17-10-2018, 08:14 PM
Ill echo Martins last paragraph.
What is for sale will not be an Austin 7 'Ulster'. Austins never sold such a model, the models they made, the super sports and EA sports are so rare now that you could count the number of genuine cars on the fingers or a hand or two.
So your talking home built replicas. Such cars range from exellent cars built on the correct chassis with vintage parts. Correct lamps and instruments etc. To diabolical things built on much later and thus longer chassis with none of the right bits. Of course you also get diabolical cars on the correct chassis, and excellently built.ones on the longer chassis. But you get the idea.
The well built.cars, correct in as many ways possible (some bits are unobtanium) are very desirable and are worth a shit load of money. Trouble is those with the diabolical ones think theirs is too. And here lies your problem. Take someone who knows what they are looming at. Buy a good one and youll sell it on easily
Ive four cars here. 3 on the road. They are great fun. Reliable enough. But they are simply repaired and most mechanical and electrical bits are availible off the shelf for next day delivery.
Ive just put one of the cars on the road, a four seat tourer (an aforementioned chummy). We have had a scream with it in the two months its been on the road. My 9 year old daughter can easily drive it (around fields), and she loved it when we had four of her friends in it for a lap round town. This weekend we were out in one of the saloons. We did nigh on a hundred mile without missing a beat, that car hadnt done any great mileage since july.
What is for sale will not be an Austin 7 'Ulster'. Austins never sold such a model, the models they made, the super sports and EA sports are so rare now that you could count the number of genuine cars on the fingers or a hand or two.
So your talking home built replicas. Such cars range from exellent cars built on the correct chassis with vintage parts. Correct lamps and instruments etc. To diabolical things built on much later and thus longer chassis with none of the right bits. Of course you also get diabolical cars on the correct chassis, and excellently built.ones on the longer chassis. But you get the idea.
The well built.cars, correct in as many ways possible (some bits are unobtanium) are very desirable and are worth a shit load of money. Trouble is those with the diabolical ones think theirs is too. And here lies your problem. Take someone who knows what they are looming at. Buy a good one and youll sell it on easily
Ive four cars here. 3 on the road. They are great fun. Reliable enough. But they are simply repaired and most mechanical and electrical bits are availible off the shelf for next day delivery.
Ive just put one of the cars on the road, a four seat tourer (an aforementioned chummy). We have had a scream with it in the two months its been on the road. My 9 year old daughter can easily drive it (around fields), and she loved it when we had four of her friends in it for a lap round town. This weekend we were out in one of the saloons. We did nigh on a hundred mile without missing a beat, that car hadnt done any great mileage since july.