Classics left to die/rotting pics - Vol 2

[Dapster]

DickyC said:

At the bottom of its value curve.

There's probably a major bork that's arrested that dream right there. These cars have a reputation of turning up some biblical bills. Check this out - £17,000 service invoice!!!!




https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2005-BENTLEY-CONTINENTA...

[riskyj]

Dapster said:

There's probably a major bork that's arrested that dream right there. These cars have a reputation of turning up some biblical bills. Check this out - £17,000 service invoice!!!!




https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2005-BENTLEY-CONTINENTA...

The parts only total £279.77 before vat. How does it total nearly £17k?

[Dapster]

riskyj said:

The parts only total £279.77 before vat. How does it total nearly £17k?

That's page 1 of 7!

[DickyC]

Dapster said:

There's probably a major bork that's arrested that dream right there. These cars have a reputation of turning up some biblical bills. Check this out - £17,000 service invoice!!!!

You could be right. A few years ago I was working in Norbiton and parking in a 30mph backstreet with speed bumps. Most mornings my arrival coincided with just such a Bentley using the road as a rat run. I reckon he was doing about 60. Over the speed bumps the body of the car was unperturbed but by eck the wheels were busy going up and down. Then the car disappeared. Didn't see it for maybe six weeks. Then it came back. Still using the rat run but at about 5mph over the bumps. I guessed at the time it was a financial rather than a humanitarian consideration.

[43scotty]

Friends photo

[NorthernSky]

Ambleton said:

My friend spotted these two today.

If i wasn't 80miles away then I'd have done some door knocking to try and find the owner.

These live in a small village called Grindleford, IIRC. Peak District.

[irocfan]

12TS said:

If it’s the same one local to me in Essex it’s a Mark 2 Cortina

think it is the same - I had a little wander down the road on street view

[Hugh Jarse]

43scotty said:

Friends photo

blimey!

[LotusOmega375D]

43scotty said:

Friends photo

Maybe one for that bloke who recently bought that crusty white 512BBi.

[Escort3500]

JPvanRossem said:

Another angle. A 1986 car last MOT'd in 2008.

These photos are all the more intriguing and sad when it’s a relatively rare and probably valuable like this (nb I’m not a Ferrari expert)

[Jimmy Recard]

Escort3500 said:

These photos are all the more intriguing and sad when it’s a relatively rare and probably valuable like this (nb I’m not a Ferrari expert)

A 412 isn't that valuable even now and was worth far, far less in 2008. They're still not at the level that one like that would be sensible to restore, as far as I know?

I haven't looked at them for a while though

[DickyC]

Jimmy Recard said:

Escort3500 said:

These photos are all the more intriguing and sad when it’s a relatively rare and probably valuable like this (nb I’m not a Ferrari expert)

A 412 isn't that valuable even now and was worth far, far less in 2008. They're still not at the level that one like that would be sensible to restore, as far as I know?

I haven't looked at them for a while though

If you had storage at negligible cost now would be the time to buy. In 1981 I bought my vehicular ambition, a DB4. It wasn't well but it was a matching numbers car, it was in one piece and I paid £2,000. Over the next ten years I dismantled it and started its restoration. My divorce fandangled my Aston plans and in 1991 I had to sell it. I sought advice first from Aston guru Richard Williams. He wasn't interested. He said he was invited frequently to look at DB4s and 5s in poor condition and they just weren't worth restoring. I eventually sold mine in pieces for £10,000 and thought I had done well. If it was in the same unrestored condition now it would be worth about £250,000. So if you have access to a barn or outbuildings, a cheap Ferrari could well be a good investment. Just leave it there and keep it dry. I stayed in touch with the chap who bought the DB4. He still has it. If I drop in to see him he buys me lunch.

[LotusOmega375D]

I reckon one of the Italian car parts specialists would buy that for £10k and then strip it for parts and pop them on their website at a total retail price of £250k or so.

[MarkwG]

LotusOmega375D said:

I reckon one of the Italian car parts specialists would buy that for £10k and then strip it for parts and pop them on their website at a total retail price of £250k or so.

I reckon so, they've been rising on the general classic tide, but one in that condition is still worth more in parts than whole. I've got a soft spot for them, in the right spec & colour they're handsome old brutes.

[Dapster]

MarkwG said:

I reckon so, they've been rising on the general classic tide, but one in that condition is still worth more in parts than whole. I've got a soft spot for them, in the right spec & colour they're handsome old brutes.

Me too! A dark blue / creme manual 412 is a thing of beauty. I'd love one of those to burble down to the South of France in or blast around Tuscany. I assume they drive like an HGV but they do look and sound good.

Remember this?

TR4man said:

I've posted a picture of this forlorn Ferrari a couple of years ago but it is still there gently rusting away.

It has not moved from this driveway for at least 15 years or so. I'd imagine it is almost worthless now

Taken this morning:

The discussion that followed was that even simple replacement parts could run into 5 figures - tot the lot up and you were into multiples of what you could buy a decent one for. This is €90k for example - manual, 80k kms, pristene.



https://www.gallery-aaldering.com/collection/ferra...

[StuntmanMike]

Dapster said:

MarkwG said:

I reckon so, they've been rising on the general classic tide, but one in that condition is still worth more in parts than whole. I've got a soft spot for them, in the right spec & colour they're handsome old brutes.

Me too! A dark blue / creme manual 412 is a thing of beauty. I'd love one of those to burble down to the South of France in or blast around Tuscany. I assume they drive like an HGV but they do look and sound good.

Remember this?

TR4man said:

I've posted a picture of this forlorn Ferrari a couple of years ago but it is still there gently rusting away.

It has not moved from this driveway for at least 15 years or so. I'd imagine it is almost worthless now

Taken this morning:

The discussion that followed was that even simple replacement parts could run into 5 figures - tot the lot up and you were into multiples of what you could buy a decent one for. This is €90k for example - manual, 80k kms, pristene.



https://www.gallery-aaldering.com/collection/ferra...

That 412 was local to me. It’s gone now.

[StuntmanMike]

JPvanRossem said:

StuntmanMike said:

That 412 was local to me. It’s gone now.

The white one?

No, the one up the drive TR4man posted.

[The Don of Croy]

Dapster said:

There's probably a major bork that's arrested that dream right there. These cars have a reputation of turning up some biblical bills. Check this out - £17,000 service invoice!!!!




https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2005-BENTLEY-CONTINENTA...

Impressive numbers. Especially the mileage from date of registration to service mileage. Taxi?

[Wooda80]

JPvanRossem said:

The white one?

I know where there's another white one.... What are the chances? !

[Dapster]

StuntmanMike said:

JPvanRossem said:

StuntmanMike said:

That 412 was local to me. It’s gone now.

The white one?

No, the one up the drive TR4man posted.

That's a 400 not a 412 but yes, reports were that it had vanished. To the Ferrari workshop in the sky most likely.