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eBay Find of the Week

eBay Find of the Week

Auction Watch : Morris Marina 1.8 Super (1971)

22 March 2021 Keith Adams 31

Seems like a good time to be buying if you’re after launch-spec cars. Following on from the eBay sale of a 1987 Rover 825i which piqued my interest, this rather […]

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Auction Watch : Rover 825i (1987)

21 March 2021 Keith Adams 12

This fascinating, wonderful and rare beast has just popped up on my eBay feed, and I find myself doing some man maths in order to add it to my collection […]

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eBay Find of the Week : Unipart Gold Seal S-Series engine

20 July 2015 Mike Humble 24

Mike Humble Once a doyen of the remanufactured engine industry, Unipart in automotive guise has now sadly left this parish to join the great defunct names of old but imagine […]

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eBay find of the Week : Mint Maestro van

9 July 2015 Craig Cheetham 9

Craig Cheetham Well, if the ‘is it or isn’t it?’ Maestro pick-up isn’t enough light commercial action for one week, then you might need to go and lie down in […]

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eBay Find of the Week : A ‘new’ Bedford Astravan

19 June 2015 Craig Cheetham 34

Craig Cheetham Every so often, a car turns up that, for some reason, has never really seen the light of day. The 82-miles-from-new Triumph Dolomite, which we featured on here […]

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eBay Find of the Week : Ogle SX1000

5 June 2015 Craig Cheetham 15

Craig Cheetham One of the most unusual Mini variants is currently up for sale on eBay, even if it does look a lot like a squashed Allegro (despite predating the […]

eBay Find of the Week

eBay Find of the Week : Morris Ital 1.7 SLX

20 May 2015 Mike Humble 53

Mike Humble Well, when looking at this little doom blue Morris Ital 1.7 SLX for the first time, I thought “wow… that’s steep” but, after a little pondering and reminiscing about my own […]

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eBay find of the Week : 22k Rover 216 Vitesse

24 March 2015 Craig Cheetham 14

Craig Cheetham If it weren’t for time, space and money, I’d have probably bought at least 50 cars already this year (I also say that every year, but hey). Irrespective of […]

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eBay Find of the Week : Rover 45 with less than 2k miles on the clock…

9 March 2015 Craig Cheetham 15

Craig Cheetham Thanks to AROnline reader Matthew Cooper for finding this one… The better part of £2,600 might seem like quite a lot of cash for a 12-year old Rover […]

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eBay Find of the Week : Blueprints to make your own Metro

27 February 2015 Craig Cheetham 16

Craig Cheetham A collection of rare engineering blueprints for all generations of the Austin-Rover Metro, plus its stillborn Indonesian spin-off and a proposed Zagato-styled saloon variant of the Rover 100, have […]

eBay Find of the Week

eBay Find of the Week : Low-mileage, late 400

11 February 2015 Craig Cheetham 14

Craig Cheetham A bit of an anomaly, this one, being an R8-shape 416 on an N-plate. Given that the HH-R 400 Series debuted as an M-reg, it’s clearly one of […]

eBay Find of the Week

eBay Find of the Week : When is a Metro not a Metro?

30 January 2015 Craig Cheetham 15

Craig Cheetham ANSWER: When it’s a Metruck… While I’d never be 100 per cent convinced of the structural integrity of such a thing, this interesting homemade venture appealed to me […]

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eBay Find of the Week : MG Metro Turbo (and a rather pricey one at that)

14 January 2015 Craig Cheetham 11

Craig Cheetham Here’s an indicator of how times change – and, hopefully, for the better… Back in the day, this MG Metro Turbo would have been pretty worthless other than for […]

eBay Find of the Week

eBay Find of the Week : The Mini Mira

1 December 2014 Craig Cheetham 13

Chris Chapman Thanks to AROnline reader Chris Chapman for this week’s rather quirky discovery, which puts a whole new slant on the concept of grey imports…   When is a […]

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Blog : eBay Puzzle of the Week – the Austin Metro shock absorbers…

12 November 2014 Craig Cheetham 17

Craig Cheetham I stumbled upon this bizarre listing earlier and it reminded me of my student days… At the time, I had a Pageant Blue Allegro 1.3 (which, of course, […]

eBay Find of the Week

eBay Find of the Week : The £295 Rover 75 CDT

6 November 2014 Craig Cheetham 15

Craig Cheetham A Rover 75 CDT with less than 100k on the clock for £295…? If I needed a cheap winter car right now, I wouldn’t be putting this up […]

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eBay Find of the Week #2 – Rover 216 GSi

26 September 2014 Craig Cheetham 6

Craig Cheetham Twice in a week? Well, I couldn’t let this one lie, really. Partly because there’s a lot of R8 love out there at the moment following its 25th […]

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eBay Find of the Week #1 – £5k Allegro Estate

25 September 2014 Craig Cheetham 25

Craig Cheetham Okay – an old feature momentarily resurrected, because when a mate pointed this out to me I had to share my incredulity… I can’t decide if it’s the price, […]

Launch Land Rover Discovery is currently on eBay
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eBay Find of the Week : Discovery G_WAC

7 June 2012 Keith Adams 8

Keith Adams Press launch cars tend to be the holy grail of cult classic cars – they’re appreciated by those who really know their cars. And as such can sometimes […]

Morris Ital with 300 miles on eBay
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eBay Find of the Week : Morris Ital time-capsule for sale

19 May 2012 Keith Adams 84

Keith Adams Never, ever underestimate the ability for our classic car market to turn up some amazing barn find cars. We recently told you about a Rover 200 with 12 miles […]

Rover 2300 in original condition up for grabs, courtesy of 'The Doctor'
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eBay Find of the Week : Rover 2300

14 November 2011 Keith Adams 33

Keith Adams Our friend, the eBay seller known as ‘The Doctor’, has this unerring habit of finding some of the cleanest, tidiest, lowest-mileage BL and Austin Rover-era cars known to […]

Twini on sale on eBay
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eBay Find of the Week : ‘Twini’ Cooper S

28 September 2011 Keith Adams 19

Keith Adams Here’s an interesting one. Well, when we say interesting, perhaps it’s more a case of scary. Whatever your opinions on the ‘Twini’ prototypes, it’s good to know that […]

A future TV star in chrome
eBay Find of the Week

eBay Find of the Week : Chrome Metro

23 September 2011 Keith Adams 21

Keith Adams Here’s a strange and yet compelling one to get your teeth into – a chrome and carbonfibre-wrapped Rover Metro Rio. Obviously, it’s going to be an acquired taste […]

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