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Looks like the bidder on the twin turbo S3 (S2) got cold feet - or read the DOC message board.

When you think of the really nice cars you could buy or the absolute stonker B+ you could build for £3K. However it does appear that the people who buy the cars off e-bay know very little about kits in general otherwise what would they be doing paying £2-300 for some scrap dutton bits or £4-500 for a complete basket case. The other kits on e-bay are no different with people paying well over the odds for Rob(b)in(g) Hoods ( a very apt name I might add) and those wooded TJ locust things and Locost homebuilds!! I am just waiting for the DIY disasters program to pick up on these :D

You could probably earn a small fortune on e-bay if you changed the name to something other than Dutton Phaeton. who would care?

For sale COLT Firebolt and full of the good old un PC sales speak

Add speak - Translation

Colt Firebolt - Dutton sounds crap and no-one knows what phaeton means

ABV - Amatuer bodged vehicle

Tuned 1700 cross flow - 1600 ford with new plugs and points

Lotus Bullet G/box - Came out of a white and green 1300 cortina

Full race harness - Red webbing metro belts mounted to glass fibre

Race suspension - Halfords dont list any parts for it

Uprated cooling system - New fan belt fitted

Rewired - Disconnected the oil warning light

New sports seats - Only twiggy will fit in it

New respray - Had to cover crap gel coat

Side exit exhaust - Accident with sleeping policeman

Twin 40's /45's - P0rn star picture on dash

New wet weather gear - Umbrella and towel in the boot.

Chromed roll bar - So the paint said on the tin

LSD - Loadsa Slip Differential

Alloy wheels - The ford ones that no-one likes

Low profile tyres - Just legal tread depth

four pot front brakes - two on the left & two on the right

grooved discs - worn out pads and blowing exhaust

0-60 in 5 seconds - uncalibrated speedo

No tirekickers - only just fixed form the last person who kicked them

3 months MOT - got the bloke down the pub to backdate it to before my ownership

6 months tax - got lucky and found a nearly new one under a seat in the scrappy

Just needs a little TLC spending on it - TRUCK LOAD of CASH

Cheers

Andrew

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And it sold at the last minute to the Frenchman :D

They are dead keen on these things on the mainland wonder if there is a french duttons owners club? didnt think there was much of and advantage in a '83 car with regard top registration costs.

Andrew

There is no Dutton French Owners Club, and as I tryed, there is no way to register a '83 in France.

Fabien.

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The guy who bought must know something that the rest of us dont as he had also bought a few other cars - Why cant an 83 be registered - surely its just a matter of cost most countries having a cut off where classic cars come into a different registration/cost catagory.

Cheers

Andrew

But there's a only way to register : if the car have 25 years old and more. It whould obtain a special log book and registration. (special for oldtimers!)
That's my case, that'll be my case. I'm searching one 25old...
Fabien.