OK, I'll bite ;D
Yes, Ebay has a wonderful search that lets me filter out cars more than xxx miles from my postcode, above or below my budget (too expensive or too rough - maybe), and pick other "must-have" things like diesel/turbo/gti/fluffy dice.
The current for sale section here has what I think are the basic essentials in the post title - year / make & model / location / price.
I have no problem window shopping if I'm looking for a new motor (or even just to see what's out there).
Last time I was in the market we made a day trip out of viewing the potential new cars.
We viewed 3 cars in 1 day, drove 500+ miles covering North East, Midlands, Wales, and M6 / Lakes.
None of the cars were "must - have" one-offs, it would have been great if they were local but they weren't.
By the end of the day we had bought the "Ex-Hairnet" Triumph 2000 estate from Manchester and the "Ex-KFW Hunter estate" from Wales. Both cars have given great pleasure & fun, well worth the time and petrol to go look at them. Was also good to meet up with folk from the forum.
Odd that I would have filtered these out if they were on Ebay as they were outside my normal area
The one we didn't get was a solid Herald Estate that had been hacked about to make a "surf look rat rod", fair to say the sellers ideal of quality modifications & workmanship was different to mine. Would not of been happy buying blind from Ebay then finding all the problems.
It's down to personal choice.
The easy option is use Ebay but if you want to do things the easy way I guess you wouldn't be looking on this foum
Yes, Ebay has a wonderful search that lets me filter out cars more than xxx miles from my postcode, above or below my budget (too expensive or too rough - maybe), and pick other "must-have" things like diesel/turbo/gti/fluffy dice.
The current for sale section here has what I think are the basic essentials in the post title - year / make & model / location / price.
I have no problem window shopping if I'm looking for a new motor (or even just to see what's out there).
Last time I was in the market we made a day trip out of viewing the potential new cars.
We viewed 3 cars in 1 day, drove 500+ miles covering North East, Midlands, Wales, and M6 / Lakes.
None of the cars were "must - have" one-offs, it would have been great if they were local but they weren't.
By the end of the day we had bought the "Ex-Hairnet" Triumph 2000 estate from Manchester and the "Ex-KFW Hunter estate" from Wales. Both cars have given great pleasure & fun, well worth the time and petrol to go look at them. Was also good to meet up with folk from the forum.
Odd that I would have filtered these out if they were on Ebay as they were outside my normal area
The one we didn't get was a solid Herald Estate that had been hacked about to make a "surf look rat rod", fair to say the sellers ideal of quality modifications & workmanship was different to mine. Would not of been happy buying blind from Ebay then finding all the problems.
It's down to personal choice.
The easy option is use Ebay but if you want to do things the easy way I guess you wouldn't be looking on this foum