What's different about a Chimaera Clubman?
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sixor8 said:
I raised a thread about it just after the auction, I'd been logged on with a thought that it would go for about £15k. It had failed to get above £13k in 2019!
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
It's nice to see an auctioneer actually declare the VAT on the buyers fees in the final cost. Many auctioneers don't, despite it being declared as a 'service charge' and non recoverable.
It’s a strange world. https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
It's nice to see an auctioneer actually declare the VAT on the buyers fees in the final cost. Many auctioneers don't, despite it being declared as a 'service charge' and non recoverable.
Edited by sixor8 on Monday 9th August 07:42
The second hand and classic car world value low mileage over most anything else.
As a collector I can see the value in a very original product with possibly the lowest mileage example around as in this case.
It’s not going to be driven too far I’d have thought.
It’s interesting how this sale coincides with the TopGear show as there was an early spike of sales this spring as can be seen by the amount of people coming onto the FB forums asking to buy cars but at the price this one apparently went for you’d think the buyer had had it checked over. It must be pretty good for that kind of money.
The best T cars are getting on for 35-50k
A few Griffs have been offered up at 35+ But all examples are top line cars which after 20 years abuse is not easy or cheap to maintain.
In the world of expensive cars it’s still a bargain.
Not many left also sees prices increasing in these motoring circles so that’s possibly a factor when all of a sudden the world wakes up to the fun of a Tvr and how few of them there are.
My view is if you want rare cars to survive the value has to be at least somewhere close to what it costs to restore and maintain them or they will die away.
But the Chimaera isn't even that rare. There's well over 3000 of them still registered. Admittedly it was an HC which isn't as common. Every time I hear an auctioneer say an E-Type is rare, I wince, there are over 4000 of them in the UK; they're just not used very much!
Rarity doesn't always mean valuable though. I had a 60k mile 1992 Fiat Tempra 1.6 about 3 yrs ago of which there are only a handful left and I was lucky to get over a grand for it.
Rarity doesn't always mean valuable though. I had a 60k mile 1992 Fiat Tempra 1.6 about 3 yrs ago of which there are only a handful left and I was lucky to get over a grand for it.
sixor8 said:
But the Chimaera isn't even that rare. There's well over 3000 of them still registered. Admittedly it was an HC which isn't as common. Every time I hear an auctioneer say an E-Type is rare, I wince, there are over 4000 of them in the UK; they're just not used very much!
Rarity doesn't always mean valuable though. I had a 60k mile 1992 Fiat Tempra 1.6 about 3 yrs ago of which there are only a handful left and I was lucky to get over a grand for it.
Do you mean registered for the road. Rarity doesn't always mean valuable though. I had a 60k mile 1992 Fiat Tempra 1.6 about 3 yrs ago of which there are only a handful left and I was lucky to get over a grand for it.
Yes but if your after a particular colour and or interior or engine spec or restored etc etc so whittle it down the pool available is not that broad.
I mean how many have what is it 5000 km like this car on the clock.
Has anyone checked the money was actually handed over
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