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Originally Posted by Laird Scooby
It's a spares mule or a brave, near basket case restoration, it's not going to be anything like top money. Perhaps if someone bought it, invested in a welder, shares in their local metal stockholder, paint factors and similar and spent a couple of years of their own time, energy and labour getting it to a good standard, it might be worth £5k but to get their moneys' worth, they'd have to use it for another few years after before even considering selling. Granted that if it was still in "just restored" condition then, they could probably get a bit more than £5k but still nowhere near approaching the real cost.
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Agreed Dave,
I sometimes wonder what sort of person buys motor cars like that. It is a 1995 model, so a decade or so away from having any sort of classic interest. Maybe someone has a similar one and so they want the spares (and that would be good), but then it is a 235,000 mile vehicle that has has a hard life and been standing in the rain for the past 5 years - so not all that much is going to be very usable. The motor car will need trailering away, which might add £200 to the price.
It is hard to imagine anyone investing the time and money in saving a 27 year old motor car, so perhaps the banger racing chap wants to drop in his crated V8 engine/clutch/gearbox for its final journey?
What continues to surprise me is that people think basket cases are worth so much - we see it frequently in these pages.
:-)