Is blue the new red?
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From one of the people on the minimania site......

In the world of used lumps;

1 coat of paint=rebuilt

2 coats of paint=remanufactured

Having the paint can fall off the shelf onto the lump=priceless

Schrödinger's cat - so which one am I ???

ive had a reply...
Dear stephj_uk_2k,

hi again their is no buy it now just bidding i have been getting grief from the mini mania website because i painted the engine blue and i thought you were another of the people sorry if i got it wrong regards billy

- 9244billy

cant think of a reply as yet..... any ideas?

ask if he will sell it for £666

ooo he's in surrey, i'm in surrey i wanna drive past his house see if i can see the "glow" of the blue from the road

great thread though guys :)

LMAO! some pratt paid £180 for it. I need to get my 'good' 1380 motor up!

Paint it very rare BMC blue using a sheep as a brush.

If something is worth doing, it's worth doing half of.

OMG why would you report me to ebay so much i am a member of this forum trying to get a quick buck obivously it has been painted and it was the engine i bought a few weeks before but there really was nothing wrong with it, the genuine reason for sale was i cant get a engine hoist to change the engine over atm and wanted some money to pay for some bills that i got and just thought i will get some panels that are going rusty on my mini

so you had to bombard me with lots of emails and stuff like that the man came and collected the engine and it is in perfect condition it did really only have 32k which is low yes but it is genuine

its ok to keep it in the forum but dont keep sending me shitty emails and i would not expect it from this forum

Hahaha!!!

Ha ha!

To be fair though, you did overdo it, with the volume of paint on absolutely everything!

LOL

TBH if you are going to put something on ebay that is blatently a rip of and looks to have been painted to such a piss poor standard then you have to expect some come back. Especially from the eagle eyed boys on here!

Thread revival!

blister

Glad you made a quick buck but unfortunately that engine was a blatent rip off. You bought it a few weeks ago with a description that its been stood years. Also nowhere in the previous ad did it state 32,000 miles. Unless the previous owner still had the clocks and some service history there is no way you could have determined this.

Did you ever have it running? Has the new owner got it running yet?

How is the sheep getting along that you used to paint it?

If something is worth doing, it's worth doing half of.