It is OVER.
The auction that is.
You guys sure get me into a lot of trouble with your ears to the ground on these type events- but I am not complaining even though I spent the greater part of the last couple of days for naught, doing my due diligence learning about the vehicles and lots that were just sold.
I bid 4125 euros on their only complete and production style vehicle about 5 hours before it jumped up to a 7800 euro auto bid. With VAT and commission that is 8864 pounds sterling, plus another 975 euros for shipping to the Nottingham area, or more than twice what I thought I should pay. Then again, compared to the 50,000 euros that they went bankrupt trying to sell them for - I suppose it could be considered cheap, if you simply had to have one.
This one looked good but was still actually stuck up in the air on a repair lift because the power had been turned off! So it clearly needed some kind of work.
It looked to be a decent example despite the auction companies disclaimers of liability. For it had been up on the lift long enough for it's batteries to go dead.
I didn't have to have one, but heard universally that they were a blast to drive. Hence my measured bid (not to mention my measured finances).
Just couldn't warm up to one like I could to a Frisky Family Three as I did not find their overall appearance endearing.
There might have been a bargain amongst the other few prototypes. They were a few very different, inferior looking products and a couple of possibly good opportunities. I could only have determined this if I had the chance to scope a couple of them out and find out if they could be fitted with one of their dozen 2001 year model NOS 660cc Dihatsu turbo charged intercooled 4 cylinder engine/ transaxle packages that probably sold for only about 300 euros each.
I even tried emailing blokes that had worked for the company, but both my information and the time was too short to succeed with this.
After winning 2 out of 2 auctions (AZ-1 and Badsey Bullet) I've now lost 3 out of 3. Seems I do much better at the auctions that are primarily non cyber events. Well thanks for keeping my life too interesting. I will now catch up on my missed night's sleep and see if my blood pressure comes back down into a more normal range.
