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minorparts
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Posted: Thursday March 27th, 2008 02:36 pm |
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spent £8,575 so far !!!!.......
I must show my wife, THEN perhaps she'll agree that my Mk1 S has been a very inexpensive project !
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Andrew1967
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Posted: Thursday March 27th, 2008 07:23 pm |
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minorparts wrote: spent £8,575 so far!!!!.......
I must show my wife, THEN perhaps she'll agree that my Mk1 S has been a very inexpensive project!
What a great idea - we'll all be trying that one
Looking at the picture with that green monstrosity inside (aka Dash of the week) I reckon he's omitted some up to date pictures as the car looks white 
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Sal
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Posted: Thursday March 27th, 2008 08:12 pm |
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| I just don't mention the money side of things- it's got to be the easy way out !!!!!
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Norton
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Posted: Thursday March 27th, 2008 08:22 pm |
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minorparts wrote: spent £8,575 so far!!!!.......
I must show my wife, THEN perhaps she'll agree that my Mk1 S has been a very inexpensive project!
I'd love to use that excuse..........
unfortunately I've spent more than that...........
What's worse is she hasn't found out......... yet!
I'm dreading the bill from MED Engine will be ready in a few weeks!!!
The car will be lovely, but I might have to live in it!
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Gray
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Posted: Thursday March 27th, 2008 08:41 pm |
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Norton wrote: minorparts wrote: spent £8,575 so far!!!!.......
I must show my wife, THEN perhaps she'll agree that my Mk1 S has been a very inexpensive project!
I'd love to use that excuse..........
unfortunately I've spent more than that...........
What's worse is she hasn't found out......... yet!
I'm dreading the bill from MED Engine will be ready in a few weeks!!!
The car will be lovely, but I might have to live in it!
You can live in your car but you cannot go out for a thrash in the house!!Last edited on Thursday March 27th, 2008 11:31 pm by Gray |
Andrew1967
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Posted: Thursday March 27th, 2008 09:41 pm |
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Gray wrote: Norton wrote: minorparts wrote: spent £8,575 so far!!!!.......
I must show my wife, THEN perhaps she'll agree that my Mk1 S has been a very inexpensive project!
I'd love to use that excuse..........
unfortunately I've spent more than that...........
What's worse is she hasn't found out......... yet!
I'm dreading the bill from MED Engine will be ready in a few weeks!!!
The car will be lovely, but I might have to live in it!
You can live in your car but you cannot go out for thrash in the house!!
I reckon Norton's wife will be thrashing him around the house when she finds out how much he's spent on the car 
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Norton
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Posted: Thursday March 27th, 2008 10:59 pm |
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Andrew1967 wrote: Gray wrote: Norton wrote: minorparts wrote: spent £8,575 so far!!!!.......
I must show my wife, THEN perhaps she'll agree that my Mk1 S has been a very inexpensive project!
I'd love to use that excuse..........
unfortunately I've spent more than that...........
What's worse is she hasn't found out......... yet!
I'm dreading the bill from MED Engine will be ready in a few weeks!!!
The car will be lovely, but I might have to live in it!
You can live in your car but you cannot go out for thrash in the house!!
I reckon Norton's wife will be thrashing him around the house when she finds out how much he's spent on the car
I fear you may be right!
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Sal
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Posted: Thursday March 27th, 2008 11:44 pm |
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| We need a little Utube clip of this painful reminder for educational purposes I think !!!! We're all in it, but by different degrees of course !!!!
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Gray
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Posted: Friday March 28th, 2008 12:10 am |
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Sal wrote: We need a little Utube clip of this painful reminder for educational purposes I think !!!! We're all in it, but by different degrees of course !!!! "http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=H2SMNph-CgYLast edited on Friday March 28th, 2008 12:11 am by Gray |
Norton
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Posted: Friday March 28th, 2008 07:25 am |
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Gray wrote: Sal wrote: We need a little Utube clip of this painful reminder for educational purposes I think !!!! We're all in it, but by different degrees of course !!!! "http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=H2SMNph-CgY Do you think he spent more, or less than I did.......?
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minorparts
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Posted: Friday March 28th, 2008 09:37 am |
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I dunno, but he could fight back a BIT couldn't he??
(just looks like a normal evening in the 'minorparts' house) .
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Norton
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Posted: Friday March 28th, 2008 11:20 am |
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My attitude is........
If you're going to get beaten up by your wife for spending too much money, you might as well make it worth while
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Andrew1967
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Posted: Friday March 28th, 2008 11:34 am |
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We all seem to think along the same lines on that one
Trouble is it's then difficult to argue back when other half wants to buy a new wardrobe (or to be exact, the contents of a wardrobe).
The 'at least the money I spend is an investment' tack does not work very well and should be avoided
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Norton
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Posted: Friday March 28th, 2008 11:50 am |
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Andrew1967 wrote: We all seem to think along the same lines on that one
Trouble is it's then difficult to argue back when other half wants to buy a new wardrobe (or to be exact, the contents of a wardrobe).
The 'at least the money I spend is an investment' tack does not work very well and should be avoided
Unfortunately I can't even convince myself that its an investment any more..... I reckon I've spent more than it will ever be worth 
Its a good job we're not in this for the money isn't it!
I reckon I'm up to a total of 15k so far.... And its worth maybe 12......? (if I'm lucky!)
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DaveShreeve
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Posted: Friday March 28th, 2008 11:56 am |
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Norton wrote: I reckon I'm up to a total of 15k so far....
But how much would have disappeared anyway occupying your time in the pub? At least you can see where the money went.
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Norton
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Posted: Friday March 28th, 2008 12:06 pm |
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DaveShreeve wrote: Norton wrote: I reckon I'm up to a total of 15k so far....
But how much would have disappeared anyway occupying your time in the pub? At least you can see where the money went.
Ahh.. another theory that I can't use.... My pub budget is enormous!
Half the money has gone towards getting someone else to do the work, whilst I go the the pub... err I mean.. work very hard all day in London
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minorparts
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Posted: Friday March 28th, 2008 12:11 pm |
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I agree that we're all in the same boat pretty much and will not usually make money out of our Minis. However, we will (hopefully) create the car we wanted, will have fun doing it and, should we wish to sell in the future, will at least see a reasonable part of our 'investment' back, on the basis that these will always be fairly desirable cars.
As we've said before, drastic 'personalising' of a car probably reduces its value rather because it will appeal to fewer people. Most buyer of older Minis are wanting something in reasonably standard form.
Compared with putting the money into a new or fairly new secondhand car the money is generally safer in a classic Mini anyway......We all have to budget and I personally choose to run moderately modest modern vehicles that don't cost too much and leave a bit over to run a classic car or two as well. We're lucky to have that choice I suppose but most people have at least one extravagance!
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Andrew1967
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Posted: Friday March 28th, 2008 12:29 pm |
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minorparts wrote: As we've said before, drastic 'personalising' of a car probably reduces its value rather because it will appeal to fewer people. Most buyer of older Minis are wanting something in reasonably standard form.
Seems to be the case here as the £8575 spent is currently attracting a bid of £101.99
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Norton
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Posted: Friday March 28th, 2008 01:21 pm |
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minorparts wrote: I personally choose to run moderately modest modern vehicles that don't cost too much and leave a bit over to run a classic car or two as well.
Ahh.... bugger.... I can't claim that either!
Someone must have a justification I can use......?
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Andrew1967
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Posted: Friday March 28th, 2008 01:24 pm |
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| Temporary insanity
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