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Originally Posted by Alpine
Bit odd that someone would do a nut and bolt restoration on such an ordinary car.
I'm sure it is way too expensive but it is probably one of a kind. With patience he will find someone out there silly enough to pay the asking price, thinking they are getting the equivalent of a new(ish) car.
There was a mint(ish) S70 on Autotrader with a dealer for 6 months or so at £1500 and it sold eventually, I bet for near the asking price. Some people think by paying more they are getting the best.
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I think it's good that occasionally people do such work on "ordinary cars". Never ceases to amaze me how many cars that were everywhere once upon a time manage to completely disappear because everyone dismisses then as "ordinary".
My first car was a 1.6 Ford Cortina Mk5 - very ordinary rep-mobile in its day, thought nothing of it when I sold it on to probably it's final owner. I wish I still had it now all fully restored!
Saw an old basic model A-reg Ford Escort the other month - you should have seen us all gathering around it excitedly, and although it wasn't in bad nick it certainly wasn't mint!
I agree with you more generally though about values and prices - if you are going to fully restore a car it doesn't matter what it is - you'll pay a fortune doing so but, in most cases and unless the car type has a particular following, it'll never be worth the big money you'd like it to be. Yet a mint 460 is a far rarer beast, say, than a mint 480...
David