Valuation article in Sprint

[Random24234]

Thought I'd make a quick post as I just received the latest sprint and tucked in the middle was a interesting 4 page article for valuations for TVR's. The article goes into depth on how to score a car from near perfect concours all the way down to ones that need attention. Being the curious sort i skipped to the last page of the article and glanced at the table, usual numbers and some cars at random :-

(All these are concours condition example prices)
Griffith 500 ~ 22,000
Chimera 450/500 ~ 18,000
Tuscan ~ 25,000
Tuscan S ~ 30,000

But what grabbed my attention was :-

Cerbera (all types) in concours condition at 14,000.

To be fair to the article it states 'These values are collated from a variety of sources, price guides, recent sales, dealer adverts. Individual cars can be, and often are, outside these figures'.

I would personally hazard this is a little on the low side for a mint condition car, but what do other owners think?

[thefrog]

I'd challenge someone to find a mint one (as per tvrcc rules) for that price. Strsix have one for sale at 37k, got to be minter than mint. Problem is that price imo is in the eye of the beholder, right time, place, car and buyer and price guides go out of the window.

[PuffsBack]

Way to low - sold my super 2002 Speed 6 a few weeks back for a lot more and was beating people off with a stick. Went within 4 days

To be fair the STR8Six one is a little special, not only in condition. A low mileage 2003 4.5 Red Rose - thats about as rare as it gets. Have to admit if I hadn't bought the Sag I would have found it hard to resist.

Edited by PuffsBack on Wednesday 15th July 17:21

[RFC1]

Must be April fools day.......

[jamieduff1981]

I think "typo" would be the most logical explanation for that.

You'll be waiting a long time if you're holding out for a top condition Cerbera with a budget of £14,000. £24,000 might be a more realistic figure. £14,000 is so far off the mark it just screams "mistake".

[alex_gray255]

Yup. I would add at least another 10-12k to that valuation.

[Revvit]

Obviously written by a Tuscan owner!

[Gazzab]

Clearly a typo or else someone sniffing glue.

[Jhonno]

Revvit said:

Obviously written by a Tuscan owner!

That valuation is easily 10k out..

You couldn't even buy a concours one for 14k 3 yrs ago!

Edited by Jhonno on Thursday 16th July 09:10

[Byker28i]

If I sold mine (and I'm not) I'd be looking at £16-18k, full chassis restoration, new clutch although tatty paintwork. Looking at prices I don't think I'd be far out

[RFC1]

Having now got my copy of sprint, i can confirm that it is no typo error.
Cerbs are valued as below.

Concours £14000

excellent £11500

good £9000

fair £6750.

[Jhonno]

RFC1 said:

Having now got my copy of sprint, i can confirm that it is no typo error.
Cerbs are valued as below.

Concours £14000

excellent £11500

good £9000

fair £6750.

I am not sure they really did their research there!!

[PGNCerbera]

RFC1 said:

Having now got my copy of sprint, i can confirm that it is no typo error.
Cerbs are valued as below.

Concours £14000

excellent £11500

good £9000

fair £6750.

I read that last night and "lol'd"

show me concours cerbs at 14k and I will buy a barn full.

[Byker28i]

Seeing as my Sprint hasnt come yet, Whats the prices of the 'lesser' models as opposed to ours (the fastest)

How do they justify that price for a griff over the Cerbera? Was it written by v8grf (who just happens to have a 500 Griff)?

[B3NNL]

I'm actually pretty put out by that piece. If it was a few £k out then maybe we could just be classed as being pedantic but when has there EVER been a Cerbera for sale for £6750? If thats an average of previous sales etc they're saying that there have been some for sale for LESS! Absolute bks...Sorry, I don't usually get het up about people with missinformation, but this is Sprint the TVR club magazine, of all the people on the plannet that know about TVRs it should be them.
I've been losing interest in the magazine over the past few months, this latest article has just confirmed my thoughts.
Very shoddy work...

[Steve_T]

They are on the low side, even Gazzab doesn't mark them down that much

[Gazzab]

It is laughable. But judging by some of the sprint editor (?) posts on here I'm not surprised at such ill informed facts.

[Byker28i]

Didn't realise Unrepentant was the new editor

[anonymous-user]

You would struggle to find true concours examples of any of the cars noted.

If you did you would not buy them for the figures shown. If they did come to market, they would probably bought by car collectors and not TVR people.

Edited by anonymous-user on Thursday 16th July 15:10

[Jhonno]

You couldn't even buy one of that breaker's crashed Turds for £6750