This weeks Classic Irish bargains that I'm not buying

Duke O Smiley

https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/1973-ford-mercury-cougar-7-liter-351-v8/24476092



7 litre V8 Mercury Cougar, running and driving, for €4k

What could possibly go wrong!?

pablo128

351 cubic inches is only 5.7 litres. Just saying.

Duke O Smiley

Ah. Dunno where your man is getting his his other 1.3 litres from so...unless there's a Toyota Starlet in the boot :pac:

kyote00

Starsky and Hutch on the case of the missing 1.3l

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

Ah. Dunno where your man is getting his his other 1.3 litres from so...unless there's a Toyota Starlet in the boot :pac:

moonlighting_1

are the chrome bumpers missing

elperello

I think there was a 7 litre version.

pablo128

elperello wrote: »

I think there was a 7 litre version.

The plot thickens. The ad states 351 ci. However.......

unkel

KevRossi wrote: »

Am waiting to put a few bob into BMW shares, down to €38 as I write this. I made a faor few quid on them about 10 years ago. Their real company value is at €65-70 per share

I'd be very careful doing that. And I say that as a BMW fan, I like no other make more than BMW. After an initial very good start with electrification they promoted a dinosaur to CEO, who pretty much stopped the program. They have just got rid of him, but severe damage was done, they are lagging behind now

I wouldn't be too sure if they can overcome this in time. I hope they will. A risky investment. A safer bet for your investment would probably be the VW group (that took a similar haircut over the last few weeks)

btkm8unsl0w5r4

unkel wrote: »

I'd be very careful doing that. And I say that as a BMW fan, I like no other make more than BMW. After an initial very good start with electrification they promoted a dinosaur to CEO, who pretty much stopped the program. They have just got rid of him, but severe damage was done, they are lagging behind now

I wouldn't be too sure if they can overcome this in time. I hope they will. A risky investment. A safer bet for your investment would probably be the VW group (that took a similar haircut over the last few weeks)

It saddens me to agree with this, BMW is my most favourite brand, I have had 8 of them, and the now have nothing on sale that is any way inovative or interesting.

KevRossi

unkel wrote: »

I'd be very careful doing that. And I say that as a BMW fan, I like no other make more than BMW. After an initial very good start with electrification they promoted a dinosaur to CEO, who pretty much stopped the program. They have just got rid of him, but severe damage was done, they are lagging behind now

I wouldn't be too sure if they can overcome this in time. I hope they will. A risky investment. A safer bet for your investment would probably be the VW group (that took a similar haircut over the last few weeks)

Still the 3rd best selling brand in Germany, not that far behind Mercedes. Actually had the smallest drop in sales over 12 months of the big brands.

Bavaria will introduce a form of restricted movement from midnight tonight, the whole of Germany should follow from Monday. So I expect most stocks to fall another bit by this time next week.

Company is worth too much for it to be at €40 for now, even if they are lagging behind other brands. I expect they will go with alternative fuels the same way as they did when they entered the diesel market in the early 80's and purchase off a known competitor - such as Tesla. They had invested heavily in Hydrogen, this isn't yet suitable for small uses like family cars.

We'll see.

Andrewf20

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/vw-passat-b1/24279866?campaign=3



Decent looking Mk1 RHD Passat for €2700. I'd lose the roof rack, but looks a nice old thing

This was on cut springs until fairly recently, nice to see it fixed. I think it needs to be a bit cheaper, but still!

Wonder why it has 4 mirrors. Strange. Towing wide loads maybe.

SmartinMartin

Jap import maybe?

KevRossi

Andrewf20 wrote: »

Wonder why it has 4 mirrors. Strange. Towing wide loads maybe.

Probably fitted after market by an owner. Wing mirrors used to be on the wings (it's in the name!), but were moved back to the door pillars for better aerodynamics. Some people were just used to looking at the wing and had them retro fitted.

