Everything has a price

[DVee8]

Talking to one of the lads at work today,

Derick do you still have the RS2000? Yep.Still sitting on the drive? Yep.Still not sell it? Now this was always NO.

Well everything has a price he said.

I have known him for 24 years and he has had it all that time,it spent around 18years in the garage he then converted the garage into a recording studio and moved the car to the drive covered over.

He has had so many people knock and ask if its for sale.

 

I belive it is a 79/80 RS2000 custom.This is the first time he has ever mentioned selling.

Now i don't know what the condition is 

So what is a project RS worth?

 

[Timewaster]

Three times whatever the door knockers were offering in my experience.

[Tamworthbay]

Still lots of cash, I have seen ones that need work but aren't complete sheds make 10k on eBay, even sheds are fetching £4K it seems.

[Bren]

In front of white background £10k easy.

[For Fiats Sake]

If it were me I'd be entering it into a proper classic/retro car auction and let the market decide!

[overrun]

Or he could sell it to me. 

I LOCAL CAN COLLECT 2NYT

[Pillock]

Depends if it's a "project" RS2000 which looks a lot like a lump of rust with a V5, or whether it's ready to go.

It'll be overpriced, but you probably won't make a loss if you sort it out and sell it on. You won't sleep unless it's underground in a secret bunker though.

[sierraman]

If it's sat on the drive i wouldn't be surprised if it got hi-abed away by one of the prospective 'interested' parties asking to buy it. I'd just ask him for a price. He must have one in mind.

[anonymous user]

If he's not really bothered about selling it then I expect the price will always be more than somebody is prepared to offer. I've had this experience in the past when trying to buy a car, (Austin A40 Sports) I offered over the odds for it as I already had a new interior, hood and other parts for one. My offer was declined, as have been others made by other people, which is why nearly twenty years on the car is still sat in the same open fronted shed.

[Tamworthbay]

If he's not really bothered about selling it then I expect the price will always be more than somebody is prepared to offer. I've had this experience in the past when trying to buy a car, (Austin A40 Sports) I offered over the odds for it as I already had a new interior, hood and other parts for one. My offer was declined, as have been others made by other people, which is why nearly twenty years on the car is still sat in the same open fronted shed.

That is frustrating, I know of an Austin 7 with a neighbour of a mate. When I first saw it it was saveable. I offered to buy it but was told it was to be restored, ten years on, nine of which it has spent outside and unprotected and I doubt it's saveable anymore. Given another couple of years and will be more a case of sweeping it up.

[tooSavvy]

Given another couple of years and will be more a case of sweeping it up.

.... same if you keep a Lancia in your living room [for 15yr]

 

TS

[Split_Pin]

He is brave having that sat in the drive.

 

Even an empty shell with a few tatty boxes of bits inside is probably worth about £8k or something.

[surprisingskoda]

There is a flat front mk2 2dr sitting on a drive outside on the edge of town two miles from where I grew up. It's been there more than 20 or 25 years, and he worked in the petrol station across the road all that time. Has always been a no.

How it's not been stolen I do not know. I'm not sure a high would get it now, the roof might just lift off. Fully visible on a trunk road junction and not even covered up.

[sierraman]

Thats ironic, across the road from my old school there's a Daimler 340 that's sat there since I started there. Been left 17 years now never moved an inch.