Seriously?

[Steve 940]

Very good sleuthing Dave, a more discerning eye than mine 👍

Cheers
Steve

[Moomoo]

Seen this before!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/166633823...Bk9SR9KzhdbCYw

[Steve 940]

Originally Posted by Moomoo

Seen this before!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/166633823...Bk9SR9KzhdbCYw

It does look vaguely familiar, it’s in my watch list just for interest of course…

Also registered at Matthewsons today, just in case I want to bid on the Amazon estate, brother in law sold a few bits of old machinery so has empty space in a barn.🙄🙄

Cheers
Steve

[Laird Scooby]

Originally Posted by Steve 940

It does look vaguely familiar, it’s in my watch list just for interest of course…

Also registered at Matthewsons today, just in case I want to bid on the Amazon estate, brother in law sold a few bits of old machinery so has empty space in a barn.🙄🙄

Cheers
Steve

What a feeble ecuse for buying another car!

[Steve 940]

Dave, 😀😀.

It would be rude to just leave empty space in a barn, especially as it’s free,👍👍 I had even got to looking at car storage costs….how mad is that

That blue one that a few of the guys on here were aware of, seemed a good project car that hadn’t been messed about with. Although they want £1.50/mile to deliver it……..

Cheers
Steve

[Laird Scooby]

Originally Posted by Steve 940

Dave, 😀😀.

It would be rude to just leave empty space in a barn, especially as it’s free,👍👍 I had even got to looking at car storage costs….how mad is that

That blue one that a few of the guys on here were aware of, seemed a good project car that hadn’t been messed about with. Although they want £1.50/mile to deliver it……..

Cheers
Steve

To be honest, £1.50/mile one way isn't bad, if that's both ways it's a bit ouch.
Averaging 40mph on the open road, most trucks will do about 15mpg (unless it's an HGV) so that's 3 gallons an hour nearly or £22 in fuel alone. Revenue for that hour will be £60 (40 miles @£1.50 mile) and take out the drivers wages doesn't leave much to cover the return journey.
If it's both ways then they're making a killing, especially if they're in Cornwall or Scotland and you're the opposite.

[Othen]

Originally Posted by Othen

I have not researched this at all Dave, but it seems logical that you may well be right about the declining target audience for 1940/50s motor cars. Pre-war cars can now be picked up for much less than a decade ago for exactly that reason.

I’m not sure I’d have the patience to run a pre-war vehicle, but an up market and in its day technologically advanced 1950s car like the Bentley, or as you suggest a Jaguar or RR, might just fill the gap. I need to get that nice big garage/workshop built at the ‘Vegas place this summer, then have a look around at the market in the coming autumn/winter.

Alan

Addendum: it will be interesting to see how much this 1956 Bentley S1 makes:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/404822887...mis&media=COPY

I’ll keep an eye on it to get a flavour for the way the market is heading.

I followed up on the white Bentley S1, the answer is the eBay auction only got to £11,100 before it ran out of puff, not meeting the seller's expectations. We may see it again on eBay - or perhaps that isn't a good place to sell a 1956 Bentley?

The auction was perhaps a good bell-weather for 1950s Bentley prices (notwithstanding the eBay issue), as public auctions generally are. Once I'm settled in 'Vegas I may cast around for a motor car like this one - with no intention of restoring it, or even making it 'nice', but rather run it as I do GAM.

Interesting

[Laird Scooby]

I suspect the seller needs to manage their expectations more realistically Alan.

We can all sit here and say "If i win the lottery, i'd buy that for £15k" but to be honest, if it was a big enough win, the interest while the decision was made would pay the difference. At least some of the difference and with that amount of money, the odd grand or three wouldn't make much difference.

However, when we sit here and say i've got £X to see me through retirement or whatever else, those few grand start to make a bigger difference. Most would say it's a years worth of petrol, based on petrol being ~£7/gallon, take a figure of £3500 as the difference between achieved and expected sale price and that equates to 500 gallons.
Assume 10mpg (probably not that far out for a car like that) and that's 5000 miles or the average years classic driving.

That said, there's a beautiful Leyland P76 on ebay for ~£15k at the moment, my lottery winnings will be buying that!

Now where did i park my fleet of flying pigs..........................

[Moomoo]

Originally Posted by Laird Scooby

I suspect the seller needs to manage their expectations more realistically Alan.

We can all sit here and say "If i win the lottery, i'd buy that for £15k" but to be honest, if it was a big enough win, the interest while the decision was made would pay the difference. At least some of the difference and with that amount of money, the odd grand or three wouldn't make much difference.

However, when we sit here and say i've got £X to see me through retirement or whatever else, those few grand start to make a bigger difference. Most would say it's a years worth of petrol, based on petrol being ~£7/gallon, take a figure of £3500 as the difference between achieved and expected sale price and that equates to 500 gallons.
Assume 10mpg (probably not that far out for a car like that) and that's 5000 miles or the average years classic driving.

That said, there's a beautiful Leyland P76 on ebay for ~£15k at the moment, my lottery winnings will be buying that!

Now where did i park my fleet of flying pigs..........................

Leyland P76, never even heard of such an animal! WOW! Michelotti too.

Very attractive.

Ta Dave!👍

[Laird Scooby]

Originally Posted by Moomoo

Leyland P76, never even heard of such an animal! WOW! Michelotti too.

Very attractive.

Ta Dave!👍

They've been on my radar for 15-20 years Andrew, never thought i'd see one for sale in the UK though. Only made for 3 years in their native Australia but share many components with the P6 and/or SD1 so shouldn't be too hard to keep on the road.

Then there's that 4.4L version of the Rover V8, enough to persuade me to start with!