TM - Whats this worth?

[DrRubber]

Originally Posted by Dw33d0r

http://www.richard-seaman.com/Aircra...ft10oClock.jpg

Get an education mang!

who gives a crap about some smelly old aeroplane....its hardly comparable and not that many people here would know what your on about.......

back on topic......I think your right that this guy isnt going to take peanuts for it....I (if I had money) would pay up to 5kish for it......but id say he wants closer to 10.

buy it and prove me wrong bro

[XPLOIT]

Anyone want to buy a cheap Euro R?

Im still keen for more opinions tho, keep them coming.

There was only 8000 of these ever made....

[Logger]

Originally Posted by XPLOIT

Anyone want to buy a cheap Euro R?

Im still keen for more opinions tho, keep them coming.

There was only 8000 of these ever made....

After you get it to Wof standard sure I'll come for a squizz if you're going to see it this weekend.

[ITR_cam]

man thats a cool project

[EGD]

hey jared,

not trying to cool the heat down, its a mint car and pretty rare alrite. but honestly, dont do it, especially if u gona sell the euro-r. u will have a lot of trouble finding parts for it.

we have a few customers on the similar boat n there isn't much resources/parts for them. Honda isn't like austin mini, finding parts for old model = close to zero. last week there was a guy from rotoura who is trying to restore his 73 honda (only 30,000ks) he told me that he has been finding some parts for it since 04 and still not havin much luck till today.

honda japan has a general policy of stockin parts for 20 years, parts after that age would be on a big sale out to some third world country . . ( last time round lots of eb civic shit were sold to mexico )

[DrRubber]

^^ good point, if you have the money then buy it but if not then dont sell the euro man.

[Sleepy]

Saw this the other day, thought it would be cool, but that kinda thing becomes less of a car and more of an ornament, not something I'd want to trade the comfort power and handling of a modern car for, let alone a performance one. I had had money to piss away I'd want to go a tuff k24 hybrid in there tho hehe

[americ_ian]

IMO its not worth much at all, its still a rust bucket honda, so i would do a swap for the hell of it

i mean who would buy it? you cannot get parts for it, its a honda... the guy seriously has no offers hence asking price $0.... LOL did i say it was a honda?


my 2c

[Snoozin]

Important JNC is this one.

Up to 10k would be my feelings on it, then export it. It'd be worth a fortune overseas.

[Lycanthrope]

Damn, 115hp out of a 1300cc engine in 1971 is pretty respectable.

[XPLOIT]

No, im not going to sell my Euro

As some of you may be aware, I am into my collectable cars and it would not bother me at all if I never drove it. Dont think I would want to. It would be a (finish) restoration project and then kept in storage. Flame all you want

From reading the auction, all of the parts are there and plenty more ("Bring a truck")

Thanks Ian, I think it may be a Honda

115hp out of a 1971 1300cc is VERY respectable, have a read through some of the links he posted, it has 88hp/L. Air-cooled too!

[berman]

Originally Posted by badcf4

drop a what from a what and replace it with a WTF

Basically you wouldn't take the Continentals from a Bentley and replace then with Wanli's

I think it'd be a cool project to restore Jared. Old classic's are awesome, and it's the same as the Americans searching for JDM trinkets, but you will just be searching the globe for 73 coupe parts.
Also being the only one registered in NZ, at least you know some sheep down the road isn't going to build the same car as you. You'll have something unique and a talking point.

If you do, I'd recommend selling the Austins though.

Edit: did anyone else notice that link? Dick Semen? WTF?

[Crazor]

Nice car !!!
I love the body lines, i thought to myself, if an Alfa and a Mk2 escort had a baby, this would be the offspring

[XPLOIT]

Originally Posted by berman

Basically you wouldn't take the Continentals from a Bentley and replace then with Wanli's

I think it'd be a cool project to restore Jared. Old classic's are awesome, and it's the same as the Americans searching for JDM trinkets, but you will just be searching the globe for 73 coupe parts.
Also being the only one registered in NZ, at least you know some sheep down the road isn't going to build the same car as you. You'll have something unique and a talking point.

