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Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: joshwyatt on 11 April 2015, 18:17:55
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Brightwells in Leominster, hold vehicle auctions, re-selling run of the mill, police, and 4x4 vehicles.
But, I thought some may be interested to see an auction disposing of ex museum cars;
http://www.brightwells.com/ClassicCarsMotorcyclesAutomobilia/ClassicVehicles/StondonCataloguePart2.aspx
And especially for TB, here's a lovely old Rover with just under 7,000 miles...
http://classiccars.brightwells.com/viewdetails.php?id=5523
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The Austin 16 looks good: an X30XE, R28 and Capri axle and you've a nice Hotrod. Though that's the plan for my Standard Flying 12 DHC, and that's a much rarer car. One of 4 I believe.
The convertible Minx would make a nice daily too. Can't beat Rootes for usable old stuff.
The suggested price of that Rover is just mental, £1000 would be optimistic for a good one.
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The Austin 16 looks good: an X30XE, R28 and Capri axle and you've a nice Hotrod. Though that's the plan for my Standard Flying 12 DHC, and that's a much rarer car. One of 4 I believe.
The convertible Minx would make a nice daily too. Can't beat Rootes for usable old stuff.
The suggested price of that Rover is just mental, £1000 would be optimistic for a good one.
Surely if your standard 12 is one of only four left wouldn't it make more sense to keep as is and mod something more common
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if I had the money and a big garage I would love some of them :)
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I'd like the 3.0L gsi, and its a fast white one.
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Mmmm. The interceptor.. or the SM.. or the De Tomaso? :-\
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Fascinating. That Austin A40 Somerset brings back memories. I passed my test in one of those in 1956. Bench front seat, column gear change, umbrella handle hand brake. It was black, like the sale car. Perhaps they were all black.
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The Austin 16 looks good: an X30XE, R28 and Capri axle and you've a nice Hotrod. Though that's the plan for my Standard Flying 12 DHC, and that's a much rarer car. One of 4 I believe.
The convertible Minx would make a nice daily too. Can't beat Rootes for usable old stuff.
The suggested price of that Rover is just mental, £1000 would be optimistic for a good one.
Surely if your standard 12 is one of only four left wouldn't it make more sense to keep as is and mod something more common
Keep it as is? It's rotten, the structural wood is so bad that it still looks like a car only out of habit, the incomplete engine is seized solid, the roof is badly torn and the interior is oppsed. It is much more likely to end up back on the road as a hotrod than it ever would as a restoration. Plus, I already own it.
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Hmmm, I wonder, something for everyone there ;D almost.
TB would love the road roller. AA the Gypsy caravan. Dtm the jet engine. Del Boy (what happened to him btw) the robin reliant.
;D
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What is closing down then? That is a big selection of cars...
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Oh, and I forgot to mention the Ginetta G4. :-*
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Mmmm. The interceptor.. or the SM.. or the De Tomaso? :-\
SMs are cool, but could you really put up with one? De Tomaso is much the same.
But I've always fancied an Interceptor, and if you can afford the fuel running one is viable. As I can no longer afford to buy one in the first place, I'll just have to keep admiring a friend's recently restored(and tuned!) one. In orange, with black interior and 4 carbs it's a proper 70s GT
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Mmmm. The interceptor.. or the SM.. or the De Tomaso? :-\
SMs are cool, but could you really put up with one? De Tomaso is much the same.
But I've always fancied an Interceptor, and if you can afford the fuel running one is viable. As I can no longer afford to buy one in the first place, I'll just have to keep admiring a friend's recently restored(and tuned!) one. In orange, with black interior and 4 carbs it's a proper 70s GT
Depends if you want to go to work in it every morning, really. I'd buy an SM just to stick in the corner of the living room and admire.. If I had a big enough living room. ::)
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That Granada looks tidy, even if it has a dog of an engine ::)
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Mmmm. The interceptor.. or the SM.. or the De Tomaso? :-\
All three would do nicely. :y
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Oooo there's a Morris Marina Coupe! :-*
Delux...... ;D
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Don't laugh but the Jaguar XJS, especially in V12 form, is starting to become desirable again.
I mean, what could possibly go wrong with a 30 year old car built by the finest craftsmen BL could find?
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Oooo there's a Morris Marina Coupe! :-*
Delux...... ;D
The stuff of wet dreams. :-* :-*
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The 'quirky' NSU Ro80 would make a good choice if you know your way around such a car. :y
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I quite fancy both the Bonds ........ :-[ ::)
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The SD1 looks nice :)
(http://classiccars.brightwells.com/images/lots/tn_DSC_2610.jpg)
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The SD1 looks nice :)
(http://classiccars.brightwells.com/images/lots/tn_DSC_2610.jpg)
It does indeed. :y
What does the green front wing belong to? ??? ???
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That would be the front wing of the De Tomaso Deauville: http://classiccars.brightwells.com/viewdetails.php?id=5435
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That would be the front wing of the De Tomaso Deauville: http://classiccars.brightwells.com/viewdetails.php?id=5435
Thanks, Aaron. You're a smart fella. :y
Note the Honda S800 in the background. :y