Do we know what became of the big AA Starbug?

[Podey]

I’m kind of hoping it’s parked away in a garage somewhere rather than in a tip.

Topic

[Stephen Abootman]

Sold at auction last year https://www.ganymede.tv/forums/topic/aa-starbug-for-sale

[Dax101]

This is currently being sold on eBay if someone wants to open their wallet up for £2,046.68


Ebay Listing

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

£2k seems incredibly cheap 

Although as the photos demonstrate finding somewhere to store it is a bitch

I wonder if it’s been left on that drive way the last 18months

[Podey]

Shall we all chip in? We could have it one month of the year each.

[Podey]

Tbh, looking at the photos up close, a year exposed to the elements on this bloke’s drive clearly hasn’t done it much good. Shame it hasn’t been kept somewhere, would be a great asset for Comic Cons to rent out like they do with movie cars etc.

[Dave]

Tbh, looking at the photos up close, a year exposed to the elements on this bloke’s drive clearly hasn’t done it much good.

[Dax101]

Not sure where you would keep it. No one is going to helicopter your garden so its always going to go on the drive. Unless it fits in the garage but it looks a little big for that.

[paintings]

Looking at the picture posted by Podey at the start of this thread, I know exactly (pretty much to the inch) where that picture was taken. In that location, Starbug would have been partly under cover (it was directly underneath the walkway to the front entrance of the building) but the cockpit area would have been almost fully exposed to the elements. IOW, the deterioration wasn’t 100% down to it being on some bloke’s drive for the past year.

(Of course, they may have wheeled it out of one of the nearby storage bays to take the photo, in which case you can just ignore my wittering…)

[Podey]

If anything, the back end is worse off than the front….. and Starbug isn’t in great condition, either.  

[evilmorwen]

do you think they’d deliver to a north london basement flat

[Technopeasant]

Tbh, looking at the photos up close, a year exposed to the elements on this bloke’s drive clearly hasn’t done it much good.

I certainly hope they at least tarped it.

I probally have the room, but shipping it to Canada would probally raise the cost by a factor of ten…

[Dax101]

The seller posted about it on TikTok

TikTok Video

It looks like he really tried to keep it in good condition

[RunawayTrain]

It’s back up for sale (same seller I’m pretty sure, clearly the previous sale fell through for whatever reason) 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/358103006217

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

It’s back up for sale (same seller I’m pretty sure, clearly the previous sale fell through for whatever reason) 
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/358103006217

[Podey]

It is the same seller, if you click the original listening it says they have relisted it.

[Warbodog]

They found another one behind the fridge.

[Technopeasant]

They were just after a replacement leg for their Corgi model and realized the scale was off.

[Podey]

I’ve just noticed that a picture of the Starbug is on the event page for Birmingham Comic Con. Can’t find any other reference to it being there but appears to be the case?

https://www.creedconventions.com/event/birmingham-comic-con/

[Podey]

Side note: I’ve also realised that “what became of the big AA Starbug” scans perfectly with “what becomes of the broken hearted”.

[Dax101]

Did it sell on ebay?

[Podey]

The listing is unclear but it appears not to have.

[Frank Smeghammer]

The Bug’s there but they’re not

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