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General Category => Sales & Auctions => Topic started by: Barry on June 10, 2013, 11:03:27 AM

Title: Messerschmitt - Just finished?
Post by: Barry on June 10, 2013, 11:03:27 AM: http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C395290#
Title: Re: Messerschmitt - Just finished?
Post by: Bob Purton on June 10, 2013, 12:20:26 PM: Shame there is no such thing as a 1955 Cabriolet. Looks nice though.
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Post by: richard on June 10, 2013, 12:28:55 PM: Ooh pots and kettles ;) ;D
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Post by: Jim Janecek on June 10, 2013, 02:50:46 PM: I see a number of unfinished bits on there.
No insulation on top of muffler
No cover for the Black Box...
No hubcaps

what parts not seen are unfinished?
Title: Re: Messerschmitt - Just finished?
Post by: Bob Purton on June 10, 2013, 06:58:03 PM: The dome!
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Post by: messerschmitt on June 10, 2013, 08:51:55 PM: Jim I don't think we had the cork cover on the exhaust in the uk.
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Post by: Jim Janecek on June 10, 2013, 09:02:36 PM: it wasn't cork, it was asbestos.
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Post by: Big Al on June 11, 2013, 09:27:39 AM: Indeed it was, and is. It was to protect the spare tyre on the wheel tucked up in the boot there. I like having mine fitted as its a H&S raspberry. Many cars no longer have any form of insulation in place on the top of the silencer. Fine if you have no spare wheel or you do not drive the car much, but its not original.

'Attention - Stuart to check Messerschmitt number for year and call in please'

If its a 1955, its a sad restoration of what could be a very much more interesting car with early parts on. The nose is early but really what else looks early that is not screwed on or missing? Its the sort of British restoration the rest of the world is not looking for, I fear. Then again it might be the right price for some nutter to drive round the UK and be very happy. It is what it is, but is it priced as that.
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Post by: Stuart Cyphus on June 11, 2013, 12:41:01 PM: Quote from: Big Al on June 11, 2013, 09:27:39 AM

'Attention - Stuart to check Messerschmitt number for year and call in please'

244 YUT, an age-related number, issued 1st April 2013.
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Post by: Big Al on June 11, 2013, 01:46:58 PM: I dare not comment further than, thanks for that info, good date.
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Post by: richard on June 11, 2013, 01:51:49 PM: What comment could be made - exactly as stated in the advert
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Post by: Bob Purton on June 11, 2013, 02:26:04 PM: April fool I guess!
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Post by: richard on June 11, 2013, 03:07:32 PM: :D
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Post by: messerschmitt on June 14, 2013, 12:01:18 PM: Quote from: Big Al on June 11, 2013, 09:27:39 AM
Indeed it was, and is. It was to protect the spare tyre on the wheel tucked up in the boot there. I like having mine fitted as its a H&S raspberry. Many cars no longer have any form of insulation in place on the top of the silencer. Fine if you have no spare wheel or you do not drive the car much, but its not original.

I've driven my cars thousands of miles without one of those, much of it on the original from new exhaust. Still to damage a tyre.
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Post by: Bob Purton on June 14, 2013, 05:20:12 PM: Yep, me too!
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Post by: Big Al on June 14, 2013, 09:59:45 PM: I have singed one belting down the autobahns. Wiff bot major.

Eventually you get an area that cracks up and the tyre cannot really be trusted. If you keep changing wheels, tyres etc then not a great prob but back in the day of proper Schmitty tyres and high mileages on any old fuel and oil it was probably worth while.