Advice needed

Mark Watkins

Mark Watkins

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Hi all,


I want to pick your brains please.

Unhappily the time has come to part with my S2 2000tc, I am in a quandary as to a fair price. I have used this car pretty much daily and it drives very well with very few rattles or clanks evident.

I have watched a few on ebay and other places, so many are either ridiculous money eg a 2000tc on ebay asking circa £ 13500 to others with no mot asking £1500/2000. None of which helps me to decide on a fair price for mine,

It has a current MOT till July and is structurally and mechanically sound, it has had 4 replacement wings, new tyres, rebuilt carbs and ignition. It needs repair to both front seats and in an ideal world a respray. I have the last 7/8 MOTS but little other history.


I have attached a few pics and hop efully some of you kind people can advise me.

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sounds a good example. Always worth putting it through an mot to maximise the value of the car if you think it will pass!
it sounds like a realistic value would be 2.5k - 3k to me, but values have been on the rise recently... See what others think!
 
Its very tricky valuing these old cars. I was thinking of selling my P6 recently but found I couldn't bear to part with the old thing!

It depends how quickly you want to sell, but for a reasonable turnaround what I was going to do was put the car on an ebay auction but set a reserve based on the guide in practical classics. Then see what the bidding gets up to and get in touch with any serious high bidders to see if a deal could be worked out.

My cars a nice solid example, all history from day one etc. A bit of bubbling on a couple of the door bottoms but nothing to lose sleep over. For a classified I would have tried around the £2500-£2700 mark.

Demand for classic cars is an unfathomable thing, you can pay 5grand for a mediocre ford escort yet a lovely car like a P6 4 pot can struggle to make half of that.
 
As the other say, it's hard to judge. But buyers will latch onto any negatives straightaway so I suspect those front seats will devalue it by a lot more than better replacements would cost you.
 
Thanks to you all for comments and you may well be right Willy, any idea how much it would cost to replace then and from where?
 
I'm reckoning more than 2K but less than 3k. It's a good colour to sell (too early for an original Richelieu?) and the TC adds some poke and a nicer interior. If it were a fair world it would be nearer 5k seeing what a crusty old cortina will fetch.

The seat base can be saved and stitched and the back is a lot easier to source in good condition than the base. If you have the time it might help your sale to sort this as it is immediately a negative. I did that with my seats and all it took a weekend and a £50 restorations kit. Little things like doing the black on the wings bottoms too.

I know it doesn't really make any difference compared to the solid mechanical and bodywork but classic cars are about winning the heart as much as the head. Just avoid the easy negative points where you can and tip the balance in your favour.
 
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