Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

Serious advice: Put it on eBay with a brutally honest list of faults and NO RESERVE clearly stated in the title. Everyone thinks they will be getting a bargain and will bid it up to the exact market value or a bit more. I bought an a A4 for £2k, 2 years later the gearbox failed (no reverse) and I sold it that way on eBay for £800

Good advice. I sold my 205GTi like that. Gave the buyer 5 litres of water and 5 litres of oil for the 60 mile drive home - and he would've needed all of both. He was delighted. Very positive feedback, much happy purchaser. And I was a few weeks away from scrapping it.

Ha. Excellent

Obviously I now regret selling it, and wish I'd kept it...

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If anyone here wants to give me £300 for it.....

Was the body and interior good? The oily bits are the easy things on those cars.

On the 205GTi? Well the shell wasn't rusty, which was its good point. It wasn't straight either, which was the bad point. It had a hard life while I owned it, and I suspect an even harder life before I did, at least on one rather violent occasion. The interior was OK, but the rear parcel shelf came pre-chavved with huge speaker holes when I bought it. It also came with speakers, but the Finchley Latvian crew ripped them out before I sold it, along with the CD changer and head unit. Jolly nice chaps really though. Just a bit light-fingered.

1.6 or 1.9?

I'm with you on that. This was the Miami Blue 1.9 I bought for £500 in 2007. Sold later than year for a grand. Mind you, if I'd kept it this long it probably would have fizzled away to nothing, ended up in a ditch or cost me double what they are selling for now to have kept on the road.

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Mine was graphite grey. It appears not to have been taxed since 2004, so either it's a very long term project for someone or it's been scrapped. RIP G551 PVM.

Ah right, actually sounds like you did the right thing selling... The 205 GTi needs to be spot on mechanically and chassis wise to feel "right". I still believe that apart from their cult hero status a 306 gti6 or Rallye is the better car for a daily driver classic. I'd still love a 205 mind... Probably a manual si set up for club events and rally

Couple of nice unreleased Porsche Concepts amongst others now available in time for Xmas exclusively on Bezos World...

Have we finally found Dammit's van?

Heh.

Try Customer Service again?

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That first one's nice - like a baby 918.

Ah right, actually sounds like you did the right thing selling...

I didn't really have a choice to be honest - I needed a car I could tow a trailer with, so the 205 had to go. I replaced it with the most boring car I've ever owned - a dark green diesel Passat saloon. That one I ended up giving away.

Panda is on eBay with a few enquiries already.

C Max paid for and being delivered later today.

It's certainly in good shape!

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That was quick!

NCD is fun.

That is lovely. Body work looks in good shape. Bet that’s lovely to drive

is there an easy and cheap way to blank existing heavy fog lights in my 97 pug that are rattling/have come loose and maybe in the future sticking in little modern lights. without needing too many skills? what do you do with the wire when installing blanks?

Haha, not many people have called an Allegro a looker. The shooting brake/estate is much better looking than the saloon, though that's a pretty low bar.....

And I agree about liking the styling of the upturned rear window, here's another example I saw today. This is much more of what I think of as a shooting brake, a 3 litre Reliant Scimatar, think this one is probably the nicest one I've ever seen.


And I don't know if it's because they are a rare sight over here, or from @Jung's postings, or simply from growing up watching the A-Team, but I've always much preferred the looks of American people carrying vans, especially the older ones, to any of the Euro offerings. Some of them are just too ginormous for UK roads, but here's two I've seen over the last couple of days that look great fun. If I was into travelling or was in a band, I'd want one of these.

NCD?

New car day I think.