Hi guys,
i bought an fc3s only last friday, with the intention of keeping it, but unfortunately something has come up, and i\'ve tried to think of something that will allow me to keep her, but had no luck :(, which will mean i have neither the funds or time to finish it.
It needs the o/s sill welding, the screen is cracked, and there\'s a blow from the downpipe to be sorted for mot, but otherwise is a good example. Theres 2 very small dents, but the bodywork is good, the engine runs lovely and comes on boost perfectly.
I\'ll add a couple of pics, and a link to the ebay ad where you can see i paid 910 quid for it.
Heres the ebay link;
Mazda RX7 2.6 Turbo Petrol G-Reg on eBay, also, Mazda, Cars, Cars, Parts Vehicles (end time 22-Aug-08 11:31:41 BST) (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=140257566664&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=004)
And the pics from above link;
(http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n172/jamesnolan1981/rx.jpg)
(http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n172/jamesnolan1981/fcside.jpg)
I\'ll add a few more pics when i can figure out how to get them off my phone.
So i paid 910, i\'ve fitted new belts and it cost me 80 quid to collect it, but i\'m prepared to take 750ono.
Cheers everyone,
James
DONT DO IT!!!!
quite cheap for what it is.. u can get more if u sell ur skybus!!!
sell ur kidney instead to raise some cash.. some ppl.. most ppl live fine with just 1 kidney. plus will halp prevent u drinking n driving lol
I dont have a choice anymore mate :( if there was anything else i could do, believe me i\'d have done it!
Go stand on a street corner, you may get lucky ?? Hope you find a good home for it, shame you have to sell but its no point keeping something thats not going to get the attention or money the car should have thrown on it. Its cheap enough so plenty of potential buyers.
Any offers? Otherwise i might have to break it :(
hummmmmmmmm i really miss my coupe - but she would kill me if i bought another one :(
Thats always the problem! They never understand.... I\'d rather not break it, but i need it gone. :(
breaking it will mean its just sat on your driveway longer and longer and longer :(
is it mot\'d and taxed ?
No, it isnt. Thats why it has to go, i need to sell one, and the skyline is mot\'d & taxed. If i sell that, i\'m left without a car till rx is done!
ahhhhhhhhhhh - doesnt help then
No, it doesn\'t. It cant stay sitting there either. Dont have time to put it on ebay, basically i need to do something by monday, even if i end up pulling it apart, keeping a few bits to sell & weighing the rest in
go on grinder.. u know i want to give it a good home.. such a bargain!!!
im tempted but i dunt need another fc n gf dunt like fc\'s, she pref fd lol
i\'m (very!) open to offers now, especially if its soon.....!
Quote from: James N;532692No, it doesn\'t. It cant stay sitting there either. Dont have time to put it on ebay, basically i need to do something by monday, even if i end up pulling it apart, keeping a few bits to sell & weighing the rest in
WOOOOOOOOOOOOAH hang on a second here !
thats not gonna make you much money
if you are going to that extent i can give it a loving home for not much cash - just no idea how to get it from you to me
im at J27 on the M6 - so although not the other side of the world - its far enough
i will give you a lift home if you can deliver it !! :D
I know its not, but i need it gone, i dont think you liked that idea much! I\'d just like to point out i\'m not saying FC\'s should be weighed in, i love them, but was silly enough to buy on at the wrong time, when i had no money or space for one.
Whats your postcode mate? Could you PM me it, i\'ll see how far, and i may be able to deliver it and get back ok. What sort of not much cash are we talking? I\'d rather it went to you than me pulling it apart and selling engine etc seperately anyway....
Cheers
Quote from: grinder;532703WOOOOOOOOOOOOAH hang on a second here !
thats not gonna make you much money
if you are going to that extent i can give it a loving home for not much cash - just no idea how to get it from you to me
im at J27 on the M6 - so although not the other side of the world - its far enough
i will give you a lift home if you can deliver it !! :D
ive just checked and im 75 miles away - so its a fair old distance :(
i cant PM you as your not a member
drop me an email at admin AT fc3s DOT co.uk with a bottom dollar figure and i will get back to you with a answer
dam.. so tempting.. wonder if i can convert my gf to likeing the fc hehe..
let me know how this goes.. else i might be interested.. but my bottom dollar would be rock bottom divided by 2! or sth stupid like that!!
