Ad for ‘horrendous’ car attracts buyer within hours

A MOTORIST who offered his “horrendours” car for sale managed to flog it within hours for £100.

Kevin Blair's old Ford Fiesta. Picture: Hemedia

Kevin Blair, a coffin-maker, wanted rid of his worn-out 2002 Ford Fiesta and posted his offer on a local Facebook group.

Despite describing it as “rusted” and “stinking of mackerel”, just hours later he had an eager buyer racing to pay £10 more than the local scrap merchants.

Kevin, 37, from Errol, Perthshire, placed the original advert on the Errol Village Facebook page.

The advert posted by Kevin Blair for the sale of his old Ford Fiesta. Picture: Hemedia

He wrote: “This is my horrendous car, it could be yours! MOT failure, brake pads, burst coil spring, a few wee other things.

“It runs fine, but there is a leak underneath that wasn’t picked up in the test.

“I’ll level with you, it’s s***e. All rusted and stinks of mackerel. I eat a lot of mackerel. Decent stereo, but I’m keeping that.

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“I can get £90 at the scrapies for it, so offer me more, you can have it.”

The dad-of-two only bought the car a few months ago for £300 as a spare run-around but decided to flog it following the MOT failure.

Kevin said: “I was just going to scrap the car really as it’s no use to me without an MOT.

“It’s been a bit doom and gloom on the village Facebook group over the last few weeks so I thought I’d try to cheer folk up and see if any one needed a really terrible car.

“I stuck it up and said I could get £90 and a guy got in touch soon after and offered me £100 for it right off.

“He didn’t mention the humour in the ad, he just asked if I still had the car.

“Not long after he picked it up someone else got in touch and offered me £120 for but I’d already sold it, so I was kicking myself.”

Kevin, who has a “good” car for travelling about with the family, now plans to put the money towards buying his next banger.

He said: “I just used it for work, going back and forth over the hill.

“I’m going to put the money towards my next terrible banger, if I’m being honest.”

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