A 3 year waiting list.... noooo... not for an LB STR

**renmure** · 06-01-2020, 17:02

Oooh.. I don't want to make it an LB thread. I was more interested to find out if others knew about cars that had a genuine 3 year wait.

But personally, I wouldn't join a 3 year waiting list for a car, Atom or otherwise. Like you say, too much can happen over the period. That's particularly true for a kit car where the value is in the end product rather than the pile of bits purchased and assembled at any given time over the period. I guess people in Nottinghamshire can still get run over by buses. I hope Craig and Lydia stay well clear of bus routes till my car is handed over. Once I get my car I might even consider guaranteeing its continual appreciation and value by getting a bus license and, err, practicing.

The flip side to your "small bond = confidence" thing is recognising that cash flow is king in business and maybe 10 x £3000 firm deposits / year is better for planning stuff, budgeting for stuff, developing stuff and producing stuff than 10 x £500 maybes.

Anyhow, so far we have Atoms, LB's and NHS Operations. Any more?

**Normb666** · 06-01-2020, 20:48

Fair nuff, we did go off on a bit of a tangent there when I saw the deposit amount! So I'll say no more...for now...

What about Morgans, how long's the wait for those these days? It did used to be 10 years a good while ago, but you'd hope they'd got that down to summat more manageable these days...say, 5 or 6 years

I remember reading somewhere that quite a few times, when they'd get in touch with a customer to tell them it was time to spec their car, they found out they'd died...kinell. I guess that's mainly down to the profile of the typical Morgan buyer being a rather older gentleman, so not really surprising, but still...

**renmure** · 06-01-2020, 21:13

I'm far too young to know anyone old enough to have ordered, never mind have collected, a Morgan.

However.... I do have a photo of me and a Morgan in the same pic and sharing the same bit of track at Knockhill. For the avoidance of doubt, even tho it looks like he is pulling away, I was about to overtake him again but he was certainly having at least as much fun.

I borrowed the 458 GT3 for the evening. Suppose I could claim it was practice for an LHD STR. Helps that everyone was (mostly) going in the same direction. You'd think it would be hard to spin a race car on slicks eh