrol-automatic-trs-classic/17840962

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€400

https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/1990-fiesta-quick-sale/17836410

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unkel · 25-01-2018 8:34pm

Love the BX, great colour and desirable 1.9 petrol / auto combo, but the outside needs quite a bit of money spending. And it hasn't had an NCT in many, many years. Asking price is silly.

And as for the Fiesta, seriously?

Duke O Smiley · 25-01-2018 9:53pm

The BX is nice alright but the seller is totally and utterly off the mark with the price. I was actually going to buy it last year when it was a lot cheaper.

The Fiesta, I share your sentiments

pawdee · 25-01-2018 10:26pm

Breaks my heart to see the BX in that state. I owned that car for about 10 years. I was the second owner. I sold it about 4 years ago for 300 euros. I had it in storage but for various reasons I had to let it go. The guy who who bought it said he'd give me first refusal if he was ever selling it. Sadly, the next time I saw it was on DoneDeal with sh*tty steel wheels and lots of dents. It had lovely original alloys when I had it. Kind of like pepper pot but not exactly. It was my daily driver for many years. I'd love to have it back and to restore it properly. Rare car now. Jesus those wheel covers make me want to vomit! I once posted a lovely pic of it on the BX Club UK website. Maybe it's still there. Anyway, I wish the next owner all the best and if the seller can get 2750 for it fair play to him!

elperello · 25-01-2018 10:30pm

Greybottle wrote: »

I think that they started at 500. A lot of counties did that for some reason.

I never knew that.

It's a mystery how the minds of some local authorities work.

Something like -
"Here's something people might like (nice low numbers) let's put a stop to it".

I have a 56 ** 1 plate myself.

Duke O Smiley · 25-01-2018 10:32pm

These wheels!

pawdee · 25-01-2018 10:36pm

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

These wheels!

The very ones! How I miss that car.

pawdee · 25-01-2018 10:43pm

pawdee wrote: »

The very ones! How I miss that car.

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elperello · 25-01-2018 10:48pm

Go and see it.
You might be able to make a deal.
You'll always regret it if you don't:)

pawdee · 25-01-2018 10:51pm

elperello wrote: »

Go and see it.
You might be able to make a deal.
You'll always regret it if you don't:)

Even if he knocked 2k off I couldn't afford it at the moment!

unkel · 26-01-2018 1:35am

He'll never get an offer of anywhere near his asking price. Wait it out for a few months. Save as much money as you can. And then get your baby back

How much did you sell it for if you don't mind me asking?

Farmer Bob · 26-01-2018 1:43am

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

I'd love to know how people come up with prices for cars sometimes! Seriously the mind boggles

I’m sure I saw that BX on Donedeal last year for 750 or something like that...

All this guys done is stick those awful wheels on and add two grand to the price.

Duke O Smiley · 26-01-2018 9:14am

Farmer Bob wrote: »

I’m sure I saw that BX on Donedeal last year for 750 or something like that...

All this guys done is stick those awful wheels on and add two grand to the price.

The old ad can still be found on Adverts.ie

Farmer Bob · 26-01-2018 9:57am

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

The old ad can still be found on Adverts.ie

Car comes with almost €1000 worth of spare parts, windscreen, lights,
2 front wings, seats, engine parts,...

I don’t see a grand’s worth of parts in that ad, but for 2750 he could at least install the two front wings, spray them the right colour and slap an NCT on it.

Dreamer.

Farmer Bob · 26-01-2018 10:05am

unkel wrote: »

And as for the Fiesta, seriously?

Dunno about that. I’m sure I read people on a UK forum recently complaining that prices for doors, bonnets, etc for this model of Fiesta are through the roof - they’ve all dissolved over there now so anybody doing a restoration is stuck

pawdee · 26-01-2018 10:50am

unkel wrote: »

He'll never get an offer of anywhere near his asking price. Wait it out for a few months. Save as much money as you can. And then get your baby back

How much did you sell it for if you don't mind me asking?

I had to let it go for 300 euros. If I had somewhere to store it I'd have kept it. It was an original Irish car ordered new by a guy in Listowel. I bought it around 2003 for 650 euros if I remember correctly. I had the spheres replaced, resprayed the roof and bonnet (couldn't afford full respray at time) and had to do very little else to it. It was a beautiful comfortable car to drive and it embarrassed the living shyte out of my kids when I dropped them off to school in it during the boom.

