breakdown truck

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Re: breakdown truck

#3371 Post by Dick » Sat Jan 02, 2021 6:48 pm

GHT wrote:
Sat Jan 02, 2021 3:03 pm
Dick wrote:
Fri Jan 01, 2021 8:39 pm
Got chance of a few classics, a local farmers father rented out a couple of barns in 2011 to a chap who promptly filled them with Renault 4s a few 2cvs and several other French classics. The chap then vanished and hasn't paid rent since 2015.. in total there is 110 cars under cover and a couple more outside.. im waiting for permission to have a look and get a few photos...
Je l'ai vu en premier
Oooh la chance!

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Re: breakdown truck

#3372 Post by Dick » Sun Jan 03, 2021 6:31 pm

As some of you gents apreciate ancient technology ive found an old calculator for your perusal..

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/it ... tory_share

And a commodore 64 ...
https://www.facebook.com/groups/7912304 ... sn=scwspmo

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Re: breakdown truck

#3373 Post by Dick » Sun Jan 03, 2021 8:56 pm


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Re: breakdown truck

#3374 Post by GHT » Sun Jan 03, 2021 11:06 pm

This listing is no longer available
It may have expired or been sold.
Take a look at these other items below.

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Re: breakdown truck

#3375 Post by Dick » Tue Jan 05, 2021 12:00 pm

GHT wrote:
Sun Jan 03, 2021 11:06 pm
This listing is no longer available
It may have expired or been sold.
Take a look at these other items below.
No i didn't buy it...

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Re: breakdown truck

#3376 Post by Dick » Tue Jan 05, 2021 6:03 pm


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Re: breakdown truck

#3377 Post by GHT » Tue Jan 05, 2021 9:44 pm

Dick wrote:
Tue Jan 05, 2021 6:03 pm
This is so tempting
https://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/Nissan-Micra-1 ... 2be6bd5f5a

Phoar.. :drool: :drool: :drool:
Three more years and it's road tax exempt. Oh, but you don't live in the UK, never mind, it probably won't last three years.

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Re: breakdown truck

#3378 Post by JPB » Wed Jan 06, 2021 9:10 am

GHT wrote: ..Three more years and it's road tax exempt. Oh, but you don't live in the UK, never mind, it probably won't last three years.
Eh? Even if the free VED thing is still around when the car is old enough to qualify, it's a mere thirty years of age so there are eleven years between that Micra and free VED & MOT exempt status, which comes in the 41st year.
K10s can last well, especially compared to equivalent European cars of the era, but a few more images would be good as the current ones suggest that either the car has the possible - if not always experienced - Jatco CVT overheating and belt slipping issues, though they managed to reverse it in so possibly that's not it, or it doesn't move at all. Either way, I would wonder how it's not been pulled out for better access.
I love a CVT and it's still far easier to find a working Jatco one in a Micra (or K series Metro) than it is to find one in a completely knackered state, but would I travel (assuming no tier five countrywide, disease-related restrictions in place by then, obviously) all the way to Essex for a car that didn't, at the very least, come more positively portrayed in the photos? No. That would be a daftness too far! Yet strangely, I'm comfortable with buying directly from Japanese auctions. Irrational behaviour? Nope, it's not as big a gamble as a night in a casino and you get a car at the end of the process, rather than a debt and a sweaty shirt.
:mrgreen:


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J
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true.. :oops:

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Re: breakdown truck

#3379 Post by GHT » Wed Jan 06, 2021 10:53 am

JPB wrote:
Wed Jan 06, 2021 9:10 am
Eh? Even if the free VED thing is still around when the car is old enough to qualify, it's a mere thirty years of age so there are eleven years between that Micra and free VED & MOT exempt status, which comes in the 41st year.
Quite so, with age comes amnesia. The golden years my arse.

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Re: breakdown truck

#3380 Post by Dick » Sun Jan 10, 2021 12:51 pm

JPB wrote:
Wed Jan 06, 2021 9:10 am
GHT wrote: ..Three more years and it's road tax exempt. Oh, but you don't live in the UK, never mind, it probably won't last three years.
Eh? Even if the free VED thing is still around when the car is old enough to qualify, it's a mere thirty years of age so there are eleven years between that Micra and free VED & MOT exempt status, which comes in the 41st year.
K10s can last well, especially compared to equivalent European cars of the era, but a few more images would be good as the current ones suggest that either the car has the possible - if not always experienced - Jatco CVT overheating and belt slipping issues, though they managed to reverse it in so possibly that's not it, or it doesn't move at all. Either way, I would wonder how it's not been pulled out for better access.
I love a CVT and it's still far easier to find a working Jatco one in a Micra (or K series Metro) than it is to find one in a completely knackered state, but would I travel (assuming no tier five countrywide, disease-related restrictions in place by then, obviously) all the way to Essex for a car that didn't, at the very least, come more positively portrayed in the photos? No. That would be a daftness too far! Yet strangely, I'm comfortable with buying directly from Japanese auctions. Irrational behaviour? Nope, it's not as big a gamble as a night in a casino and you get a car at the end of the process, rather than a debt and a sweaty shirt.
:mrgreen:


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John what support is that?, are you getting old or something? Im trying to explain to wifey why i need a broken 827 vitesse that needs 16 hour round trip trailering home.. not to mention what it costs to fix it or the fines ill get for breaking curfew...

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