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benjj said:
Any ideas what a LHD 3.0 CS would be worth in the UK?
Currently in Holland, new tobacco leather interior, light metallic blue original paint, totally solid shell (amazingly), needs cosmetic sprucing. Sub 50k miles, sunroof, original wheels, tools etc.
Sounds gorgeous. Though a Cs is slightly less desirable than a CSi. Most CSs are automatic which is also less desirable/valuable or is it manual? Sunroofs are best avoided in my opinion. 'Totally solid', I'd question that and 'needs cosmetic sprucing' raises a flag. These cars rust from the inside out in the most spectacular fashion. Having said that, If it's a genuinely good original example with 50k miles backed up with history (in a great colour), I'd reckon it could go for £9-14k. I'd be weary of using Munich Legends or 4 star classics as a price guide though, particularly the latter. They've have very optimistically (ludicrously) priced cars on their lot for a good while now.Currently in Holland, new tobacco leather interior, light metallic blue original paint, totally solid shell (amazingly), needs cosmetic sprucing. Sub 50k miles, sunroof, original wheels, tools etc.
Edited by decampos on Tuesday 8th April 09:26
I'd be extremely cautious.
I owned a manual CS (carb car but original manual) for 13 years....from 1988 to 2001.
It was a 1972, one (deceased) owner car who had actually tried to lookafter it meticulously. So, it was 'only' 16 years old when I bought it and had circa 80K miles on the clock. By that time it had had amongst other things virtually the entire floor already replaced once. I had it all done again, along with sills, door skins, bulkhead repairs etc etc in the mid-90s.
I think it is highly improbable that that car above will not need major structural repairs which will subsequently prove hugely expensive.
I owned a manual CS (carb car but original manual) for 13 years....from 1988 to 2001.
It was a 1972, one (deceased) owner car who had actually tried to lookafter it meticulously. So, it was 'only' 16 years old when I bought it and had circa 80K miles on the clock. By that time it had had amongst other things virtually the entire floor already replaced once. I had it all done again, along with sills, door skins, bulkhead repairs etc etc in the mid-90s.
I think it is highly improbable that that car above will not need major structural repairs which will subsequently prove hugely expensive.
derin100 said:
I'd be extremely cautious. I owned a manual CS (carb car but original manual) for 13 years....from 1988 to 2001. It was a 1972, one (deceased) owner car who had actually tried to lookafter it meticulously. So, it was 'only' 16 years old when I bought it and had circa 80K miles on the clock. By that time it had had amongst other things virtually the entire floor already replaced once. I had it all done again, along with sills, door skins, bulkhead repairs etc etc in the mid-90s. I think it is highly improbable that that car above will not need major structural repairs which will subsequently prove hugely expensive.
Tru-dat. I bought a gorgeous and very clean csi with a full service history and ended up spending £12k in the first year. Par for the course I think.
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