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Re: City El
« Reply #1 on: June 11, 2012, 09:56:56 AM »
Ex Bee Gee?
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Re: City El
« Reply #2 on: June 16, 2012, 01:55:43 PM »
Perhaps the coffin shape is the link?  :)

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Re: City El
« Reply #3 on: June 16, 2012, 05:12:22 PM »
very bad taste  :o
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Re: City El
« Reply #4 on: June 16, 2012, 10:18:48 PM »
Sick. :(
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Re: City El
« Reply #5 on: June 17, 2012, 07:44:59 AM »
Sorry, I have a hernia.

 I assumed folk were aware that several of these were sold from a Bee Gee Estate a couple of years ago.
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Re: City El
« Reply #6 on: June 17, 2012, 08:39:04 AM »
al i never understood the bee gees comment from you but it was the coffin comment that was in poor taste - not amusing in the slightest in the week of Robin Gibbs funeral
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Re: City El
« Reply #7 on: June 17, 2012, 08:51:54 AM »
I cant see any coffin comment by Al, only one by Millstone. Unless he removed it.

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Re: City El
« Reply #8 on: June 17, 2012, 09:17:40 AM »
sorry you misread my remark bob - perhaps misleading . i said that als bee gees comment hadnt upset me but i didnt understand it. the coffin comment ( enough anyway - please ) was not in good taste and made by another ( also an alastair if i am not mistaken ) - which i usually am 
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Re: City El
« Reply #9 on: June 17, 2012, 09:39:11 AM »
Noted and understood.

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Re: City El
« Reply #10 on: June 17, 2012, 11:55:18 AM »
I think there were three Mini El on the Estate. I believe one went to the Bubblecar Museum. I bid on one and failed to win. They were down near Chichester I think. So this one is near that source. At a guess two years ago on eBay?

They used soft top ones at the Barcelona games as camera and support vehicles, no exhaust for athalites to ingest.
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Re: City El
« Reply #11 on: June 17, 2012, 01:02:49 PM »
You are correct Al, it was a White soft top that was for sale. I think the seller has something to do with C5alive site but I don't think it made it's reserve.
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Re: City El
« Reply #12 on: June 18, 2012, 07:18:43 AM »
I always fancied one of these having seen one very early on in production during a tour of North Holland in my Schmitt but I do not live in an area where it would be of great use. So purely a collectable to me. If you were to live in a conurbation and had a commute with a suitable route it would be an option for real use, a much better home. Then a soft top is not perhaps the best answer.
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Re: City El
« Reply #13 on: June 18, 2012, 09:31:21 PM »
So anyone from here buy the El?
I need to stop buying!