Well what a surprise when I advertised my 25yr old Nissan Micra on Gumtree. My mother had sold cars before and when I was younger I witnessed her going through the tedious job of trying to sell our Austin 1100, thankfully she gave up and we still have our beloved Austin to this day. We quickly realised we were fools for even attempting to sell it the car had been an utter joy. But we got loads of time wasters and one in particular was so bad he in printed on my young mind. The trouble is you always get the wanna be Clarkson who thinks they no everything but in fact know very little. They also expect a classic car that is over 50 years old to be in pristine condition. Now our little Austin is rust and rot free and one of the main reasons for this is a pretty poor paint job which has probably saved its life. The paint is caked on and the sills have been plastered with paint and that black sticky stuff which I cant remember the name of and Billy isn’t here to ask. But to the untrained eye it may look like its covering up some naughty bits.

So this man came to look at what is effectively a very solid car, low mileage and the interior is in brilliant condition. He then asked to be taken out and Billy offered, just under two hours later he arrived back and obviously we just presumed that he was going to buy it having test driven it for so long. Instead he said that the body work was too rough for him and there was a lot of rot that needed sorting. Well one he was just wrong there is no rot and two it was the same body work that he set off with. I know he had taken it for along time but it couldn’t have deteriorated over that period. So with him and a couple of people from Bradford offering stupid prices mum knocked the advert on the head and Austin stayed in the family thank goodness.

So when I advertised the Micra I thought I’m not having a time wasting wally wasting my precious time so I put this advert out.

I was absolutely flabbergasted when I received a call from the organisers of the Banksy exhibition; The Mystery of Banksy- A Genius Mind. They stated that they wanted the Micra to re-create the famous Rhino mural that he painted in Charlton south-east London. I thought the idea was absolutely brilliant and I jumped at the chance to be involved in such an exciting project.

My brother Billy helped us load the car practically lifting it on to the trailer as the organisers wanted the petrol dropping. It was the first car we had ever sold where the buyers asked us for it not to be running.

I couldn’t believe how much media attention it attracted. First the BBC, then BBC radio 4,5 and 6, The Lancaster Guardian and more. You can see the article here.

Teen sells battered £400 Micra – to Banksy | Watch

I will be covering more about the Micra so this page will be updated soon. Watch out for updates coming soon