1800E and 1800ES for sale

[VolvoRoyS]

There is an 1800E and an 1800ES for sale at the Mathewsons' Saturday auction (December 2nd). The 1800E is a 1970 model in white and has an estimate of £25,000 - £30,000, while the 1800ES is a 1973 model in red and has an estimate of £20,000 - £25,000. Both look immaculate and have a ceramic coating to the paintwork. Not sure what that is but the cars are very shiny. I'll be watching with interest particularly for the ES as I bought one from Mathewsons with the same colour last year. My car is more in the driver category and came with quite a few faults, but who would want a car that was perfect? There would be nothing to fix!

Roy

[Moomoo]

Originally Posted by VolvoRoyS

There is an 1800E and an 1800ES for sale at the Mathewsons' Saturday auction (December 2nd). The 1800E is a 1970 model in white and has an estimate of £25,000 - £30,000, while the 1800ES is a 1973 model in red and has an estimate of £20,000 - £25,000. Both look immaculate and have a ceramic coating to the paintwork. Not sure what that is but the cars are very shiny. I'll be watching with interest particularly for the ES as I bought one from Mathewsons with the same colour last year. My car is more in the driver category and came with quite a few faults, but who would want a car that was perfect? There would be nothing to fix!

Roy

I saw your purchase on Bangers and Cash, nice example.

Be interesting to follow these next two!🧐👍

[Othen]

Originally Posted by VolvoRoyS

There is an 1800E and an 1800ES for sale at the Mathewsons' Saturday auction (December 2nd). The 1800E is a 1970 model in white and has an estimate of £25,000 - £30,000, while the 1800ES is a 1973 model in red and has an estimate of £20,000 - £25,000. Both look immaculate and have a ceramic coating to the paintwork. Not sure what that is but the cars are very shiny. I'll be watching with interest particularly for the ES as I bought one from Mathewsons with the same colour last year. My car is more in the driver category and came with quite a few faults, but who would want a car that was perfect? There would be nothing to fix!

Roy

These two:

https://www.mathewsons.co.uk/auction...pp=48&pn=1&g=1

... and:

https://www.mathewsons.co.uk/auction...pp=48&pn=1&g=1

:-)

[Groundes-Peace]

The photos and videos of both cars look positives.
Will be interesting to see what they make....

[CLIVERALLY]

I have seen both of them.
The ES is very nice

[Lancee]

Originally Posted by CLIVERALLY

I have seen both of them.
The ES is very nice

What was the 1800E like in comparison ?

[CLIVERALLY]

Looked presentable, but I only looked at it in passing and did not inspect it with any rigour at all as it did not interest particularly as I have a 66S in very good order. The ES looked very good, again not inspected thoroughly, but appeared a very good example, took my eye and very attractive in red .
I had gone to inspect 2 other cars so my whole focus was targeted toward those.

[mike gilbert]

I can see the owner of those cars has put in a great amount of work on them and I'm not belittling his efforts, he's done a nice job on both. However looking at the auctioneers estimates (read reserves) I'd expect them to have the correct sills and not home made ones. The E will require a lot of trim and detail work to be 'right' plus its had a colour change, if not two, in its life.

[VolvoRoyS]

Originally Posted by mike gilbert

I can see the owner of those cars has put in a great amount of work on them and I'm not belittling his efforts, he's done a nice job on both. However looking at the auctioneers estimates (read reserves) I'd expect them to have the correct sills and not home made ones. The E will require a lot of trim and detail work to be 'right' plus its had a colour change, if not two, in its life.

That's well spotted. I wouldn't have noticed that. They both look to me like so-called concours cars and if I had paid top price I would expect to get a concours car. My car has had quite a bit of bodywork: new wheel arches and some structural welding underneath and I was a bit nervous about what I might find when I got it. As it turns out I have ben pleasantly surprised as underneath it all looks quite good, really nothing more than surface rust here and there. I can see where the new wheel arches have been welded on from the underside but on the outside all looks good. Looking forward to seeing what these two cars make tomorrow.

Roy

[CLIVERALLY]

The white E fetched 31.5K not including the fees.
Sadly I was out and missed what the ES fetched