Collecting Cars auction results

[Bobo W]

Ferruccio said:

Imad said:

I’m wondering if it would make sense, in the case of the reserve not being met, to offer the car at the reserve price to the highest bidder? I was the highest bid on a car recently, but unfortunately didn’t meet the reserve. If the difference wasn’t great, I may have considered increasing the bid to meet the reserve.

You’d have thought they’d be in touch, unless it was a big gap.

In their sales bumph they say they'll consider making up the difference if a sale falls short of the reserve to get the sale through - in other words they take less commission but some is better than none I guess - this would suggest that highest bid was at least 6% less than reserve

[Imad]

Bobo W said:

Ferruccio said:

Imad said:

I’m wondering if it would make sense, in the case of the reserve not being met, to offer the car at the reserve price to the highest bidder? I was the highest bid on a car recently, but unfortunately didn’t meet the reserve. If the difference wasn’t great, I may have considered increasing the bid to meet the reserve.

You’d have thought they’d be in touch, unless it was a big gap.

In their sales bumph they say they'll consider making up the difference if a sale falls short of the reserve to get the sale through - in other words they take less commission but some is better than none I guess - this would suggest that highest bid was at least 6% less than reserve

Guess that makes sense.

In other news, £36,500 for the Audi R8 v10 spider. I think someone should feel pretty happy right now with that!

[Butter Face]

Imad said:

Guess that makes sense.

In other news, £36,500 for the Audi R8 v10 spider. I think someone should feel pretty happy right now with that!

Yup, that looks like a complete bargain. Even with the buyers premium it’s a good few grand behind retail value.

[tomtom]

No comment on the 308? ~60k for a RHD fibreglass car seems pretty good, despite it not being totally original.

[kdsl]

3 minutes to go. 190e for £900. Minimum buyers fee adds £600.... They're worth more aren't they or is this just the wrong car for this type of platform / audience?

https://collectingcars.com/for-sale/1992-mercedes-...

• *** Edit: sold £900. Makes paying another 60% for buyers fee seem odd

Edited by kdsl on Wednesday 15th July 20:31

[Mezzanine]

Aston Martin Cygnet bid to £20.5k with three days to go?!

World’s mad!

[ferdi p]

Mezzanine said:

Aston Martin Cygnet bid to £20.5k with three days to go?!

World’s mad!

Agreed, I thought it'd make 10k ish!!

[Trevor555]

ferdi p said:

Mezzanine said:

Aston Martin Cygnet bid to £20.5k with three days to go?!

World’s mad!

Agreed, I thought it'd make 10k ish!!

I've never seen one in the flesh.

Is it just a fancy interior difference to the IQ?

Or is it much more?

[Pommy]

Trevor555 said:

ferdi p said:

Mezzanine said:

Aston Martin Cygnet bid to £20.5k with three days to go?!

World’s mad!

Agreed, I thought it'd make 10k ish!!

I've never seen one in the flesh.

Is it just a fancy interior difference to the IQ?

Or is it much more?

No, not much more at all.

[Rari]

tomtom said:

No comment on the 308? ~60k for a RHD fibreglass car seems pretty good, despite it not being totally original.

I bid on the 308 but wasn’t prepared to go any further than £50k including commission. You just don’t know what you’re going to find until you start stripping back, it’s evidently been a hill climb / track toy and you can clearly see a lot rust at the bottom of the A pillar in the photos. Yes even the fibreglass cars rust! The car is easily found online in racing guise (roll cage etc) and on the gallery section of the garage where the recent front corner was rebuilt. I’ve had two 308s (both I restored) so know these cars well. Great track toy for someone but worth restoring to a high standard is debatable when other options are available and given its racing history.

I’m confident there is some serious shopping to come in the last quarter or first quarter 2021 so no need to get carried away.

I also bid on the red/Crema 355 spider and I was astounded to see what the car went for. I was out at £68k including commission. That’s the same figure the car sold for back in January this year. Same car failed to sell at Silverstone auctions last year. You don’t have to look far to find a similar spec’d car (with warranty) via a specialist dealer.

I suggest some people are getting carried away with auction fever, easily done and of course part of the fun trying to see if you can win the auction. Full credit to collecting cars for finding a niche in the market. How long some of these prices continue for is debatable.

[MG511]

Butter Face said:

Yup, that looks like a complete bargain. Even with the buyers premium it’s a good few grand behind retail value.

But why has a V10 got V8 wheels? Looks odd.

[Ferruccio]

Pommy said:

Trevor555 said:

ferdi p said:

Mezzanine said:

Aston Martin Cygnet bid to £20.5k with three days to go?!

World’s mad!

Agreed, I thought it'd make 10k ish!!

