When Bring a Trailer purchases go awry 

I need to send you my rusty e10

Many thanks for that nice comment, and ultimately, we are all in this together in the quest to keep the cars alive!

It's a 'restored' 60 year old car, so it should be problem-free. If it was original, you're right, you'd expect issues. What is your point? Are you the builder?🙄

@@roscoejones4515 Shush...

Did they not post new vids of the car in motion or driving it?

What is that fitting? Maybe a grease fitting? A bleed screw? Seems like a weird location in the middle of that line 5:20

Well your first mistake was buying an mg.

Exactly....like they expect an off the show room floor condition. The thing is like over 40 years old!

Nice haha

I left my body once and went to a sun star or whatever you want to call it , very crazy but it was the source of everything and I found the key to life than I was sucked back into my body and forgot the magic that was coming from it . I will tell you 🌟 are more than just fireballs 🤙

I worked a second job at a body shop The man was known for t-bird builds. Once a very pretty 63 bird came in. Some one even painted the floor pans inside the car odd but I thought we had to finish off the car, but when the shop owner told me to grab a disk grinder with some 800 grit paper. He walked over to the quarter panel put a straight edge down there. It rocked badly.i asked again about the correct grit and he made a few lines on the quarter panel. He told me to stop when I hit metal. 15 minutes later I was covered in Bondo dust. The car had issues with fener skirts fitting. He took a cut off wheel width of metal out. A few taps with a body hammer and the skirt fit perfectly. Seen a lot of horror body work was common issue. Learned something that day.never look at paint only look for rust and the common issue before buying anything. Price maybe cheap but to make it right will cost you more on the back end of the job. Happy hunting.

Many thanks, one of my favorite social media comments I have ever seen, thank you for this acknowledgement, too much blaming, generally... we are all in this together. Thanks for writing!

Quarter mile each way?

Well, sometimes she may have stopped for a few beers on her way home. So maybe a little more than a quarter of a mile then.

I agree, buying a private sale car is much more advantageous.

After bleeding more than 400 Bugeyes, we've found that it is easier to bleed with air going up and out, and moreover, this one, when it arrived, had air in the clutch, and didn't actuate properly. We moved the bleeder up and it now works great. We've found that the rear wheel cylinders have a similar issue, and we prefer the later type which are also easier to bleed since the air has a chance of finding it's way out...

@@bugeyeguydotcom certainly air going up makes more sense. Sometimes things that the factory did made no sense. I have had a GT6+ for over 47 years. I know every part of that car. A restoration book that I bought from a reputable restorer made fun of someone for putting a bolt in the grease fitting hole on the front uprights just above the trunnions. trunnions. The factory put bolts in there and the bolts were to be removed when gear oil was to be pumped in and then put back in place. Restorers just assumed that grease nipples were supposed to be in there.

Nobody actually makes you bring a trailer (even if shipping is not offered via BaT) and many gamble and drive their purchases home. It is a bigger gamble if not a late model vehicle. Definitely a function of distance from the sellers location to yours. I would not want to drive a vintage vehicle many hundreds of miles, "restored" or not. Just bought my second vehicle off BaT. The first had many hidden issues not reported and felt I overpaid. It had a new paint job, but was not well done and there is already failure on the roof (due to improper preparation in my estimation). That was purchased from a dealer who flips cars. The second was a vehicle (truck) type I was searching for a time. I could not believe someone was not going to outbid me and won it surprisingly. I got it for less than half what similar were going for just a year or two ago. I have seen several since not as nice that went for more money. It was shipped most the way across the country (so sight unseen except many hi-res pics). Even with that expense included, it was still a killer deal (still less that half price). It was garaged stored its whole life in CA and briefly in AZ. No rust in its 35 year life. You have to be in the right place at the right time. There are deals to be had. I have also marveled at lofty prices sold on VERY low mile examples that clearly sat unused for long periods. In addition to timing, it also depends on what you are trying to get. For example, some very low mileage examples of high-end luxury Japanese cars (i.e., Lexus) do not appear to hold their value and can often get you into one for 20% of the original acquisition costs. If there is a CarFax record that bolsters mileage claims, has maintenance history, and does not report an accident, then the gamble is lessened. It can and does make sense sometimes.

I doubt the vast majority of professional mechanics would have caught any of those issues doing an on-site inspection. Possible a clutch issue would be identified with a test drive if seller allows. Most of these older cars aren’t going to be daily drivers anyway and problems can be addressed as needed. I’d imagine a great many cars these days are just being flipped and the person selling the car really doesn’t know the real details on the vehicle. I’d think inspection for body and frame rot or structural crash damage would be beneficial. A solid vehicle can have mechanical and electrical problems reasonably corrected a patched up rust bucket can be beyond economical repair, especially rare models with little or no aftermarket components.

Grease zerk to lube the parking brake cable. There should be one on the arm pivot too.

@@UncleGrowl wow, for the parking brake cable. Didn't know they had those. 😊

These buyers are stating their "misrepresented car" experience.

Tons of different ways to bleed, but this one, however, didn't actuate properly when we got it, so help was needed, and now she has a new clutch line with the bleeder on the top

Exactly ☺️

My thoughts exactly. No doubt they know what they're doing but... I'll blame it on what the customer wants.

Our GPS Sprit speedo fixes a multitude of problems. We created a gauge that looks a whole lot like the original, but for people who prefer the actual mechanical gauges, we have those too, rebuilt. But most of our clients have chosen to have the superior reliability of the new generation of gauges.

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Maybe, but in this particular case, when we got the car, take -up was way too rapid, air was in system, and it needed to be fixed, hence the call out... Now, with the new line and the bleeder on top, the system works flawlessly. I'm sure the builders thought the clutch was supposed to feel the way it did, but it feels a lot better now and is easier to drive and shift.