Cars for Sale on CL or Ebay - or BaT

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BruceK

1988 Austin Mini
2002 MINI Cooper S
1992 Toyota LiteAce (JDM)
1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

MiniDave

#351
I saw that on Facebook Marketplace this morning - a couple things against it - 1975, and it's a 998.

Edit: Ad says 998 but I think it's actually a 1275. Also, would a 75 still have a genset? Def a South African car, based on the location of the oil filter. I think this car would need a LOT of work to make it like I would want it. I have enough projects!

Buzz was a good buy when I got him, even tho I had to redo the brakes, engine, seats, instruments and suspension.

Oh, maybe he wasn't...... ::) ;D
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2009 Clubman S
2014 Audi Allroad

MPlayle

It definitely needs a lot of tidying for the price.


BruceK

Hey, somebody else in Oklahoma imported a Type 2 bus from Brazil a couple of months ago.  Could've arrived on the same boat.

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1973-volkswagen-bus-25/



1988 Austin Mini
2002 MINI Cooper S
1992 Toyota LiteAce (JDM)
1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

94touring

#354
Looks like he was the ship ahead of me on 9/18/20.  Maybe he bought it to flip since prices are considerably less from Brazil or isn't the mechanical type to go through and fix all the tiny gremlins it's sure to have.  Noticed in the comments one of the bus snobs already knocking it's from Brazil.  Even though they used German tooling and had German VW workers to assure quality. 

Edit:  I was ahead of him on the ship. 9/1/20 entry date.

BruceK

#355
I saw this 1990 Mini in Japan for sale and noticed that it has internal hinged doors with roll up windows AND they have vent windows.    Do those look like  Innocenti doors?  Or something custom Japanese aftermarket? 

https://www.tc-v.com/used_car_smart/rover/mini/26929610/?isNew=1




1988 Austin Mini
2002 MINI Cooper S
1992 Toyota LiteAce (JDM)
1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

94touring


MiniDave

#357
Quote from: BruceK on November 28, 2020, 10:03:56 AM
I saw this 1990 Mini in Japan for sale and noticed that it has internal hinged doors with roll up windows AND they have vent windows.    Do those look like  Innocenti doors?  Or something custom Japanese aftermarket? 

https://www.tc-v.com/used_car_smart/rover/mini/26929610/?isNew=1

That looks like a really nice car.....twin carbs on a small block motor  - add in the vent windows doors, interesting dash and great seats and only $7200 plus shipping and port costs, maybe $10K delivered? Seems like a decent buy at that price.

Edit: I put in US and Baltimore for the port and it came up with $8345.....pretty good deal it seems to me.
Complete failure at retirement

1989 Cooper Racing Green
2009 Clubman S
2014 Audi Allroad

BruceK

#358
Yeah, Ro-Ro shipping costs are based upon how many cubic meters the vehicle takes up.  Therefore Ro-Ro ocean shipping on Minis is dirt cheap (relatively speaking that is, considering it's actually going halfway around the world).    For big vehicles it can get quite expensive.

Edit: Yup, even with import fees and using a customs broker it looks like you could get that car in the US for under $9K.
1988 Austin Mini
2002 MINI Cooper S
1992 Toyota LiteAce (JDM)
1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

MiniDave

It estimated the same price to Galveston, which is about 400 miles closer to me than Baltimore.....and curiously about $100 more to go to Long Beach, which is a LOT closer to Japan!
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1989 Cooper Racing Green
2009 Clubman S
2014 Audi Allroad

BruceK

I think some of those differing transportation costs costs might involve other things. For example how quickly can they get in and out of port (wait times outside the port), what fees have to be paid, and so on.   You can imagine that California, with its love of extra rules and regulations and fees, might actually cost a shipper more than taking the car transporter through the Panama Canal to get to the southern and eastern US ports.
1988 Austin Mini
2002 MINI Cooper S
1992 Toyota LiteAce (JDM)
1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

MPlayle

#361
You can save another $50 by going into Freeport, Texas instead of Galveston. 

You also don't need a TWIC card escort for RO-RO into Freeport, but you supposedly do for Galveston now.

Edit: The Burton came into Freeport and I did not need an escort to pick it up myself.  I did use a customs broker for the paperwork, then took that to the facility at Freeport and picked the car up.  The process at the port was smooth and easy even with Covid precautions.


MiniDave

#362
Well, as much as I might like to have that car - and I do like it, not only does it have all the stuff I like but it even has A/C!  - I have WAY too many cars and projects as it is. No where to park it either.

