<VV> opinions, before I buy (long, but worthwhile)

[Alan and Clare Wesson]

My advice to you is buy it, clean it up but do as little as possible to it 
(i.e. nothing expensive), and sell it for a tidy profit, as Craig Nichol 
also advises. Then invest the ensuing spondulicks in a better one, and so on 
and so on until you end up with a Duesenberg.

Wish I had done that over the years, but instead I have done what Bill 
Elliott advises you against - viz. buying cars that need lots of work (like 
this one), doing the work to a VERY high standard, and then selling the car 
to someone else at a loss so that they can enjoy the fruits of my labours at 
a dirt cheap price.

The result of that has been that every time I bought a classic car, I had 
slightly less money to spend on it than the time before (because of the time 
and money I had spent and lost on the fruitless restorations), and so I have 
managed to work my way down from a 55 Cadillac Limo to a collection of 
clapped-out clunkers, in a mere 13 years!

I'm not bitter (to quote the Murphy's Irish Stout TV advertisement that they 
used to run over here - and it's great beer too - as long as you remember to 
drink it warm!).

If, however, you fix the car up minimally (get it running, de-mildew the 
interior, take the wheels off, put them in the shed and replace then with 
some standard ones) and stick it on eBay, some poor sap should bid $100 more 
than you have in it, which you can use as the basis to buy a better one - 
and then go and get those wheels out of the shed and clean them up and put 
them on the other car (or sell them). Sorry to bang on about the wheels - 
it's just that I have always thought those are the ones that look best on a 
Vair!

Cheers

Alan

www.xtraspecialsevens.co.uk
Lotus 7 S2 and S3 spares and restoration specialists


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From: "Bruce Bacher" <bbacher@insightbb.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 10:24 AM
Subject: RE: <VV> opinions, before I buy (long, but worthwhile)


> Thanks, everyone, for the terrific comments.  You've given me a lot to 
> think
> about.  The average response was very positive, but there were a few
> dissenters that I may follow up with.
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