I've never seen one in the flesh.

Is it just a fancy interior difference to the IQ?

Or is it much more?

No, not much more at all.

The ultimate in badge engineering.
Like a basic battery charger badged as Ferrari, Lamborghini or, indeed, Aston Martin.

[ettore]

Rari said:

I bid on the 308 but wasn’t prepared to go any further than £50k including commission. You just don’t know what you’re going to find until you start stripping back, it’s evidently been a hill climb / track toy and you can clearly see a lot rust at the bottom of the A pillar in the photos. Yes even the fibreglass cars rust! The car is easily found online in racing guise (roll cage etc) and on the gallery section of the garage where the recent front corner was rebuilt. I’ve had two 308s (both I restored) so know these cars well. Great track toy for someone but worth restoring to a high standard is debatable when other options are available and given its racing history.

I’m confident there is some serious shopping to come in the last quarter or first quarter 2021 so no need to get carried away.

I also bid on the red/Crema 355 spider and I was astounded to see what the car went for. I was out at £68k including commission. That’s the same figure the car sold for back in January this year. Same car failed to sell at Silverstone auctions last year. You don’t have to look far to find a similar spec’d car (with warranty) via a specialist dealer.

I suggest some people are getting carried away with auction fever, easily done and of course part of the fun trying to see if you can win the auction. Full credit to collecting cars for finding a niche in the market. How long some of these prices continue for is debatable.

I’d agree that it looked superficially cheap but you would need to throw a lot of money at it to make it right (or just enjoy it for what it is). The value of GRP cars is linked to originality as much as condition so this one would never be a top-value car.

Probably better keeping it as a sprint/hill climb car.

[Slippydiff]

Rari said:

tomtom said:

No comment on the 308? ~60k for a RHD fibreglass car seems pretty good, despite it not being totally original.

I bid on the 308 but wasn’t prepared to go any further than £50k including commission. You just don’t know what you’re going to find until you start stripping back, it’s evidently been a hill climb / track toy and you can clearly see a lot rust at the bottom of the A pillar in the photos. Yes even the fibreglass cars rust! The car is easily found online in racing guise (roll cage etc) and on the gallery section of the garage where the recent front corner was rebuilt. I’ve had two 308s (both I restored) so know these cars well. Great track toy for someone but worth restoring to a high standard is debatable when other options are available and given its racing history.

I’m confident there is some serious shopping to come in the last quarter or first quarter 2021 so no need to get carried away.

I suggest some people are getting carried away with auction fever, easily done and of course part of the fun trying to see if you can win the auction. Full credit to collecting cars for finding a niche in the market. How long some of these prices continue for is debatable.

I spent a considerable amount of time looking at the hi-res images of the car earlier in the week. The more you looked, the more issues became obvious.
I'd like to see the quality of cage install/removal once the interior is removed. And on the basis of the corrosion of the A pillar, I'd imagine there may be other corrosion issues lurking elsewhere too (maybe not structural/MOT failure stuff, but still worthy of/needing rectification)

It's original colour of Oro Chiaro Met was an interesting (and rare ?) choice for a Vetroresina :



On the basis the auction details indicate the car's been painted twice already, any bodywork restoration project won't be the work of five minutes.

It's on 16" wheels (either originals with their decals missing, or replicas) and at 62K miles it's not going to be one for the collector.

Could be a great (and usable) project, but with prices heading south rather than north, it could prove be an inspired sale on the vendor's part ...

[ettore]

I checked out the original colour too - would look great returned to god metallic on the original wheels!

[Matty3]

Seriously looked at the fibreglass body 308 too - my all time favourite Ferrari - but as others have commented too many issues and a potential moneypit?

[Cheib]

Does anyone know what the V12 Vantage S was bid to ?

https://collectingcars.com/for-sale/2018-aston-mar...

[anonymous-user]

Cheib said:

Does anyone know what the V12 Vantage S was bid to ?

https://collectingcars.com/for-sale/2018-aston-mar...

Last I saw it was somewhere between 100000 and 110000. Not sure if that's helpful though, as they may be worth 150000 or something.

[spikeyhead]

mstrbkr said:

Last I saw it was somewhere between 100000 and 110000. Not sure if that's helpful though, as they may be worth 150000 or something.

I think I saw it finished at 112k, but it may have been 122k

I should learn how to write a script to scrape the numbers

[cayman-black]

Cheib said:

Does anyone know what the V12 Vantage S was bid to ?

https://collectingcars.com/for-sale/2018-aston-mar...

Last i looked it had reached £128k i,m surprised it didn't sell. What did you think Cheib ? its a gorgeous car and the ownwer has been trying to sell for well over a year.