Another bargain!

[lozz]

My father had one when iwas about 8 or 9.
He rekons,one of the bands went and he couidnt get another one, Musnt of been much parts available for them,
iirc Volvo or some other company took over them and Made a Moderner version,

Tbh iwouidnt fancy Driving one of them but Aspose it couidnt be any worse than driving a Matiz,


Edit, google brings up this, coments about Elastic bands,

1.It was innovative, and the public at large tends to be suspicious of innovations, especially when they are out-of-step with popular trends.
2.he DAF Company was small and was not an obvious part of the "mainstream" motor world. It was also a late comer to the motoring market, and effective agencies were less than easy to come by.
3.Prices were not particularly cheap in the world market place.
4.A lot of snide remarks were made in the press, especially in the motoring press, about "elastic bands" and so on (they still are). In other words the Variomatic car was made into a bit of a joke by and to those who had never owned or driven one. It also managed to acquire the cachets of an old person's car and of a "shopping trolley"
5.The way the engine ran straight up to maximum torque speed and stayed there while the car itself "caught up" became a source of puzzlement or amusement, again magnified out of proportion by antagonistic motoring writers.
6.The transmission package is fairly bulky and needs suitable space under the rear of the car to accommodate it. In other words it could not be sold generally for fitting to any make or model of car, but would only fit a car specially designed for it.
7.The simple maintenance adjust-ments of belts and clutch entailed getting underneath the car, a deterrent to the DIYer and usually neglected by garages. The resulting short belt life and clutch life (and failures on the road) gave the car an unjustifiably bad name for poor reliability and expensive repairs.
8.Though substantial improvements to details which gave longevity and improved reliability had been made to the Variomatic over the years, those further few steps necessary to get "over the last hump" were never taken
9.The reputation of automatic transmissions of the conventional type for absorbing too much engine power was incorrectly ascribed to the Variomatic.
10.The unexplained and really quite illogical resistance of Europeans to automatic transmission was against Variomatic throughout its lifetime. In Volvo 340 days, when manual and automatic were available side-by-side, the Variomatic was sur-charged in price, and salesmen tended to disregard the Variomatic if they could: "well, we can get one for you if you really insist" type of attitude.

[sirwiggum]

I do like my big Hondas ;)

Chep as chips coupe, though its a manual so less of a cruiser

http://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-moto ... /100147160

This one here is close to mine except mines a dark purple and not black, and cream leather

http://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-moto ... /100840758

[lozz]

that honda is cheap considering hes just taxed it, @ cost of £220.00

[waue1978]

1.It was innovative, and the public at large tends to be suspicious of innovations, especially when they are out-of-step with popular trends.
2.he DAF Company was small and was not an obvious part of the "mainstream" motor world. It was also a late comer to the motoring market, and effective agencies were less than easy to come by.
3.Prices were not particularly cheap in the world market place.
4.A lot of snide remarks were made in the press, especially in the motoring press, about "elastic bands" and so on (they still are). In other words the Variomatic car was made into a bit of a joke by and to those who had never owned or driven one. It also managed to acquire the cachets of an old person's car and of a "shopping trolley"
5.The way the engine ran straight up to maximum torque speed and stayed there while the car itself "caught up" became a source of puzzlement or amusement, again magnified out of proportion by antagonistic motoring writers.
6.The transmission package is fairly bulky and needs suitable space under the rear of the car to accommodate it. In other words it could not be sold generally for fitting to any make or model of car, but would only fit a car specially designed for it.
7.The simple maintenance adjust-ments of belts and clutch entailed getting underneath the car, a deterrent to the DIYer and usually neglected by garages. The resulting short belt life and clutch life (and failures on the road) gave the car an unjustifiably bad name for poor reliability and expensive repairs.
8.Though substantial improvements to details which gave longevity and improved reliability had been made to the Variomatic over the years, those further few steps necessary to get "over the last hump" were never taken
9.The reputation of automatic transmissions of the conventional type for absorbing too much engine power was incorrectly ascribed to the Variomatic.
10.The unexplained and really quite illogical resistance of Europeans to automatic transmission was against Variomatic throughout its lifetime. In Volvo 340 days, when manual and automatic were available side-by-side, the Variomatic was sur-charged in price, and salesmen tended to disregard the Variomatic if they could: "well, we can get one for you if you really insist" type of attitude.

You missed the fact that you could go as fast in reverse as you could going forwards. Something which is true of most CVT transmissions, although I believe a lot of them have some sort of electronic speed limiter in them now.

[lozz]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NeyoNds ... re=related

[lozz]

not many of these about,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPlnyYpu ... re=related

[lozz]

or these. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQKktZ9H ... re=related

[lozz]

some more old stuff,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liBH0_Ll1YA

check the firebird out, that thing rocks

[sirwiggum]

This reminds me of some of the gumtree adverts

[lozz]

[FarmerPug]

fantastic, 2008+8 08 platter

[Doggy]

Wonderful.

[waue1978]

I know I'm probably tempting fate here, but:

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/ ... ?logcode=p

He only bought it from me a month ago. Advertised at £5 less than he paid for it too!

[lozz]

I know I'm probably tempting fate here, but:

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/ ... ?logcode=p

He only bought it from me a month ago. Advertised at £5 less than he paid for it too!

Thats acar ididnt expect to see up for sale,
not atleast after 1mth anyway,

[sirwiggum]

I've seen cars I've recently sold (after the buyer gives me a sob story, need a family car / car for getting into work) readvertised that day with a bit of a markup and an invented service history.

Never seen one with a lower price though. Although it looks like he's changed your alloys.

£car + £alloys + £tax would probably still be a healthy markup on £car alone.