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Apr 15th, 2021, 14:30 | #561 |
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Too many things smell fishy on this one Alan!
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... and another fishy tale...
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You'd think he would have got a clue by now it's not going to sell at that price!
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Nice car
This is a nice car I saw for sale, it ought to make at least £2,500:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Volvo-240...53.m1438.l2649 ... and a bit nicer than this one, which has started to rust in the usual places: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Volvo-240....c100010.m2109 ... it will be interesting to see whether this one gets any bids over £2,500 (starting price) as a comparison. The difference is the first car will not qualify as an historic vehicle for 5 more years, whereas the second will in two years. This might be a good test of my theory that the (nearly) historic vehicle factor is a pretty strong one and outweighs many others (like the actual condition of the car and its history).
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The Green-Blue one is in very nice condition and the bidding is already around the £2k1 point. The silver one, although scruffier has age on its side as far as becoming historic. Six years to wait for the first one, two years on the second to be historic (although both cars will be nearly 41 by that point) but i doubt the green-blue one will deteriorate to the point the silver one is in that time.
One of those that is hard to predict because of the disparity in general condition.
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The silver one's a better spec - GLE as against GL - with alloys and a sun-roof plus an O/D box and the "Coffin-nose" but it needs rustremoval from doors and wings.
But the blue one's tidier, though the auto-box isn't my cup of tea. And the blue one allegedly has A/C though there's no sign of it on the heater control panel! On balance the blue one is the better buy, IMO.
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It will be interesting to see how the buying public votes with its cash between these two. :-)
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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/classic-c...sAAOSw5-lgUcjy ... I still think it s a £2,500 car... and that would be in line with the blue and silver cars we discussed above (I don't think this one is worth as much as either of those cars). This car should at least get a few bids at £1,500, it will be interesting to see how close to the buy-it-now price it gets (my guess is £2,500). It is disappointing that so many of these advertised cars keep re-appearing, which rather confirms my theory that many sellers think their cars are worth far more than they really are. Bob walking time :-) PS. This was my own guide to 240 prices, cut and pasted from this thread a few weeks ag, and modified a bit after that: As a guide I'd say (from what I've seen things apparently sell for - not ridiculous asking prices): a. Rough cars (anything with barn find in the title, cars needing welding to the sills or rear arches, MoT failures): make less than £1000. b. Middling cars: 1981 and later cars with 100-200,000 miles, a bit of history (maybe the past decade, the stuff before that is just for interest), a long MoT and no obvious welding or repairs needed: make £1,500 to £3,000. c. Very good cars: 1981 and later cars with less than 100,000 miles, full history, long MoT and in really good condition make £3,000 to £4,500. d. Historic cars (1980 and older) will generally make 50-100% more than the above categories. The above is just my observation of the market, it will not stop people hawking around rough cars for £3,000, mediocre cars for £6,000 or very good cars for silly money. I don't think they often achieve their asking prices and just spend months or years on the market until the owners give up.
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The blue car is storming away with the auction at £3,500 already. ... that rather proves me wrong!
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