Quote from: BBCFC;532711dam.. so tempting.. wonder if i can convert my gf to likeing the fc hehe..
let me know how this goes.. else i might be interested.. but my bottom dollar would be rock bottom divided by 2! or sth stupid like that!!
thats what mine could be to be honest
she will hate the idea so i need something to sweeten it ( its cheap honey - awwww please .. etc.. )
Email sent Mr Grinder
im setting off from work now - so i should get you a answer in the next 30 - 45 mins
grinder.. go buy her some flowers with the change or when the fc is delivered then put some flowers on teh bonnet for ur wifey take her mind off the fc hehe
Does this mean the cab might be going cheap Stu? First dibs!
Hey Stu i`ll run you down in Me Fully MOT`d Vert :) :)
it passed - congrats matey
i have delined the coupe - she pulled her face - so im not going to push my luck
lol, no problem mate. \'the face\' is never good!!
I\'ve just rung joola89 about this as he\'s after another one. Unfortunately he can\'t get to a computer till later tonight or tomoz morning. But said I should post up for him showing his interest. Hope you get sorted soon buddy. Sorry you can\'t keep it.
Me too. I have at least found somewhere to put it, so the rush is off a little to get it gone. I still have to sell it, but i no longer have only until monday.
glad you can keep hold of it a little longer
is there NO way you can keep it - get it welded on the cheap and the exhaust sorted ( cant be that hard to do the exhaust )
Not really, i kind of need the cash. I could mot it, but i\'m not the best welder to be honest, so that would be more money to sort out
hummmm not a good situation then - although i had never welded and managed to get the coupe back in one piece and thru a mot
have a look at //www.fc3s.co.uk at the rusty rex section - and that shows what i was up against :D
if joola89 is nt interested and your not getting anywhere with the sale then let me kno along with rock bottom price n i mite be able to giv it a home for a while.. maybe use as drift car or sth like that..
I seen this for sale over at Driftworks.. man for the price you are asking for it there i would have bought it just for the bonnet and badges!.. total bargain.. Surely you could do a buy it now at that price on eBay and get it in a heart beat?
Yeah, i know. I no longer need it gone by monday though, so i\'ll see what happens.
You got a email addy or msn ??
Mick
adrian reed 27 at yahoo dot co dot uk
thats msn also. Actually msn is .com not .co.uk
Quote from: Mobilemick;533001You got a email addy or msn ??
Mick
Did you mean me? If so i have; jamesnolan1981@hotmail.co.uk (jamesnolan1981@hotmail.co.uk)
Thats come up as a link for some reason.... oh well, thats my msn anyway!
thats the spirit mick :D
Ahhh only 2 seats .. thats a shame :(
Eh? What only has 2 seats??
I thought i\'d have no problem selling this car fot this cheap!! :(
the coupe has 4 seats ?
Oh yeah, looked at ebay and and it said 2 seats,
Mick
Just how much money do you want for this car?
70 Miles STu, you know a short cut
I get it @ 234miles
i cant let it go for a couple of hundred quid, it would simply be too much money lost, for less than 500 i\'d rather just have a very tight month or 2, fix it, and sell it with mot & tax to be honest...
unless i got the wrong sudbury ???
If thats Sudbury in Suffolk then only 60 miles away from me. Have you got a postcode James
It is sudbury in suffolk. I didn\'t know there was another....? Post code co10 2pp
yeah ok - bloody miles away from me then :(
its all yours pete
this may be going on ebay soon. Feel free to make an offer before it does. I\'m not being unreasonable with 500 am i?
humm not sure - it does need welding and its mot less
i recently saw a cab with a 12 month ticket go on ebay for 600
You guys do a great job of devaluing these cars :(
TBH what devalues cars is people needing to sell quickly and therefore putting them on ebay with a low reserve! A mate and I bought a non-running cab with 1 months MOT for £500 sorted it out (badly flooded) fixed the dent on the wing and MOT\'d it sold it for £1300 (and that was cheap!!!).