There's a LHD Innocenti 1300 Export on that site too, in just OK condition (it also has A/C!) for the eye watering price of $23K plus shipping - for the condition it's in I think that's pretty excessive. One could buy the one Dan and I are finishing up for not a whole lot more than that with all new practically everything.
Complete failure at retirement

1989 Cooper Racing Green
2009 Clubman S
2014 Audi Allroad

BruceK

Quote from: MPlayle on November 28, 2020, 12:36:13 PM
You can save another $50 by going into Freeport, Texas instead of Galveston. 

You also don't need a TWIC card escort for RO-RO into Freeport, but you supposedly do for Galveston now.

Edit: The Burton came into Freeport and I did not need an escort to pick it up myself.  I did use a customs broker for the paperwork, then took that to the facility at Freeport and picked the car up.  The process at the port was smooth and easy even with Covid precautions.

I read that Freeport was actively trying to be the up-and-coming port on the Texas coast and is working to take business away from  Galveston.  Cheaper fees and less regulations help in that effort.
1988 Austin Mini
2002 MINI Cooper S
1992 Toyota LiteAce (JDM)
1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

BruceK

Quote from: 94touring on November 28, 2020, 10:19:48 AM
Inno or Australian.

I don't think they're Australian. Because the internal hinged doors from Australia that I've seen have a flat exterior door handle. Sort of a rectangle with a slot in it to lift up.
1988 Austin Mini
2002 MINI Cooper S
1992 Toyota LiteAce (JDM)
1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

94touring

Quote from: BruceK on November 28, 2020, 01:08:19 PM
Quote from: 94touring on November 28, 2020, 10:19:48 AM
Inno or Australian.

I don't think they're Australian. Because the internal hinged doors from Australia that I've seen have a flat exterior door handle. Sort of a rectangle with a slot in it to lift up.

If there was a view of the inside handle I'd have a better idea.

MiniDave

#366
It's hard to see in the one pic but they look like Inno inside door handles, def not the same as Minis
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2009 Clubman S
2014 Audi Allroad

jeff10049


MiniDave

It looks like a really nice car for the money.....
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2009 Clubman S
2014 Audi Allroad

BruceK

And I just posted it because I found the door windows unusual.
1988 Austin Mini
2002 MINI Cooper S
1992 Toyota LiteAce (JDM)
1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

MiniDave

#370
I've said for a while now that I thought the prices on BaT had gone absolutely nutso lately, what with a Saleen S7 selling for $1.2 mill, a 356 convertible D going for $250K and a 95 Rolls Corniche selling for $175K.....somebody on Jalopniks made the pithy comment that it's probably become a good place to *ahem* do the laundry......I've thought that for a while when watching the same 5 guys buy muscle cars on Mecum for ever increasing amounts - tho at the time I thought they were just running their own little version of musical chairs or at worst a little Ponzi scheme.

Today's sale marks an interesting turning point, when a K5 Blazer sells for $115,000! Even if it does have a nice LS1 motor in it and new paint and interior....I mean....come on!

The run up in Mini prices could be written off to being "discovered" again as a fun car, or even by virtue of being hot in England where they have rusted into bits by now......

Where's it going to end?
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1989 Cooper Racing Green
2009 Clubman S
2014 Audi Allroad

gr8kornholio

I figured it had "jumped the shark" when an Integra type R went for 85k. It's rare-ish but in the end it's just a Honda.  Kinda like the mopar craze when the hemi cudas were multi million dollar cars.  It's just a Steele boat with a big motor that a modern daily driver could outrun.  Car prices and the wealthy idiots that drive them is the least logical thing in the world.  A long with cars as investments in general.  You want to speculate but stock or a painting. Cars are for driving.
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BruceK

A whole new meaning for "BaT shit crazy".  ;D
1988 Austin Mini
2002 MINI Cooper S
1992 Toyota LiteAce (JDM)
1997 Jeep Wrangler Sahara

MiniDave

Ha!

I really like the Triumph 2 dr Vitesse wagon that's on there, but it's already about where I would stop bidding and there's 2 days to go.
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1989 Cooper Racing Green
2009 Clubman S
2014 Audi Allroad

cstudep

Things were a lot more simple back then. Those pedals look like someone went out to the scrap pile and scavenged whatever they could find to fabricate them. The clutch looks like a small piece of angle, the brake a piece of flat bar (could also be a small angle but it's hard to tell at the angle of the pic) and the accelerator a piece of round stock.