I know a guy who paid 100k plus in 2007 for a 'premium SUV'. He thought I was nuts to be driving an 89 BX and that it was the ugliest car he'd ever seen. He's still driving his yoke but it's dropped 90k in value. He's also paid about 12k in motor tax over the period. In the meantime the BX appears to have quadrupled in value and next year will only be 56 euros a year to tax

rugbyman · 26-01-2018 1:25pm

I enjoyed the last few post re the BX. i have noted lately that cats that were for low prices are mostly scrapped,and those remaining are creeping up in price.

I put my BX 1.9 gti(believe it or not , one of the reasons i bought it ,for 500 punts ,was because i used fancy the previous owner)inj mt shed, it had been vandalised on the street, and built shelves over 13 years ago. cats were living in iot .

i dont know where it is on my project list, but I recentyly met the citroen restorer man in Kingscourt, hymm, maybe

am i mad, without a doubt

Farmer Bob · 26-01-2018 2:36pm

Old Citroens are worth buttons relatively speaking, even when in tip-top condition; and I say that having owned a lot of them. Definitely not the kind of car you can leave maintenance slide...

This guy with the blue BX is mental. The cars a wreck, it's filthy inside and there's no NCT. It'll spend a year on Donedeal, with the price going down gradually, and by the time the price gets down to €200 nobody will want it. Look at the other BX on Done deal just now, the TZD in Fermoy. I was on to the seller maybe two years ago now - the price was in four figures as well, but I couldn't get a straight answer out of him about anything to do with spheres, hydraulics, timing belt, NCT, anything... Made him an offer on the basis that it was a basket case, a scrapper. He's still got it today and the price now is what it was worth in 2015.

80sDiesel · 27-01-2018 1:33pm

Renault Velsatis
Not sure it will be a "future classic" but cant fault him on the price. 350 euros.
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drunkmonkey · 27-01-2018 1:36pm

80sDiesel wrote: »

Renault Velsatis
Not sure it will be a "future classic" but cant fault him on the price. 350 euros.

Reluctant sale by the sounds of it. Poor chap.

Farmer Bob · 27-01-2018 1:54pm

80sDiesel wrote: »

Renault Velsatis
Not sure it will be a "future classic" but cant fault him on the price. 350 euros.

I'm conflicted about this one. Renault were making some bonkers cars back in the early 00s like this and the Avantime.

I'd like to smoke around in one of these for a few months til the tax ran out, but I've owned an Espace of a similar age and I just know it would be a total money pit. Not to mention the €710/year road tax and fuel economy is probably under 20mpg

Probably will be a future classic as they sold just over 1000 of these in RHD and there aren't many working ones left...

Odyssey 2005 · 27-01-2018 1:59pm

Didn't one of Dublands lord Mayors swan around in one of those Renaults many moon ago. Like a sitting room they are ..

Duke O Smiley · 27-01-2018 2:22pm

Vel Satis is a bona fide future classic

Farmer Bob · 27-01-2018 2:30pm

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

Vel Satis is a bona fide future classic

One problem is once you get down to the €350 examples they're shagged, and one minor problem away from being fragged and turned into washing machines.

Conversely nobody would pay, for argument's sake, €2000 for a mint one with no issues and a year's NCT... So you can't win.

drunkmonkey · 27-01-2018 2:55pm

Odyssey 2005 wrote: »

Didn't one of Dublands lord Mayors swan around in one of those Renaults many moon ago. Like a sitting room they are ..

Yea I was in it, landed in a garage I used to work in..it was the second owner had it at that stage if I remember right don't think they reached a deal on it. Probably about 2004/2005.

Duke O Smiley · 27-01-2018 3:03pm

Bill Cullen offered a Vel Satis free of charge in 2004, and then again in 05 and 06 & an Espace in 07. That really stung for Volvo who had supplied nearly all of the previous cars

flatty · 27-01-2018 5:53pm

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

Vel Satis is a bona fide future classic

Rare, certainly. I'm not so sure about "classic".

Duke O Smiley · 27-01-2018 6:13pm

flatty wrote: »

Rare, certainly. I'm not so sure about "classic".

Well not yet, no, but it will be

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