Griff 500 prices

[gadgit]

I looked at a griff in early summer at kerridges and attempted to part ex but they were not really interested in my car. The car was up for sale if I remember, around 26k. I would swear the same car was up for sale again a few months ago for £19,998 and has now come down to £18,998.....
I would presume a reasonable offer would be agreed.
My part ex has since gone up in value and had they agreed with the deal would now have made a tidy sum for kerridges.
I would have bought the car, but can't understand the drop in value of the griff over the last few months. I do understand the winter blues has struck but has the market reached its peak for the griff.
I'm still highly tempted to get the car....
Gadgit

[mart 63]

I bought mine a couple of months ago.Prices didn’t seem to have dropped. If im not mistaken kerridges had 2 Green ones for sale at about £5k apart.

[gadgit]

Cheers Mart,
I presume you bought the other one then?
I seem to remember a fern green, the one left is green with tan seats, very nice, 38000m.
Seems good value.....
What do you think.
Gadgit

[mart 63]

Hi Pat,no i didnt buy the other one.I bought private,it was only on here an hour.Just had a look at the green one.Seems a good price and with a warranty,looks clean on the photos .

[gadgit]

Blooming heck, you had a few chims then.....
How did you get on with the tamora.....
I had a nice chim 4ltr HC..... Very nice.
I see your new black griff on you page..... Very nice.

[mart 63]

Cheers its blue,a very dark blue metallic. The Tam was a great car but i wanted a Griff.

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

mart 63 said:

but i wanted a Griff.

No accounting for taste then

...have you managed to get the roof in the boot, it's a tricky operation ain't it?

[gmw9666]

Did you guys see this go through Bonhams last week?

Checked with Dom and it wasn't a BV as he has the build sheets

Nice car, original........I felt a tad strong £££ wise as its light on paperwork / history (but that's my opinion :-) )

http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22705/lot/319/

[Barreti]

gmw9666 said:

Nice car, original........I felt a tad strong £££ wise as its light on paperwork / history (but that's my opinion :-) )

http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22705/lot/319/

for a 1 owner 4.3 litre car with 15,000 miles on it which may be a BV (or may not, who knows) I think this was a steal.
I would presume as its had the same owner since new there should be some paperwork though so I'm not sure what gives you the impression there isn't?

After premiums etc the owner would be lucky to see £15k for it and you couldn't even get me to go to the trouble of bringing mine out of the garage for an inspection if you were offering that.
In the current market this should be a £20k+ car

[gmw9666]

Barreti said:

gmw9666 said:

Nice car, original........I felt a tad strong £££ wise as its light on paperwork / history (but that's my opinion :-) )

http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22705/lot/319/

for a 1 owner 4.3 litre car with 15,000 miles on it which may be a BV (or may not, who knows) I think this was a steal.
I would presume as its had the same owner since new there should be some paperwork though so I'm not sure what gives you the impression there isn't?

After premiums etc the owner would be lucky to see £15k for it and you couldn't even get me to go to the trouble of bringing mine out of the garage for an inspection if you were offering that.
In the current market this should be a £20k+ car

didn't say there "isn't" any paperwork....said it was "light on paperwork"........and I know what was with the car, who looked after it / serviced it etc as I spoke to the auction house, the man who commissioned the car from the owner and also viewed and also bid ;-)

[Barreti]

Out of curiosity then, could you tell if the mileage was genuine and what kind of state everything such as the rubber hoses and shocks etc were in? So did it look like it had been parked and untouched for 10 years or used very sparingly.

What did you expect it to go for?

[gmw9666]

Barreti said:

Out of curiosity then, could you tell if the mileage was genuine and what kind of state everything such as the rubber hoses and shocks etc were in? So did it look like it had been parked and untouched for 10 years or used very sparingly.

What did you expect it to go for?

it had been serviced........occasionally by a local garage in cornwall (not a TVR / Specialist) and has done a few hundred miles a year so its not been stood long term

My opinion (which is why I was interested as a "keeper").......its a super original and nice low miles / owner but didn't have really any evidence of work being done on the car......so bushes / shocks / rubber items would likely need going through as a matter of course. Interior looked a little more lived in for 15k miles (look at the pics and compare to the silver 430 fernhurst is selling).....so I set my bid at 14k max + 15% fee's + VAT on fee's......someone clearly wanted it more than I was willing to go.

Sort of car a dealer if they got hold of, would do a quality re commission (like the ones Str8six do.....then its a 25k car from a dealer all day long but a car that's been not kept in tip top shape, I'd say 10k less......so 15k, so technically I was bidding (plus fee's) more than I thought it was worth

[Hedgehopper]

gmw9666 said:

Checked with Dom and it wasn't a BV as he has the build sheets.

Would you mind sending me a link to 'Dom' as I have a query with my car and he may possibly be able to solve it?

[mart 63]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

mart 63 said:

but i wanted a Griff.

...have you managed to get the roof in the boot, it's a tricky operation ain't it?

Not yet,ive only had the car 2 months and been out twice in the car.

1st outing,it was raining,so left roof on.

2nd outing yesterday,the boot was full of car goodies, so no room for roof.I did pass Griff in the opposite direction which had it's roof down. A lady driver, near Nantwich,dark blue...

[ianwayne]

That replacement dashboard is just nasty. Apart from that, it looks superb, and not that pricey to rectify.

[ESDavey]

gmw9666 said:

Did you guys see this go through Bonhams last week?
http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22705/lot/319/

The ride height looks odd - is too high at the front & too low at the rear. Was the boot full of bricks ?

[5.0ltr]

ESDavey said:

The ride height looks odd - is too high at the front & too low at the rear. Was the boot full of bricks ?

It says on the auction spec it was too hard for the owner so he had the front chamged by the factory for something less firm.

[citizen smith]

You really need to have seen it, to believe it!

[MikeE]

ESDavey said:

gmw9666 said:

Did you guys see this go through Bonhams last week?
http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/22705/lot/319/

The ride height looks odd - is too high at the front & too low at the rear. Was the boot full of bricks ?

I noticed that then realised it was parked on uneven ground, look at the shot of the other side of the car and it all looks ok.

[ahdobsonuk]

"2nd outing yesterday,the boot was full of car goodies, so no room for roof.I did pass Griff in the opposite direction which had it's roof down. A lady driver, near Nantwich,dark blue..."

Pretty sure that was me; never been called a lady driver before though..........fat bloke driver maybe... :-)