Herby01 wrote:That bunch of chances are on a different planet! They've even got a mini cooper S up for £25K
Unfortunately that's what the going rate is and more - try north of £40k for the best original restored cars - which this one is far from!
Wish I still had my '68 1275 'S' and my '78 RS2000 - ain't hindsight a wonderful thing
Herby01 wrote:That bunch of chances are on a different planet! They've even got a mini cooper S up for £25K
Unfortunately that's what the going rate is and more - try north of £40k for the best original restored cars - which this one is far from!
Wish I still had my '68 1275 'S' and my '78 RS2000 - ain't hindsight a wonderful thing
Really! I've never liked mini's not since a fireman friend if mine attended a head on involving a mini where the driver of said mini ended up sharing both the front seat and the back seat due to the impact of the steering wheel
1968, I sold an excellent '63 Cortina GT to a scrap yard in Winsford. I was getting married and needed the dosh and advertised at £275 - with absolutely no takers whatsoever saw an ad asking for GTs, Coopers - which was the scrapyard in Winsford. Took the GT to them and asked what the score was. Guy told me they were big into rallying themselves and were always on the lookout for GTs, Coopers for the rallying fraternity - and anything they bought, if not sold as is within a week, broke them for parts to sell on making even more money to guys with damaged rally cars. He bought my GT for £245 cash. Sadly, I saw the distinctive bonnet on a bog standard Cortina 1500 2 weeks later - he had scrapped it !! Would be worth a mint now.
My '99 Jeep Grand Cherokee V8 which I have had from new is about to meet the same fate - 200,335 miles on the clock is going to need serious money spent on it to keep on the road soon - so px'd against a Porsche Cayenne - the Jeep will be scrapped - worth more in parts than on the road !