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Anyone else jusst see this end on ebay? now i know they cheesegrater minor is THE BEST but that is ridiculous...do people not know that you have to get an mot to transfer a number plate...because that is the only thing that i can that would make this worth more then what i payed for mine (360 quid)

Not sure what you're saying here - he was selling it as for restoration, after all. The link's http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... %26fvi%3D1

sorry,i was all excited...basically, seems like a lot of money for a resto project. mine was in similar condition, minus grille and bumper, and i payed 360 for it. i still ended up spending about 1000 over all to get an mot on it, but i can imagine that it will cost a similar amount to get that car through one. i dont know, maybe im getting old in my 22 years!

It's dependent on so many things - location and someone with the cash to buy etc. All I can say is you were damn lucky to get one for £360
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shame it's still only worth that now even with an mot, now that i have made modifications!

I suspect you'd be surprised
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well maybe! no plans to sell so i guess i'll never know! muhaha!

also..i think i was more lucky that the seller of my car was honest in their description that it only needed 2 VERY little patches of welding, ive been told it is remarkable underneath! always nice to hear. better keep up with the waxoil me thinks!!

You only have to look at the bidding pattern to see that there was something 'not quite right' about this auction. With just 44 seconds to go bids had reached a reasonable £420. One 'anonymous' bidder then raised the price to £900 and the winning bidder was someone with no feedback.

The car has now been relisted with a starting price of £1000 when the previous start price was £50 .

No prizes for guessing whats gone on there. It happens quite a bit on e-bay.

Well spotted. The runner-up must have been willing to pay £900 though.

It annoys me when people overvalue restoration projects because they think the registration plate is worth big money.

If the car really is solid, with its only faults being 'surface rust' its well worth the money.

Of course I wouldn't bet on that being the case.

If you look at the bid history - you can see that 'bidder 4' and 'levo' had battled it out from £620 onwards. Looks gen enough to me. No idea why it's been relisted. But I have asked the seller!
This one - http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... osi_widget is very secretive about Reg Number and no mention of a current MOT - 'been standing since last MOT' - however it does look a nice car !

How about this one - should a 1954 car not have the cheesegrater grille ? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Morris-Minor-Seri ... dZViewItem
And strange idea that the number would have been re-allocated - not ever heard of that one ! Unless it had in fact been sold to someone who wanted the initials ?

No, as in the description this is a late '54 car, registered in'55

The slatted grille came in in October 1954

Ahh - thanks Onne!

bmcecosse wrote:If you look at the bid history - you can see that 'bidder 4' and 'levo' had battled it out from £620 onwards.

'bidder 5' bid £400 at -131 seconds but 'bidder 4' had already placed a bid of £600. 'levo0151' first appeared at -75 seconds with a bid of at least £920. 'bidder 4' quickly bid several times but gave up at £900.

So 'bidder 5' was willing to pay up to £400 and 'bidder 4' was willing to pay up to £900. If 'levo0151' hadn't appeared from nowhere just before the end of the auction, it would have sold to 'bidder 4' for £420.

Official response from the seller is that the winner could not collect the car for two months - and they need it to go sooner than that. I thought then a 'second chance' offer had to be made to the losing bidder ? That's how I got my TR7!!

It's up to the seller whether they want to make a second chance offer or not.

Ahh - ok - I thought it HAD to be made - because the seller of my TR7 didn't seem too keen for me to have the car - I think he had been hoping for a much higher price!

Reply from the seller -
" We did offer a second chance bid to the person who was most keen but the offer wasn't good enough considering the amount of interest we have had in it. "
Which I don't understand because as far as I know - it falls back to the last bid made by the losing bidder ? Certainly that's what happened in my case.