Classics Advertised With Daft Prices

[Keep it stiff]

To get the ball rolling I give you a very optimistic X19 owner!

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C587036

[boyse7en]

Wow! I read through the advert and tried to guess how much it was going for.

I was a bit out


By a factor of 10

[HaylingJag]

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

this one does it for me, a little optimistic i think. Nice car but not up there yet. Avantgarde at Tamworth sold a Series 1 4.0 TWR for around £8,000, with just 24,000 miles on it, after touting it around the 12k mark.

D

[Elderly]

http://www.runnymedemotorcompany.com/MoreDetails.p...

I know of a number of similar spec examples 'for sale' at under half that price, and they've been on the market for around 5 years and still remain unsold .

[LotusOmega375D]

I win!

You could either buy this one:

http://www.howardwisecars.co.uk/index.php/classic/...

Or save yourself 300K and go for this one:

http://suchen.mobile.de/auto-inserat/audi-quattro-...

[jke11y]

HaylingJag said:

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

this one does it for me, a little optimistic i think. Nice car but not up there yet. Avantgarde at Tamworth sold a Series 1 4.0 TWR for around £8,000, with just 24,000 miles on it, after touting it around the 12k mark.

D

All of his "classic" stock is ludicrously priced; the pagoda he bought at auction for 90k and then immediately listed it at 180k. The G wagon at 30k is about double what it is worth.

[swisstoni]

All the dealers a having a go

[omgus]

HaylingJag said:

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

this one does it for me, a little optimistic i think. Nice car but not up there yet. Avantgarde at Tamworth sold a Series 1 4.0 TWR for around £8,000, with just 24,000 miles on it, after touting it around the 12k mark.

D

It's pricey, but i do love a TWR XJ.

[toon10]

Keep it stiff said:

To get the ball rolling I give you a very optimistic X19 owner!

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C587036

Shirley just a typo (extra 0 on the end by mistake?)

[Mr. Magoo]

toon10 said:

Shirley just a typo (extra 0 on the end by mistake?)

more like an erroneous '8' at the start.

[restoman]

swisstoni said:

All the dealers a having a go

Indeed, and just occasionally some mug comes along and they strike lucky . . .

[crostonian]

These two Alfasud Sprints had me falling off my chair. £12k and £13k, no way, half this maybe at a push. The red one hasn't even got the correct engine fitted.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/search/used/cars/alfa_...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1987-Alfa-Romeo-Alfasud-...

[_Leg_]

crostonian said:

These two Alfasud Sprints had me falling off my chair. £12k and £13k, no way, half this maybe at a push. The red one hasn't even got the correct engine fitted.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/search/used/cars/alfa_...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1987-Alfa-Romeo-Alfasud-...

Worryingly Ive been eyeing that red one up......

[Piersman2]

omgus said:

HaylingJag said:

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

this one does it for me, a little optimistic i think. Nice car but not up there yet. Avantgarde at Tamworth sold a Series 1 4.0 TWR for around £8,000, with just 24,000 miles on it, after touting it around the 12k mark.

D

It's pricey, but i do love a TWR XJ.

This seller has got two massively overpriced Jags that he advertises on a daily basis to try and trigger some interest in his ridiculous prices. I know, because I'm on the look out for a Jag and his overpriced tosh turns up every single day.

[HaylingJag]

Piersman2 said:

This seller has got two massively overpriced Jags that he advertises on a daily basis to try and trigger some interest in his ridiculous prices. I know, because I'm on the look out for a Jag and his overpriced tosh turns up every single day.

id quite happily take half of that for my one, its a bit of a double edge for me, on the one hand i see vastly inflated prices for these, on the other hand, surely its good for me by having one in the garage???

im of the mind, tho, that its only worth the money of someone actually buys it!!

[4rephill]

LotusOmega375D said:

I win!
You could either buy this one:

http://www.howardwisecars.co.uk/index.php/classic/...

Or save yourself 300K and go for this one:

http://suchen.mobile.de/auto-inserat/audi-quattro-...

Do you?

Try this: http://www.autovillage.co.uk/used-car/ferrari/328/...

A Ferrari 328 GTS with 5,437 miles on it.

Asking price?: £999,999!



(Obviously asking £999,999 and actually getting £999,999 are two completely different things, but the advert fits the concept of this thread perfectly)

[george123]

crostonian said:

These two Alfasud Sprints had me falling off my chair. £12k and £13k, no way, half this maybe at a push. The red one hasn't even got the correct engine fitted.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/search/used/cars/alfa_...

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1987-Alfa-Romeo-Alfasud-...

Karden have had a blue '74 Spider for sale at £16950 since before last summer. They've has another '75 Spider listed last £20950 for the last couple of months....! Still no photos uploaded, would be interested to see what it looks like.

I don't know if its a ploy by the dealer to get people calling up about it or they've genuinely forgotten to stick them on the website.

Of they still don't have the car yet!

BTW what engine should that red Sprint have...it is nice

[P5Nij]

Just over five years ago I went down to GC Motors in Kent to have a gander at a restored '69 Mini Cooper which they'd had for at least eighteen months and was up for £10k. I liked the look of it, everything seemed ticketyboo and the rebuilt engine was very strong but the bodywork still needed some work here and there so I offered them £9k. They turned me down, so I walked away (and bought another one elsewhere a few months later), by which time that same Cooper was advertised again at £13k.... it's still there today but now has a price tag just shy of £16k!

[craig_m67]

george123 said:

BTW what engine should that red Sprint have...it is nice

In my mind the light grey dash in the red Sprint suggests it's one of the last models and the (1.7 twin carb) engine is correct. The 1984 white Sprint on the other hand should have a 1.5 twin carb. I had one of those. Fantastic cars. I want it back.

I could be wrong, it was a bloody long time ago

[crostonian]

craig_m67 said:

george123 said:

BTW what engine should that red Sprint have...it is nice

In my mind the light grey dash in the red Sprint suggests it's one of the last models and the (1.7 twin carb) engine is correct. The 1984 white Sprint on the other hand should have a 1.5 twin carb. I had one of those. Fantastic cars. I want it back.

I could be wrong, it was a bloody long time ago

My mistake, didn't look at the white one closely, they BOTH have the wrong engine. The white car is a 1.5 Green Cloverleaf, as is the red car. Being an '87 model the red car will probably have 33 running gear, ie outboard front brakes instead of inboard and rear drums instead of discs. These late cars seemed to lose the lurid green carpets fitted to the earlier ones but kept the green dot seats. The 1.7 was introduced in 1987, they lost the plastic side cladding and the stripes in the bumpers, they all had a Zender rear spoiler and had grey herringbone cloth seats. You could also get the full Zender bodykit on the later cars, many 1.7s were so equipped, the kit helped them rot even quicker.

General consensus back in the day was that the 1.5 was a sweeter unit than the 1.7 and didn't imbue the car with as much torque steer. The engine swap was quite common I just feel that if you are forking out top end money for one then originality becomes more significant.

The optimium Sprint for me would be a chrome bumper Veloce with the 95bhp 1.5 engine, less cammy than the 105bhp unit in the later cars. There's usually a decent selection of these for sale in Italy for around half the amount of the two cars advertised.