Interesting stuff on t'internet

This restored would make a nice run around for me & the business and I have a hankering for a older small van / pick up - sadly I have to be realistic it would just end up stored and I would never get around it due to the fact I'm just way too busy with clients cars & life in general getting in the way to ever do something like this justice - it would have to be something more up & together requiring less work for me to commit to anything  

   - A small van would be more practical but unfortunately has nice as what they are a Bradford Van is just way too impractical / slow / underpowered for the business - it would need to be something that could realistically keep up with modern traffic - so probably something from the early 70's onwards but devoutly not Ford - hence a little restrictive to Vauxhall / BL offerings not too much bothered by the far & distant shores stuff but some of the European offerings could prove attractive - it all comes down to the fact that a Yorkshire man (aka me) will always pay a fair price for something but never purchase anything that is premium priced vs something that I can add value to - possibly with a paint job but then again something that I don't have to spend a age restoring - simply because I don't have the free / workshop time to do it - I blame that johnthesparky bloke - ever since I painted his retro work van he has me thinking down a similar route 



Which in turn recently had me pondering on this 



mathewsons.co.uk/auctions/auction-dates/vehicles/15371-new-entry-2004-rover-25-commerce-van

Just slightly soured by the questionable mileage - if it was at the original 54k stated then its not a bad purchase - but @ 80k + miles + ?? then £2.5k + commission makes it slightly stingy (its also 300 miles away but that's not really an issue) - I should have bit on the silver one that escortdan had up sale some time back  

And for the same money this looks pretty good. No horror stories in MOT history. One retired owner from new. It's a blank canvas for you to put your mark on. You'd also have the benefit of 50+mpg Diesel economy.          [ !! SOLD !! ]
Rover 25 Commerce van


As far as Yorkshiremen being careful with their money is concerned, you'd have to go a long way to beat a 'Cardi'! Not a lot of people know that copper wire was invented at Cardigan's Cattle Market when a farmer dropped a penny . . .

Nothing serious I'd hope except your pretty unlikely to get into a hospital at the moment unless it's serious enough! (Not good places to be near currently).

Honda Concerto 1.5 GLI. Yorks. £1,095.00
Re-listed with reduction: £890.00
www.gumtree.com/p/honda/-1992-honda-concerto-1.5-gli-future-classic-90k-miles/1388579034
1992. Modest mileage. Fresh MOT. MOT history suggests the car has been pretty well maintained. Appears to be 1 of 15 of this spec remaining on UK roads.



Vauxhall Nova L 1.4i. Kent. £1,750.00
1992. Low mileage. On-road for 8 years, parked up unused for 20 years. May be damage repaired? To be supplied with fresh MOT & service.

Peugeot 304 Cabriolet. Surrey. £1K          [ !! SOLD !! ]
1973. Has been parked up for many years and is in need of full restoration. Characterful and getting rare. Only 836 rhd examples were produced for the UK market, 25 remain on the road and 28 are on SORN. The cabriolet had the highest survival rate of all 304 models as it didn't corrode as quickly. It could be as rotten as the proverbial pear underneath and beyond economic restoration. At pre-plague prices you'd have paid about £12K for a nice one. 

Mercedes-Benz Heckflosse. Essex. £6½K
1967. W110 200 'Fintail'. RHD. Needing recommissioning to become a rolling restoration. South African car which has had a bad respray at some point. For this type of money you'd usually expect a 'barn find' rotbox. This could be a beautiful car again.




Mercedes-Benz 230 Universal (estate). Somerset. £15K
1966. RHD. Rare & stylish estate version of the Heckflosse. No MOT, (exempt). Looks to have been put back on the road 7 years ago, has had issues with structural corrosion.