Free oak garage?

[88v8]

I know nothing about this.
Just putting it out there.
You have room for a garage?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Traditional-wooden-Garage-/271854838515?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3f4bcfa2f3

Ivor

 

[Flyfisher]

I have the room, but I'm not in Switzerland.

 

[88v8]

Had the impression he is in Switz and looking for a base over here, but now you mention it could have been clearer.
I'll look.
Yes, I see he is Swiss.

Go on then, FF. With any luck he's a diplomat, so the garage can have immunity from planning regs.

Ivor

 

[Flyfisher]

Hmm. Not too keen on the thatch. I reckon it would have to be pantiles to stand a chance of LBC.

Interesting idea, but why I am I suspicious about his real motives?

 

[worms]

Well he seems to have taste in cars! I would imagine that he needs a more suitable garage for his classic cars and is offering this on the basis that the buyer collects, so he saves on the demolition and removal costs.

 

[88v8]

Perhaps he's an eccentric millionaire.
I've asked him for more info on his proposals. It does seem a rather tortuous and expensive way to find summer garaging, and in any event an open garage is not the way to store classic cars.

Ivor

 

[malcolm]

If it turns out the shipping company will only accept money from a UK bank transfer don't accept money by PayPal to forward to the shipping company!

 

[Keith Bowman]

Perhaps he's an eccentric millionaire.
I've asked him for more info on his proposals. It does seem a rather tortuous and expensive way to find summer garaging, and in any event an open garage is not the way to store classic cars.

Ivor

It looks as though there would be room behind the 'workshop' doors for a couple of Austin 7s! Nevertheless, the whole thing just smells fishy. Why does the word bargepole keep running round my mind?

 

[88v8]

It's a cave man thing.
Our default response to anything novel is suspicion.

Nevertheless, anyone with the space, or some empty outbuildings that could accommodate four Austin Sevens and their workshop tools, please pipe up and I'll PM you later this evening.

Ivor

 

[Penners]

why I am I suspicious about his real motives?

Perhaps it's because Google Maps seems completely unable to find a place called Christchurch in Switzerland!

All very odd... :?

 

[mims&pip]

Perhaps he's an eccentric millionaire.
I've asked him for more info on his proposals. It does seem a rather tortuous and expensive way to find summer garaging, and in any event an open garage is not the way to store classic cars.

Ivor

Yes, quite possibly an eccentric millionaire - reminiscent of the previous owner of this place who bought a sprawling Grade 2 Manor House with outbuildings and twenty acres merely in order to house his forty-odd Classic cars :roll:

Parking here amounts to one garage and ORP for two vehicles, so goodness knows where he kept them all......

Mims x

 

[Penners]

his forty-odd Classic cars..... goodness knows where he kept them all

Underground perhaps?

http://classic-cars-talks.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/lord-brockets-butchered-beauties.html

 

[Flyfisher]

Ah, Lord Brocket's misdemeanours. We used to live not too far from Brocket Hall during that little episode and it was a regular story in the local paper. Car parts were discovered in the estate lake as I recall - not the brightest idea really. Mi'Lord ended up having a break at Her Majesty's Pleasure and Lady Brocket briefly rented a house a few doors away from us. We bought quite a few clothes for FF junior from her at one of her 'garage sales'.

 

[Penners]

I edited a vanity publication of memoirs for one of His Lordship's family, some years ago. Surprisingly, no mention was made of the episode!

 

[mims&pip]

his forty-odd Classic cars..... goodness knows where he kept them all

Underground perhaps?

http://classic-cars-talks.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/lord-brockets-butchered-beauties.html

:lol: Funny you should mention it Penners, there's a curious patch of lawn that appears to have recently been dug up and relaid with interspersed planting. We assumed an animal grave lay beneath, but maybe not...... :lol:

Mims x

 

[Penners]

patch of lawn that appears to have recently been dug up.... We assumed an animal grave lay beneath

Perhaps an elderly Jaguar?

 

[mims&pip]

patch of lawn that appears to have recently been dug up.... We assumed an animal grave lay beneath

Perhaps an elderly Jaguar?

:lol: Ssssh, don't say that too loudly in case Zebra is about :lol:

 

[Zebra]

What? A Jaguar?! Aaaaaaaaaaaauuuuuuuuuuuugggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Clippety clippety clippety clippety clop clop clop clop clop

 

[Penners]

Calm down, Zebra. You won't find any jaguars in the Serengeti (unless one of them has stowed away on a plane from South America)!