Auctions....

[Matt]

I have tried to buy numerous classic cars at proper auctions in the past... but never managed to do so. They have always gone for a massively inflated price.

But I have just broken that duck and bought a Morris Oxford (sorry not a minor - I still have 3) for £2574 (inc commission etc) The same car sold privately for £13500 in 2014

Prices on everything felt quite subdued - but as is the general trend the pre war stuff was making not a lot

[Matt]

https://www.brightwells.com/timed-sale/ ... 3fpage%3d4

[geoberni]

That looks like it could be fun once running. Classic between the wars, 'Edwardian look', even if it is from the the reign of George V.

[rocco]

A properly handsome old car, love it. I was tempted by an old Morris 14/6 last year but it was priced way higher than that. Good work.

[svenedin]

Very nice. I see the car was originally sold in Wallington, Surrey which is just a few miles from me.

Stephen

[philipkearney]

As you note, the market is quite subdued anyway but at times, you can barely give pre war cars away. Even fifties and sixties cars are not reaching what they were. Buyers now want eighties and nineties cars and these are the ones making the money. I was at a classic auction last weekend and this was the pattern there. Only eighties, nineties and noughties cars were selling ab good prices. Some bargains to be had out there just now.

[Matt]

For anyone interested....

Its up and running and moving under its own power (although not road legal yet). I was able to move it around on the driveway on Sunday morning.

A number of small, but crucial, parts went missing from the box of bits (e.g. pins for the clutch, bespoke nuts and washer for the clutch and even the key) went missing between looking at it and collection . Fortunately I remembered a friend in Derby had a gearbox (very rare) which would have the parts needed so I grabbed that on Friday evening - which yielded some needed parts, the rest I had to fabricate (e.g. buy some 4.7mm drill bits and cut the ends off to make the pins).

It would have been running and moving on Saturday if the tool I made to install the clutch springs had worked correctly - but once I realised what the issue was - percussive maintenance sorted out the tool!

The clutch plates that were with it are wrong, and wouldn't last long and would cause damage. Fortunately I had the correct clutch plates in stock and know how to recork them!

A few pics (and vids) here if anyone is interested. It includes the tool I mentioned earlier.

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/qsqx40ji ... mui8c&dl=0

[POMMReg]

Vehicles are sold with information solely from vendor.

Couple of Minor's gone through Auctions this year with dodgy provenance - do some digging before bidding!!

[les]

You’re a poet but don’t know it !

[POMMReg]

I wondered lonely as a clown....

[les]

—that floats around o’er circus ring.

[POMMReg]

Change the subject completely....

When all this internet started, was said meetings & such could be done VIA internet, thus reduce travelling to meetings....

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