Motoring


HOW MUCH DID YOU PAY FOR YOUR CAR? Winning bid: £3.19


The Camborne / Redruth / Hayle Gazette April 2017


Smart Car Specialist


Retallack Business Park - Winnards Perch St Columb - Cornwall TR9 6DE


Servicing - Repair - Tuning


South West Area Contact Andrew 01637 889828 07889 153998


www.smart-automotive.co.uk


NORMAN HARRIS & SON SERVICE - REPAIRS


UNIT 2, 41 NEWTON ROAD, TROON, CAMBORNE, CORNWALL TR14 9DP


MOT CLASSES 3/4/5L/7 BRAKE DISC - SKIMMING ON THE VEHICLE


After hours or emergencies 01209 717646 Tel: 01209 713831


Fax: 01209 613111


15 NORTH COUNTRY


GARAGE LTD Tel: 01209 315800


Now licenced through Cornwall Council for Taxi’s & Private Hire MOT's - Class 1, 2, 4 & 7 Brakes - Exhausts - Clutches


ALL MAKES & MODELS OF VEHICLE SERVICED & REPAIRED


Steering Alignment - Air conditioning Automatic Transmissions - Courtesy Car


North Country, Redruth, Cornwall TR16 4AA northcountrygarage@hotmail.co.uk


MACSALVAGE CASH PAID


Minimum £80 paid For all complete MOT failures and accident damaged vehicles brought to our yard.


TOP PRICES PAID For all late accident damaged vehicles


VEHICLES COLLECTION SERVICE Please call for more details


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ow cheaply can you buy a solid and road-legal car? That’s the challenge that leading consumer motoring site HonestJohn.co.uk set itself, and then drove away in a perfectly usable hatchback for the all-in price of £3.19 – or less than the cost of a motorway service


station coffee or most bus tickets. Okay, so a 17-year old Rover 45 1.4 in base model specification might not be to everyone’s tastes, but as a simple and inexpensive means of getting from Point A to Point B, HonestJohn.co.uk’s approach proves that motoring need not be expensive, thanks to our throwaway society. The Rover, albeit old, is in very tidy condition, has a valid MoT until late summer and is in perfectly road legal condition. Every- thing works on it, and it drives perfectly well.


As a cheap, no-nonsense hatchback, you could do a lot worse. “We think this may be the cheapest used car in Britain,” said HonestJohn.co.uk’s Editorial Director, Daniel Harrison. “And while buying it may have been initially for a bit of fun, there are a couple of serious points to take from this. “First, that the UK has some of the cheapest – if not THE cheapest – used cars in Europe, meaning that you can run a half-decent car even if you’re on a tight budget and second that our consumerist society leads to massive depreciation, or otherwise perfectly usable cars being prematurely scrapped. “There are few other places in the world where you could find a fully functional used car this cheaply, but the very fact that we did it proves that it’s entirely possible.” The HonestJohn.co.uk Rover was bought in an online auction on eBay, so the purchase was completely open to the public.


DREWS YARD, UNITED DOWNS, ST DAY Visit our Ebay Shop - MacSalvage Parts


MACSALVAGE 01209 822260


www.macsalvage.co.uk Fully licensed yard and DVLA notified.


TOP CASH PRICES


SCRAP CAR, VAN &


MOTORCYCLE REMOVAL ALL AREAS


SAME DAY REMOVAL INCLUDING EVENINGS Fully Licensed • DVLA Approved


Visit www.scrapcarscornwall.co.uk


THE CAMBORNE REDRUTH & HAYLE


To advertise in GAZETTE Tel: 01579 342174


Fax: 01579 341852 or email us at: kellie-camborne gazette@outlook.com


MARTIN’S MOTORCYCLES


Tel: 01209 710515 New spares for road and off-road MOTORCYCLES and QUADS.


open 9am - 5.30pm closed Tues & Sun


Tyres Oils,


Tubes, Cables, Plastics,


Air Filters etc


01872 561495 07974 439520


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