Yes Clive! The plan is to get rid of most of my car collection so I can concentrate on the ones I really want. The plan is to keep my dads old Roller, have a daily car I can put the dogs in (probably keep my BMW touring for that) and own about 3 Porsche. One being my white 86 turbo, another being my white 84 lux which will be my disposable trackday car and having one air cooled Porsche, which will either be a toss up between a left hand drive 993 C2 or a early lhd 911 as a retro Magnus Walker style hot rod... Which still might seem excessive, but a far cry from the 10 project cars I have at the workshop and the 10 better cars I have in storage.
Next ones to go will be my 996 C4 Cabrio and a couple of my 944 Turbos, and then keep going on from there!
Mike, I think it is the way the market is going, the values of Porsche cars are going up, in some cases to insane levels.. I have been contacted by people in the auction about this turbo who are interested because the ones advertised for £50k to £60k are less than mint in the flesh, or in some cases are the wrong colours.. So some people might be finding it apealing that this one is in a colour they want, but in other cases are thinking "If it needs a respray, it can change to the colour I want!"... But I think as a whole, people are going for projects, partly to put their stamp on the car, but also because it is a lot nicer to know a car is right, having done everything to it, rather than take the risk and spend more to get one which seem perfect but could turn into monsters.
At the end of the day, half the reason this one went on ebay is because it is impossible to know what it is worth. Even things like classic car guides for mint examples are not following actual market values as it has become a bit of a sellers market.. So I decided the best way of knowing its value is to put it on ebay and let the crowd decide the market value.
I was initially expecting it to get £20k to be honest, and I did have it on a dark corner of the company website for £23,995, but would have accepted £20k, bellow that price it would have broken up for that price.
I even put on a "buy it now" price of £30k on the auction listing originally, and a reserve of £20k, but only put the buy it now price based on "If someone asks me to end early, what price would I want to have no risk of it getting more if the auction ran.." But as soon as the bidding hit £20k the BIN price vanished automatically.. Which I suspect that some people would have hit, if the button had not vanished... So I am quite shocked how high it is going already.
Almost 10,000 page views on ebay, 631 watchers and at £25,600 with 41 bidders and yet it does not end until 7pm tonight.. I think it may well crack the 30k mark.
All getting re-invested into the business though, now the clouds of recession are clearing, I need to gear up and improve the business, not only with equipment, but improving our communication training.. But also spending some money on the rest of my car collection to get them sold too, so all in all, it is the right time to sell her... The mad thing is she starts on the button, everything works, she has a new MOT and with a bit of paint and recommissioning, she will be an awesome value car and worth £50k to £60k or beyond.. But, my business is not painting cars and flogging them and I do not want to get a reputation of selling projects which have been tarted up.. So I would end up getting carried away and the car would end up being one of the best in the country and having cost more than it was worth..
I just keep trying to talk myself into the fact I am doing the right thing... But she is sooooo sexy... Its like getting a divorce from Gerry Hall, you just know she is no good for you, but a maid in the lounge, a chef in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom is a compelling argument to keep her! lol
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