Should I have bought it??
#1 _scotty720gtr_
Posted 06 November 2006 - 09:12 PM
Can ya's help me out here. Been reading about the metoric rise in prices in toranas of all models.
6 Months ago I could have bought a Lone Oranger 72 XU-1 complete with JP motor, original head on the motor.....but no tags ........for 17K.
He was an older bloke and told me that the car had always been local and that the previous owner crashed it into a pole and ruined the tags. The car was in great nic but I let it go because of the fact it had no tags.
I spoke to a wrecker....while the car was still for sale, and to my knowledge it still is, and was telling him about the car. (The wrecker is an ex race driver and knows just about every car in Tassie). I told him the story about the car and that it didn't have any tags because of a crash, without telling him details. he asked me the colour and when I told him he said he knew about an Orange XU-1 that was crashed by a panel beater into a pole( at a place that the owner mentioned as well) and when he fixed the car up and sold it he actually kept the tags. he confirmed that it was definately genuine.
Even though it didn't have the tags, does anyone think I should have bought it?
#2
Posted 06 November 2006 - 09:14 PM
Tags=value
No tags=No value
#3 _MediuM16A2_
Posted 06 November 2006 - 10:36 PM
shame for you, and the fella trying to sell it..
i would have been hard to refuse if i were in ur shoes..
#4 _Mondie_
Posted 06 November 2006 - 10:40 PM
#5 _scotty720gtr_
Posted 06 November 2006 - 10:45 PM
Yeah I know. That's what he was told when he bought it. The wrecker told me the real story. The previous owner kept them.17k would be about all l would pay for it so l dont think you missed out. How could you hit a pole and bugger all the tags, that is BS.
I'm pretty glad myself that i didn't take it. It's a sweet little car though.
#6 _gtr-xu1_
Posted 06 November 2006 - 11:33 PM
#7 _1QUICK LJ_
Posted 06 November 2006 - 11:46 PM
#8 _timbotorrie_
Posted 07 November 2006 - 07:25 AM
Old Ray eh?
he is a weapon!
#9 _JBird_
Posted 07 November 2006 - 01:51 PM
#10 _CHOPPER_
Posted 07 November 2006 - 02:26 PM
#11 _rorym_
Posted 07 November 2006 - 02:34 PM
R
#12 _ljbob_
Posted 07 November 2006 - 03:00 PM
S model 2 door with no tags= S model 2 door with no tags.
B
#13
Posted 07 November 2006 - 03:19 PM
#14 _LX406_
Posted 07 November 2006 - 03:43 PM
im so glad im not into tags, to me a good car is a good car, thats why im building a LC S 2 door i can build it the way i want and dont have to worry about that overated BS.
Here here! I hear people bagging people out about tinkering with an original. Each to their own.
#15
Posted 07 November 2006 - 08:46 PM
if your buying the car ( or intended to ) to either restore concourse, or keep original FOR VALUE purposes.. then you didnt miss out i think. If you wanted to buy a "genuine" car cause it was one.. then i think the price was a bit high.
ive head of one going up here sydney way for around the 12K mark!
Thats my 2c worth!
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