But that doesn\'t help if you need to sell the car, I\'m sure you could get £800-£900 for it if you were prepared to wait, but if you need it shifted ebay isn\'t the place to get a lot of money for a non-MOT\'d car. You\'ll sell it but you won\'t get what you want for it, buyers on ebay know that sellers are desperate (you can normally tell from the low start price or low reserve). I saw a 52 plate AMG Merc CLK55 in good nick with average miles go for £7800 on ebay last month - a similar car was sold by a trader for £14k!
True, i\'d ideally like 500, but if it goes on ebay then it\'ll probably have no reserve and i\'ll just have to cope with losing a fair bit of cash on it :(
I probably paid over the odds for it, but i really wanted one, i just bought it at the wrong time!
I\'ve been offered 200, which wouldn\'t be worth me selling it for, i\'ve been told 220-250 if i take it to my local scrapyard!!
I\'d rather sell it to someone on ebay for that than see it scrapped, i really could never scrap it. :(:(
is there not interest in the skyline at all yet?
it just seems such a shame to see it go
Long story... I\'ve kind of broken the skyline, so i\'ll have to fix that as it\'ll be quicker/cheaper than fixing the rex up as the skyline is mot\'d & taxed. But as i have spend a bit to fix skyline it wont be worth selling it, so i\'ll stick a turbo lump in and keep it.
why not sell the turbo skyline for an rx....:D
sounds like your situation sucks mate, hope you work it out
To be honest, i probably will. I really want an FC TII, but it just isn\'t going to happen at the moment. I\'m currently half way through an application to join the RAF, and i\'m driving up to Norwich quite often, only maybe 100 mile round trip, but i need something reliable, and i need it quickly. The Skyline will simply be quicker to get finished, and funds are tight so i cant keep both!
As a matter of interest if you need any help in a job in the RAF let me know. I can give you whatever info you need to make sure you get the right job. Do not be persuaded to go for a job you did not go in for. To be honest the best trades are engineering, do not be an armourer, that job has no future employment in civvy street at all.
feel free to email me on pdtaylor18@hotmail.com for a chat or more info.
You can phone 01760 338172 any time in evening.
The job i\'ve applied for, and passed AST to an acceptable level is for Weapons Technician. Looks like an interesting career, and i\'m currently an Avionics Technician, working on safety/survival equipment for civilian aircraft.
You in RAF then mate? I might add you to MSN for a future chat if thats ok?
Cheers mate,
James
Yes I am and have done 19 years. You can certainly add me to your list. There are several others on here as well so theres an anbundance of experience across the trades.
We can chat outside this Forum but I dont mind if you start a different thread so you can let others know about the process, job,money,prospects etc. It might just drum up more trade, think the RAF needs this at the moment.
One of the chaps who work withs me drives an RAF sponsored rally car, he was at an event to do some PR for the RAF and someone came up to him and said heres my card, I want your \'product\' to be the face of the RAF. He is now a two man team that is now able to rally his car wherever and whenever, he got a budget of 15K a year and he also has to attend schools and other events with his car on display. He has landed on his two feet rather firmly because he would do the events anyway and now he gets an allowance to do that. Thats on top of his 35K he gets a year.
The pics below is to give you an idea of what we do at airshows, this was a role demo with huge fire bombs. Quite a crowd pleaser. This aprticular aircraft is a Tornado GR4 and is from my Sqn.
eeek just saw a post on drift works, does this mean your keeping the 7 :D
Nope... Not sure what post that would be! :(
"Ok... £750 delivered? (my workshop is just outside of dedham/manningtree so not far at all from colchester) Cash waiting and you save yourself the bullsh*t that is ebay."
read that and assumed lol
Cheers dude, i dont think i\'ve read that..!
oh, so i was right?!?!
result!!
I`ve bought the 7, that post was for the skyline :)
Mick
Quote from: Mobilemick;534144I`ve bought the 7, that post was for the skyline :)
Mick
you have ??????????????????/
Oh yes, gonna pick it up this week, just sorting out transport :) :)
Mick
ooooooooooh :D :D :D - how are you getting down for it - can you not tow it back with the A frame on your van ?
Might have to tow it, it wont start lol