Turbo for sale
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pauljmcnulty
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In this context, shouldn't the question be "who's spent under £10K", not "who's spent over £10K"? [8|]
blade7
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[ORIGINAL: PAUL RUDDY I owned 6 TR7's .....the rust issue was justified []
] I had a TR7 too, first decent car I owned. Head gasket blew, gearbox crunched going into reverse despite a new clutch and hydraulics, the paint was falling off the wheel arches when it was 5 years old . Got lucky in it a few times though []
pauljmcnulty
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Was that physically possible? [
] Guess we were all younger then....
pauljmcnulty
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In my case both....[&o]
DC911SC
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totally OT but there is a good episode of car sos where they do a triumph stag. They get one with a totally stock orig cooling system tested with modern efficiency testing gear and there are no issues. They put the overheating "myth" down to poor QC at the factory and lack of bleeding, setup time etc.
OLD_ian
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sounds like they built a system that was fine provided every component was 100%. Not something that would stand up and be reliable in the real world. I'm a software architect and see this all the time in the software world. BL build quality was a bad joke in those days. Road & Track magazine (the most influential car magazine in North America at the time) was sent a Rover 3500 for review and they had to stop by a suspension shop to have the suspension bolts tightened and an alignment done! After that they said it was lovely to drive but the biggest piece of junk they'd ever seen when it came to build quality.
pauljmcnulty
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Found the details eventually. Possibly better to put the pictures seperate from the description! I'd deduct a grand for the horrible number plates: why go to that much effort and not buy a nice set of standard ones, or the German font type? [:'(] I don't know the car, but again the mileage would put it outside the collector market being over the supposedly magic 100K, but there could be a lot of jobs needing doing. That last service was nice, and shows EXACTLY why an £8K car might be a better deal than a £6K car sometimes. If that car sells at that price, the one we are talking about here might be even more of a bargain than I first thought. I still think the £10K area is right for useable, not museum-piece, standard turbos: plenty of work done, plenty of mileage, plenty of life left in them. Getting up to £15K is really more for the speculators, who will mothball a car with low miles and rarely, if ever, use them.
Craigybaby
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As in skimmed and not full fat. Been discussed before. Caveat thingymebob.
Saw that - makes Frankies price competitive I would say....
Well Martin sold is ~50k late Turbo for circa £18k iirc, but the last ~100k one I know of sold for around £14k. It's a tough one, as I would tend to agree that 215k miles would feel like high mileage when spending £10k on a car, and that is coming from someone who has never really had lower mileage cars. However, as is always said with these cars, it's far more important to judge on condition, history and how the car feels/drives in the metal - rather than disregard purely on mileage. I looked at a low owner, well maintained (according to paperwork) 2.7 a couple of years back that had only covered ~90k miles - it was horrible. You could just tell it had not been used much and had suffered for it, just felt heavy & lethargic on the test drive. I ended up buying an S that had covered ~120k miles that felt and looked far fresher than the lower miled 2.7. I also bought my 944 Turbo with a possible mileage discrepancy (lack of early history - which I am trying to gather info on), but I took the car at face value, it had great history for the last 15 years, even better within the last 12 months - and ultimately it felt really good on the test drive, so I didn't worry too much about whether the indicated mileage was correct or not. It will always make a difference for a collector, but for a car that is going to be used, I'd still buy the best car I could find in terms of maintenance and body condition, rather than getting too hung up on mileage. I will say though, I am happier accepting high mileage for my run of the mill, load lugger type cars rather than a weekend toy, but I will never be one to pay over the odds for low mileage cars. I wish the seller good luck and hope he gets a fair price. At the end of the day, there are less and less of these for sale. 22 cars on AT, not one a Turbo.
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