Sidelines

[Mark Bolam]

Err, John?

[eggsarascal]

6 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

Err, John?

Nothing to do with sidelines then.

[Mark Bolam]

Nothing whatsoever.

Massive derail.

 

Someone should report it to a moderator.

[trigger_andy]

I like old muscle cars. Often buy them at a bargain price and flog them on when Im bored. 

 

Bought a '69 Barracuda for a bag of sand and flipped it for £3k a year later. Last owner could not find the vin to get the V5. Was stamped in various body panels. 

 

Bought an Aussie Charger for £5k and sold it to a guy in NZ for £15k three years later. Its currently getting a full resto. 

 

On the look out for a '70's Dodge Pick-up. Found a cool M880 a mate used to own, currently in haggle mode with the seller.

[eggsarascal]

I'm by no strength a used car dealer and never want to be, I can see where there is money to be made in them mind, dashboard warning lights that are MOT failures put the vast majority off buyers of. Most are easily fixed with a test meter and a bit of thinking.

Edited July 13, 2022 by eggsarascal

[Doug Tait]

You wouldn't have much luck with mot fails up here Eggs, my mechanic assures me the "glove" system is used.

He places a glove to cover up the warning lights and his mate never ever saw 'em guv.

My truck passed umpteen tests with lights showing thanks to this system.

[Jack.P]

Flipped a few bikes over lockdown for modest profit mostly as a hobby .had a go on other stuff since then and been let down numerous times so loosing interest .one time waster cost me 200 quid in transport going to collect with loader and came back with no car .lots of people seem to say stuff along the lines of it won’t take much to get it going needs say £20 of parts etc  and been offered X amount in scrap I.e 400 .or another is simply scrap car men in disguise trying to move on overpriced old tosh only fit for crusher .lots of con men out for themselves!

 

 

[eggsarascal]

15 minutes ago, Doug Tait said:

You wouldn't have much luck with mot fails up here Eggs, my mechanic assures me the "glove" system is used.

He places a glove to cover up the warning lights and his mate never ever saw 'em guv.

My truck passed umpteen tests with lights showing thanks to this system.

It's one of them Doug, when I was in East Anglia, my mate Slippery Jim could get most motors passed if they weren't to far out. Lots of these cheap end motors have money in them if you can fix the dash warning lights.

[Doug Tait]

9 minutes ago, Jack.P said:

Flipped a few bikes over lockdown for modest profit mostly as a hobby .had a go on other stuff since then and been let down numerous times so loosing interest .one time waster cost me 200 quid in transport going to collect with loader and came back with no car .lots of people seem to say stuff along the lines of it won’t take much to get it going needs say £20 of parts etc  and been offered X amount in scrap I.e 400 .or another is simply scrap car men in disguise trying to move on overpriced old tosh only fit for crusher .lots of con men out for themselves!

 

 

 

If someone's telling you it's a good little runner, 20 quid part to fix it etc, you've got to ask why they haven't done it themselves.

[AHPP]

1 hour ago, Doug Tait said:

 

If someone's telling you it's a good little runner, 20 quid part to fix it etc, you've got to ask why they haven't done it themselves.

I usually offer those optimists £20 on top of the price and ask when will be convenient to collect.