RHD Sport for sale in UK

[mirafioriman]

Is it a 190 Evo spoiler?

[mirafioriman]

Well someone got a bargain. Just finished at ?2150. It had been stuck at that price for a few days and I really expected others to bid at the end of the auction. Perhaps the UK credit crunch has started affecting sport prices......

I hope the buyer restores it and that we get to see the progress here.

[kev131]

Someone had offered a buy it now price of ?3250 but it never materialised as an offer.

Yes hope we will see it's progress.?

[simon131]

If someone offered me ?3250 for my Racing they could have it

I think that ?2150 for the black car is still pretty good though, and shows that some people will buy cars now that would have been scrapped ten years ago. I wish the purchaser very good luck in finding everything that they'll need to get the beast back on the road and hope that we will get to see it all through this forum

[bellamacchina]

To be honest I am surprised that a car for restoration with serious rot in the shell and otherwise not complete brings that money. Dave, I cannot name it a bargain but maybe I am totally wrong. When you wanna restore the car you pay much more then you have to pay for a reasonable car from europe, although I understand you give the RHD a big premium.

[mirafioriman]

Depends how you restore a car. Personally I would not be able to spend the thousands of Euros that some people here talk about spending to restore their Fiat. I believe if you are able to do much of the work yourself it can be done much cheaper. The car on ebay may be very rusty or may well be quite a solid shell without seeing it it is difficult to tell. If as the seller said it did indeed have a Guy Croft engine and many other modified parts then I do still think it was a bargain. I have seen much rustier ones sell on ebay here in the UK.

As you say quite rightly original RHD is a big bonus here despite what anybody says. No matter how good a LHD European import is it will never be a genuine RHD UK sport!

Yes you can drive a LHD car comfortably here in the UK just as I have driven comfortably in Europe with a RHD car, but as soon as anyone sees it they know straight away that it is an import!

The other thing to consider is the cost of importing the car. You will have to pay the fuel cost and cost of a ferry plus the travel expenses to get to the car. This alone would cost as much as I have ever paid for a 131! I guess different people just have to work on different budgets.

Personally I enjoy buying cheap cars and turning them into a much nicer example, this is what gives me pleasure even more so than driving around in it afterwards!

[theredx19]

You shouldn't care if other people say a car is an import as I have caught many of these people who know everything about cars with some of my left hand drive cars who say they have to be imports even though they were never available in right hand even though they insist they were...

[eugene]

In my opinion,that car was not cheap.Maybe when the buyer sees it,he may well leave it should it have to much rust.My gut feeling is that it's stone rotten having seen the rust holes in the photos.
Also the car may get a quick touch up and be sold on which is worse again.Eugene

[kev131]

It's back...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fiat-131-SPORT-1982_W0QQitemZ270355970766QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAutomobiles_UK?hash=item270355970766&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2%7C65%3A1%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318

[mirafioriman]

You beat me to it ! Was just about to post the new link! The buyer had good feedback if I remember so I wonder what happened? The buyer had a score of 358 with a 100% rating

[eugene]

Dave,i believe what happened was, when the guy came to collect it and saw how rusty it was,he said to himself that's not for me .Take a close look at the photos again.One will see that the rust is bubbling out almost everywhere .Eugene

[mirafioriman]

If that is what happened then it shows the importance of viewing a car on ebay in person before you buy or you have to accept you have bought it unless the seller has mis-described it. The buyer must have got to see it pretty quick as it only ended Sunday night and it was relisted by monday. It now has been re-listed with a starting price of ?1000 and a reserve. Can anybody remember how it started last time?

[miro-1980]

Nice but ...


R U S T E D   !!!

Miro

[simon131]

I believe the starting price first time around was ?1,200

[mick131]

This isn't too far away from me. If anybody wants me to go over and have a look at it let me know.