It just isn't Shite anymore...

[Junkman]

Shite is leaving shite territory at an alarming rate now.

 

This:

 

sold for £60,188 at the NEC auction: http://www.classiccarsforsale.co.uk/news/auction-news/1511/latest-classic-car-auction-commentary-17112015

That money would have bought you almost two 1973 Ferrari 365GT4 2+2s at the same auction.

 

TIS NUTZ

[Barry Cade]

Wonder if the battery's in the glovebox...

[J-Rod]

I don't understand this. Why are these cars suddenly commanding megabucks? Do the moneyed idiots consider it 'ironic' or something? 

[MarvinsMom]

tis the OSF scene tax innit

[eddyramrod]

I understood that a bit when it applied to the RWD cars, but not the shopping trolleys!  It is, to me, nothing more than proof that people have more money than sense.

[fordperv]

The thing I didn't understand this sold for that much but the last off the line sierra sapphire cosworth that was the only one made in mallard green didn't sell, it was estimated at a bit under 30k

 

[scaryoldcortina]

It's got a very strange MoT history - two tests, both pass no advise, 5567 miles last year, 5568 this year.

 

 

Price is probably just two south london plasterers bidding against each other. LOADSAMONEY!!!!

[lincolndanny]

The header tanks on these cars go for mental money. I remember some guy a few years back discovered Robin Reliants or such like used the same tank and tracked down a Reliant specialist who had a load of nos ones sitting around. The specialist flogged him the lot not knowing what he had....

[UltraWomble]

Yup, battered rusty shit heaps that only 10 years ago could be bought for fag and beer money are commanding strong £ now.

 

Think we are going to have to start buying Ford Ka's and Kia Picanto's.

 

Through my whole life it seems that 5 minutes after I get rid of a car for peanuts its value shoots up and they become sought after.

[eddyramrod]

Yeah, mine too.

[quicksilver]

I remember seeing one of these for £10k not long ago and thinking that was an awful lot of money for an old Escort - how wrong I was. Just think what else you could get for 60 grand - of course the Autoshite way would be to spend it on a hundred £600 snotters.

[lincolndanny]

I remember seeing one of these for £10k not long ago and thinking that was an awful lot of money for an old Escort - how wrong I was. Just think what else you could get for 60 grand - of course the Autoshite way would be to spend it on a hundred £600 snotters.

No the autoshite way is to spend it on 1000 £60 minters.

[fordperv]

tis the OSF scene tax innit

It does my head in that people think it's ok to add the 2 letters RS to something and ask 10 times the value of it on ebay when the same parts are used on lesser models, saying that fools should be parted with their money. i bought my cars when they were bottom value because I actually liked them, so luckily I missed the stupid tax on the purchase

[barrett]

Can't you still get the best twin-cam mk1 in the world for less than £60k though? This is just a one off dose of auction madness that will encourage others to start asking sillier prices for theirs, like the £20k Ami 6 that sold a couple of years ago. It's an anomaly and should be ignored by right thinking people

[mouseflakes]

I don't understand this. Why are these cars suddenly commanding megabucks? Do the moneyed idiots consider it 'ironic' or something?

 

 

I get the impression that sellers/buyers of these cars are just looking for the bigger fool to make money from. It's hard to imagine whoever bought that white Escort for 60k is going to find one though.

 

It's bit like all those ex-Spondon cars that were bought by one chap for (what seemed like) very high prices then immediately listed on ebay at massive mark up. Did any of them ever sell? I expect they're all now sat in a barn slowly becoming un-save-able because of what they 'owe' the owner.

[Junkman]

right thinking people

 

Show me those.

[Junkman]

Yup, battered rusty shit heaps that only 10 years ago could be bought for fag and beer money are commanding strong £ now.

 

There is a long way from strong £ to 60 bags. 60 bags! This is Facel Vega money!

[Taff]

it makes shipping back that Mk 1 'scort that JM spotted in Slovenia look like a good way to spend my Christmas holidays

[solid61]

60k or not if I saw this coming down the road I'd think,mmm that's a tidy old escort but I'd still expect a local scumbag to be at the wheel with a bull terrier type dog on the passengers seat.

[Justin Case]

I don't get it, you could have got a non-original but well restored series 2 E Type roadster and stll have £2k change Scene tax may account for the £50k Mark 1 Lotus Cortina with an interesting history or £90k Sierra Cosworth RS 500, but they are both iconic cars with an outstanding competition history, but a Mark 3 Escort? Did it ever compete in anything except in one of the lesser classes in the BTCC?

Anyway, I'm off to cry in my coffee over that £44k Carrera 4; I turned down a nice lhd one about 3-4 years ago for £10k

[dollywobbler]

Don't worry. I doubt anyone would pay 60 large for a 1.1 Popular. In beige. We're safe.

[Barry Cade]

Princess Di had one, don't ya know.

[Bren]

Sometimes I wonder if the economy actually is bolloxed.

[fred]

If I spent that much on a bloody Scrote - My friends would call the Mental Hassles police and swiftly get me comfy in a tight white jacket

and send me to the room of many cushions

[2MB]

Yup, battered rusty shit heaps that only 10 years ago could be bought for fag and beer money are commanding strong £ now.

 

Think we are going to have to start buying Ford Ka's and Kia Picanto's.

 

Through my whole life it seems that 5 minutes after I get rid of a car for peanuts its value shoots up and they become sought after.

You're not the only one. Nothing wrong with setting trends

[forddeliveryboy]

A motoring show with any balls and attitude, which felt it had to destroy a car in the name of intelligent* journalism, should do one of these. It would bring them plenty of free publicity.

[mouseflakes]

Sometimes I wonder if the economy actually is bolloxed.

 

Belief in the perceived value of non-productive 'appreciating assets' like this 'scrote (and especially property) is proof that it is well and truly bolloxed.

[Timewaster]

I've just emailed that to my mate.

Seems be could pay his mortgage off if he just sold that old Escort.

 

That cost him £1900 15 years ago!

[Mr Lobster]

To be fair that one was a 5500 mile car and was immaculate. It doesn't mean that any old RS is worth that now although I'm sure the owners might not think that.  Crazy money but if whoever bought it was happy paying then fair enough.

 

Out of interest, what happened to the ex-Autocar test Capri in green that was there? Did it sell? How much?

[omegod]

I recognised those 2 cars immediately, they were part of the "Bonkers" collection, to be fair to the guy he loves his RS's and owned the best of them, including Di's black one

 

http://www.pistonheads.com/features/ph-features/rs-royalty-the-bonkers-collection/23965