Chirons at Keighley
Chirons at Keighley
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thecremeegg

Original Poster:

2,079 posts

225 months

Doing a speculative google of Chirons for sale as I'm bored on a Friday night, and noticed that there are 4 for sale on Autotrader, all of them at the notorious Motorhub in Keighley.
Anyone know the backstory of how they have 4 of them? Given their reputation, I can't imagine people are queuing up to buy a Chiron from them?

Megaflow

10,940 posts

247 months

Not a hope in hell they are legit…

thecremeegg

Original Poster:

2,079 posts

225 months

In that they don't exist or that they're crashed or something?

supersport

4,543 posts

249 months

Google them. Barge and pole.

200Plus Club

12,871 posts

300 months

Yesterday (06:41)
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There's a very lucrative business running behind the scenes somewhere...

p4cks

7,325 posts

221 months

Yesterday (07:59)
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Yeah, they don’t sell cars.

They’ve had a Gallardo for sale for 15 years

Wills2

27,975 posts

197 months

Yesterday (08:19)
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And it continues to sit there hiding in plain sight....


Megaflow

10,940 posts

247 months

Yesterday (09:31)
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The real shame with this is the reputation it has given the whole area, I will be in the market for a new toy in the next month or so and have started to look around, I saw a MK3 MR2, one owners in a nice green colour.

Location, Bradford.

Nope.

p4cks

7,325 posts

221 months

Yesterday (09:35)
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I'm not sure it's Keighley who are responsible for Bradford's awful reputation, it's the demographic.

andrew

10,285 posts

214 months

Yesterday (11:16)
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four must be a decent percentage of all the uk's chirons

i can't imagine that all four had dodgy histories before they arrived up there !

ratrod 2

1,733 posts

31 months

Yesterday (13:05)
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Let me think !! Where to buy my Chiron ,HR Owen or The Motor Hub confused

Megaflow

10,940 posts

247 months

Yesterday (13:12)
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As a laugh, I did just google them, they were shut down 6 years ago... that 'enforcement' worked then didn't it?

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NicheMonkey

463 posts

150 months

Yesterday (14:44)
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One of those 4 was the car from PET Birmingham the insufferable chap who calls himself Lord Aleem, its been out on hire, 22k miles on it.
There's footage online of it being crashed, up for £2.4M haha.

Edited by NicheMonkey on Saturday 21st February 14:46

ex-devonpaul

1,604 posts

159 months

andrew

10,285 posts

214 months

Yesterday (17:17)
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ex-devonpaul said:
yes
they have phoenixed at least once though

SydneyBridge

10,890 posts

180 months

Yesterday (17:25)
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A Porsche CGT was a bargain at £250k 6 years ago..

supersport

4,543 posts

249 months

Yesterday (23:28)
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I ended up driving past it regular for a while last year, knew it by reputation but had never seen it before.

It was almost a eureka moment, it’s completely out of place and looks a bit of a dump. I can’t imagine anyone actually going there and spending actual money.

thetapeworm

13,246 posts

261 months

Yesterday (23:50)
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They were dodgy even before the Keighley Trade Centre days, the value of the cars has just continued to ramp up.

They have a LaFerrari listed at the moment too along with a few million of other cars.

As a local that was into Japanese imports I'd pop over now and again to look at stuff and it usually clear they'd been buying a kit if damaged stuff in Japanese auctions and carrying out really poor repairs.

Thankfully we had other local places that were far more legit but KTC somehow stayed open despite all the negative feedback and evolved into the business that's somehow still going today.

Old topics here cover most of it in detail after PH were allowing them to advertise...

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...