Practically Classics Forum

but a reputable auction house really ought to know better

You would certainly like to think so - especially with a popular model - but are they really experts given the amount of varied and diverse classics that travel through there books - do they rely purely on what they look up on Wikipedia for background catalogue description / what details & history the vendor supplies & what the HPI report shows or doesn't show ?

Current case in mind is this listing:

Auction house offering a innocently enough described Jowett: http://www.historics.co.uk/buying/aucti ... p.aspx?p=2

Thread from the Jowett Car Club forum and the real history of vehicle: https://jowett.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=4043

Result is that in reality that it is a bitza made up from various Jowett models & parts with little provenance to prove that it is the real thing that left the factory

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/28235667 ... rmvSB=true

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1985-B-Volksw ... 3641.l6368

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/1969-DOD ... RTM2065547

Wow! That's a genuine synchro. It'll probably end up making its vendor a small fortune because it has that damned badge.

Tip for anyone wanting to find a nice RWD VW product while they're still affordable: Toyota Hi-Lux were built at VW in the late eighties/early nineties and fitted with the VW emblem on their grille, tailgate and window glass, perhaps the job would have been more convincing had VW thought about replacing the steering wheel centre pad, the one fitted still carried Toyota's name!

There was one of these unnoticed VW-assembled trucks on eBay recently...

...Ah yes, here it is, still for sale. I reckon that the next big thing in the 'Dub show scene will be this Toyota!:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Volkswagon-19 ... SwLEtYgRCz

So, is that not at least seventy four times as desirable as even the best surviving example of the "rare" Syncro? Imagine it; a VW badge on a car that doesn't fib about how filthy its exhaust gas is.


As for the Jowett truck, I wouldn't kick it out of the garage at the right price and for me, its lack of official pedigree makes it all the more usable and I hope that some caring soul will drive that every day, even when there are mud, snow and other motorists on the roads, that's what it's for.

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C836961
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AEC-100ft-Tur ... Sw4DJYi1cZ

ooohhh, fire engine porn.
Seeing that all I can think of is Trumpton

OK, who else had the Lesney Superkings model of that type of AEC fire appliance? I had, but then one day a mate (we must've been around 7 or 8..) dropped the toy from a tree and it landed on a rock below. The fire truck's injuries were fatal so we buried it near the tree and when I went to dig it up much later - when I was 40 I think - guess what? No, it hadn't been preserved by its being buried, some bugger had built a house where the tree and the toy used to be. How dare they!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fudSCU1-U9g more like it.

http://carro.mercadolibre.com.ve/MLV-48 ... i-cord-_JM

http://articulo.mercadolibre.com.ve/MLV ... i-cord-_JM

http://articulo.mercadolibre.com.ve/MLV ... ciable-_JM

http://carros.trovit.co.ve/listing/mini ... 1l1r1D1rXq



here are some more

http://carros.trovit.co.ve/carros-usados/mini-cord

By rights I should have managed to retrieve my poor wee miniCord by now, but then life, death - and tenants that don't deserve to live in anything other than a tent - all got in the way. Venezuela, you and I are over, keep the bloody mini, I'm past caring but, Rich, thanks for the reminder of what should have been. Thing is, had I managed to get it out of the country, it would by now have been standing idle as I'd still have needed the tall modern and already have one older car that I can't use any more. I'm both relieved that it all went tits up and sad that I didn't get to drive it to 2014's minis on the beach event. I mean, it would have been the only GRP one there.



Here, have a truck:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1990-IVECO-BR ... SwImRYkO~K

Wow, who knew that special trucks were available for recovering Iveco vehicles?