Seriously Overpriced Cars

[boyse7en]

Faust66 said:

The only reason I don't have a Capri 2.8 injection parked outside right now is price.

Decent 2.8s go for about 8k these days, with mint cars fetching a lot more. Don't get me wrong; I love Capris despite all their flaws, but when you look what else you can get for that sort of money it puts it all into perspective.

Brooklands/280 variants have always commanded a premium, but £9600 for a car that needs full restoration? And the bodywork WILL be a lot worse than expected once you start probing a bit. That said, spend 10-15k on restoration and you may well sell it for 30k these days so there is a profit to be made - if you're one of those people.

I was offered a tidy Brookie from a dealer for 3 grand a few years back but turned it down….ah, sweet, sweet hindsight.

Guess I'll just have to stick with my Volvo Amazon for the time being - but I do miss the roar of a cologne V6.

Guy I know bought a very similar looking Capri to the one above for about £7.5k (except this one was MoT'd and drivable) and has since spent well over £10k and over a year having it restored.
Driven it twice in the last 18 months - both times it has broken down.

[vetrof]

DaveCWK said:

A red 850csi went for cicra £10k on eBay not that long ago. I think one with low miles & decent SH/ colour is a £20k car max.

Custard?

[s m]

boyse7en said:

Guy I know bought a very similar looking Capri to the one above for about £7.5k (except this one was MoT'd and drivable) and has since spent well over £10k and over a year having it restored.
Driven it twice in the last 18 months - both times it has broken down.

Sounds like he went to the wrong 'restorer'!

Seriously though, if he only uses it once a year I'm not entirely surprised it broke down. IME they're better used regularly

[Faust66]

s m said:

boyse7en said:

Guy I know bought a very similar looking Capri to the one above for about £7.5k (except this one was MoT'd and drivable) and has since spent well over £10k and over a year having it restored.
Driven it twice in the last 18 months - both times it has broken down.

Sounds like he went to the wrong 'restorer'!

Seriously though, if he only uses it once a year I'm not entirely surprised it broke down. IME they're better used regularly

Indeed.

Lot of problems with the Bosch K-Jet system can be avoided by using the car on a regular basis.

As I always say: the more you use a classic, then the better it'll run…

[Funkycoldribena]

Hainey said:

I was offered a mint low mileage, two owner (father and then son) Brooklands for £300 - the figure sticks in my head as it was the limit to what I could get out the cash machine.

Unfortunately it was 1993 and I said no

I turned down many a Fiesta Supersport/Escort Mk2/Nova sr etc for around that sort of money as well.
Ah well...it was a different time...

[generationx]

Funkycoldribena said:

Hainey said:

I was offered a mint low mileage, two owner (father and then son) Brooklands for £300 - the figure sticks in my head as it was the limit to what I could get out the cash machine.

Unfortunately it was 1993 and I said no

I turned down many a Fiesta Supersport/Escort Mk2/Nova sr etc for around that sort of money as well.
Ah well...it was a different time...

A 6 year old two owner Brooklands (280) for three hundred quid? I smell BS. Or was it 1/43 scale...

[MDMA .]

Faust66 said:

The only reason I don't have a Capri 2.8 injection parked outside right now is price.

Decent 2.8s go for about 8k these days, with mint cars fetching a lot more. Don't get me wrong; I love Capris despite all their flaws, but when you look what else you can get for that sort of money it puts it all into perspective.

Brooklands/280 variants have always commanded a premium, but £9600 for a car that needs full restoration? And the bodywork WILL be a lot worse than expected once you start probing a bit. That said, spend 10-15k on restoration and you may well sell it for 30k these days so there is a profit to be made - if you're one of those people.

I was offered a tidy Brookie from a dealer for 3 grand a few years back but turned it down….ah, sweet, sweet hindsight.

Guess I'll just have to stick with my Volvo Amazon for the time being - but I do miss the roar of a cologne V6.

there was / has been a 2.8i special at Oulton Park for many years. think they use as a safety car. has been used regular for many years. will try and find a picture.

[Hainey]

generationx said:

Funkycoldribena said:

Hainey said:

I was offered a mint low mileage, two owner (father and then son) Brooklands for £300 - the figure sticks in my head as it was the limit to what I could get out the cash machine.

Unfortunately it was 1993 and I said no

I turned down many a Fiesta Supersport/Escort Mk2/Nova sr etc for around that sort of money as well.
Ah well...it was a different time...

A 6 year old two owner Brooklands (280) for three hundred quid? I smell BS. Or was it 1/43 scale...

