Picked the car up from Nottingham today, it is a hell of a long of a drive from here. It had been a real struggle to buy as the guy did not really want to sell it. He bought it new 28 years ago and had absolutely maticulasly looked after the car, from new it has only ever been driven with seat covers on it and two mats all the way round. The guy never drove it in the rain, left it out in direct sunlight and had it serviced every year even if had not been driven 32K from new!!!!.
His mother died and he wanted to keep some of her belongings so needed to clear some room in the garage. His wife kind of forced him into selling it to make room. There was a whole load of people trying to buy the car and I had a real long chat with him on the phone let him look at my Nissan site then he went away to "think about it for 24 hrs", I bought it without seeing it. He called me back saying he had decided I could have the car as he thought I would take care of it!.
When we collected it the family were lovely they invited us in for Lunch in a lovely house, made us Coffee and sadwiches etc. Really weird actually it was more like adopting a child rather than buying a car.
The whole story of buying the car, him caughting his wife in it along with details of how well it has been looked after. This 28 year old car has full main dealer history, bill of sale, every MOT, Tax disk etc etc. When the garage actually opened I was like OMFG look at that thing, It was like brand new. Never been welded, ALL completely original and the seats have been covered since new, after I took the seat covers off the original Velour comes off on your hands when you rub it as it has never been touched. Honestly looked like it rolled of the conveyor belt a few months back. It drove the 160 miles back faultlessly and drove like brand new everything about it is mint.
Anyhows really pleased with it so here are a few pics, click on the pic below for the album
Picked the car up from Nottingham today, it is a hell of a long of a drive from here. It had been a real struggle to buy as the guy did not really want to sell it. He bought it new 28 years ago and had absolutely maticulasly looked after the car, from new it has only ever been driven with seat covers on it and two mats all the way round. The guy never drove it in the rain, left it out in direct sunlight and had it serviced every year even if had not been driven 32K from new!!!!.
His mother died and he wanted to keep some of her belongings so needed to clear some room in the garage. His wife kind of forced him into selling it to make room. There was a whole load of people trying to buy the car and I had a real long chat with him on the phone let him look at my Nissan site then he went away to "think about it for 24 hrs", I bought it without seeing it. He called me back saying he had decided I could have the car as he thought I would take care of it!.
When we collected it the family were lovely they invited us in for Lunch in a lovely house, made us Coffee and sadwiches etc. Really weird actually it was more like adopting a child rather than buying a car.
The whole story of buying the car, him caughting his wife in it along with details of how well it has been looked after. This 28 year old car has full main dealer history, bill of sale, every MOT, Tax disk etc etc. When the garage actually opened I was like OMFG look at that thing, It was like brand new. Never been welded, ALL completely original and the seats have been covered since new, after I took the seat covers off the original Velour comes off on your hands when you rub it as it has never been touched. Honestly looked like it rolled of the conveyor belt a few months back. It drove the 160 miles back faultlessly and drove like brand new everything about it is mint.
Anyhows really pleased with it so here are a few pics, click on the pic below for the album
Edited by madmax