The Triumph Dolomite Club - Discussion Forum

I wrote the following:

I was interested in a vehicle you auctioned on Monday, specifically a Triumph Dolomite Sprint through if I recall correctly your Wisbech branch; unfortunately I didn’t make a note of the lot number and seemingly your website doesn’t have the facility to view a lot once the auction has finished?

Being a mere private individual, I was in any event unable to bid on the vehicle as it was Category B, and being so, presumably the successful purchaser must have been a breaker’s yard with ELV capability. I did try to find a friendly breaker’s yard close to me who would bid on my behalf, but unfortunately those that knew me didn’t have an account with you!

My question therefore is whether it is possible to find out which breaker’s yard has purchased the vehicle as having several examples of this model there will be parts on it that I’d be interested in purchasing from them. Clearly the days of GDPR may prevent you releasing that information without their permission, and if that permission is not forthcoming can I give you permission to pass this e-mail address and my ‘phone number on to them please, so that they might contact me?

Thanks in anticipation

Their reply:

Good afternoon,

We cannot disclose any information regarding the member who has won the vehicle due to GDPR as you’ve stated. We will not pass on any details either unfortunately.

Kind regards

How ironic they close with 'kind regards' when they have shown no regard whatsoever!

The only surprise here is that you expected anything different!

Copart, like most other companies, exists only to make money, not to help people. They have already made their money from this particular transaction, so it is of no interest to them any more.

A guy bought out Highley Garage after it had been run successfully for a number of years. A few weeks in, he cancelled all petrol accounts (which WAS a good idea) but I (and a number of other bystanders) heard him explain to a customer who complained, that he was "here to make money, not offer a service to the community" Such staggering honesty did not go unrewarded as you can probably imagine. He completely destroyed the business in 6 months!

Under normal circs it doesn't pay to be so blunt to customers, or even prospective ones, however unlikely, however in Copart's case, they have nothing to lose at this point.

But i'm sure you know all this and are merely venting your frustration at losing a useful spares car!

Steve

Au contraire mon ami!

Spending time navigating their site over the weekend I spotted various Alfa Romeo that appealed; believe it or not, parts for my 159 are now harder to source than those for a Sprint. I was mentally preparing to collect various unclassified salvage models at Stourport for the purposes of future proofing; I watched a V6 Brera with the same engine and running gear as mine finish at a few hundred quid. However, having experienced how short sighted they can be, I'm re-thinking that option!

Was that the 76 Sprint.
Was it listed at £7850 or sold at that.

What a shame, looks like it was t-boned hard.

Hope it helps, but it's still lurking in the Google cache for now https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/ ... -s-wisbech.

That won't last long, so added a save of the page in case it vanishes.

SprintV8 wrote: ↑Thu Jul 25, 2024 9:09 am Was that the 76 Sprint.
Was it listed at £7850 or sold at that.

The £7850 was Copart's estimate of pre-accident retail value. The last time I looked when the auction was live it had reached £500 from the £200 start price but I was unfortunately in a meeting when it ended so I don't know if it went higher.

It was John Deacon's car as mentioned in the latest Dolly Mixture magazine.

Most insurance policies allow the owner to buy back the salvage for a mere 9% of the payout unless they are Cat A which have to be broken down in the trade. I bought back the 166 that someone wrote off for me as cat B, but that was direct from the insurance company before the likes of Copart get involved.

Galileo wrote: ↑Thu Jul 25, 2024 11:13 am What a shame, looks like it was t-boned hard.

Hope it helps, but it's still lurking in the Google cache for now https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/ ... -s-wisbech.

That won't last long, so added a save of the page in case it vanishes.

Thanks for that Raf, for some reason I couldn't view the other photographs previously, despite having registered as a member on the site. They certainly won't be getting their £100 bidding fee out of me now!

It's surfaced...in Motherwell. Bits on ebay.

Some pretty extreme prices being asked, or maybe I'm out of date?

Yep, they're not going to sell much at those prices I suspect.

Car may not have been as pristine as suspected, if you look at the auction for the OS front wing there's a close up of the bottom of the strut tower which is clearly perforated along its entire length where it meets the chassis rail.

Probably an easy fix but I've never seen one go there before.