Not very relaxing: How to buy an old 928 on holiday

inaglasshouse · Post by **inaglasshouse** » Wed Mar 07, 2018 5:53 pm

Want to live the dream, ladies and gentlemen?
This one is too close to the Manche to be a proper challenge, but still:
https://www.leboncoin.fr/voitures/1396274685.htm
Warning: the farmers of Calvados are generally less honest than our foreign legion friend Boris.

Tosh · Post by **Tosh** » Wed Mar 07, 2018 6:03 pm

Chapeau to you, sir, chapeau

mycar · Post by **mycar** » Wed Mar 07, 2018 6:37 pm

Burma-Shave wrote:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mille-feuille

The cake no Englishman can pronounce.

Gary71 · Post by **Gary71** » Wed Mar 07, 2018 6:41 pm

Great story telling, just imagining the bump start on the train really made me smile!

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KS · Post by KS » Wed Mar 07, 2018 6:44 pm

inaglasshouse wrote:Want to live the dream, ladies and gentlemen?
This one is too close to the Manche to be a proper challenge, but still:
https://www.leboncoin.fr/voitures/1396274685.htm
Warning: the farmers of Calvados are generally less honest than our foreign legion friend Boris.

The ad's already been deleted - some fool has bought whatever it was...

anglophone1 · Post by **anglophone1** » Wed Mar 07, 2018 7:07 pm

This one is in Brignoles, another ex legionnaire enclave!
https://www.leboncoin.fr/voitures/13875 ... tm?ca=12_s

Burma-Shave · Post by **Burma-Shave** » Wed Mar 07, 2018 7:29 pm

that one is even further away! Go get it someone. Top tip, take a spare belt and some wire. Your description of legionnaire is spot on I reckon. Boris had that feel to him. A nice guy, ready to help a man out, but not to be dicked with.

KS wrote:Excellent. Wanna job?

Got a car you need collecting Keith? I'm game

jeremyg · Post by **jeremyg** » Wed Mar 07, 2018 7:42 pm

I think Keith means the writing bit. Top story telling.

Mr Pharmacist · Post by **Mr Pharmacist** » Wed Mar 07, 2018 8:44 pm

Great car and great story!!

Timo · Post by **Timo** » Wed Mar 07, 2018 9:44 pm

Excellent work, well done for making it back without major issues, and thanks for sharing, has been a great read.

inaglasshouse · Post by **inaglasshouse** » Wed Mar 07, 2018 10:22 pm

KS wrote:
inaglasshouse wrote:Want to live the dream, ladies and gentlemen?
This one is too close to the Manche to be a proper challenge, but still:
https://www.leboncoin.fr/voitures/1396274685.htm
Warning: the farmers of Calvados are generally less honest than our foreign legion friend Boris.
The ad's already been deleted - some fool has bought whatever it was...

Metallic gold, early, no interior shots, minimal description. "A restaurer", which for French rural houses means it has walls if you are lucky, definitely no roof. I imagine the condition of a car a restaurer would be similarly challenging.
I reckon the baffled vendor has received 50 phone calls from DDK-ers about their 5K Euro 928.
He's probably sold it to 10 of you, and is now firmly en fete.

Tp81 · Post by **Tp81** » Wed Mar 07, 2018 10:32 pm

What a laugh. How on earth did you convince the family that any of the insanity was sensible or even necessary. Top class for pulling it off. The first early car I bought was from Vigo in Spain, Mike(210hp) offered his help to collect the car but I chicken out and paid a friendly Portuguese car transporter by the name of Duarte to do the job and clearly missed out on all of the fun.

jb · Post by jb » Thu Mar 08, 2018 7:46 am

Thank you for this wonderful life affirming story.
I really loved it

Burma-Shave · Post by **Burma-Shave** » Thu Mar 08, 2018 8:14 am

Thanks for the comments

I forgot to specifically thank Bert, who kept me entertained, sane and found the car in the first place. Cheers Bert!

Tosh · Post by **Tosh** » Thu Mar 08, 2018 9:11 am

Burma-Shave wrote:Thanks for the comments I forgot to specifically thank Bert, who kept me entertained, sane and found the car in the first place. Cheers Bert!

Your wife let you take Bert on holiday?

DDK - Die Deutschen Klassiker

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