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Re: Will classics ever become affordable again?
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2017 7:24 am
by GHT
Do not, I repeat, do not click
this link, unless you have a botle of eye bleach to hand. You have been warned.
Re: Will classics ever become affordable again?
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2017 11:15 am
by Grumpy Northener
Quote:
r On another note GHT have ever considered coming out of retirement?
That's a good idea.
Great - How much for the airport run to Heathrow & back in August ?
Apologies I will now get back on topic
Re: Will classics ever become affordable again?
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2017 11:21 am
by JPB
GHT wrote:
Do not, I repeat, do not click
this link, unless you have a botle of eye bleach to hand. You have been warned.
Bless it, that wee car is a beauty. With a little searching on a nearby interwebs, I found a an image of its designer:
Erm..
That bloke must be in pain?
Re: Will classics ever become affordable again?
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2017 11:26 am
by Grumpy Northener
It's all down to your expectations - there is a wide range of good usable classics in the market to be had within the £3k - £5k bracket, if you don't mind a project again there is wide range available from a few hundred pounds upwards - it all depends upon how much work you want to take on - I have always abided by the rule of purchasing the best example that your money / budget can afford - if you can live with something a little newer there is a very strong emerging market in modern classics where really good, well cared for examples of motors that were £20 - £60k new and can now be had for under £5k and a large dose of them are just on the cusp of becoming classics within the next 5 years
Re: Will classics ever become affordable again?
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2017 1:10 am
by 3xpendable
Well I've joined the Nash club USA! While I still want an MGB again one day, these are much more affordable and I've always liked them, so I'll keep you posted. Still intending on getting a Crossfire too
Re: Will classics ever become affordable again?
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2017 9:31 pm
by vulgalour
Re: Will classics ever become affordable again?
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2017 9:54 pm
by JPB
@ every darned one of the above.
I love the idea that the first Austin to bear the Metro (albeit with added
politan) name was also sold by an American manufacturer better known for their American sized products. I wonder how they got along with the 1500cc B motor (see how I used an American word there..) over that side of the herring pond?
To my eyes, that first image not only shows an incredibly beautiful car, but a car whose styling is uncompromised by later tweaks between a shape as pure as that and the eventual production version, yet that was actually built and I want one..
*Adds that vision of loveliness to my list of cars I want, straight into number seven on said list, knocking the Shamrock back into eighth place!*
Re: Will classics ever become affordable again?
Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2017 1:39 am
by vulgalour
There's a few vids of bathtub Nashes on Youtube that show just how big and floaty and just generally serene they are. They must have seemed as outlandish in America as the DS in France, the Princess in the UK or the early Tatra cars in the Czech Republic (or Czechoslovakia as I think it was back then). Utterly wonderful, bizarre and almost ageless things, all of them.
Re: Will classics ever become affordable again?
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2017 4:37 pm
by 3xpendable
Re: Will classics ever become affordable again?
Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2017 5:34 pm
by JPB