Just spent an hour on their website, fascinating! Never knew there was such a market for old oil/petrol cans! It's always surprising what people see value in.
Never heard of petroliana either! Doesn't do a lot for me but each to their own and fascinating all the same.
Derek Matthewson is 'browsing' his far younger bit on the side at the minute. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
I had an XR2 and an astra GTE also.. cost around £2000 each when they were about 5-6 years old. They were already fully of rust - modern cars today are still just about under warranty at that age. My girlfriend at the time had a Renault 5s and wrote it off, sliding off Tranby lane after a few glasses of wine, the police officer at the scene told her to get a lift home and to try not to drink drive again. My neighbour inherited a Volvo 240 that hadn't been driven for 20 years and stored in a warehouse, charged the battery, put air in the tyres and drove it for about 10000km before it needed any work... Probably having a resurgence in collectability as it's far easier to get parts and cheap tools than it was.
I bought an xr2i, 90k on the clock, 2 owners from new, full service history for £150 in 2007. Sold it a week later for £650 and spent the profit on a nice little 2 stroke crosser (which I still have). That car would have been worth a fortune now. Was mechanically mint other than faded red paintwork.
I'm gonna drift this thread even further... I've got an old Bose Wave CD/Radio which gives great sound. So good that for years I ran the TV through it and binned the Soundbar I'd bought. A few years ago it just stopped working so it got left to rot. A couple of months ago I thought I'd try to fix it; everything seemed to function correctly except no sound came out of it. (A pretty big fail in a CD player to be fair). A quick Google and I discovered the model was notorious for having diodes that failed if they weren't warm. The suggestion? Hairdryer in the CD slot. Works a treat. The only problem being that before each use I've got to give it a 45 second blast with the hairdryer. Works fine after that.
Called in there last summer, the only bit open was the old shop front looking part. The room was full of their own merchandise and copy chinese tat. One worker who I'd never seen on the telly. Not impressed.
There's a program on itv 4 called Junk and Disorderly. The price that old Oil ,Petrol cans go for us crazy . The old style petrol pumps and also the tin signs is even crazier
You were extremely unlucky then, Derek is generally around when I have visited. The cars are mostly all at the Pickering site.
On one of those classic car auction sites I mentioned earlier, just stumbled across this, previous owner a certain Assem Allam…
Passed that on the M1 once and he wasn't impressed so whizzed by me, clogged mine to pass him again and he bottled out at 110mph. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
My brother had a 1964 Mini Cooper S. It had a ‘1’ number plate as well. **** knows what that’d be worth now.
