Let the ribbing begin!

dickygrace

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£2k for a throttle body!! It is possible to buy a very good (high mileage) 3200 for £10k but I don’t think it’s possible to find a good low/mid miles car for that sort of money.
 
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Yep, it's the woman who popped up here months ago and as far as I can recall, her first post was a link to an ad for this car. Easily spotted, because she insists her very ordinary Belfast registration plate is 'very valuable'.
Based on the original ad photos, I think there was a consensus that the car may've had a knock at both ends. Interesting that she's no longer including a photo of her rear. Which looked particularly iffy, if memory serves.
 
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outrun

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Saw this, it’s a shame that PH is so bad these days that they run a story basing it on the worst example for sale in the UK. It speaks volumes of their decline which has been faster than the demise of Mothercare. They had cornered the online petrolhead marketplace before they appointed the Maserati strategic planning team.
 

alfatwo

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I recon fairly good classic RHD 3200's are now worth more than similar aged mass produced old 4200's!
Manuals especially
In Europe there slowly going out of sight due to the fact there so rare..

Dave
 

Lozzer

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Saw this, it’s a shame that PH is so bad these days that they run a story basing it on the worst example for sale in the UK. It speaks volumes of their decline which has been faster than the demise of Mothercare. They had cornered the online petrolhead marketplace before they appointed the Maserati strategic planning team.

Have to agree, been for sale for ages, to be fair it's probably not that bad, but people read up on these things, and read the comments, and that said normal folk would probably run a mile, shame really, the community is its own worst enemy sometimes....
 

alfatwo

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Have to agree, been for sale for ages, to be fair it's probably not that bad, but people read up on these things, and read the comments, and that said normal folk would probably run a mile, shame really, the community is its own worst enemy sometimes....

Trouble is Lozz, the average UK classic car punter see's Ford, Triumph, MG's and Root's group stuff.. simple stuff so they think
When it comes to old Italian multi valve twin turbo aluminium V8's they just haven't got a clue..

Jonny Foreigner still lives!

Dave
 
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dgmx5

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Have to agree, been for sale for ages, to be fair it's probably not that bad, but people read up on these things, and read the comments, and that said normal folk would probably run a mile, shame really, the community is its own worst enemy sometimes....

There's a reason why this car has been for sale so long. I enquired about the car early on and the seller would not even disclose the full reg no so I could check MOT history or do a hpi check before going to look at the car.

Coupled with the paint work which most on here believe to be a wrap but may be a genuinely specced colour (someone on here bought an AC from Japan with the same ext/int colour scheme) and the fact that this has 'sold' on eBay a few times for more than the asking price means something does not add up.

The seller should perhaps spend some money on a PPI herself and be much more transparent so any prospective buyer knows what they are getting and the car will sell i think.

Why PH picked this particular example I do not know... but PH today is nothing like the website it was back in the early 2000s.