No BS. The dad had sadly passed and the son wasn't interested in it at all. I had just done a lot of work for his mother and he knew I was into cars. It was a 'what would you give me for it' conversation as it was just sat in the garage doing nothing at his mothers and he wasn't living there, he was living in London by this point. Dad was working class made good, son was a newly minted Dr and e didn't like the vehicle at all (said it was tail happy and dated) and six years old then was a massive amount different from six years old now.

Conversation ended up with me offering what I could get out the bank that night and he said if I came back with the money I could have it. He was very serious.

The only fool in the story was me for not taking it. I later heard he literally gave it away to his friends son.

Yeah cool starry bra and all that but there it is.

[derin100]

Hainey said:

generationx said:

Funkycoldribena said:

Hainey said:

I was offered a mint low mileage, two owner (father and then son) Brooklands for £300 - the figure sticks in my head as it was the limit to what I could get out the cash machine.

Unfortunately it was 1993 and I said no

I turned down many a Fiesta Supersport/Escort Mk2/Nova sr etc for around that sort of money as well.
Ah well...it was a different time...

A 6 year old two owner Brooklands (280) for three hundred quid? I smell BS. Or was it 1/43 scale...

No BS. The dad had sadly passed and the son wasn't interested in it at all. I had just done a lot of work for his mother and he knew I was into cars. It was a 'what would you give me for it' conversation as it was just sat in the garage doing nothing at his mothers and he wasn't living there, he was living in London by this point. Dad was working class made good, son was a newly minted Dr and e didn't like the vehicle at all (said it was tail happy and dated) and six years old then was a massive amount different from six years old now.

Conversation ended up with me offering what I could get out the bank that night and he said if I came back with the money I could have it. He was very serious.

The only fool in the story was me for not taking it. I later heard he literally gave it away to his friends son.

Yeah cool starry bra and all that but there it is.

Yep, how times change!

I bought this when it was less than only 3 years old and had only 23K miles on the clock. It had cost £11,000 when new (which was a lot of money then) and I bought it for only £1100. Unfortunately...that was in 1984:

[sim16v]

I pop in and out of this thread, so haven't checked every page.

So, have we had this yet?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BMW-M3-CSL/262406621533?...

£99k for an E46 CSL!

Yes, it is very nice, but £99k!

[MDMA .]

sim16v said:

I pop in and out of this thread, so haven't checked every page.

So, have we had this yet?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BMW-M3-CSL/262406621533?...

£99k for an E46 CSL!

Yes, it is very nice, but £99k!

but it's twice the price it should be by being for sale through that seller. same with 4star / whatever other name based in the same farm yard type job.

[Leins]

LHD CSLs have been priced considerably higher on the continent than those in the RHD market for some time now. Then you factor in Sterling being about 20% cheaper to buy with Euros than it was a year ago...

[s m]

sim16v said:

I pop in and out of this thread, so haven't checked every page.

So, have we had this yet?

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BMW-M3-CSL/262406621533?...

£99k for an E46 CSL!

Yes, it is very nice, but £99k!

Blimey, you could buy an E30 Sport Evolution for that much

[ambuletz]

s m said:

Blimey, you could buy an E30 Sport Evolution for that much

the one they're selling is some £5k more.

[derin100]

ambuletz said:

s m said:

Blimey, you could buy an E30 Sport Evolution for that much

the one they're selling is some £5k more.

Even if I had a huge lottery win, I wouldn't pay that much for either of them.

[Guvernator]

derin100 said:

ambuletz said:

s m said:

Blimey, you could buy an E30 Sport Evolution for that much

the one they're selling is some £5k more.

Even if I had a huge lottery win, I wouldn't pay that much for either of them.

Agreed, neither are 6 figure cars IMO no matter how much mythical kudos people try to attach to them but then I could say the same for some old 911's. The worlds gone mad.

[Momentofmadness]

Peugeot 207s in the main dealer network - how much?

http://www.usedcars.peugeot.co.uk/vehicle.aspx?wfl... 12 plate - ultra low miles, but £7,500?

and again http://www.usedcars.peugeot.co.uk/vehicle.aspx?wfl...

and lastly a diesel 12 plate for £9,000 !

http://www.usedcars.peugeot.co.uk/vehicle.aspx?wfl...

[Downward]

VolvoT5 said:

mx5ian said:

£7,500 for a Maestro!
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/classic-cars-AUSTIN-MEAS...

I mean if they are going to take the piss on the price you would have thought the least they could do was spend 20 mins taking some decent photos. It isn't even an MG or a nice colour or anything.

Wasn't there a batch of these a few years back (late 90s?) that were discovered and sold off really cheap?

"Never been on the road"

1 lucky owner then.

[birdcage]

Have we had this?

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/b...

pass the crack pipe....

[oceanview]

birdcage said:

Have we had this?

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifieds/used-cars/b...

pass the crack pipe....

What a bell-end!!