Are values finally going up?

Tom W

Tom W

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I can't help wondering to myself as I blast along the dual carriageway each week for my 300 mile round trip commute, that, nice as my 4pot is, perhaps my life would be better with a V8 soundtrack. So, thoughts turn to eBay, and the search for a cheap 3500, yet all the cheap P6s seem to have disappeared. I remember only a couple of years back, usable cars were available for sub £1500, certainly sub £2000. Now, to me, this is probably good for the hobby. Fewer cars will be scrapped, and there will more justification to remanufacturing previously obsolete parts etc, but I do think I might have missed the boat with getting that V8 burble to my commute.
 
Prices do seem to be on the up this year.
Top quality P6V8's can get £10k+
A really nice one,that may need minor tinkering with, £5k+.
There are bargain cars out there,just a matter of right place right time.
Prices wont be as high for the 2000/2200's unless its a really special one.
 
Same here in Germany!

I was about to post something similar when I discovered this thread.

The Durtch always dared to ask prices worthy of their history as a merchant nation, but in Germany prices were around the 5000 Euro mark for the time I looked for the V8 cars.
The four pot cars were rare and even cheaper, and in classic car price lists there used to be a gap between "Rover P5B" and "Rover SD1" (or even "Vitesse"!!) - with NO PRICES listed in most magazines and so forth!

Rüdiger Wicke has noriced the prices to go up ever so slightly since around a year, I guess, and the German P6-community/Yahoo group that he founded is smiling all the way as V8-cars are offered for 10.000 Euros and being sold for that as well!
The 2000 and 2200 do not profit from that as of yet I believe... .
 
transexl said:
Rüdiger Wicke has noriced the prices to go up ever so slightly since around a year, I guess, and the German P6-community/Yahoo group that he founded is smiling all the way as V8-cars are offered for 10.000 Euros and being sold for that as well!
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Some time that happened, indeed :)

Rudiger
 
Even in NZ the prices are rising, though still a lot cheaper than Europe and UK or OZ, Here a rust free P6B or p6 in excellent fettle would set you back less than 2,000 pounds and something equivalent to a UK project car maybe 250 pounds.

Should start exporting our cars back to Blighty.


Graeme
 
I'm not seeing it myself. Maybe for the very top LHD cars in Europe. But there are a fair few in Switzerland and they seem to be for sale for months sometimes years. I'm assuming they don't get their asking price.

I think this is the most serious issue affecting the P6 at the moment if prices don't rise then more will be broken and suddenly you no longer have the user base for support in terms of parts.

I really don't get it though. Crazy asking prices for some really very ho-hum Fords at the moment. Really a Ford Corsair or early 1300 Capri?

If only we kept my Grandad's various Mk 1 escorts even if it was just the body shell. Then again you could buy a Spitfire for £5 after WWII and they start at a million for unrestored examples. Quite an investment.
 
Demetris said:
In reply to the question asked in the title:

Rover P6 smashes pre-sale estimate in Poole | Classic and Sports Car
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I must admit that I looked at the listing before the sale and wished I could afford to bid on it - based on the estimate - but I know I don't have a spare £10K.
Didn't think for one minute that it would go so high!

Point is, of course, that there are 2 bidders prepared to go over 20K. I wonder if this was a cool pre-determination of what it would take or if "bidding fever" kicked in?
The low bidder must have been a bit stunned not to get it at around 22K.
 
I personally think you can read nothing at all into this. From what I'm seeing P6s unless exceptional are difficult to sell. Some examples going for £2-3k would fetch 5 figures if they were certain and quite ordinary Fords.
 
I agree. A nice looking ser 1 v8 only fetched just over £2,000 recently on eBay, which really amazed me.
 
The original colour was Brasilia which is shared with the non-VIP models. I would have been tempted to go Platinum.

I'm not wedded to originality, but if you want to commit to spending huge amounts of money then this is usually the way to go. It's already difficult enough to sell a P6 add to the that the need to find someone who shares your individual tastes then you need to be very lucky. In this case it looks like there were at least 2 at the auction. I wouldn't rely on it and in the final analysis, a £23k return on £40k isn't exactly a win.
 
The tan leather steering wheel really bothers me! Not too impressed with that if I'm honest. The seats, look like something from a 90's car with that colour scheme too. However, it does look like it had a beautiful job done on the restoration. The write up seems lacking accuracy. "Only P6's with AC" especially is wrong.
 
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Either take the picture with the handbrake off, or better still, sort it so that it's correctly set up in the first place.....
 
sdibbers said:
The tan leather steering wheel really bothers me! Not too impressed with that if I'm honest. The seats, look like something from a 90's car with that colour scheme too. However, it does look like it had a beautiful job done on the restoration. The write up seems lacking accuracy. "Only P6's with AC" especially is wrong.
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The seats look very much like Rover 75 ones in that colour scheme. The tan steering wheel doesn't do it for me either and it will end up looking manky pretty quickly, my daily car has a grey steering wheel and that's bad enough!
 
Yes it looks like a lot of money has been spent on this one . Good to see these cars are starting to get some serious interest .
For me the body line needs breaking with a rear black C panel and black lower deck/splash panel- what ever its called. Not a fan of that white wheel either . Otherwise if I had squillion$ -yes
 
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