Ever knocked on a door to see if that OSF in the garden.....

[X-pack-Glyn]

.......is actually for sale, when the door gets answered the blokes gone so ballistic hes nearly had a cardiac?

 

years ago it wasnt an OSF but it was a rover vittesse twin plenum that was down this drive for donkeys, the guy came to the door and went off his nut, totally apesh1t, it was brilliant

 

so after that we sent countless people round his place "oh yeah mate, its motd and taxed and hel let it go for a ton" ,these people would be in the boozer a few nights later looking at us very sheepish

[xpackken]

i knock at a couple of houses reguarly glyn . and i think there starting to get pissed of now . but the thing is they have cars that are going to waste . i know of 3 2.8i specials mk2escy and a couple of cortinas etc just rusting away and they allways say sorry were not selling it

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[morcheen]

i must know of at least 10 osf's sitting in drives.always keep knocking and after a while they sort of think as you as their mate.and with luck you can get a bargain

[Jimsiss]

a guy who owns the petrol station a couple of miles from me has a turbo technics capri sat on the forecourt rotting away and he won't sell it, he says he is going to do it up one day...like thats ever going to happen

[Fiesta Steve]

I get fcuking sick of people knocking on my door asking ifs my cars are for sale

 

One particular pair of lads walked into my garden and one was laying down looking under the car while the other knocked on my door.

 

He said "Is the...

 

I said "What the fook does he think he's fcuking doing under my car !! Fook off"

[Noodles]

I had a guy knock on the door do you wanna get rid of that old escort, im standing there in me halfords work top up to me elbows in grease, er no, Sure he was expecting some little old lady to just let him take it away

[RFChris]

Someone knocked on my door and came out with....

 

"Ere mate, we've had a few complaints about your car, if your having trouble getting shot of it i can take it away for nowt"

 

My response?

 

"I shift every morning to work and back, and i shifted it through its MOT last week. Before you come knocking on someones door so some fooking research, knob-head"

 

Cmpod loudly slams the door in his face.

 

apple pie.

 

NB, this was whil i had the silver MKII Capper.

[ZetecVan 2.0]

It's not just cars.

 

We've got a slate roof and a few years ago we had it re-laid. All the tiles were taken off and put back on with the broken and damaged ones replaced. We had three or four people knock at the door asking if they can have (for free) the slates we'd taken off because "they're not worth owt".

 

Cheeky barstewards.

[escortmad79]

I knocked on a door a while ago enquiring a mk2 Cortina owned by 2 brothers, used to do the car shows locally, was told the Cortina wasn't up for sale but I could buy their old shape rover 100 (Similar to this one)

 

Nah, don't want that, I wanted the Cortina which is now looking very sorry for itself

[martymk1]

a guy who owns the petrol station a couple of miles from me has a turbo technics capri sat on the forecourt rotting away and he won't sell it, he says he is going to do it up one day...like thats ever going to happen

 

[Twinkle]

i know of a bubble arched mk1 that has sat for years and years local to me one day im gonna knock on the door

[stu]

me allways knockin & leavein notes. had some good motors offerd 2 me that way i was never rude & inever got told to do 1 ether, i used 2 write em down in the back of my map book in the lorry at work where id seen em me & me mate called it the gem directry. so if any of ya live in kent, sussex east & west, south london surry/croydon it was meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[james p]

i knock and leave notes but im very polite and always pay fair money evan if they giv it to me

[ratman]

There is a red mk1 cortina under a cover in mitcham I have knocked so many times and never get a reply and left at lease 5 notes thro the door never had a reply

[Kieran]

i know if two mk1 escorts sitting on the drive rotting away and one of them has a sign on saying not for sale

[w p e]

and mine aint for sale either

[Pye Man]

I had a guy go a little mad at me. When I was working down Worcester on the M5 a year or two ago, I noticed a garden that was home to a mk1 escort. I knocked at the guys door and asked if I could look. He went mental and started going on about how they werent for sale, nor that he showed them. Any who I think he must have just thought I was another young upstart. After me arguing with him that I was genuine and owned a mk1 (bloody arguing with the guy to look at his property when he didnt want me to, can you believe it ) In the end he showed me around and actually turned out to be a spot on bloke

 

When I was 15/16 there used to be a red 2door. I was in love with it. So when out the pushbikes my brother was like why dont you knock on the door and see if want to sell it. So I did (at which my brother was shocked and mortified) They werent in though

[negri]

i have a guy round the corner from me who has a rs2000 custom sitting .

 

i ask him everytime i see him if he is selling it .

 

he thinks its worth a proper fortune . and i told him to name his price and he hasnt yet . keeps telling me when he gets a spare afternoon he will dig it out and clean it for me to look at .

 

but that day will never come .

 

 

proper waste of a motor as id have it looking spot on in no time

 

 

edited to say no doubt if and when he sells it he wont even contact me

[ratman]

and mine aint for sale either

 

How much for the yellow escort mr

[Vista]

I can see both sides of the coin on this one

 

Like most of you it irks me to see old cars rotting away when they could have been saved by earlier intervention.

 

BUT

 

Remember that you may only visit and ask once or twice, but if you've noticed it and are interested then you can be sure that plenty of other people have too. Imagine if your door bell rang on a daily basis and you were presented with another stranger wanting to buy your car? What's more, the bulk of cold callers will probably try to convince you it's a rot box and you should give it away as they're doing you a favour by getting it out of your way. It'd get tiresome wouldn't it?

 

I reckon leaving a note with a number and polite message is the best way, do it a couple of times and if you get no response the owner obviously isn't interested.

[Guest cortinamad-gonetoo]

in the past ive asked if their car is for sale and now i dont know if i would

 

before my escort got stolen last new years eve i always had people asking if it was for sale or leaving notes with phone numbers on

 

and it pissed me off

 

im also paranoid that it was maybe some one i said no to that came back and stole it

 

i wasnt rude to any of them just simply said not for sale and never will be

 

then i got a capri and fook me it started again

 

i dont have the capri now either as it was bought for breaking

 

but it really does get on my nerves

 

if my car was for sale it would be addvertised

[Durham Fiesta]

theres a bloke across my street has a fiesta 1300s on his drive thats just rusting away but he won't sell it. I asked his wife a few months ago and she said "i'm not sure what he's doing with it but he'll never part with it" so in other words its gonna sit and rot for years to come

[lee_capri]

called on anglia on saturday sat in womans back garden in weeds you no the score could only see back end but she tryed to say it werent one but you can not mistake one even if you can only see back end, so their it is in weeds and it will bite the dust sonner or later looked o.k. from what i could see some people

[antz]

i know of a mk1 fezza sat under a tree on a busy road. been sat there for a while now.

 

loads of people have asked if tis for sale and he isnt interested.

[sab6024]

I've never done it, but on my rounds I keep seeing an XR4x4 in a barn. I'm too shy to go and ask about it. There is also an Anglia shaped tarpaulin in someone's driveway when I go into another client.