Big Vern retirement.

Vespaman will be too busy jetsetting around in his cosworth, having lunch with Pele and bashing his bishop, to respond to you.

 

I actually saw a cosworth the other day going down bev Rd

 

A sierra rs cosworth went for about £500k the other day at auction. There’s a lad in my village has a black escort cosworth, had it years. Hardly ever comes out. Ridiculous the amount of money these old bangers are fetching now. Our DHL driver spent £10k on a 106 Rallye last year, mental.

 

A 1969 Cortina 1600e for 30 grand.

https://www.carandclassic.com/car/C1540745

I paid under a hundred quid for one in the early eighties.


Mind you, I only put about 100 miles on it before it blew up.

 

RIP Big Vern, you’ll be missed

 

Your next lunch with Pele might be a bit of a sombre affair.

 

I have noticed the big one on the telly Mathewsons is online and telephone only now. Also seen vehicles in the background which were allegedly sold some time ago. There is a big blue tractor which was sold for over 200,000 in many of the episodes.

 

If ebay auctions are anything to go by it could attract a flurry of realistic bids in the dying minutes.

 

Any good?

 

Albert finished with, sod, crumpet, and knickers, full circle back to Vern.



The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.

 

big vern's farewell thread has been hijacked by car auctions and foul language scrabble
#respectbigvern

 

No thread is ever hijacked, much like conversations threads expand, usually followed by tossers complaining about hijacking.



The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.

 

EBay’s full of messers, nearly as bad as marketplace.
Silverstone auctions seems to be good and as said matthewsons.
I’ve got a 1980 minivan if anyone wants a project to finish

 

I believe the correct terminology is 'Thread drift'

 

Matthew sons is only an hour away in Thornton le Dale.Great place to browse

 

They’re selling dreams.

 

In a bid to carry on the thread drift a few years ago I bought a silver Astra GTE, non runner for 50 quid. All I actually wanted was the seats but thought I’d try and get it running to see if the engine and box were worth removing and selling. I had a friend, passed a few years ago god rest his soul, who was a diagnostic expert. He told me during winter a lot of them just stopped running, apparently they have a design fault, there is an electronic unit that is situated in the footwell bolted to the inner wing. Water gets in there and freezes up in the cold weather. He told me to unplug it, take it in house, remove the cover that had about 12 small screws holding it on. Then absolutely flood it with WD40. Drain it out and leave it in a warm place over night. I followed his advice and the next day put the unit together and plugged it back in. Well **** me it started straight up one turn of the key. Went like a rocket, fast as fook, needless to say the seats never came out, sold it literally the same day for a very healthy profit. I cannot believe what prices you can get for old cars that back in my day we were almost given….
I could not count the amount of punters that turned up asking me to come and pick up XR2s, XR3s and a fair few sierras for ****all. Bought a 4x4 sierra for £150 once that only needed a clutch.
Weird thing though those Renault 5s always kept their money, personally I thought they were **** and not that fast.