This was my fathers car, who passed away some time ago but I just haven’t got around to sorting things out. I put a new battery on it and incredibly it started first time. However the brakes don’t work (presume that the brake pipes have rusted through as this was an MOT advisory 10 yrs ago). Other than that all the bits seem to work but as it has been standing for a long while it is definitely sold as “Spares or Repairs””
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This Daihatsu Hi-Jet auction result genuinely surprised us. Not because we didn’t like it. Quite the opposite. We absolutely loved this tiny Japanese 4×4 when we spotted it at Anglia Car Auctions. But with a £9,000 to £11,000 estimate, we wondered whether its sheer quirkiness might make it a difficult thing to value. We were […]
We buy some strange things. Usually they have wheels. This one doesn’t. Today’s purchase is probably one of the more unusual motoring-related objects we’ve brought home: an enormous reproduction of the Rolls-Royce Spirit of Ecstasy. It stands around 77cm tall, sits on a marble plinth and weighs an absolute ton. Well, perhaps ...
Three of the garage-find classics we’ve been following went under the hammer at Reeman Dansie today — and one of the results surprised us more than the others. The 1963 Austin Mini Cooper 997cc, 1973 Renault 15 TS and 1981 Ford Cortina 2.3 GL V6 had all appeared on UK Barn Finds in the run-up […]
