Thread: Little boring boxes with wheels

Swapped my daily to a 2010 ex police car today taking someone to work. I brought it for my mum and dad several years ago. Its rather beaten up by some touchy feely driving by one of them. It's my temporary Tow tug for my boat.


Stopping here before dinner. My very Bright BLUE car for this visit

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We had Blue Light Houses and Bridges.

RIP Offices and care for everyone affected.

Except a lunatic - I'll hold my thoughts on what I think should happen there!

Originally Posted by Captain_Rightfoot

I bought mine a long time ago.. last century. it was 25k. I would have spent a good amount on repairs.

I really think they are cheap. It's hard to say what classic cars actually sell for. There are so few of them, and they rarely come up for sale. But probably now a good one goes for 60-70 ish. Plus or minus.

I look at what Mini's go for.. a cooper is 40 or 50. There were 200,000 Minis sold in Aus. There were 20 thousand Cooper S alone made in Australia. Elans.. there were 8-12k made in the world, and there are only probably a couple hundred in Australia. Probably at most only 100 ish "in care" these days.

And I look at the price of the fords and holdens which trade for big $$ and there were many many times the numbers made and sold.

I suspect it's because people around are not aware of what they actually are. So even though the supply is far more limited, there isn't as much demand as there is for more well known 'classics'. Will be interesting to see how things play out.

Oh gees ... I wasn't criticising you buying a lotus, I was just explaining why I've never looked at one ( to put me being a tight ass into perspective, I think the last ****box range rover I purchased was $800).

I have crappy old Citroen DS's. They have increased dramatically in value in the time I've owned them. I probably paid less than $1500 for the ones I own. These days the "good cars" change hand for the $50->80,000 mark .... Which is just nuts, they are now so far out of my price range, they would be a pipe dream if I didn't already own some desperate ones.

As always the world moves on. Its already started, the current generation is interested in old Japanese cars... the cars they grew up in the back seat of. Not the cars that interest anyone over 50 that now drive the classic car market.

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Shane L.

This was probably the most boring little box to drive on the road, it didn't like deep puddles neither


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It seems to be a Lada thing, Jerry.

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The only car that didn't like puddles more than a Lada was a Mini, with the distributor mounted low at the front. I knew a family who loved them, had three or four, and would religiously spray the dizzy with WD40 for water dispersal. IIRC, the father had the dizzy wrapped in a plastic bag.

Originally Posted by RANDLOVER

The only car that didn't like puddles more than a Lada was a Mini, with the distributor mounted low at the front. I knew a family who loved them, had three or four, and would religiously spray the dizzy with WD40 for water dispersal. IIRC, the father had the dizzy wrapped in a plastic bag.

A rubber or surgical glove was great for that.

Actually it might have been a glove, as most of them worked and volunteered as nurses, paramedics and first aiders.

I had a Moke for a while, but it did not worry about water, although I never really tried any serious wet driving.