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Old cars far from being up to par
This week’s sad cars are as far away from the glamour of the gold Volvo as can be.
‘Nearly two years ago I bought a K-reg Citroen AX for £150 and still have it,’ says Steve Donkin at Premierline Direct, ‘Only the driver’s window winds down, each panel has a dent in it, and it has a genuine 83,000 miles on the clock.’
That’s a car to laugh at, but we travel to Middlesbrough for this week’s saddest car (because it couldn’t make it to London).
‘Mini Metro 1995, white/rust, bought as a non-runner for £16.50 on eBay,’ says Paul Langham at Foster Wheeler Energy. ‘After a 10-minute immobiliser fix it passed its MOT with flying colours. It did 26,000 miles in a year faithfully getting me to work and back every day over the north Yorkshire moors, even through blizzards, and I sold it for £25 to the scrap yard.’
That’s an £8.50 profit from the transaction, which he can reinvest in half a new car on eBay.
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