Ossy Osbournes 745i Schnitzer

robs e23 wrote: 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.

HAAAAAA!! Quality!!

Those Boys know how to drink too............

German beers: Lowenbrau (Lion Brew) is from the
South. Holsten Pils is brewed in Hamburg
(Holstenstrasse) as is Astra. The best beer though
is Bitburger Pils from Bitburg near the Nurburg Ring.
Weissbier (White beer) is like brake fluid. English
bitters are good for the winter but you can't beat a
crisp lager for summer though.

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.

Ozzy Osbourne famous for being famous! absolute Rubbish

Ozzy has released many great records since he left Black sabbath, who by the way were not average. Ok so now he may be trading on his name a bit but why not. He has worked hard with a great deal of Help from Sharon to get to where he is today and it's well deseved. He had millions of fans before he was on MTV and he will still have them long after 'the osbournes' is forgotton. 

good one

It's hardly fair to describe him as illiterate when he's dyslexic.

Well someone else described him as illerate.... he seems a pretty decent chap to me.

'Personally I go for the taste and enjoyment rather than how to get as drunk as possible in the shortest space of time'

I cant see the point in drinking then, I havent had a good time unless i've been sick.

Getting back to the subject of BMW's... I've just taken on and beaten a Fiat Uno from a standing start at the lights. Last week I took on a Seat Ibiza over a quarter of a mile and beat that as well. Both were experienced drivers (pensioners / flat cap and churchill nodding dog in back window).... You can do this with Cider and Guinness but you cannot acheive this will Carlsberg....Carlsberg should be drunk Green, add a couple of shots of Blue Bolls....Landlords will love you...

You can't beat Black sheep

Whatever turns you on......heard they were difficult to get to stand still.

 

e28silver528i wrote: ...second hand engine £100 and clear indicators (f+r) £96...

Hang on a minute: the clear indicator lenses cost just a fraction less than the engine???

Black Sabbath made depressing dirge. I'd rather have treacle poured into my ears. Nothing against Ozzy, he's just a man who was permanently drunk and stoned for 25 years. He is now incomprehensible, but I think anyone who chooses to do that for 25 years needs to have their sanity questioned.

I bought my first car for almost 4 grand - 1500 quid worth of repairs later I had learned my lesson (almost all sensor and ECU faults). From then on the most I have paid for any car is 250 quid, the E28 only cost 150. As robs e23 (I think) was saying if you can do work yourself you will save a packet. People I know who have low incomes often get suckered in by these despicable credit companies to spend much more money than they have on a one year old car, crippling them for the next three years. It's often the wiser people who will buy a car for 300 quid or so - a business I plan to get into in the next year or so. Any tips lads?

Yeah, don't! £300 cars are a complete nightmare to
sell and you enter a legal minefield. The difference
between you, the other Forum E23 bods and the
normal £300 car buyer is that you're enthusiasts and
the others aren't. They just want something for
nothing. You will become a car trader by law and will
have to warrant your goods as 'fit for their intended
purpose'. Every time the fan belt squeals on the F
reg Sierra you sold, it will keep coming back and
under these stupid new EU laws, the scumbag who
bought this piece of junk from you will have the right
to do so. RobE23 was talking about his sideline
about selling repaired write offs - Rob, you do more
than 6 cars a year and YOU ARE A MOTOR
TRADER!! When the car you sold has an accident of
any sort (even a car park accident), one of these
'Claims Direct' lawyers will be onto you and you will
never shake them off. "CHILD INJURED IN REBUILT
WRITE OFF SCAM".

This is why anything not 100% proper, goes to the
auctions or the scrapyard.

Yes Car Credit have now made it easy for the
terminally hard of thinking to buy newish cars with
the result that old cars are now worthless. Just last
week I called the scrapman to remove a 1996 N reg
Laguna with a knackered clutch, purely because it
wouldn't drive to the auctions. Before easy car credit,
this would have been a £1500 car and a viable
repair.

My boss made a wise comment when I started years
ago. "If people only have £300 for a car, you've gotta
ask yourself........why?" As Phillip discovered, you
cannot sell a good clean E23 for £300 on Ebay so
really, you're on a hiding to nothing.

Doive wrote: It's often the wiser people who will buy a car for 300 quid or so - a business I plan to get into in the next year or so. Any tips lads?

"wiser"....hmmmmm ! Is this self-praise or delusion I wonder !

My friend buys cars for his own use for around £300, he calls them disposable cars as he runs them for as long as they last, with the most minimum repairs, then scraps them. He works in the construction industry and spends alot of time on building sites hence the need for a banger.

However from a business point of view (you may sell cars for £300 as a business) then this would worry me. (Note this weeks new laws governing the sale of goods....). £300 car sales + sales to the public + sale of goods act = for me this equals a great deal of trouble...Do think very carefully. Take your buying cost out of the £300 sale plus your overheads then you need to sell quite a lot of cars to make a decent living...the more you sell the more trouble you may get...

Rob
I wouldn't consider it sick to keep these cars, in fact I'd say, judging by the pictures of the beige 7, you are a well adjusted man!