Cerbera Speed 12 for Sale - W112 BHG

Cerbera Speed 12 for Sale - W112 BHG

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Byker28i

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59,569 posts

217 months

Friday 17th March 2023
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On Silverstone Auctions The well know W112 BHG

https://www.silverstoneauctions.com/2000-tvr-cerbe...

Speed 3

4,551 posts

119 months

Friday 17th March 2023
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Now that deserves a PH front page News article !

Edited by Speed 3 on Friday 17th March 22:12

leef44

4,381 posts

153 months

Friday 17th March 2023
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Surely it will be tomorrow's headline

Fast and Spurious

1,318 posts

88 months

Friday 17th March 2023
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Ye Gods, what a monster!

pidsy

7,983 posts

157 months

Friday 17th March 2023
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Yes.

Yes please.

robsco

7,825 posts

176 months

Saturday 18th March 2023
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Holy mother. Makes me nervous just looking at it! I wonder what that will sell for… £250k? £300k?

Byker28i

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59,569 posts

217 months

Saturday 18th March 2023
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robsco said:
Holy mother. Makes me nervous just looking at it! I wonder what that will sell for… £250k? £300k?
Sierra Cosworth went for £500k, so more? It's the iconic speed 12

robsco

7,825 posts

176 months

Saturday 18th March 2023
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Byker28i said:
robsco said:
Holy mother. Makes me nervous just looking at it! I wonder what that will sell for… £250k? £300k?
Sierra Cosworth went for £500k, so more? It's the iconic speed 12
I hope you are right, it’s about time TVRs started fetching the money they deserve.

Byker28i

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59,569 posts

217 months

Saturday 18th March 2023
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I've done my lottery numbers biggrin

fullpull

260 posts

167 months

Saturday 18th March 2023
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robsco said:
I hope you are right, it’s about time TVRs started fetching the money they deserve.
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crispian22

963 posts

192 months

Saturday 18th March 2023
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Only TVR.......


rowley birkin

486 posts

100 months

Saturday 18th March 2023
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Love the Low Oil warning !

brownspeed

734 posts

131 months

Saturday 18th March 2023
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just............WOW!

glow worm

5,840 posts

227 months

Saturday 18th March 2023
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Looks like it Helical Engineering selling it from the video.
IIRC The TR12 was being sold at £1.2m a few years ago , so the original should be more .
Didn't Graham Abbott own it ?

Edited by glow worm on Saturday 18th March 10:36

frontfloater

349 posts

142 months

Saturday 18th March 2023
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The new owner should bear in mind Peter Wheeler's famous quote after taking it for the first test drive :

"I was wrong. There IS such a thing as too much power".

spitfire4v8

3,991 posts

181 months

Saturday 18th March 2023
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It's a joy that cars like this were ever made smile Hope it stays in the UK and comes out to play for many people to see it being used. Hope it sells for an absolute fortune too, good luck smile

Mr.Grooler

1,179 posts

225 months

Sunday 19th March 2023
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Fantastic thing. I’m not sure TVR has the brand value to make this mega bucks, but maybe £400-500k in reality? Looking after it can’t be easy. It’d be great if it were much more.

How well does this drive in comparison to other hard core GT1-style things? It would be amazing to see a Catchpole video (or similar) on the car, and assuming it’s great to drive and runs well that would do the publicity and pre-sale value a world of good.

Thou

108 posts

190 months

Sunday 19th March 2023
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glow worm said:
Looks like it Helical Engineering selling it from the video.
IIRC The TR12 was being sold at £1.2m a few years ago , so the original should be more .
Didn't Graham Abbott own it ?

Edited by glow worm on Saturday 18th March 10:36
No chance, the TR12 was simply wildly overpriced in the first place - unlikely even the original will fetch anywhere near that. I’m going to say £2-300k range. The reality is that the TVR brand has very limited appeal outside of the UK, and diminishing appeal here too. Perhaps in future the values will rise as people ‘look back’ on them as with other classics, but the Speed Six engined cars(which IMO have the best chance of values increasing) aren’t there yet.

jstx

17 posts

21 months

Thursday 23rd March 2023
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Thou said:
No chance, the TR12 was simply wildly overpriced in the first place - unlikely even the original will fetch anywhere near that. I’m going to say £2-300k range. The reality is that the TVR brand has very limited appeal outside of the UK, and diminishing appeal here too. Perhaps in future the values will rise as people ‘look back’ on them as with other classics, but the Speed Six engined cars(which IMO have the best chance of values increasing) aren’t there yet.
Can't disagree with that. I've seen a '96 Cerbera 4.2 come up for sale twice on auction sites here in the US (eBay and Bring A Trailer), and both times it never got over ~$44,000 and did not meet reserve. By my guess, the owner would have maybe broken even; probably would have lost a few grand.

Definitely not worth it to import them with the aim of flipping them. The market just isn't there for those cars.

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1996-tvr-cerbera...

A Chimaera will sell for even less here (~$20,000)

Edited by jstx on Thursday 23 March 21:21

Rako

97 posts

254 months