Colin wrote:It's very frustrating for you Mitch when this more door Viva 2300 got snapped up in a matter of hours yesterday (that is if fleabay can be believed of course) -
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/-/1233069012 ... 675.l10137I'm sure your car is in better condition than this now slightly down at heel 2300. If you decide to have another go at selling I think it might be best not to bother with the auction side of ebay and just leave it out there on a classified ad at a reasonable value. It's a good car. Someone will want it.
Exactly what i'm talking about mate, although if it was completely rot free like the ad said then it was a good buy for someone, I pointed it out to the guy who was haggling for mine, maybe he got it, because it was off ebay within hours of me telling him about it
If I do decide to sell then I think I'll give ebay a miss, it certainly brought out the crazies and the chancers...
One offer I got was for a swap with a XJ40 + some cash, they wanted to drive down from manchester, do the swap, then drive back in the magnum. I told her that the mag was ok for driving short journeys but for something like that length of trip I couldn't guarantee something wouldn't go wrong as the old girl has been off the road for a fair few years, she just airily said that it was fine because she was in the AA . . .
I envisioned the magnum halfway up the motorway stuffed into the crash barriers because a brake line or balljoint decided that it was time for it to go or something . . . I couldn't honestly let her buy and drive the mag all that way with a clear conscience
(i've had the old girl up to 70+ ish and she drives very well and smooth...but all the same, that's not 70mph constant for a couple of hours straight
Then I had those who asked if a v8 or red top would fit in it...of course it would...but if you want to do that buy a 1256 snotter to mess up ok?
Then of course the obvious dealers wanting to know every tiny minutiae about the car and offering next to nothing, I had it on an unrealistic reserve just for the chance to choose where it went, all too many times I see a car snapped up for very little money, only to pop back up on the bay of 'e' with a bit of a polish and an exorbitant price hike
That was not going to happen if I could help it.
So The Guv'nor ( the wife's name for it, chosen not too fondly by her, It is apparently a political figure from American history....and not a very nice one at that, she said it fitted the cars temperament ??? ) is going to stay for now, who knows it may stay for a while . . .