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Dec 17, 2014 - 7:24PM

Turn your old crap into cash

Just seen this pile for sale on Ebay

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/THE-BSA-TRIUMPH-NORTON-VINCENT-SCULPTURE-BRITISH-BIKE-ART-XMAS-PRESENT-ONE-OFF-/151517255318?pt=UK_art_Sculpture_GL&hash=item234721d696

Looks like around £40-£50 worth of worn out bits, Makes my own hoard worth around £30.000...Right time to find up some old stainless strap, bit of wood and get on the polishing mop.....

Ron Pier

Dec 17, 2014 - 8:47PM

Re: Turn your old crap into cash

I'd be embarrassed to try and sell something like that, and even more embarrassed to display it. Ron

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Ian Wright

Dec 17, 2014 - 9:08PM

Re: Turn your old crap into cash

'Turn your old crap into polished old crap'...

'Buy it now' for £400?..... ....I find it hard to believe anyone would be that gullible...

Then again, I might buy one when my Nigerian lottery winnings come through...Ian

email (option): ian@wright52.plus.com

Pat M

Dec 17, 2014 - 9:32PM

Re: Turn your old crap into cash

I've weighed in better "art".

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douglas

Dec 17, 2014 - 10:08PM

Re: Turn your old crap into cash

I think he's just having a go! Probably a bet with his friends.Well I hope so anyway?

Rik

Dec 17, 2014 - 10:51PM

Re: Turn your old crap into cash

The 'Norton' one is even worse...He has a pattern Norton AMC gearbox filler cap (AMC put the winged 'M' and 'AJS' on their bikes but didn't want to gild the Norton lily too much)...and a battered Villiers engine casing...it was only much later that Norton became 'Norton Villiers'

It's odd really but motorcycle parts always look best when assembled in the correct order....(well, apart from Honda CX500s)

steven bell

Dec 18, 2014 - 1:57AM

Re: Turn your old crap into cash

You think that's funny convert that into Canadian $$

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roger

Dec 18, 2014 - 2:25AM

Re: Turn your old crap into cash

cloud cook coo land comes to mind

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Pete C

Dec 18, 2014 - 7:48AM

Re: Turn your old crap into cash

Shiny.....Mongo like shiny!

Ian Wright

Dec 18, 2014 - 11:23AM

Re: Turn your old crap into cash

It looks like he used Mungo to bend the flat metal strip.... ...Ian

email (option): ian@wright52.plus.com

Trevor

Dec 18, 2014 - 12:30PM

Re: Turn your old crap into cash

yes,
to you and me it is shinny crap.
To the arty farty they are a rugged experssion of urban manufacturing.

Sods who woud not know which way to sit on a motorcycle will buy them an think they are all the more better for having one.

When the NSW government closed down the rail way workshop some one bought all of the old cope & drag moulding patterns.
They mounted them ( quite badly ) on a piece of dyed hessian covered mdf and sold them for thousands.
Who bought this junk ?
Arts & economics graduates who feel urban guilt over not knowing how to work a can opener while making squillions shuffeling paper.

email (option): wariron@tpg,com,au

Hans WDM20 58764

Dec 19, 2014 - 7:34PM

Re: Turn your old crap into cash

Ugly, and without taste...
But there are better ones, like this award that I won during the 2007 “Webbfork run” where during pouring rain the cush drive bearing nut loosened and I could only drive in first gear, for some 20 km.
That “Bad luck- award”, made by Theo Schipper (by the way, an accomplished painter) , consists of a broken BSA connecting rod and a spanner, mounted on an ecological-approved piece of wood. Under applause of all participants it was handed over under a symbolic umbrella.