10yearsafter wrote: ↑Wed Mar 01, 2023 11:19 pm Just to have a say; Bearing in mind that this car is not original spec. it is being sold through the trade who may have bought it from a restorer that they trust?, so they would have to have a mark up and would have to give a warranty.
Is it worth the asking price? Well that is for the purchaser to decide. Is the spec what they want? Do they have enough knowledge to know what is non original ?
If we think about the cost of any restoration, I for one know what a full rebuild with up grades costs and I would suggest this is not an unreasonable asking price, depending on the work done.
The point about Fords is well made as is the fact that moaning about high prices does not do the marque any good. If you have the skill and the knowledge to do the work good luck but it does not mean that you have to give the end result away for less than cost!
There are people out there who do not have the skills but want one of our cars and they have the means.
There are club members out there who do have all the skills and specialist Knowledge and they deserve a fair return and if they can find a buyer with deep pockets It probably means that they can find another basket case that they can save, which has to be good. I speak as someone who made the dubious decision of having some of the work done by a company who outwardly seemed excellent but did not have the specialist Knowledge which slowed the process down,so much so that they lost interest and that has cost me time and money to check their work and to have it put right.
Bob
The potential Sprint you could buy with that volume of money, would at some point eat up whoever spends that on this one.
Anyone with 32k to spend on a Sprint, should in reality be getting the best available. That's an obscene amount of money.
