Seriously?

[Steve 940]

Quite a rare beast, but a few ‘scabs’ sounds ominous 😀

https://www.carandclassic.com/l/C1727198

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Steve

[Laird Scooby]

Originally Posted by Steve 940

Quite a rare beast, but a few ‘scabs’ sounds ominous 😀

https://www.carandclassic.com/l/C1727198

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Steve

He's been drinking that funny water too!

[Steve 940]

Well they are all coming out of the woodwork now. Probably be a very nice motor apart from nappy yellow, and sardine tin roof.

https://www.carandclassic.com/l/C1720565

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Steve

[Laird Scooby]

Originally Posted by Steve 940

Well they are all coming out of the woodwork now. Probably be a very nice motor apart from nappy yellow, and sardine tin roof.

https://www.carandclassic.com/l/C1720565

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Steve

Another drinking that strange water............

[Othen]

Originally Posted by Steve 940

Well they are all coming out of the woodwork now. Probably be a very nice motor apart from nappy yellow, and sardine tin roof.

https://www.carandclassic.com/l/C1720565

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Steve

Have you been smoking the wacky baccy Steve? - £12,000!!!!

[Steve 940]

Originally Posted by Othen

Have you been smoking the wacky baccy Steve? - £12,000!!!!

😀😀 Alan, I didn’t say it was worth the asking price, must be something to do with a bit of warmth and sunshine affecting folk.😀

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Steve

[soupytwister]

Originally Posted by Steve 940

Well they are all coming out of the woodwork now. Probably be a very nice motor apart from nappy yellow, and sardine tin roof.

https://www.carandclassic.com/l/C1720565

Cheers
Steve

It's worth what someone is willing to pay for it I guess. Lovely back story being the current owner has had it 50 years!!

I can see someone not doing a huge amount of research and assuming that's just the value of these things, especially if they're taken by it upon viewing.

Any excellent condition & fully running example of a classic car is surely worth £5k minimum these days, whatever the car is?

[Othen]

Originally Posted by soupytwister

It's worth what someone is willing to pay for it I guess. Lovely back story being the current owner has had it 50 years!!

I can see someone not doing a huge amount of research and assuming that's just the value of these things, especially if they're taken by it upon viewing.

Any excellent condition & fully running example of a classic car is surely worth £5k minimum these days, whatever the car is?

Well, not really. We still see sensibly priced historic cars for £2,000 to £3,000 (such as the blue 244 and the 144 we have talked about in the past few days); on the whole these sell fairly well. We also see a large number of very overpriced motor cars, on the whole these seem to remain for sale for many months or even years.

It is possible that someone might be willing to pay 12 grand for a VWW that belonged to the same person for 50 years, but if that buyer decides to sell again the same provinence cannot be claimed. I can’t help thinking the market for a motor car like this one would be minuscule at the £12,000 price point, but there again it would only take one person with a pension pot burning a hole in his/her pocket… .

Perhaps someone will keep an eye on this sale and let us all know what happens?

Alan

[Laird Scooby]

Flip side of this is some people view the cheaper cars as "having something wrong with them" and the more expensive cars being "bona fide classics" - someone like that will happily pay the £12k without batting an eyelid and think they've got a bargain and all cheaper cars are simply "old bangers" and not worth classic status.