They actually give better vision than pillar mirrors and eliminate blindspots a lot better IMO.

I had an employer in Germany who removed the headrests on the two cars that were used for small deliveries and doing errands. He grew up driving without them and he couldn't stick them. This was the 1990's, he was hitting 70, cars were Merc 190's.

swarlb

https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/renault-4l/24500124

Postman Paddy ?

unkel

Andrewf20 wrote: »

Wonder why it has 4 mirrors. Strange. Towing wide loads maybe.

Yes it's for towing a caravan.

JabbaTheHut

It's a long time since either of them have been on the road. Tax was up on the red one March 2000, and December 2003 on the green one by the looks of things. Unless they were stored inside, they are almost certianly only good for parts.

BonnieSituation

swarlb wrote: »

https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/renault-4l/24500124

Postman Paddy ?

You could be like this lad:

https://www.rte.ie/archives/2017/0315/859886-retired-postman-retains-van/

Tzardine

BonnieSituation wrote: »

You could be like this lad:

https://www.rte.ie/archives/2017/0315/859886-retired-postman-retains-van/

Jesus thats some accent on that bloke. Could not understand a word.

He is lucky there was no test back then - that van looked rotten.

swarlb

Tzardine wrote: »

Jesus thats some accent on that bloke. Could not understand a word.

He is lucky there was no test back then - that van looked rotten.

https://www.rte.ie/archives/2014/1113/658814-award-for-postman-who-never-missed-work-in-48-years/

This van looks a bit better... same colour as well.

RobAMerc

I've spent a bit of time looking at these across the water if this is as good as it looks its decent value.
Dealer might be a good old fashioned gangster - but there are worse sorts out there.

jcon1913

RobAMerc wrote: »

I've spent a bit of time looking at these across the water if this is as good as it looks its decent value.
Dealer might be a good old fashioned gangster - but there are worse sorts out there.

Love the name in the ad - straight from the Avengers TV series - ''JP Steede''

supervento

jcon1913 wrote: »

Love the name in the ad - straight from the Avengers TV series - ''JP Steede''

No longer available... ad taken down...

RobAMerc

could be sold, I think it was a good buy if it was in any way clean.

supervento

RobAMerc wrote: »

could be sold, I think it was a good buy if it was in any way clean.

Oh ya...


Lovely looking from the pictures...

Good vintage stuff seems to move quickly once priced correctly...

Duke O Smiley

https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/1975-fiat-130-coupe-84k-kms-one-of-the-best/24255262



I could have sworn that this was a lot more expensive than €14k when it was last up (and David Golding isn't exactly known for being cheap)

A sign of things to come?

jcon1913

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/1975-fiat-130-coupe-84k-kms-one-of-the-best/24255262



I could have sworn that this was a lot more expensive than €14k when it was last up (and David Golding isn't exactly known for being cheap)

A sign of things to come?

He renewed all his ads 2 hours ago, I havent been watching anything so I'm not sure if there are other price drops but it might be a sign of people reducing their stock

Vivienne23

Have a couple of vintage cars myself , I’d be inclined to keep them rather than sell at the minute , keeping an eye out for any bargains around ,

With all the printing of money going on I reckon a few assets will never go astray , at least your classic will always be worth a few bob , after this emergency a euro may still not be worth a euro in buying terms

26000 Elephants

Duke O Smiley wrote: »

https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/1975-fiat-130-coupe-84k-kms-one-of-the-best/24255262



I could have sworn that this was a lot more expensive than €14k when it was last up (and David Golding isn't exactly known for being cheap)

A sign of things to come?

It was the same price - i had it in my 'watch' list.

JabbaTheHut

€15,500. Not a hope. Delusionally optimistic.

https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/bmw-730i/24554382

RobAMerc

there is a lot of lads out there who believe that there are customers out there who want a classic but haven't the capacity to do a 5 min internet search for themselves to ascertain the real value of something - maybe there is!