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M3AG
Really Senior Member II
7 series & e36 m3 registrar! (Madness)
Joined: 17-October-2002
Location: Good Old Hertfordshire
Status: Offline
Points: 1644
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Posted: 31-March-2005 at 03:44 |
How it's presented is the key, I agree there Rob.
Hiabboy, I imagine you get them all, those that say 'if I had the space', or I want it but can't afford to run it etc etc, plus the classic 'it needs all this done' (and all for £400) but Rob's right, a £400 car is ideal as a runner for the school run, or for many tradesman that prefer a car to a van! Can you mail me the spec of the Saphire 735i please, as I may know someone who may be looking in the next few weeks.
Cheers
AG
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bmw1066
Really Senior Member II
GOOD OLD E23
Joined: 16-January-2005
Location: West Sussex Nr Brighton
Status: Offline
Points: 1095
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Posted: 31-March-2005 at 12:49 |
poor old e23's, I am spending money on mine because I love e23's and
that is it pour and simpall. if i could have a 745 I would I have got
to be the onley 21 year old with a old 7 fetish and with a e23 so could terd
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Mark 735 se 1982
RED BARON A E23 is for life not just for x-mas
BMW e34 530 v8 Sport kit
Spelling always Bad
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Horsetan
Really Senior Member II
Say Neigh to Gatsos
Joined: 11-April-2003
Location: Please let it be Ireland
Status: Offline
Points: 6381
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Posted: 31-March-2005 at 13:13 |
bmw1066 wrote:
.... so could terd |
Where's an interpreter when you need one?
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robs e23
Really Senior Member I
Joined: 28-January-2005
Location: colchester essex
Status: Offline
Points: 498
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Posted: 31-March-2005 at 13:15 |
its fun
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bmw1066
Really Senior Member II
GOOD OLD E23
Joined: 16-January-2005
Location: West Sussex Nr Brighton
Status: Offline
Points: 1095
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Posted: 31-March-2005 at 13:20 |
lol
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Mark 735 se 1982
RED BARON A E23 is for life not just for x-mas
BMW e34 530 v8 Sport kit
Spelling always Bad
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schnitzer
Newbie
Joined: 21-March-2005
Location: Lancashire
Status: Offline
Points: 14
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Posted: 31-March-2005 at 13:57 |
and with a e23 so could terd
Who's this terd chap? Or have I got my forum decoder switched off?
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robs e23
Really Senior Member I
Joined: 28-January-2005
Location: colchester essex
Status: Offline
Points: 498
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Posted: 31-March-2005 at 14:02 |
i use bletchly park to decode mine.
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bmw1066
Really Senior Member II
GOOD OLD E23
Joined: 16-January-2005
Location: West Sussex Nr Brighton
Status: Offline
Points: 1095
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Posted: 31-March-2005 at 14:54 |
lol
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Mark 735 se 1982
RED BARON A E23 is for life not just for x-mas
BMW e34 530 v8 Sport kit
Spelling always Bad
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Von Paulus
Banned User
Cruisin’ the Reeperbahn
Joined: 17-March-2005
Location: Hamburg and UK!
Status: Offline
Points: 118
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Posted: 02-April-2005 at 15:47 |
Schnitzer - for £10k less you could have had a twin
Turbo Alpina B7
Ozzy Osbourne is an illiterate, incomprehensible
Brummie who fronted a very average group 20 years
ago and as such, can't be taken too seriously.
Famous for being famous I believe.
Robs E23 - how exactly do you make a profit on a
£50 car when selling for £400? An MOT is about £30
and in my limited experience, £50 cars are normally
knackered rubbish needing loads of time and money
spent.
In my 22 years selling cars (proper ones), I came to
the conclusion 21 years ago that old bangers are the
hardest cars to sell. When the buyers only have £300
in the whole world, they seem to get a lot more fussy.
We would just put all the part exchange junk (i.e
anything older than 10 years) into Blackbushe
auction with the instructions to dispose of it at any
price - one Montego sold for a pound, about 99p
more that it was worth.
But I guess an E23 habit beats Golf or fishing!
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bmw1066
Really Senior Member II
GOOD OLD E23
Joined: 16-January-2005
Location: West Sussex Nr Brighton
Status: Offline
Points: 1095
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Posted: 02-April-2005 at 16:57 |
Von Paulus wrote:
Ozzy Osbourne is an illiterate, incomprehensible
Brummie who fronted a very average group 20 years
ago and as such, can't be taken too seriously.
Famous for being famous I believe.
