smart51
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| posted on 26/5/09 at 08:40 PM |
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Companies that buy kit cars
Have any of you heard of these guys? Uxbridge Kit Cars
Berkshire High Performance Vehicles and
Pure Lotus. They advertise on Pistonheads wanting to buy kit cars. Have any of you dealt
with or heard of dealings with them, good or bad?
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nick205
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| posted on 26/5/09 at 09:09 PM |
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No, but weirdly I have just been looking at the very same companies so would also be interested to know people's experiences.
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handyandy
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| posted on 26/5/09 at 09:10 PM |
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i,ve seen there adverts in kit car mags, but not had any dealings with them.
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trextr7monkey
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| posted on 26/5/09 at 09:29 PM |
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One of them was the focus of a featured article in Complete Kit Car a few months back - a 6 page glorified advert with double page pics, I complained
about it as I felt Iwas being ripped.
Articles about the adverts , what ever next? 
Frow what I remember, through the red mist, it was stashed full of Cobra replicas and the kind of kits that if you could afford you'd probably
buy something else.
Didn't see too many Duttons/ jago s and the likes.
Clearly I am a bit biased here atb
Mike
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14016102@N00/ (cut and paste this dodgey link)
Our most recent pics are here:
http://s129.photobucket.com/albums/p211/trextr7monkey/
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Chippy
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| posted on 26/5/09 at 10:45 PM |
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I had dealings with Uxbridge in, (I think), 1984 trying to sell my Dutton Melos, price they offered was less than half what I eventualy sold it for.
Came across to me as a bunch of sharks. Just my opinion, Cheers Ray
To make a car go faster, just add lightness. Colin Chapman - OR - fit a bigger engine. Chippy
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designer
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| posted on 27/5/09 at 07:03 AM |
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I suppose, at the end of the day, they are just car salesmen, but with more power to buy cheap due the the restricted market these type of cars have.
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mad4x4
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| posted on 27/5/09 at 08:31 AM |
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Also as our cars fall into the "Hard to sell cateogory" I guess they will get folk who are desperate accepting silly (low) money for good
cars.
[Edited on 27/505/09 by mad4x4]
Scot's do it better in Kilts.
MK INDY's Don't Self Centre Regardless of MK Setting !
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smart51
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| posted on 28/5/09 at 01:20 PM |
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Pure Lotus have looked at my pistonheads ad and said they'd put my car on their forecourt for £6500, so they'd offer me £5000 for it.
The reasons for this, they told me, was that it had a Q registration and that much newer vortxes were available with just a few hundred miles and with
higher spec.
My recollection is that just built vortxes of high spec tend to be put up for £10k - £12k. Either he's trying his luck or he thinks
that's all he could shift it at.
Then again, he also said there were plenty of Caterhams going at that money. The cheapest on on Pistonheads is £6995 for a car from 1987, thats 22
years old, the rest are £8000 and rapidly upwards.
[Edited on 28-5-2009 by smart51]
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