IceNineBack to cool stuff @jackyan and @GruffHarding
Green is always a winner I say and again it keeps on winning
https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/chevrolet/oldsmobile/listing/5760414342
Gruff HardingHow are you going to explain the purchase after hitting a fifth division win?
Anyhoo, a few beauts today, but first this - get it and you too can pick the car of your choice
https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/other/other/listing/5761689924
Number two - is purple your lucky colour? Better hope so, because British reliability
https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/austin/1100/listing/5761804800
Jack Yan (甄爵恩)@GruffHarding @IceNine Ah, but was yours twin-carb with the 1300?
I'd hope so!
Thing I like about older cars, you lift the bonnet and can immediately recognise an engine!
A nice honest car, with honest description
I think @BobLefridge left it sitting out the front for a few years
On the beach
https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/fiat/124-spider/listing/5765339931
@IceNine @GruffHarding @BobLefridge I think this shows how restrictive Trade Me is with descriptions. The seller probably wanted to write Fiat 124 Sport Spider but couldnʼt.
@jackyan @IceNine @BobLefridge https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/ford/cortina/listing/5762087452 when I win lotto tonight I an gonna buy this, then get it repainted in Sherwood Green. In honour of the one I bought from mystic Granddad
Bob LeFridge 
Tidy vehicle, but $16k for a Cortina?
@BobLefridge @jackyan @IceNine https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/toyota/corolla/listing/5766979559 what's worse is we used to buy these for 500 bucks in the the early 90s
@GruffHarding @BobLefridge @jackyan
That and 323s were just everywhere
Some times they'd pass a warrant, but oh the rust
@GruffHarding @BobLefridge @jackyan
I knew I should have waited - 1.7L sewing machine
https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/other/other/listing/5776548241
@IceNine @BobLefridge @jackyan is the singer a sport version of the hunter, i'e more gauges same rubbish performance.
@IceNine @BobLefridge @jackyan I'm still here fellas 😁, I've just been a bit distracted with let's say admin, but all is well 😁
@GruffHarding @BobLefridge @jackyan
I found a cracker though 😆
https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/toyota/hilux/listing/5788409900
John Cortexiphan@yakmoose @GruffHarding @BobLefridge @jackyan
They buffed the engine out!
@IceNine @yakmoose @BobLefridge @jackyan https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/subaru/brumby/listing/5920872214 I found the perfect classic!
@GruffHarding @yakmoose @BobLefridge @jackyan
So did I!
Not as eyecatching this one, and you'll have to travel a bit further Gruff than Happy Valley, but it is half the price.
I'm sure Bob had at least two of them and also did some dodgy mission in one too, but there's not many vehicles which don't tick those boxes. Nissan Cube perhaps?
https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/other/other/listing/5939871462
Nah. I never owned anything big and thirsty like the Sunbeam.
But I did desire a Brumby for a while. Fifteen years ago they were around $2,500 for a decent one. Suffice to say, I'm shocked at the current prices.
@BobLefridge @jackyan @GruffHarding @yakmoose
Have I finally found a car you and your brother didn't get up to no good in?!
You have us wrong. My brother and I were actually pretty discerning in our choice of vehicles. Like Gruff says, there were quite a few five hundy cars.
Between us we owned a few Vanguards, a weird fibreglass thing called a Mistral, 20-30 Morris Eights, one Morris Minor, one Morris J4 van, one CF Bedford, one Citroen GS club, one 1949 Singer Sports, a matching pair of MG Midgets and that infamous Fiat 500 which was involved in a reported "high speed (!) chase" round north Dunedin.
I've also owned a VW Variant (yellow), an Alfa Romeo GTV2000, a Saab 900, a 72 MGBGT, a Ford SIerra wagon (bland), a pair of Triumph 2500s, a Telstar (bland), the sad little SJ410 living at the back of my drive, one Escudo (bland), two Suzuki Swifts and seven Subarus.
That's all. Perfectly normal.
@BobLefridge @IceNine @GruffHarding @yakmoose Was the Mistral one of these? https://classicsglemham.org.uk/1959-buckler-dd2-mistral-1
Good spotting! It was one of those, or at least it had been in an earlier life.
My brother bought it for $100. One day we were taking it to a panel beater in South Dunedin to price fibreglass repairs, my brother towing with his Vanguard ute with me in the Mistral. We almost made it when one of the back wheels fell off and rolled right past me. Broken axle. But the car kept rolling on three wheels with me waving wildly to stop the towing. It was like being in a silly cartoon.
Four of us lifted the car by hand, plugged the axle back in and finished the trip. Then the Mistral got sold to the next sucker.