Classic cars as investments?

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christine wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 10:18 am Sold for £ 202,500 ,I think there was some more parts though..


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39PH was the 1963 Le Mans Cobra so I assume 150 PH also has Works significance (possibly a demonstrator/development car) for such a bucket of bits to be so highly bid.

Bet somebody retrims the seats, too.....
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angrydicky wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 11:40 am I still can’t look at an Impreza without thinking the owner is a colossal bell end.
There's a cunt with one that races away from the lights near our house every single fucking morning at 7.12am. he must be doing 70mph up the fucking road and I want to gouge the cunts eyes out with a spoon.
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Used to have one near us that did pretty much the same thing.
I can’t forget the awful sound of that bloody flat four farting through a drainpipe, interspersed with the usual “PISSHT” every time the twat changed gear, despite not having had to suffer one for many years. I do sympathise.
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I find it increasingly difficult with cars like those to actually find the right size potato to jam up the exhaust.
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paulplom wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 1:28 pm
angrydicky wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 11:40 am I still can’t look at an Impreza without thinking the owner is a colossal bell end.
There's a cunt with one that races away from the lights near our house every single fucking morning at 7.12am. he must be doing 70mph up the fucking road and I want to gouge the cunts eyes out with a spoon.
You get my vote. If you are such a big bollocks racing driver take it on a track day.
As I suspected I was right about everything.
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As I suspected I was right about everything.
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mercrocker wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 1:39 pm I find it increasingly difficult with cars like those to actually find the right size potato to jam up the exhaust.
Expanding foam would get my vote if I knew where the fucker lived.
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treehugger wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 2:13 pm
Insane.
Probably.

It is not, however, the costliest car yet to have used Ford Zephyr components.....

I used to flog the dash-top airvents from MkIIIs to a geezer building GT40 replicas which used them, as did the Slough-built originals. Unfortunately I was not paid in proportional value but they were a part that nobody with a Zephyr ever needed to replace.....
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paulplom wrote:
mercrocker wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 1:39 pm I find it increasingly difficult with cars like those to actually find the right size potato to jam up the exhaust.
Expanding foam would get my vote if I knew where the fucker lived.
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