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KN Registered User
Joined: 21 Jan 2006 Posts: 62 Location: Sydney Australia
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Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 6:22 am Post subject: ESU816 |
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Hi All
Had a visit from a fellow car club member here in Sydney to look at my Phase 2r with a view to possibly buying it or a similar car to import from the UK. You could of knocked me over with a feather when my 18yo son said don't sell it dad,it is cooler than any MX-5. He has never before expressed any interest in old cars before or the Olympic in particular!
So does anyone know of an Olympic that is running and has an original type English engine in it for sale.
Will pass any enquiries on. It would be nice to see a 3rd Olympic down-under.
Regards Keith _________________ Olympic Phase 2r ESU816 |
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calex_fr Registered User
Joined: 18 Jul 2008 Posts: 408 Location: Champagne (France)
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Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 8:08 am Post subject: |
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beautyfull plate :
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TonyS Registered User
Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 231 Location: Worcestershire
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Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 5:27 pm Post subject: |
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Hi Keith,
Hope you and family are well.
This Olympic was sold on e-bay in England for about £3000 in 2007, It was bought by a dealer in America, he sold it on e-bay for $8000 in March 2008 to a dealer in Tokyo in Japan. He sold it around March 2009 but would not tell me where and for what price. So what happened to it in the few months between then and Tau Corporation I do not know.
By the photos taken in America and those by Tan Corp it has done 9miles but the condition has deteriorated. The confusion over the engine is because it has an 1800cc MGB engine and overdrive gearbox. The American e-bay description is below.
1963 ROCHDALE OLYMPIC SERIES 1, VERY RARE AND UNUSUAL CAR HERE IN THE STATES, THIS PARTICULAR EXAMPLE OF A 1ST SERIES MODEL ALONG ITS LIFE HAS HAD A TRANSPLANT AND HAS BEEN UPGRADED MGB DRIVE TRAIN, WITH FRT DISC BRAKES, EXPANDED RADIATOR, OIL COOLER, CUSTOM DASH WITH EXTRA INSTRUMENTS AND AN UNUSUAL BUT CONVENIENT REAR HATCH , 13" MINILITE STYLE ALLOY WHEELS SITTING ON AVONS, NEW EXHAUST SYSTEM AND THE LIST GOES ON.....THIS LITTLE CAR, VERY NIMBLE AND LIGHT, RUNS AND DRIVES, NEEDS ONLY A NEW OWNER THAT CAN FINISH TO CARRYING ON MOSTLY THE FINAL DETAILS OF THIS TRANSFORMATION, AND BEEN ABLE TO ENJOY IT FOR MANY YEARS TO COME..... THIS IS AN EXCELLENT CAR TO COMPLETE FOR SOME VINTAGE EVENTS OR JUST AN ECCENTRIC RIDE TO GO GET COFFE AND THE NEWSPAPER ON SUNDAY MORNING RUNS, CERTAINLY YOUR NEIGHBORS WILL BE SCRATCHING THEIR HEADS.
On current prices I think £3500 to £4000 in the UK is about right.
Tau Corp have an Australian Office in Brisbane, +61-40-823-4997 Mr David White.
Hope this helps.
Kind regards
Tony. _________________ Rochdale Olympic History Archive |
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KN Registered User
Joined: 21 Jan 2006 Posts: 62 Location: Sydney Australia
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Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 10:03 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks Tony
Have emailed to Geoff the details and contacts and he will decide. BTW is the Rochdale ID plate the same as the one the club sells?
Regards Keith. _________________ Olympic Phase 2r ESU816 |
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TonyS Registered User
Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 231 Location: Worcestershire
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Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 11:41 am Post subject: |
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Hi Keith,
Below is the Rochdale ID plate that the club sells.
The one in the photo off the Blue car I have not seen before?
It looks good maybe someone else can tell us more about it?
Regards
Tony _________________ Rochdale Olympic History Archive |
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KN Registered User
Joined: 21 Jan 2006 Posts: 62 Location: Sydney Australia
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Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2010 7:00 pm Post subject: |
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Hi Tony
Some one must have gone to some trouble if the non-club id plate was a one-off. Both look good though. Much better than the simple metal strip with some letters and numbers etched onto it and now impossible to read. Luckily the paperwork with the numbers still survive so out with the alpha-numeric punch set!
Geoff is still interested in an Olympic but not the one in Japan but mine. The price is tempting, I will give him an answer this coming week-end.
Regards Keith _________________ Olympic Phase 2r ESU816 |
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KN Registered User
Joined: 21 Jan 2006 Posts: 62 Location: Sydney Australia
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Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 3:53 am Post subject: |
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I get to keep my Olympic!! i am not upset that he did not elect to buy mine & he did not like the look of the one in Japan. I did send him details of Zafrellys one on Ebay but it is too much of a kit for him to be tempted.
Regards Keith Nicholson. _________________ Olympic Phase 2r ESU816 |
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