http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-31769707
£25760 is quite a lot of money for a morris minor in pink (yes, I know)
I love mogs but one of the things I love about them is almost anyone can afford one (I say almost as rich's milk bottle top collection won't stretch to the roughest example). £26k for a £5k car even with interesting history strikes me as quite expensive.
Which one of you is £26k poorer?
Which one of you is £26k poorer?
Understeer: when you hit the wall with the front of the car.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.
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Re: Which one of you is £26k poorer?
I suspect the big selling point was that it was THE millionth Minor, not just a "Minor 1,000,000" (of which a number were made). That would make it unique (there again, so is any other chassis number!) and almost something that should be in one of those museums for everyone to be able to worship!
Even so, for me, there should have been at least one zero off the price...
Even so, for me, there should have been at least one zero off the price...
Re: Which one of you is £26k poorer?
Main thing here is that some generous soul liked it enough to spend an amount that was within the band estimated so really, it's unimportant what we think. Even though a (non-lilac) 950 in similarly original condition and ready to drive, which is what they were built for, shouldn't cost more than £2000 unless you're an eBay victim, in which case the sky is well & truly the limit.
Minors tend to sell better when they're either appropriately modified for daily use or are show cars. The middle ground is full of perfectly sound, reliable bargains as it always was.
Everybody smiles at a Minor at least once every few days, the high bidder on that Million obviously wouldn't have wanted any other car and we've all done it; spent over the odds for something we coveted to that extreme. Good luck to them, the car's future is pretty much guaranteed when its price is as high as that, even though its value isn't generally thought to be up there.
You don't get anything particularly special in a new car at the same sort of money and that's depreciated massively by the time the thing's been on the drive for two years and has 50k on the clock so for that reason alone; I'm saying that the buyer of the 1,000,000 is sane.
Minors tend to sell better when they're either appropriately modified for daily use or are show cars. The middle ground is full of perfectly sound, reliable bargains as it always was.
Everybody smiles at a Minor at least once every few days, the high bidder on that Million obviously wouldn't have wanted any other car and we've all done it; spent over the odds for something we coveted to that extreme. Good luck to them, the car's future is pretty much guaranteed when its price is as high as that, even though its value isn't generally thought to be up there.
You don't get anything particularly special in a new car at the same sort of money and that's depreciated massively by the time the thing's been on the drive for two years and has 50k on the clock so for that reason alone; I'm saying that the buyer of the 1,000,000 is sane.
J
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..
Re: Which one of you is £26k poorer?
you have a point! i would have saved my money & bought the one built before or just after & saved some money, but im a skinflint 
well i would be if i ever have any money 
i wonder if someone fancies a tody clio diesel in exchange for a usable traveller??
well i would be if i ever have any money i wonder if someone fancies a tody clio diesel in exchange for a usable traveller??