I didn't know it was still around. Does anybuddy still use it when looking for jamjars. I'ma looking to replace my 9 year old scobby doo and stumbled across said publication while checking out CR-V's.
www.exchangeandmart.co.uk/
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No i thought I'd had closed down. I think most people use ebay, autotrader or PH now.
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>>No i thought I'd had closed down.
Same here. I've had a quick looksee for SUV's but wont bother in future.
PH .. now there's a thought.
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Fifty years ago I used to work for the grandson of the man who founded E and M.
Almost as many years ago, when my friend and I had a good sideline buying and selling decent hi-fi equipment, one or the other of us would be at the newsagent at 6am on a Thursday morning and we used to travel half the country following up E and M ads. Happy days...
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>>Happy days...
Happy days indeed ... most if not all my cars + 2 vans were sourced via the E & M in the 1970/80's.
I advertised my mobile car tuning business in said publication in 1992, but Daltons Weekly came up, um, trumps in the end.
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Every Thursday in the 80s, Our 'Bible' was bought...in our case it was Autotrader. Me and a mate, a one man taxi firm .....pored over the ' spares and repairs ' ads. We bought many a Viva, Renault 4/5/6 or Lada. I did the mechanicals and MOT, he 'minted the mind off them' and did the marketing. We split the profits. Made a nice few quid for holidays and other things.
Sadly , no 'under 50 quidders' now !
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Memories . . . . .
In the 1970s, a mate and I often picked up the local paper (which came out on a Thursday) from the printers on a Wednesday night. We'd scour the car ads, were obviously first on the phone and did pick up the occasional doer upper and turned them around in a couple of weeks with new MOTs.
This sideline, together with buying at auctions, earned me enough for the deposit on my first flat - happy days indeed.
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I had a biscuit tin...I had tack welded the lid on and cut a 'piggy bank' sized slot in the lid. I used to put all my profits in...notes and coins.
The contents, opened before the Summer hols, took us on a 2 week holiday by the sea in Brittany with our caravan....Including the ferry from Poole to Cherbourg and all the site fees.
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>>I had a biscuit tin...I had tack welded the lid on and cut a 'piggy bank' sized slot in the lid. I used to put all my profits in...notes and coins.
Takes me back to when I was 15 and had a big round tin, probably Roses. I cut a slot in the lid to save up for a 2nd hand Lambretta GT200. I'd put pictures of said scooter all around the tiin to spur me on come payday.
I did indeed purchase the machine eventually - with the help (financial) of my much-older brother.
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