The $100 74 Clubby, bought from the friendly drunk guy who talked himself down $200. Bought as a non-runner, Peter (other half) got it started with a screwdriver and a lot of determination (no steering wheel, and no keys = dead ignition barrel, too), though it sounded like a demonic lawnmower, courtesy of one piston having a half centimetre vertical play. Something's fried, but we won't know exactly what it is until we pull the block apart.

Please explain why a DRUNK was selling a car on South Road..... and why you actually bought it from a DRUNK on SOUTH ROAD!!!!!

Thats gotta be the shadiest thing ive heard this year!!!

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[NATHAN] -- Sold everything mini related and am back in big beautiful BMWs

So far... plenty more days left in the year

Great buy for that money!

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Too many cars, and too little time.

lol.... looks like my first mini, also surprisengly enough mine came with keys!! lol it has a lot of play in the crankshaft and blow's for smoke then poor old thomas the tank engine... good fors soething now (spare parts) lucky i had a wad of $50 notes n went n got myselft one that works n runs!

good luck with it!

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Even god told Noah to Ark it up!!
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1972 Mini Clubman 1100 cc
1972 Mini Clubman 1100 cc
2005 VZ SV6 Commodore

not a bad buy, good work!

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-jamie-
1963morris 850
1965 solid side van
1994 rover racecar

Well, I don't think he was a drunk, as opposed to just plain getting drunk, and it seemed to be because he had to sell most of his belongings (he said the government was compulsorily acquiring the property).

He'd bought it from his neighbour the year before(and hadn't registered it), with the intent of fixing it up, and had left it in his shed, losing the keys sometime in the interim.

So, on a technicality, I'd say we got it from the neighbour - he went and got the 'Application for Registration and CTP' papers and put his information in the 'previously registered' fields.

But I don't think he was selling it because he was drunk - when the other half turned up three hours earlier, he wasn't drunk, and he was fine when we went to get the papers the next day.

And as far as shady goes, I was pretty shaky on the way home - he scared me a little

Good find, what are the plans for it?

the government is actually aquiring about 100 homes around that area to sort out that skinny section of south road..

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hey nice find !!!! sounds like a great little project .

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i like chicken

Cant go wrong for $100 unless the cops come and repo it in a couple of days