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i have just about finished having a 66 split completely restored, as its taken 5 years i dont see being able to use it and quite fancy changing it for a proper modern day motorhome, does anyone have any idea of people who might take it on SOR? i have had a look without much success....
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I would have thought something that desirable would make for an easy private sale - perhaps through one of the clubs? Any reason for the SOR where you obviously end up paying for someone else to advertise it for you - if its a desire not to deal with all the inevitable time wasters I completely under stand!
i could go the private route but i am not sure i could deal with the inevitable muppets that would come along lol..... i reckon car and classic might be the way forward.... i am on ssvc but to be honest its a pretty small club that you would only know about if you owned one already etc..... ;-)
Edited by andyleeds on Thursday 9th February 15:49
Sold my last Mustang through Car and Classic - only one guy responded to that ad but.......He came and looked at the car had with him the right amount of money and bought the car there and then for the asking price - I appreciate it was the perfect experience! The ad I place on here for the same car on the other hand elicited a number of offers at about 50% of the asking price.......one guy made the same offer 5 times and never even picked up the phone far less look at the car!!!
Last time I looked into SOR (and it was with a garage I had dealings with and knew well) I seem to recall they waned about 15%.
I would have thought private has to be worth a try - you can always pull the ad if its to much hassle and we must be getting close to when people would be on the look out for something like this. What's still to be done to finish?
Last time I looked into SOR (and it was with a garage I had dealings with and knew well) I seem to recall they waned about 15%.
I would have thought private has to be worth a try - you can always pull the ad if its to much hassle and we must be getting close to when people would be on the look out for something like this. What's still to be done to finish?
here's a recent one in the shop
you wouldn't want to use something like this as a daily driver, although its absolutely reliable as its basically a new van its far too nice and expensive to use for mooching around in..... in vw circles its a 'shiny' van not a ratty.....
you wouldn't want to use something like this as a daily driver, although its absolutely reliable as its basically a new van its far too nice and expensive to use for mooching around in..... in vw circles its a 'shiny' van not a ratty.....
Edited by andyleeds on Friday 10th February 10:39
its up on ssvc for offers over £40k but very difficult to value..... to give it some context i have totted up what i have spent on it and its more than £65k...... the labour alone is more than £40k so that gives an insight into how much it costs to repair / restore something like this professionally.... its still needs some stuff doing on it but all the major stuff is done...... i have replaced everything that needed doing and have also improved a lot of it...... i believe the phrase is "full nut and bolt restoration" !
You can only value as the market dictates, a quick search brings, which is no help really. I like the second one a lot and finished. Plenty of choice I,m afraid, good luck with your sale
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absolutely mate, the thing is there's restored and there's restored..... they say the same thing but can be vastly different things......
the spec of the parts used and also the standard of the finish bit like a house really
the spec on the one that i am selling will be vastly above all of these, twin carb engine, porsche front disc brakes, IRS, brake servo, walkthrough bulkhead, safari's, pop outs etc, etc......the list goes on and on but clearly someone has to value all these extra bits that mine has say over the blue one.... but you can see what i mean.... they might look similar but really they are quite different.....
i think that i will probably end up restoring completely and then see where we are.....
the spec of the parts used and also the standard of the finish bit like a house really
the spec on the one that i am selling will be vastly above all of these, twin carb engine, porsche front disc brakes, IRS, brake servo, walkthrough bulkhead, safari's, pop outs etc, etc......the list goes on and on but clearly someone has to value all these extra bits that mine has say over the blue one.... but you can see what i mean.... they might look similar but really they are quite different.....
i think that i will probably end up restoring completely and then see where we are.....
I would keep it if I were you. I'm a huge camper nut so couldn't possibly condone selling one! If it has been nut and bolt restored, it will be worth considerably more over the coming years as the unrestored ones decay and restorers really capitalise on supply/demand.
Not wishing to sound negative about it, but if you've spent £65k restoring it, you will be giving a lot of money away with any sale. A semi-decent 23 window Samba will be £50-£75k and they are as rare as an honest politician, so a splitty (as genuinely stunning as it looks) will be considerably below that. In my (inexperienced) opinion, that's a £40k van, so you're well out of pocket.
Any chance you could make it pay for itself? Hire it out (£500 a week, at a guess?), lease it to a wedding car company etc? You would still have an appreciating asset under your belt but an income from it could easily fund a more useable bus for you.
Not wishing to sound negative about it, but if you've spent £65k restoring it, you will be giving a lot of money away with any sale. A semi-decent 23 window Samba will be £50-£75k and they are as rare as an honest politician, so a splitty (as genuinely stunning as it looks) will be considerably below that. In my (inexperienced) opinion, that's a £40k van, so you're well out of pocket.
Any chance you could make it pay for itself? Hire it out (£500 a week, at a guess?), lease it to a wedding car company etc? You would still have an appreciating asset under your belt but an income from it could easily fund a more useable bus for you.
hey jon boy, there the exact numbers i have come to myself and the wedding thing is an option but to be honest i was going to try and get it finished in the next couple of months but i think that i will probably now push it back to august or next spring.....
fortunately i also bought a 456 and that should take up the slack that i have lost on this bus so if i sold both will come out level....(thats if i sell either)
fortunately i also bought a 456 and that should take up the slack that i have lost on this bus so if i sold both will come out level....(thats if i sell either)
andyleeds said:
hey jon boy, there the exact numbers i have come to myself and the wedding thing is an option but to be honest i was going to try and get it finished in the next couple of months but i think that i will probably now push it back to august or next spring.....
fortunately i also bought a 456 and that should take up the slack that i have lost on this bus so if i sold both will come out level....(thats if i sell either)
In that case, you definitely can't sell either!! A 456 and a splitty - I am incredibly jealous fortunately i also bought a 456 and that should take up the slack that i have lost on this bus so if i sold both will come out level....(thats if i sell either)
andyleeds said:
cool, where did you get the roof rack from?
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