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Originally Posted by Cromax
The Austin was always trouble ... always broken down and never really working. It was bought by a collector of Morris & Austin cars
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S'funny, these are almost always slightly strange characters. Strange, masochistic and they know way too much about something no-one else gives a solitary crap about. Kinda reminds me of the old guy who was an Amiga freak, whom I was selling some of my Amiga stuff to, back when I hated the idea of buying into the "evil Intel/Microsoft monopoly monolith thingy" in '97. Couldn't get rid of him for an hour, he went on so much. He made even me bored of talking about Amigas. Was so embarrassed I think I sold all my Amiga collection in a week and bought a PC....
Hearing an old guy rattle on about how much better Morris and Austin cars were than today's cars gives me a similar feeling of wanting to suddenly run away.... My Dad had all of these cars at one time or another, and his bang first reaction on hearing about Austin/Morris cars is, "Oh they were absolute crap!"
Lucky he talked me out of every Austin/Morris car I considered as a first car, and even a Citroen DS(!!!). I still blame him for not talking me out of the Passat though.... Bloody thing....
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Originally Posted by Cromax
1800's aren't worth much still ... you'd only ever get $3-4000 for a super schmick example ... considering the only sold for under $3k ... most owners (who've kept them) haven't lost a cent :P
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Hmm. Like the previous owner of the absolutely crap VW Passat that was my first car... I was under the bonnet again for like the 43rd time that week, and this old guy came up to me on the street and tells me this was his last car, and how lovely it was to drive and that he owned it for 5 years and spent something like $10,000 on it to keep it running (and it was still crap), and it was the best car he'd ever had (poor sod). I was listening to him and kinda wishing he'd want to buy it back from me, but no such luck - he'd bought another VW Passat! Some people never learn.....