What would you buy & why?

[JPB]

The Matchbox case & cars are interesting, but there's an even more overpriced one on there and it has a bid!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Matchbox-Supe ... 2335550541

Seems a lot, because as soon as someone takes the cars out and gets them covered in mud, eaten by dogs or stamped on by that clumsy kid with the halitosis problem and the zits, then their value will sink like a stone. Don't say that you wouldn't want to take them out and play with them too, it's wrong to hoard stuff without using it when the mood takes you.

[rich.]

The Matchbox case & cars are interesting, but there's an even more overpriced one on there and it has a bid!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Matchbox-Supe ... 2335550541

Seems a lot, because as soon as someone takes the cars out and gets them covered in mud, eaten by dogs or stamped on by that clumsy kid with the halitosis problem and the zits, then their value will sink like a stone. Don't say that you wouldn't want to take them out and play with them too, it's wrong to hoard stuff without using it when the mood takes you.

that sums up my youth....have we met?


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Austin-2200-a ... rmvSB=true

[rich.]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VW-GOLF-CONVE ... 3641.l6368

[JPB]

That sums up my youth....have we met?

Yeah, I was the fat kid with the halitosis and the zits. Sorry about that.

Golf convertibles are, erm, how shall I put it? Lovely cars for someone else, that about sums it up.

[rich.]

i was the grubby skinny kid with spots...
meanwhile
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Classic-Lambr ... 3641.l6368

[JPB]

That bloke selling the William should be strung up! Has he no respect for his Wave system? Even I don't use an expensive bit of kit like that in a workshop/garage environment.

[rich.]

ok.. whats a "wave system"??

[JPB]

Bose build them, it's the all-in-one audio system on top of the car in the image. They're capable of filling an entire house with lots of good quality noise, cost from around £500 new and hold their values too.. I recently sold a couple of rebuilt original analogue models from the turn of the century at £300 and £280 respectively.

OK, so my £5 B&O Century sounds far better and only cost a fiver from the Sallies - plus another £13 for a new laser from a (Jukebox parts) specialist in Texas - but I do like the Wave and they always find new homes easily.

[rich.]

you mean "a radio"?
have you though about making an offer on the wave system instead of the car?

[JPB]

Radio, alarm clock and CD player, no cassette deck on them though.

I would ask, Rich, but the last time I spotted an interesting bit of audio gear in an eBay listing for something else, I asked that question and the seller replied immediately in words that aren't appropriate in this wholesome, family-oriented forum.