If you do, I'd recommend selling the Austins though.

Edit: did anyone else notice that link? Dick Semen? WTF?

Ahhh, yea.... Dick Semen

The Austins can just sit around (Just like they are at the moment)

I know that the parts are going to be near impossable to come accross, I think its a complete car tho... If something needs to be replaced, it will be custom fabricated.

I will email him tonight and see what he has to say.

[Ignition22]

i dont understand nostalga at all, if i owned it i would probably give it away or take it to a wreakers (presuming i wouldnt know it was worth more ie never read this thread)

[lotusboy]

DDDDamn can't believe i missed this thread till now. This isn't the only one in NZ BTW. The last one sat on Trademe for awhile with a price tag of 10k. It was red and in a pretty bad state of disrepair, although appeared to be fairly complete. It then disappeared , guy must have got close to what he wanted, as he wasn't to prepared to move on price. I looked at buying a pair of them from a collection in Oz for 5k AU. One which was a tidy runner, and one in bits but complete and rust free. But shipping + compliance was going to kill them for me. Still got that guys contact details and some pics if you're keen and have that sort of money to burn.... I personally think this example is worth between 4k and 6k with the extra spares and the condition its in, but with all these kind of things though, I'm sure it will still need plenty of time and money to get it finished.

[Trivium]

Where the hell do you get all this money Jared? Sell drugs on the side or something?

I reccon its cool, buy it before some rota nut gets it and drops in a 12a

[XPLOIT]

Thanks, Ill question him about being the only one in NZ too... Was the red one a coupe 7 or 9?

I will probably still email him and see what figure he is after, been real busy lately.

[David R]

Originally Posted by grandell

that depends on why you'r buying it. if you're buying it to keep it mint and hang onto it for 20 years then sell it for a profit, sure, but if you want to drive it and enjoy it, then do a swap

after all, cars were made to be driven

For sure, but you don't need a bazillion horsepower to enjoy driving them either. Have you never driven a vintage or classic car? Even though they're slow-as-fuck compared to anything with a k20 in it, there's just something fun about driving them as-is. Putting a k20 in there would destroy the feel you get of driving an old car. Not to mention the chassis/brakes etc that were never meant to handle that sort of power.

Anyway, you'd probably be the laughing stock of the performance car scene for hotting up something oldschool and keeping it fwd. Go put an f20c in an escort/corolla if you want something old with modern honda power. (or an RX3 if you really want to shit people off!)

[Logger]

I agree with you David, I find driving a car lacking horsepower is more of an 'event' rather than just a drive.

[Matty]

Ditto. A K20 would mean you'd spend more time being scared than actually enjoying the handling. There's also something kinda cool about an old school carbed engine, from the audible inhaling of air to the engine sighing between gearchanges to the banging and popping on the over-run. And 115hp isn't anything to be sneezed at in a car that light.

Now, where'd I put my tweed cap and string-back gloves...

[grandell]

ok, what about a b16 then?
and yes, i've had my share of old cars, so i do know what they're like


just to stir up some shit... look at Ians car. its old(ish) and rare(ish), but the reason you'd all give your left one for it is because it doesn't have an old engine in it.
but does that mean in 20 years time it'll be gay cos its not original?

i like old cars because of their styling, not their engineering (unless its a museum piece of course)

[XPLOIT]

Thats why I have two Austins, one is compleytly original but still had a LOT of internal engine work, where the other is a bit rough, sacked on its arse and asking nicely for a B16........

Can not go wrong with the old car feeliing, except tryiong to start them in the morning

[efp0wa]

Recently in Nelson I saw two of those parked on a rather large car trailer just down the road from my house, I was going to take some pics but they were going by the time i got outside with the cam.

Amazing vehicles IMO and interested history behind them.

[XPLOIT]

Are you sure they were Coupe 9's?

This is apparently the ONLY one in NZ