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Re: breakdown truck
Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2014 9:30 pm
by rich.
Re: breakdown truck
Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2014 10:45 pm
by TerryG
That pickup could be very cool when restored
Re: breakdown truck
Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 7:54 am
by Grumpy Northener
That pickup could be very cool when restored
Very much so - it appears full of Gallic character and would look fabulous finished - just the thing for doing the wine run with - I wonder if the vendor wants stupid money for it ?
Re: breakdown truck
Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 10:55 am
by mach1rob
Grumpy Northener wrote:If the Froggies are asking and getting that £££ for Dolly Sprints I need to be rounding them up in the UK and shipping them out - Rich could you act as my Froggy agent - you just need to wash the motors off when they arrive - stick them in your barn and the advertise them for twice what they are worth in the UK

Why? They're finally getting the recognition they deserve in the UK!
http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C470362
Cheap still when compared to an over priced and inferior Escrote!
Re: breakdown truck
Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 6:04 pm
by JPB

I remember VVK2T when David Blackshaw
(partner and service manager at Blackshaws' BL dealership in Alnwick, still by the town now though their fabulous original site is now flats) got the car new and even before that certain TDC stalwart rebuilt it and fitted these lush Rover 200 chairs at both ends it was a
very special example, probably one of the very few from the Russian steel period that's still around. But
eleven effing grand? I reckon it'll stick for quite a while at that, especially when another example, with the desirable auto option and in Magenta, lovely, lovely Magenta, sold at a shade under £7k through a classics-only specialist seller down in that London. That one was totally unwelded and without a trace of rust as it would have been a British steel one and as such a much better prospect for anyone buying it to use rather than to look at or strip for racing.
There's unlikely to be anything wrong with the orange one though, and maybe they'll get their money but whatever it makes, the bar will probably end up a little higher.

Re: breakdown truck
Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 6:37 pm
by rich.
Re: breakdown truck
Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 6:56 pm
by rich.
Re: breakdown truck
Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 10:30 pm
by JPB
It's a Valved Preamplifier.
I do like that long wheelbase R25!

Re: breakdown truck
Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2014 9:56 am
by suffolkpete
That Simca 1200 is gorgeous!
Re: breakdown truck
Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2014 5:59 pm
by rich.
JPB wrote:It's a Valved Preamplifier.
thanks!! what does it do??
