924 GT - £45k
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xftdr

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1,069 posts

234 months

Friday 8th June 2012
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http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/3948743.htm

Ok. So these are nice cars and there were not that many of them. And this one looks a really nice example.

But £45k?

Ah come on..... having a laugh.... arn't they?


mudy

874 posts

202 months

Friday 8th June 2012
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Beautiful - good ones make anywhere between 20 and 40 k so ths one seems fair at 45

GreatGranny

9,519 posts

256 months

Friday 8th June 2012
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Why not if E30 M3's with 40k miles are advertised for £50k + imo the 924GT is a more desirable car.

GreatGranny

9,519 posts

256 months

Friday 8th June 2012
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Why not if E30 M3's with 40k miles are advertised for £50k + imo the 924GT is a more desirable car.

DiscoColin

3,328 posts

244 months

Friday 8th June 2012
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GreatGranny said:
Why not if E30 M3's with 40k miles are advertised for £50k + imo the 924GT is a more desirable car.
Possibly, but the market for far and away the most exotic 924 is minuscule compared to that for what remains BMW's most iconic M car short of the M1. The price of the 924 probably isn't unreasonable, but there probably aren't a dozen people in the country who are seriously prepared to pay it. As ever with threads like this, there will be a lot more people who say they would pay it that would actually would...

NJH

3,021 posts

239 months

Friday 8th June 2012
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The mileage is amazing low but for some reason my mind has cgts between 12 and 20 grand, used to be easy to find em at that lower end. It is not an unreasonable price though, imagine if it was a 3.2 carrera for example that was basically like new would 45K sound insane?

mollytherocker

14,467 posts

239 months

Friday 8th June 2012
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I remember looking at a nice one of these for 10k a couple of years ago.

Damn it.

MTR

Johnboy Mac

2,666 posts

208 months

Friday 8th June 2012
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GreatGranny said:
Why not if E30 M3's with 40k miles are advertised for £50k + imo the 924GT is a more desirable car.
+1.

Considering, I knew a guy who purchased one back in the mid 90's for £15k, which is all of sixteen years ago if not more and there's less available now, I reckon a good one is a £30k plus car all day long. So, that 'minter' is imo worth the asking price.

bqf

2,290 posts

201 months

Friday 8th June 2012
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The 924 GT is the 'best car i have ever driven' according to Walter Rohrl.

Quite a pedigree - £45k quite cheap - in 10 years, it'll be £100k to get into one of these

GT2CS

657 posts

199 months

Saturday 9th June 2012
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bqf said:
The 924 GT is the 'best car i have ever driven' according to Walter Rohrl.

Quite a pedigree - £45k quite cheap - in 10 years, it'll be £100k to get into one of these
depends when he said it. If it was in the early 80's then it could quite easily have been overtaken by the 964RS for example.

blade7

11,311 posts

246 months

Saturday 9th June 2012
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Calling GC8 smile.

lindsayhbrown

173 posts

231 months

Saturday 9th June 2012
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I think I saw this car in the classifieds recently from a private seller in Worcester for £35k

birdcage

2,934 posts

235 months

Saturday 9th June 2012
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What was the one Derek Bell was given by Porsche?

The same but with perspex headlight covers..

TimJMS

2,584 posts

281 months

Saturday 9th June 2012
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Derek Bell has kept his since new because he rates it so highly. That's good enough for me.

edit : thought Derek had far more mileage on his.

birdcage

2,934 posts

235 months

Saturday 9th June 2012
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TimJMS said:
Derek Bell has kept his since new because he rates it so highly. That's good enough for me.

edit : thought Derek had far more mileage on his.
Ah, I meant model. His looked beefier to my mind somehow...

agtlaw

7,415 posts

236 months

Saturday 9th June 2012
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Bell has a GTS.

Junior Bianno

1,400 posts

223 months

Saturday 9th June 2012
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In case anyone missed the Derek Bell 924 GTS PH piece...

http://www.pistonheads.com/doc.asp?c=161&i=248...


Shoestringracer

2,121 posts

229 months

Saturday 9th June 2012
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As a boy on the way to the British Grand Prix we stopped for fuel in a small garage. There was a red 924 GT parked at one side. As an eleven year old (ish) I went up to the car and cupped my hand to the window and I am convinced it had a plaque saying something along the lines of "presented to .... in recognition of victory in the 19.. Le Mans". This is about 30 years ago and I was an excited child so I can't be sure. More recently I had assumed it was Derek Bell's but the plaque is never mentioned on any tests i've read of the car so maybe I drempt it, or it was someone elses.

GC8

19,910 posts

220 months

Sunday 10th June 2012
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blade7 said:
Calling GC8 smile.
Had I mentioned that I was negotiating to buy the Earl of March's 937 in April/May 2000? biggrin

I wish Id paid the £12,000 asking price now, for what was undoubtedly the best working 924 Carrera GT available. At the time I thought that it was £2,000 too expensive though...

The link took a while to opne, but that really is a cracking car isnt it? It probably isnt a bad price for a car in that condition, although its too good and too expensive to use properly.

Want.

blade7

11,311 posts

246 months

Sunday 10th June 2012
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GC8 said:
blade7 said:
Calling GC8 smile.
Had I mentioned that I was negotiating to buy the Earl of March's 937 in April/May 2000? biggrin
Many times laugh

Have I mentioned the 74 big wing MK1 Escort RS Mexico I sold years ago for £3k weeping