Classic car values

[alcyonecorporation]

17 hours ago, lesapandre said:

Add in the spare parts position for a lot of models. Take 'cooking' Rootes cars for example - both RJ Grimes and Speedy Spares catered for parts 'off the shelf' - as OE and NOS stock has dried up so has what's available. Both businesses are gone.

Previously a lot of cars coasted-on with the supply of NOS and second-hand spares which buoyed values. But that can't go on for ever. Where for example would you easily find a rear light cluster for facelift Avenger say these days?

Arrow 5

[SiC]

Anglia Car Auctions has just started

£6200 for the Riley is a strong start. 

 

[SiC]

£6800 with fees this nice looking midget went for. Cheap but reassures me that mine isn't completely worthless and I should be able to get some of my money back if I ever decide to sell. 😂

 

HOWEVER this pre-war Morris didn't even fetch reserve. Iirc £2600 the hammer fell at.

Are pre-war vehicles that undesirable now?

Poses the question, Autoshite has often been about owning and running cars that are undesirables and now rare. Usually stuff that is cheap and usually means 20-30yrs old.

But does that mean pre-war vehicles could be the new Autoshite? 😀

 

[captain_70s]

Pre war Morris nobody wanted, Moggy drop top seemed cheap as well.

Singer Vogue for £3k not a bad deal

[MiniMinorMk3]

The Moke only got to £9,000 provisional. This is a very low price for a UK built original. These retail for anywhere between £15,000 and £25,000. The body on this one looks Okish, but it does not have the original 848cc engine. It has a replacement 998cc engine, which means it is probably more fun to drive. If the provisional bidder gets that for £9,000 they will have got what looks to be a bargain.

 

[lesapandre]

1 hour ago, SiC said:

£6800 with fees this nice looking midget went for. Cheap but reassures me that mine isn't completely worthless and I should be able to get some of my money back if I ever decide to sell. 😂

 

HOWEVER this pre-war Morris didn't even fetch reserve. Iirc £2600 the hammer fell at.

Are pre-war vehicles that undesirable now?

Poses the question, Autoshite has often been about owning and running cars that are undesirables and now rare. Usually stuff that is cheap and usually means 20-30yrs old.

But does that mean pre-war vehicles could be the new Autoshite? 😀

 

Do you know what the reserve was on the Morris?

Morris were meticulously engineered cars for their era and it probably has hydraulic brakes and syncromesh.

Lovely old thing indeed.

[SiC]

31 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

Do you know what the reserve was on the Morris?

Morris were meticulously engineered cars for their era and it probably has hydraulic brakes and syncromesh.

Lovely old thing indeed.

No they didn't say. Estimate was 3k to 5k so presumably 3k was the reserve maybe. 

[Yoss]

On 03/04/2025 at 16:16, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Good to see that stuff is coming back down to more realistic values, however, there seems to be a lot of blown over paint jobs hiding horrors on offer as well. I went to W&B the other day to look at something and most of the classics looked nice and shiney from 30 foot away, but up close some look like they have been painted on drive ways and in sand pits.

Twas always the way. I've been driving 35 years and I found that out the hard way a couple of times. But you learn from it and move on. And it was certainly going on long before that. People like shiny. 

[robt100]

8 hours ago, MJK 24 said:

Are you able to elaborate?

That depends on why you're asking🤣

[sofarsogood]

On 04/04/2025 at 18:23, lesapandre said:

And rust never sleeps

I have an mx5, this quote sent shivers down my spine.

[MJK 24]

32 minutes ago, robt100 said:

That depends on why you're asking🤣

Just curiosity as to what (possibly!) went wrong!

[robt100]

Lots of false promises and timewasting @MJK 24 ended up going somewhere else.

[2flags]

On 04/04/2025 at 18:59, lesapandre said:

Add in the spare parts position for a lot of models. Take 'cooking' Rootes cars for example - both RJ Grimes and Speedy Spares catered for parts 'off the shelf' - as OE and NOS stock has dried up so has what's available. Both businesses are gone.

Previously a lot of cars coasted-on with the supply of NOS and second-hand spares which buoyed values. But that can't go on for ever. Where for example would you easily find a rear light cluster for facelift Avenger say these days?

If I remember rightly, didn't they export the rights to these to Iran? Now how you would get parts from there without getting utterly bogged down in paperwork, and possibly visits from men in long dark raincoats, I have no idea. 

[tooSavvy]

@PaykanHunter.. to the Beige phone ^ ^ ^

🚙💨

[lesapandre]

29 minutes ago, 2flags said:

If I remember rightly, didn't they export the rights to these to Iran? Now how you would get parts from there without getting utterly bogged down in paperwork, and possibly visits from men in long dark raincoats, I have no idea. 

Only the Arrow range was licensed to Iran I believe. I think there were a lot of subsequent engineering alterations - so there was probably little 'Rootes' left at the end.

Any car would have been worked very hard there.

Government website gives advice on trade with Iran.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/exporting-to-iran/doing-business-in-iran-trade-and-export-guide