Hi all,
Been away for a while but I keep looking and saw this one - also a ghastly purple 289.
It's abit awkward with dealers because they are obviously there to make the biggest raid on one's wallet that they can. Hence, not just with AC's but other others of it's ilk as well, they will often buy cheap ahead of a real enthusiast and then sell it on for a greatly inflated price to a celebrity for lottery money which is a shame as it then rarely understood and therefore rarely looked after properly. Chris Evans and a Ferrari 275 spring to mind.
I recall an Aston which sold at auction about two years ago for 16,000 which, with a hoover out and polish, sold again within the month for 44,950. Nice work... I would have been seething if I'd been at all interested in that one. But I'm not sure dealers and celebrities really make the price of vehicles like that - in most cases value has to be underpinned by the rest of us and what WE are prepared to pay. So you may get the odd instance where a sale massively breaks the tone of values because the buyer is acting without full knowledge. My view is that realistically we are still looking at price band of £25 to £50 depending on condition. (At least that's my hope!)
Lastly in any make of vehicle one can spend a fortune on a nut and bolt restoration but no matter how good it is the vehicle invariably sells for way less than cost of the restoration. Now if I come across one of those in some one's garage and they want to get shot of it and haven't seen JD's website then I wouldn't leave until I'd clinched a deal
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Until then I've three other classics that keep me busy... a 428 would make such a lovely mistress though - big sigh