Practically Classics Forum

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

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GHT wrote: Sun Jan 03, 2021 11:06 pm

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

Phoar..

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.

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.

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.