G9 resto project on eBay

niagra · Post by **niagra** » Sat Oct 15, 2011 4:53 pm

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320772009057#description&autorefresh=true

This was mentioned in a thread a week or so ago but I can't seem to find it. Just finished at £896.50! Makes me think that my project was a bargain.

ksg · Post by **ksg** » Sun Oct 16, 2011 7:59 am

Is the proud owner Mr Bellett

itma · Post by **itma** » Sun Oct 16, 2011 11:52 am

Seller of this bike is a wealthy semi dealer in expensive bikes on A N Other bike site who has been hyping a lot of scrap from a find on the IoW.

What can be salvaged from that pile of salt ravaged scrap is anyones guess.
Still it shows there are still fools with money to be parted from.

(unless anyone from this forum bought it when I have to say I admire their resolve and optimism]

HypocriteEdited by - itma on 16 Oct 2011 10:53:54 AM

G15 Roy · Post by **G15 Roy** » Sun Oct 16, 2011 8:24 pm

No but this one is,http://www.bonhams.com/eur/auction/19290/lot/256/

ksg · Post by **ksg** » Sun Oct 16, 2011 10:27 pm

I dont think its for you to clean

SPRIDDLER · Post by **SPRIDDLER** » Sun Oct 16, 2011 11:10 pm

Yep, the seller's day job is an opthalmologist at SpecSavers (absolute truth!). You couldn't make it up, and I haven't!
I've seen photos of his hoard of a dozen or more precision scrap assemblies, plus assorted incomplete engines etc., on A N Other website.
Frankly, I have great admiration for those with the patience to grovel about in clouds of rust dust restoring these things. My patience extends, just, to putting a coat of Hammerite on the garden gate.

itma · Post by **itma** » Sun Oct 16, 2011 11:37 pm

cut price rose tinted specs for that buyer then?

bigwol · Post by **bigwol** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 10:17 am

quote:
No but this one is,http://www.bonhams.com/eur/auction/19290/lot/256/

If you paid that for that Roy can i interest you in a property purchase? The place is in London and known locally as "the tower"

G15 Roy · Post by **G15 Roy** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 10:43 am

Due to be deliverd today and should on on Wednesdays Run.

Malleon · Post by **Malleon** » Mon Oct 17, 2011 6:29 pm

Only a true enthusiast would pay more than double the guide price for a '59 G9, even if it did grow up to become a G12 ! Was the rear wheel included?
Might be a sleeping beauty, though, and will be company for Trusty Rusty.
Best regards.