Bloody hell !

[Paw]

I know we are all fans of classic RR but have you seen the price Graeme Hunt is asking for a fully restored classic 82k. !!!

BTW It's under offer !!!!

[Jem0911]

Yes the offer is probably ten thousand.

[Greenpis]

But it's original owner was Charlie....

So that makes it a bargain.

Wondering though, the advert says the restoration came to £72k, and it is up for £82k.

HRH's ownership doesn't seem to do alot for it's value, even with the bespoke door pockets!!!

[agent006]

Greenpis said:

Wondering though, the advert says the restoration came to £72k

Surely you could rebuild the whole car from brand new parts for that much. The new Trigger's Broom edition Classic.

[Mogburner]

Well, it is precisely because it is not a "Trigger's Broom' restoration that it cost so much for us (JE) to restore! With a significantly historic vehicle such as 'YRR' one simply cannot replace bits willy-nilly even where they are available. The car is actually at least 90% totally original, all components being restored, not replaced. The chassis, for example, was superbly restored by my old mate Alistair Naylor at Chassis Build by cutting and letting in bits of new metal resulting in a chassis indistinguishable from new...no bl**dy patches and pigeon-sh*t welding allowed! Throughout the entire car this philosophy had to be adopted and that means painstaking work and many, many hours. Even the Lincoln Green paint was exactly matched by ICI in water-based to their original actual sample of cellulose. So it goes on, ad nauseam. What the final car is "worth" now and in years to come is entirely dependant on what anybody is prepared to pay for it. With the 'Lady Di' cult being, apparently, self-fuelling I would imagine £82k will one day soon appear cheap.

[Greenpis]

Mogburner said:

Well, it is precisely because it is not a "Trigger's Broom' restoration that it cost so much for us (JE) to restore! With a significantly historic vehicle such as 'YRR' one simply cannot replace bits willy-nilly even where they are available. The car is actually at least 90% totally original, all components being restored, not replaced. The chassis, for example, was superbly restored by my old mate Alistair Naylor at Chassis Build by cutting and letting in bits of new metal resulting in a chassis indistinguishable from new...no bl**dy patches and pigeon-sh*t welding allowed! Throughout the entire car this philosophy had to be adopted and that means painstaking work and many, many hours. Even the Lincoln Green paint was exactly matched by ICI in water-based to their original actual sample of cellulose. So it goes on, ad nauseam. What the final car is "worth" now and in years to come is entirely dependant on what anybody is prepared to pay for it. With the 'Lady Di' cult being, apparently, self-fuelling I would imagine £82k will one day soon appear cheap.

Thanks for the background to the restoration, interesting stuff.
Especially the paint matching of water based to original cellulose, had wondered about that issue on other restorations, i.e. how far to original do people actually go.

Take your point on value equals only what someone is prepared to pay for it.
However with the current outlay on the restoration and commision for the selling agent, unless it's Graeme Hunt's stock, even with a sale at asking price there isn't any profit in this car at the moment.

Whilst worthwhile to preserve a car with such provenance, someone would appear to be out of pocket.
And I would have expected more of a premium.

Nice job on the car by the way.