Post by ladanivabelgium on Aug 3, 2013 7:17:47 GMT 2
a long one
a few weeks ago i got mail from a former club member. He told me his interest in Niva was gone and he had still sitting his 1986 in his garage. He told me that he didn't want to sell it to someone who would not take good care of it. He mailed me because he was convinced that i would give her a good home. Some mails went back and forth and we agreed that i would come and have a look. The day my son and i arrived at his house some gents were just leaving. The seller told me that they had some interest in the Niva but that he would'nt sell her to them. So we went to his garage where the Niva was sitting for the last 5 years. At first sight i could'nt believe my eyes. In front of me was a (as good as) MINT Niva 1600. As we went along i asked him for the selling price. He told me that he wanted to know some things first, such as: what are your plans with this Niva? What do you intend to do with it? Will you keep it? I told him that this Niva was in to good of a condition to take it offroad or to have it modifided (lift, winch etc) and that it woold be a shame not to keep it original. Meanwhile i inspected the Niva thoroughly and all that had to be done was replacing the steering joints and recoat the sills because the coating was coming of. I asked him for the price again and he asked me again to tell me some more about my intentions. We told hem that we would fix the VERY LITTLE rust it has and that we would register it as oldtimer. We would take it to oldtimer- and Niva meetings in summer and that it would stay at Guy's museum in the winter. When the Savanne is restored he will also spend his winters there. He told me i was telling hem all the right things and that we would talk money now. He told me the guys who left earlyer could'nt have it because they planned to sell it on for a profit.
Now, his exact words: 'There are a few conditions attached to this deal: I want to visit my Niva in the museum and i want to drive her from time to time when you take her out. is that a problem?' Since this man took such good care of this Niva all these years i would not think that is a problem. 'And mail me from time to time how she's doing' ok, i will. 'Ok, start the Niva and drive her home' 'euh, there's still the money issue?' 'I said: start the Niva and drive her home. You can have it for free'
'?'
So i got this Niva for free. The owner didn't want to take my money, he even did'nt take up on my proposal to take his wife out on dinner on my costs. Not even after i told him that this is at the least a 3000 euro car (not that i would have been able to pay him that ammount) he would'nt accept any money. he told me just to give it a good home.
Now, the pics. bare in mind that at this stage i did not do ANYTHING yet, besides giving it a wash. The black spots on the sills is not rust, it's coating coming of, under there is hard black steel:
Because of this the red 1985 oldtimer i planned to restore was sold to an other club member
a few weeks ago i got mail from a former club member. He told me his interest in Niva was gone and he had still sitting his 1986 in his garage. He told me that he didn't want to sell it to someone who would not take good care of it. He mailed me because he was convinced that i would give her a good home. Some mails went back and forth and we agreed that i would come and have a look. The day my son and i arrived at his house some gents were just leaving. The seller told me that they had some interest in the Niva but that he would'nt sell her to them. So we went to his garage where the Niva was sitting for the last 5 years. At first sight i could'nt believe my eyes. In front of me was a (as good as) MINT Niva 1600. As we went along i asked him for the selling price. He told me that he wanted to know some things first, such as: what are your plans with this Niva? What do you intend to do with it? Will you keep it? I told him that this Niva was in to good of a condition to take it offroad or to have it modifided (lift, winch etc) and that it woold be a shame not to keep it original. Meanwhile i inspected the Niva thoroughly and all that had to be done was replacing the steering joints and recoat the sills because the coating was coming of. I asked him for the price again and he asked me again to tell me some more about my intentions. We told hem that we would fix the VERY LITTLE rust it has and that we would register it as oldtimer. We would take it to oldtimer- and Niva meetings in summer and that it would stay at Guy's museum in the winter. When the Savanne is restored he will also spend his winters there. He told me i was telling hem all the right things and that we would talk money now. He told me the guys who left earlyer could'nt have it because they planned to sell it on for a profit.
Now, his exact words: 'There are a few conditions attached to this deal: I want to visit my Niva in the museum and i want to drive her from time to time when you take her out. is that a problem?' Since this man took such good care of this Niva all these years i would not think that is a problem. 'And mail me from time to time how she's doing' ok, i will. 'Ok, start the Niva and drive her home' 'euh, there's still the money issue?' 'I said: start the Niva and drive her home. You can have it for free'
'?'
So i got this Niva for free. The owner didn't want to take my money, he even did'nt take up on my proposal to take his wife out on dinner on my costs. Not even after i told him that this is at the least a 3000 euro car (not that i would have been able to pay him that ammount) he would'nt accept any money. he told me just to give it a good home.
Now, the pics. bare in mind that at this stage i did not do ANYTHING yet, besides giving it a wash. The black spots on the sills is not rust, it's coating coming of, under there is hard black steel:
Because of this the red 1985 oldtimer i planned to restore was sold to an other club member