Bidding has ended!

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A couple of well known Scootacars that seemed top slip past, wonder if they'll be returning to the UK?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mk1-Mk2-/290943724967?pt=US_Cars_Trucks&hash=item43bd98eda7&nma=true&si=ITCF7lfPj8zE%252FgMd6GfbyZ%252BiNUI%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557#ht_2324wt_0

[Jim Janecek]

... wonder if they'll be returning to the UK?

nope, not this round 

[richard]

Slipped past who blob . It was posted in our Mart section by the vendors themselves

[Big Al]

Pity they sold them. Slightly differing money from the purchase price but there you go.

[Jim Janecek]

Slightly differing money from the purchase price but there you go.

Not if you factor in what it cost to restore the MKII

[Big Al]

That is true. Though it depends how you do it. I estimate mine will cost me about £4-5k as I do not do paint and I want it to look nice. Seems sense to use Villiers rebuild service as they are reasonable and know what they are doing. So that would leave me with a margin of roughly £7k at those prices. However I am not interested in selling it. I think if it were cheaper done it would show, but getting the paint done well - better than original? - costs. So doing your own paint will knock off a couple of grand and so it goes. Indeed its much the same costings as my Schmitts really as I bought them well. I out the short engine rebuild to a chum who has experience and tool set, including a shimming dummy, and the paint.

[Bob Purton]

2k to paint a microcar? Or do you mean a poor job knocks 2K off the value of the car?

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It was posted in our Mart section by the vendors themselves

A- ha, been out of the loop too long...  Anyway good to see a pair sell for a realistic price, almost level pegging with a bog standard Schmitt, which certainly isn't Weiner money!  

2k to paint a microcar?

... never intended to be that good, hand painted with a pot of Dulux is more authentic.

[Big Al]

Well lets be honest, early GRP is about as flat as the Alps. Mine needs various stress cracks chased, damage repaired and intervention to stiffen certain points from the experience gained in use. So an opportunity to take the paint to a high standard. Once restored the car should outlive me by decades as long as it is loved. That is difference in doing a car because you want to rather than with an eye to banging it out in a few years time, for me.

It was those few souls who put the hours into their Berkeleys that convinced me that doing this prep work is worth it. There was a posse of triples and a few four wheelers that were clearly better than factory produced. They looked so good you could forgive the Berk its many faults as they looked stunning in a lineup. I bet that has surprised a few folk who assume I do not take notice of such things. I do, especially when several of those cars were driven to and from events at great speed.