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I have told you what do Taz.I should know.In the 90’s we were the biggest ex Police retailer in the U.K.

Definateley Brightwells but also Wolverhampton.Best bet is to contact the Met Fleet Dept with your credentials and they should confirm which auctions they use.Met X5’s will be as good as you can get.

Excellent choice,those McLarens are really good.We could only afford a Silver Cross,paid in readies.

Also in case you accountant hasn’t mentioned,you can charge the company 45p per mile expenses for business journeys providing you keep records. ( unless you are an MP )

The way I translate that is.You we’re going to buy a daft car for yourself with your own money at retail from a main dealer.Please tell me I am wrong . I don’t understand PCP chucky agreements that much but will hirers not be offered extended deals at cheaper rentals to protect residual values..................oh and I agree it would be great for the economy up there if tuna arrived in Scottish waters !!!!

Will it not be the usual story with Copart.The guys who do well using them will have ‘inside information’.It was the same with finance repos at the block,if you knew the repo guy.There will be less risk and quicker turn around time buying Fiestas and Polos etc but complicated big stuff must be a different matter.Why would you !

Good post Paul.It is difficult to call how punters will react.When I got my first pitch in 73 within 2 months we had an oil crisis.Opec raised the price 400% and there was an embargo and ration books were issued.The ‘experts’advocated only selling stuff below 2 litre which most dealers followed.What happened ,big stuff plunged in value and became attractive to the usual bread and butter buyers.Punters suddenly realised they could own a nice Jag or a Rover for the price of a Cortina which they had only dreamed about.If big stuff drops in value again,similar could happen.

I was interested to read the comments by some of the ‘experts ‘. CarWow’s survey that 70% of Londoners would reconsider using public transport suggesting a boost in sales.How reliable is that,where are they going to park. The Hey Car girl thinks people in cities will go out and buy electric cars.She appears to think they are good value. I think the only one worth taking notice of is Mr Gupta who will have had first hand experience of the effects on trade after extraordinary events . I think trade could take off with people missing out on holidays,getting refunds and the like.The might think that they deserve another car. Whatever happens,switched on traders will usually adjust to the market.

Can he still put the dashboards back together

We used to get Police stuff from all over the UK.The only ones we would mainly avoid were from Strathclyde and South Wales Police.

Absolutely.

We all made money on them.I also did very well with Wedges ( that’s Princesses to millenials ) they all got slated in the press but they were so cheap the punters loved them. BTW I used to run 827’s as my motorway smokers,they were really good but they were Honda powered of course.

Love it.Reliable wheels and Metro ,is that an oxymoron ? Can you imagine selling Metros now,they would all come back under CRA 15. I can remember telling punters ‘ those oil leaks are supposed to be there,it is the latest technology ‘.

I think it was Vardy’s who pulled off a master stroke a few years before they sold out.They had thousands of customers who were in big negative equity with finance deals.I often heard our guys describe some punter that we couldn’t deal because they had been ‘Vardy’d’.Legend has it that Vardy’s contacted all their punters who were halfway into their finance agreement.They apparently sent them a template letter for them to sign ,voluntary terminating their finance agreement.Halfway through an agreement you are entitled to do that but it had passed us by.The punters then just bought another car from Vardy’s .If it was true,I thought it was brilliant.

1.7d Cavaliers were bombproof.I remember one we sold several times,the last time it had done 350k ,same engine . Got it.

Can’t remember a Vauxhall Dealer in Stanley.Good punters from Stanley,Craghead and even South Moor ( I wonder if they still eat raw meat up there )

I used to know Big Ian going back to Newmains days.I heard he had passed away last summer.

Calibra ? Which dealership did you work at .

Shotts ?

Dennis went down in my estimation when he did the voice over for Yes Car Credit.I recall seeing Bomber at BCA Tewkesbury in about 88. Can you think of any ‘ celebs’ you have seen at the auctions.

You would think so,but then again look at the problems that manufacturers of PPE have had with red tape holding up orders.

3 axle stands ? still fixing ‘Eric’ stuff ( Auf Wiedersen Pet ) You are needed back !

Congratulations that is a typical millenial answer.I actually had a row when I called into the bank recently and asked them to do a small transfer.They refused because I couldn’t remember various passwords.I had plenty of the usual ID.We have banked there for 30 years.

There are still a lot of people out there who only have a land line and get offended when they are asked for passwords,PIN numbers,apps,user names etc when they at the counter in their bank and only want to transfer £x from one account to another in the same bank.So asking them for an E signature on a VAT sales invoice on delivery might be difficult.

‘ No handover signature requirements ‘ do these guys have that in writing from the VAT office.What will an inspector make of that when they examine your records in 4 years time.In the past,if a signature was missing,they could penalise you.