Classic car price guide
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crankedup

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Thursday 30th April 2020
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Looking at the car price guide helpfully provided by Hagerty, I know it’s been around a while now and assume it’s updated periodically. How much of it is actually a old reasonable sensible guide?
Obviously exceptions pop up from time to time but is it a time honoured good guide?

V8fan

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297 months

Thursday 30th April 2020
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I think it's hopeless. I had a TVR Cerbera for 12 months so I checked periodically. sold it last year but values haven't changed for any condition for 2 years at least.

They also also, with some brands, don't have values for cars under 30+ years old (no valuations at all for Mercedes SLK for instance)

As I understand it, it's used for insurance valuations so many of the values are a bit inflated.

The Practical Classics guide is closer, IMHO, but classic car auctions often sell cars way above the top valuations. They also don't list every different spec / year, it's only an approximation:

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d31c18a98e...

It's a pdf file so you can download it and view at your leisure.


crankedup

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Thursday 30th April 2020
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V8fan said:
I think it's hopeless. I had a TVR Cerbera for 12 months so I checked periodically. sold it last year but values haven't changed for any condition for 2 years at least.

They also also, with some brands, don't have values for cars under 30+ years old (no valuations at all for Mercedes SLK for instance)

As I understand it, it's used for insurance valuations so many of the values are a bit inflated.

The Practical Classics guide is closer, IMHO, but classic car auctions often sell cars way above the top valuations. They also don't list every different spec / year, it's only an approximation:

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5d31c18a98e...

It's a pdf file so you can download it and view at your leisure.
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crankedup

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Thursday 16th July 2020
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ghgunning said:
In terms of a classic car guide to prices Hagerty and Practical Classics are a good options. Like you say above it's not always the most up to date data and that's really important imo. To that end I'm building a website to collate thousands of auction results all in one place and analysing price trends, average prices etc for thousands of models. If you're interested in that kind of thing, you're welcome to sign up for early access @ theclassicvaluer.com
Sounds an interesting project.