355 GTS
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Reggie20

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63 posts

25 months

Thursday
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Hi all,
Does anyone know the 355 GTS that was sold at Historics recently - Reg no S777FER - looks really nice until you get to the red leather steering wheel and sticky switches on the centre console. Just interested in what the auction bids were if anyone was there.
Thanks

jtremlett

1,553 posts

239 months

No idea about the bids and most odd that the results on the Historics website say "sold - undisclosed figure". I've not seen that before. It had been listed for sale privately for some while, most recently asking £79,950.

Sticky plastic is, unfortunately, entirely normal and just something that has to be dealt with eventually.

Edited by jtremlett on Friday 26th September 16:57

ratrod 2

1,660 posts

26 months

jtremlett said:
No idea about the bids and most odd that the results on the Historics website say "sold - undisclosed figure". I've not seen that before. It had been listed for sale privately for some while, most recently asking £79,950.

Sticky plastic is, unfortunately, entirely normal and just something that has to be dealt with eventually.

Edited by jtremlett on Friday 26th September 16:57
When the sale price has been withheld on auction results means the buyer has

requested this usually because they are a dealer and have to advertise the car and don't

want the buying public knowing what margin of profit they are making and avoiding low ball bids

from their customers when having the knowledge of that sort of information,

If the dealer is a regular buyer at said auction they are more than happy to accommodate the request.

jtremlett

1,553 posts

239 months

Saturday
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ratrod 2 said:
jtremlett said:
No idea about the bids and most odd that the results on the Historics website say "sold - undisclosed figure". I've not seen that before. It had been listed for sale privately for some while, most recently asking £79,950.

Sticky plastic is, unfortunately, entirely normal and just something that has to be dealt with eventually.

Edited by jtremlett on Friday 26th September 16:57
When the sale price has been withheld on auction results means the buyer has

requested this usually because they are a dealer and have to advertise the car and don't

want the buying public knowing what margin of profit they are making and avoiding low ball bids

from their customers when having the knowledge of that sort of information,

If the dealer is a regular buyer at said auction they are more than happy to accommodate the request.
Thanks for that. Not something I was aware of. This car had been for sale privately since about June last year. It was bid to £68,000 on CollectingCars in July this year but wasn't sold. It will be interesting to see if it now appears for sale again through a dealer which will prove your point.

Padron

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Saturday
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355 s like Aventadors and other cars are often advertised on a SOR basis at very inflated prices

I sold a mint low mileage 355 spider manual for £75k earlier this year (ie at the right time of year) so I d view the advertised asking prices as hopeful to say the least.

Selling a car with sticky plastics, while it s easy to fix suggest that has not been pampered and that would worry me. If you are not going to do something simple like that you have probably skimped on more essential maintenance at some point.

Many people say the GTS is the worst of both worlds with lack of rigidity of the spider and not as fully convertible. They do seem to go for a premium in the US market though maybe it makes more sense in hotter countries.

Reggie20

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63 posts

25 months

Saturday
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Completely agree with those comments. If you can't afford/don't want to do the dodgy plastics what else have you skimped on. Whilst the purchase price might be cheaper the total cost to get it to a nice standard may be astronomical!