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Ozzy Osbourne is a rock god, and is in no way a average group,
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Mark 735 se 1982
RED BARON A E23 is for life not just for x-mas
BMW e34 530 v8 Sport kit
Spelling always Bad
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robs e23
Really Senior Member I
Joined: 28-January-2005
Location: colchester essex
Status: Offline
Points: 498
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Posted: 02-April-2005 at 18:02 |
von paulus,i can buy 1997 or 1996 ford escort ghia with slight front damage for £100 and sell for£1500 so your saying wheres the profit. i can usually pick a car up for £50 not just the imaculate one owner low milage 60,000 from new e23 but any age of car usually from salvage companies. or auctions, remember i do all my own repairs, and dont contract out to any garage. i also hold down a full time job in the print industry so cars are my other living. right for the people who only have £300 to spend on a car they are usually genuine people who work hard and dont have a lot so yes £300 is a lot of money to them. we live in a world where money rules our lives most ordinary folk dont have a lot. for some money isn"t a issue. so those people who have money and who think that the man with only £300 in his pocket is scum, well those people deserve to rot in hell. i tell you what, dont walk around saying to me when you sold proper cars, well mate its a changing world. im saying i can sell £400 cars all day. its harder to sell a car for over £1200 beacuse most people then want finance. the person with £300 in his pocket knows what he wants and is proud of what he gets. ps i never never buy from a auction house only salvage auctions. you get to many dodgy dealers floging all the crap there..
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Von Paulus
Banned User
Cruisin’ the Reeperbahn
Joined: 17-March-2005
Location: Hamburg and UK!
Status: Offline
Points: 118
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Posted: 03-April-2005 at 06:29 |
I'm sure you mentioned the sums '£50' and ' £400'
earlier, so where did a £1500 Escort come from?
The view held by real motor traders/salesmen is -
everyone is scum until they get the money out. You
develop a thick skin and live with the idiots of which
there are thousands. If you can't make £1500 of a car
you have just run a hose and a sponge over, you're
doing it all wrong. Just last week I bought a 1996
740i over the phone and sold it 10 minutes later,
over the phone for £1200 more than I underwrote it
for. The buyer arrived just as the car did, didn't even
have time to wash it.
Personally I wouldn't feel comfortable with rebuilding
£100 write offs and selling them for £1500. It's a
moral thing really.
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Von Paulus
Banned User
Cruisin’ the Reeperbahn
Joined: 17-March-2005
Location: Hamburg and UK!
Status: Offline
Points: 118
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Posted: 03-April-2005 at 06:32 |
Oh, and decent hard working people normally have a
good credit rating and wouldn't buy £350 junk.
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PaulS
Really Senior Member II
East Anglia BMWCC Regional Chairman
Joined: 03-July-2004
Location: Aylsham, Norfolk
Status: Offline
Points: 2516
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Posted: 03-April-2005 at 06:46 |
scnitzer,
Wow!! Nice car!!
Von Paulus
I work very hard, have a terrible credit rating and can only afford £350.00 cars, which is how much mine cost.
Paul
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95 E34 530i V8 Auto Maldives Blue
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Von Paulus
Banned User
Cruisin’ the Reeperbahn
Joined: 17-March-2005
Location: Hamburg and UK!
Status: Offline
Points: 118
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Posted: 03-April-2005 at 08:53 |
Okay! I'm humbled and a big sorry :-(
But did the £350 include the wheels and the other
bits??
We still have ours - a 1986 535i SE (the M535i but
without the bodykit) manual which is an excellent old
thing. Still very fast as well. Probably not worth
anything which is criminal really.
I did like the E28, much better car than the E23. The
E34 is better than both of them put together however
and you can buy those for peanuts these days. If you
can do all your own maintenance and repairs, i
guess these old sheds are worth having. But these
days it seems that everyone will just throw a car
away at the slightest hint of trouble. Crazy.
"Guaranteed used cars" used to mean 'when we
guarantee a car has been used, believe me, it's
been USED"
Serriously, when a car went to the scrapyard 10 or 20
years ago, it was totally knackered or rotten.
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robs e23
Really Senior Member I
Joined: 28-January-2005
Location: colchester essex
Status: Offline
Points: 498
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Posted: 03-April-2005 at 10:24 |
von paulus, i deal with the salvage cat d or even c. theres lots of money to be made. if you have the skills to repair, oh and also have the gear to do it.
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Von Paulus
Banned User
Cruisin’ the Reeperbahn
Joined: 17-March-2005
Location: Hamburg and UK!
Status: Offline
Points: 118
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Posted: 03-April-2005 at 12:07 |
So why are you messing around with £300 E23's?
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Horsetan
Really Senior Member II
Say Neigh to Gatsos
Joined: 11-April-2003
Location: Please let it be Ireland
Status: Offline
Points: 6381
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Posted: 03-April-2005 at 14:27 |
Von Paulus wrote:
Okay! I'm humbled and a big sorry :-( |
My God! A miracle has occurred. We got an apology!
Von Paulus wrote:
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days it seems that everyone will just throw a car
away at the slightest hint of trouble. Crazy. |
Yes, it's the newer cars, with all the electric and electronic gizmos
I always said a really old car was good for you. It's more accessible for repair purposes, and there's not a great deal of cladding to remove......
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Horsetan
Really Senior Member II
Say Neigh to Gatsos
Joined: 11-April-2003
Location: Please let it be Ireland
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Posted: 03-April-2005 at 14:28 |
Von Paulus wrote:
So why are you messing around with £300 E23's? |
Something to do with affordability? E23s are the closest to the concept of "owt for nowt"
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robs e23
Really Senior Member I
Joined: 28-January-2005
Location: colchester essex
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Points: 498
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Posted: 03-April-2005 at 16:38 |
Von Paulus wrote:
So why are you messing around with £300 E23's? |
beacuse it was only the price of a round of drinks in a bar full of boozing Bavarians.
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