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Anyone bought from or seen a car bought from meritcars.com in the UK?
Prices are good and details are good (pics and videos), working on the basis that they are 'projects' they seem good value?
e.g. $12000 for a T landed in the UK is under £10k?
This looks ok? http://picasaweb.google.com/MeritCars/1 ... river11950#
Needs the interior tidying and a front suspension pan but what does sub-£15k buy you for an early car in the UK these days? anything?
Looks very good value to me. Remember you can get a PPI pre purchase inspection done on it quite easily. Seem to be lots of companies offering the service in the states. Assuming the car proved sound IMO your money would be safe. You would not buy a car like that over here for that kind of money unless you bumped into somebody who did not know what they had. You might even find they will accept an offer on it.
I'm sorry to be bursting bubbles, but how can it be described as a "driver" when there is no way it would pass an MOT here. It has virrtually no front suspension pan, poor repairs along the right rear floor edge and below the torsion bar in the chassis and possible in the tube to the inside of the chassis rail The wiring loom has been attacked by a monkey, and I guarantee that the lovely purplepaint will be covering many more nasties. there is rust in the right front wing, wrong seats and carpets, very poor dash pad and door pockets. I could go on
blimey, anyone touching that has got deep pockets or are V good themselves. IMHO it looks awful! I think Nicks comment of the wiring loom is a classic Nick'ism, dead true, dead straight. I'd guess (and it's only a guess, and then just my opinion Mr lawyer) that if you ran a magnet over that car it's wouldn't get stuck often! Pretty paint don't mean sh*t. might well have had an american blowjob which just leaves a bad taste when alls said and done!
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former owner, still hoping to be reunited with my STOLEN 1972 911T/E 2.4 . Keep looking guys
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HAPPY - October 14, 2010 at 7:20 pm
I saw a blue 911 they had for sale a few weeks ago. I usually wouldn’t even look at a NY car but for the price I said what the heck. This seller is out of his mind and just outright lies. The blue car was beyond what you would call bad. I pushed on the floorboard that was freshly undercoated with my thumb and it went right through. Car was a mess from end to end listed at $10,900 and would have been a thought at $5000.00
RUN from this guy!!! They are simply reselling junk that they are making look good in pics.
Is this really BAT material?? There is a green 912 on the same Samba site that is ultra rare, rust free and same price.
But ----------------
There site makes it pretty clear that they don't do concours cars.
The pictures are very clear , detailed ,well lit and and show everything, warts and all.
The prices are cheap and if they accepted 20% less some of the cars would either make good donor cars or reasonable projects.
“Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three
decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good "..
1971 911 2.2T sold
1970 911 2.2S Sold but remains within DDK
1959 Lancia Flaminia PF Coupe
Dreaming of driving a pre-A 356, actually commuting in a Cayman and for the weekend, a 911 'thing', with a Carrera 3 engine ( we think).
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76 912E....gone
71 914 .....gone
66 912 ...sadly gone
...and lots of air cooled VWs and a few rusty, Italian tubs!
