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#911for2011: Our car gets a once over

OVERALL this 911 is a good ‘un – nothing more serious than cosmetic problems really, a good find. Those were the words of Porsche GB mechanic Darren Pannell who today gave our 911 for 2011 motor the once over. Prior to some tweakage, Porsche wanted to subject our car to one of its 111-point checks [...]

	#911for2011: We’ve finally done it!
Our mission to trade up from £0 to a 911 for BEN has finally been successful – here’s how we did it… WE’VE only gone and done it! Just 15 months after we started we’ve managed to trade up from absolutely nothing to a Porsche 911 all in aid of automotive industry charity BEN. Ok, [...]

	911 for 2011: Anyone know of a good 911?
Bought, sold and in profit – JAMES BAGGOTT reports on this month’s exploits What a difference a few weeks make. Last issue, my colleague Duncan was lamenting the hardships we were facing finding a suitable car to splash out on to keep our pot of cash moving skywards. A search of our friendly local dealership’s part-ex corner had [...]

	911 for 2011: Used supply hits our challenge
Former car salesman Duncan Chappell takes the reins of our 911 for 2011 bid Cast your mind back to the last issue and you’ll remember our 911 for 2011 update saw us post a small profit off the back of three car sales. As the former car salesman of the Car Dealer team I knew there had to [...]

	911 for 2011: All change
It soon became clear that our Citroen wasn’t going anywhere fast, so we traded it on, reports James Baggott I always knew it to be the case but now, having traded a few, I’ve had a glimpse as to just how hard it must be selling second-hand cars for a living. The stress of dealing [...]

		Big Mike: Tips for our 911 buyers
		So Baggott wants a 911 does he? In that case, he’s clearly not a pure bred car dealer – for those of us in the trade know that the car you really want to drive yourself is whatever’s in stock, is still taxed, and doesn’t have any real profit in it. For that reason alone, [...]
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		28.06.10: Yobs attack our Fiesta
		FANTASTIC – as if my Monday morning mood couldn’t get any worse, I found this in the gutter as I walked to work… We’d parked our 911 for 2011 Ford Fiesta outside the office over the weekend and I’ve just turned up to find some low life piece of toilet scum has done this. Now [...]
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		22.06.10: Want a Ford Fiesta?
		OUR 911 for 2011 Ford Fiesta is up for sale on classified website Auto Trader – and we’ve been a little bit cheeky. The car is an absolute peach. Bought trade from our friends at Lifestyle Europe, it’s done a ridiculously low 46k miles, has 12 months MOT, 6 months tax and full service history. [...]
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		04.06.10: We’ve bagged a bargain in our 911 bid
		Typical. With the magazine safely away to the printers, all signed off, sealed and sent – I finally do the deal on the next car for our 911 for 2011 challenge. To be honest, I had a feeling it would come off, but unfortunately it all happened a bit too late to reveal in the [...]
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		20.05.10: Our 911 for 2011 Golf finds a home
		ANOTHER one bites the dust! Our bid to turn £0 into a Porsche 911 has climbed another rung of the ladder with the second of our starting duo finding a new home. The VW Golf MkIII – donated to the cause by Motorpoint’s Auction4Cars.com arm – was sold on eBay last night for £250. Yes, [...]
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		Feature: Our 911 for 2011 bid is go
		Sounds like a tough ask? You bet it is, but that won’t stop us having a good go at it. What are we talking about? Well, we plan to turn these two cars into a Porsche 911, by 2011. Simple. Ish. Here is a copy of the first feature that appeared in the June issue of [...]
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		12.05.10: One down, many more to go
		OUR bid to turn some favours into a 911 by the end of the year has got of to a great start with our Audi selling for nearly £800. The 1.6-litre, S-reg model was kindly donated by M25 Audi, and we listed it on auction website eBay a week ago. Because the car had a [...]
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		04.05.10: Our first car is up for sale… just!
		THEY don’t make it easy for you, do they? I’m not technology luddite, nor am I that unfamiliar with eBay, but either they didn’t want our Audi listed or I was doing something wrong. Talk about obstacles. Listing the first rung on the ladder for our 911 for 2011 feature felt like an online Army [...]
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		28.04.10: Our new company cars for BEN!
		OUR quest to turn £0.00 into a Porsche 911 by trading up cars is off to a cracking start thanks to not one, but two very generous dealers! When we put the call out for help on our website and Twitter for our 911 for 2011 feature we were quickly contacted by two dealers offering [...]
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		22.04.10: Our latest fundraising idea for BEN!
		CAR Dealer is taking on a new challenge to raise money for automotive industry charity BEN. It’s called Trading Up and will see us start with a car worth around £250 – or better still find a company to donate one to us – which we’ll sell on. Once sold, we’ll roll the entire fund [...]
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