|
Information |
|
Volvo 480 Celebration No.001. 27100milesViews : 17467 Replies : 81Users Viewing This Thread : |
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
Jul 30th, 2009, 19:40 | #61 | |
Pure is Beautiful
Last Online: Apr 13th, 2021 19:44
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: UK/
|
Re: your 480
Quote:
My 480 is an extremely rare ES model in metallic black. Thanks to Stella at Volvo it has been valued in excess of £10 million pounds (plus VAT, delivery extra) As has been mentioned later in the thread, it will be interesting to see when and where it surfaces again. One suspects it went back into the bank vault with the priceless glass beads. 'Cause it sure 'ain't Number 1 Celebration, and no dealer German or otherwise would touch it with a bargepole! Cheers, T
__________________
I Think. I Think I Am; Therefore I Am - I Think . . . . Last edited by T240; Jul 30th, 2009 at 19:55. |
|
Jul 30th, 2009, 19:45 | #62 |
Master Member
Last Online: May 30th, 2015 05:21
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Wicklow
|
Thanks for the pointer ... I felt all along that I was being a bit on the conservative side! Oops, gotta go ... I think there's a German museum owner at the front door ;-)
__________________
www.volvo400.com |
Jul 30th, 2009, 20:03 | #63 | |
Pure is Beautiful
Last Online: Apr 13th, 2021 19:44
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: UK/
|
Re: priceless 480
Quote:
Oh, decisons, decisions . . . Cheers, T
__________________
I Think. I Think I Am; Therefore I Am - I Think . . . . |
|
The Following User Says Thank You to T240 For This Useful Post: |
Jul 30th, 2009, 20:13 | #64 | |
Experienced Member
Last Online: Today 14:22
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: L/H side
|
Quote:
__________________
My comments are only based on my opinions and vast experience . |
|
Aug 1st, 2009, 02:49 | #65 | |
Master Member
Last Online: May 15th, 2011 03:44
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: WALSALL/STECHFORD/BIRMINGHAM
|
Quote:
cars extremely low milage and a limited edition,some people just expect things for peanuts.This is a car I would happily pay over the odds for purely because you would be extremely lucky to ever find one with this sort of milage,never mind the LTE status and number 01 at that!! A mint none limited edition with under 130k on th clock will make a grand and this should be judged the same?may be if your trying to haggle but otherwise I don't think so. I would like to know where you could find one with this amount of miles and a LME for under a grand. I will have 2. http://volvo480.northernscum.org.uk/...ac58d04fb7fadc number271 for 4999euro would be 3k our money.
__________________
BLACK MANUAL VOLVO 850 T5 ESTATE (CRUSHED). T5 WANTED,CHEAP PROJECT WITH MOT Last edited by RSF; Aug 1st, 2009 at 03:20. |
|
The Following User Says Thank You to RSF For This Useful Post: |
Aug 1st, 2009, 09:42 | #66 | |
VOC Member
Last Online: Yesterday 19:15
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Selby, North Yorkshire
|
Special Editions
Quote:
With respect, if you read back through the whole thread, you'll see that there are some issues with this particular car that would raise questions about it's provenance: The tailgate and internal badging appeared to be in the wrong places; in the photographs, the driver's seat looked very worn, the engine bay didn't look like a 27,000-miler, the front spoiler appeared to be missing. Older threads on another forum from a previous owner of the car made some reference to accident damage. and bodywork repair. These things alone sould have made any careful prospective buyer exercise the greatest degree of 'caveat emptor'. That someone is prepared to pay over the odds for anything with an interesting history is not surprising. The 'Life on Mars' Cortina, was freely acknowledged in fact to consist of the major bits of at least two different Cortinas, and yet apparently raised a silly price when sold after the TV series. Fair enough. Earlier this year I saw an ad for a Rover P6 that had been used in the filming of a TV series that hasn't actually been aired yet, but the car was being touted with an inflated price tag! In the case of the 480 Celebration generally, Volvo's limited edition 'extras' added up to a little plaque on the dash of an otherwise standard car. Arguably interesting, but hardly tremendously value-enhancing, and very easily faked. From the evidence, in the form of the photographs made freely available by the vendor on the internet, there were genuine concerns that this car was not all that was being claimed for it. Cheers Jack |
|
The Following User Says Thank You to capt jack For This Useful Post: |
Aug 1st, 2009, 16:57 | #67 |
Master Member
Last Online: May 30th, 2015 05:21
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Wicklow
|
Quite agree. I wouldn't spend 50 quid buying an autographed photo on ebay without a proper Certificate of Authenticity ( COA ) never mind a car at that price! Sure, there will be 480's advertised for silly money ... but how many of them sell?
I think in general people are hanging on to the good ones, and the proportion of dodgy ones out there on the market has increased. Not to say everyone who sells one is a 'put up' merchant, but as the good Captain ( hope you don't mind me calling you that :P ) says, got to beware. For my money ( if I had it ) I'd be a lot more inclined to go for the 480/480 one on pistonheads. Price is realistic, and the seller seems not only gives a lot of info. in the ad. but is also straight up about any further info required. Regarding the supposed 1/480 one, if it came from Volvo themselves with a COA I'd consider it at the price. Having so many questions hanging over it and the kind of 'answers' the seller posted, you must be joking! I think he came to the wrong place and quickly discovered that. What got people's backs up I think is the fact that honest questions / mildly derisory banter ( as per any forum ) were greeted with sarcasm and insults from the seller. Not a great way to sell anything. Regards, Tony.
__________________
www.volvo400.com |
Nov 18th, 2010, 19:47 | #68 |
VOC Member
Last Online: Yesterday 19:15
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Selby, North Yorkshire
|
Back from Germany then
|
Nov 19th, 2010, 01:44 | #69 | |
Aye - him again
Last Online: Today 11:30
Join Date: May 2001
Location: HAWICK
|
Quote:
"Regretted sale of my Volvo 480 Celebration number "001 "of a runout limited edition of only four hundred and eighty. First reg. to an elderly gentleman who left it to his grandson in his will. I bought it about four years ago and she has been in careful storage ever since. Only 27,000 miles with service history, all hand books present and correct." Either it was sold last year or it has been in careful storage for the last four years. Surely both cannot be true. According to the eBay listing the location is Bedale. That is the location of javea1. Either the above quoted post is short on truth or the current eBay listing is short on truth. 27,100 miles from new when posted here last year and 27,680 now - if this has been to Germany and back it must have been transported each way.
__________________
(Ouch - that's another knuckle ...) VOC 11817 Last edited by migrator; Nov 19th, 2010 at 01:49. |
|
Nov 22nd, 2010, 18:05 | #70 | |
JaseDaRace
Last Online: Jul 9th, 2013 20:20
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Gisors
|
Quote:
|
|
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | |
|
|