Nigelw Posted November 16, 2013 Share Posted November 16, 2013 The proud winner of the Sealey Defender from the competition in LRO is so grateful and happy with being so bleeding lucky he has decided to sell it Most of us would give almost anything to win a prize like that and he is selling it. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1999-LAND-ROVER-110-DEFENDER-TDI-GREY-3-DOOR-HARD-TOP-UNIQUE-/111217460229?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item19e513c405 Never been a real lover of Defenders but come on, one in a million chance and he just sells it to get some cash in his pocket. Or am I being over zealous again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonr Posted November 16, 2013 Share Posted November 16, 2013 Maybe he doesn't like it! I think if it were me, it would be on eBay and I'd be looking for a Td5 90! That way, you get the prize you want! Si Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballcock Posted November 16, 2013 Share Posted November 16, 2013 As he says it's not practical. He may already have another Land Rover or put the money toward something that suits him better. I personally would prefer a station wagon or a 90 hard top. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reb78 Posted November 16, 2013 Share Posted November 16, 2013 Why is it unbelievable?! If I'd entered the competition and won, I'd have done exactly the same thing. I have a 110 already and the money from the sale of a vehicle won would be spent on furthering a project that I have worked on for years.... I'd have no need of a ready completed project. Nothing strange or ungrateful about this sale. Edit, forgot to add, that as an lro project, the competition vehicle is probably built with britpart rubbish, so selling it is probably a very wise decision!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bill van snorkle Posted November 16, 2013 Share Posted November 16, 2013 There was a local regional radio competition a while back where 1st prize was a Defender. The second prize was 2 Defenders ! Needless to say, no one was game to enter the competition LOL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missingsid Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 IIRC it was the same with those fix up your house on TV shows, they had to add a clause in the agreement that they could not sell it immediately as loads did once the show aired. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderzander Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 Is it not a lot of money for what it is ? It only reads to have had a basic re-furb rather than a nut and bolt re-build. A quick search on eBay is turning up Td5's 7 years newer, or rebuilds on a galv chassis for similar or less money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigelw Posted November 17, 2013 Author Share Posted November 17, 2013 Must be just me then But why enter if you have no intentions of keeping it? It would have been better to let someone who does actually want it to have won it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowie69 Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 But why enter if you have no intentions of keeping it? If someone was willing to give me £9K for a piece of paper with my name on it I would jump at the chance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reb78 Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 As Bowie says. I'd have entered with selling it in mind. The cost of a stamp for 9k.... Same theory as the lottery - you don't not but a ticket because you want someone else to have a better chance of winning! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballcock Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 Maybe he should have advertised it in LRO or is that really taking the mickey. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderzander Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 I follow the logic - though I don't enter competitions I wouldn't want to win and I suspect I'd feel a bit ungrateful selling it .... I've met some people who almost professionally enter competitions: buying numerous cheap magazines and entering every competition they hold with bulk entries. They'd won a lot of things too and sold the vast majority. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbs Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 If I remember rightly-the 110 won was being "refurbished" with shizerpart and personally I'm not surprised that he's getting rid of it because as we all know it'd be probably cheaper to get rid and start again with another vehicle than carry on and deal with the mess thats been put together as regards to the prize being given away John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
landroversforever Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 I entered with the intention of selling it. Money that would be useful for my 90 rebuild. However if have kept it for a little while for shifting parts! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retroanaconda Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 Same reason I entered a competition a while ago now to win a (then) brand new Defender. Would have broken it up for parts, kept some for my own and flogged the rest. Easy money! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hybrid_From_Hell Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 IMHO a lro refurbed "prize" LR is Going to have the absolute maximum bull**** and bravardo pr vd as little money spent as they can get away with Prob if I won it (tricky as don't buy lro as its so carp ) lije others I world have had it on eBay before you could say britparts built.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderzander Posted November 17, 2013 Share Posted November 17, 2013 Ruthless bunch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hybrid_From_Hell Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GW8IZR Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 Most people who buy LRO *probably* already have a LR, most likely the prize would have to be pretty interesting to make it worth keeping. If I'd bought LRO, if I'd won it.... it would have been on ebay pretty smartish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike4444244 Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 with all those new britpart bits it's worth at least £150 to weigh in?! ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FridgeFreezer Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 If I remember rightly-the 110 won was being "refurbished" with shizerpart and personally I'm not surprised that he's getting rid of it because as we all know it'd be probably cheaper to get rid and start again with another vehicle than carry on and deal with the mess thats been put together as regards to the prize being given away yep - you know if LRO have done it it's been done with whatever free junk they could blag from their advertisers. Also, there'll be some muppet who reads LRO who'll believe their hype and pay over the odds for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbs Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 yep - you know if LRO have done it it's been done with whatever free junk they could blag from their advertisers. Also, there'll be some muppet who reads LRO who'll believe their hype and pay over the odds for it. Couldn't agree more-just because it says refurbished doesn't mean it's going to be any good does it lol !! John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigelw Posted November 18, 2013 Author Share Posted November 18, 2013 I am obviously wrong about this and it is the best thing to have ever happened to the guy and the truck. I think we all see things from a different perspective, this is what makes us individuals, but you all look at it from the cozy seat of having what you want already and anything else is a bonus and easy money. I look at it from the point of view as I have almost nothing, just bare essentials to get me through life but skills enough to bring my own project back to life, I bought a project simply because I didn't have enough money to buy a runner, it could be argued that I should have saved harder but I managed to get my project for 1/3 the cost of a runner that within the next 2~3 yrs will see the same work need doing, nobody told me I had to buy a project but you do what you can afford to do. I see it as unbelievable from a position where by a win like that would have given me a truck to get around in, a truck to go out and drive as opposed to spending months welding and wiring, and it could have well been the same for someone else too, it could have meant the end of worries come MOT time and fear of the next big parts bill essential to keep it on the road, but this guy didn't need it nor did he actually want it, his own words of describing it as "not practical" says he just wanted it for what it was worth. Yes it may have been fitted with BP stuff but it does not have any rot and is a very clean motor with a lot of life left in it, unlike some sheds I have seen advertised that are barely what it says on the log book, maybe you guys need to look above your hatred for BP, and just look at the base motor for what it is, a Defender 110. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FridgeFreezer Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 Nigel - it's not all about hatred for BP, or LRO, or any of that. Imagine it was something else - say a tricked up Hummer or a j**p worth £10k+, and you won it. Would you throw your Land Rover project in the bin & convert to the car you won, or would you sell it to fund your Land Rover? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbs Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 Nigel, My dislike-hatred if you like? of BP is purely through the fact I can't stand people being ripped off with the purchase of inferior goods-and 90% of the comments made on here-and elsewhere plainly are of the Inferior quality of BP, OK yes all of us at some point is guilty of buying Inferior goods but we soon learn lessons from It-hopefully anyway,I also have to agree with you that some of us are indeed in a position of being able to have what we want already but It's not always been the case with me-If I didn't have the job and skills that I possess then I would be doing a normal job back here in the UK as It goes i do have the pre-requisite to d the job I do now and will carry on working the way I'm doing, We all buy projects in some way shape or form to get up to a decent standard, The problem for me personally is that buying/winning someone else's project conjures up all sorts of possible problems that the previous owner has either bodged or hasn't done up to a good standard as I would hope to do myself-We've all seen it on here OP's attempts at wiring etc. and even some bizarre mechanical work too, OK not all of us are to the standard of the likes of DD-Dan but a lot of us are very capable of turning out some fantastic vehicles that are very capable and for not much money either John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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