John, I've seen this happen a couple of times before, where someone asks a silly price and gets it, and subsequently the market re-sets its datum. It happened with the Ferrari Daytona Spyder, 30 years ago when the prices doubled overnight, and 5 or 6 years ago where the AC428 Fruas jumped from £27k to £90k after a couple of auction results, and they haven't slipped back. I agree that the restoration of BEX1149 will bite heavily into the margin, but even at a total cost of £220k I think the owner will have a perfect restoration, to their own specification at about the same price as an Ace of similar condition. Andy.