1. Yes I had forgotten the price, the grey car was certainly a good buy!
2. But dont you think that there is a big difference between rhd SA v UK? I know you get far less rust :lol: BUT UK cars do have that 'certain magic' tied in with British/VW factory close historic links. SA splits seem a bit odd to me, like Indian Morris Minors.. ( and I have owned 3 ckd NZ cars)
I also think that the oval pan de-values it a huge amount for sale purposes. I think from the ad the seller maybe does not realise that. I would not buy a split on an oval pan rustfree or not unless it was cheap to reflect this major incorrectness. For under £10k I think you can get away with that for such an exceptionally solid car BUT
£15k (ie. over the £10k threshold) opens the door and buys a lot of more correct cars whose chassis number and body tag actually match!
Lets not forget that when the DVLA inspect it for registration it could get registered on paper as an oval not a split!?! Depending on the inspector's thoroughness. That will affect its value.
We had that 51 with the 3fold in on a mint rustfree oval pan for sale for £3.5k about a year ago. Ok not nearly such a good shell as this but cheap because of the non matching pan mostly (followed by added roof job 3 fold) No stock people with any knowledge or basic experience will buy a fresh imported and unregistered car on the wrong pan for over £10k. I could also be wrong but I am almost certain I am not.
Possibly someone building a modified or Cal Look/racecar who wants to save time & money on welding, but how many of those spend £15k on the stock base car? ( I cant think of any)
3. I agree the white fully restored car is certainly not 'me' either ( but then 'me' is also a bit of a crazy non vw colour scheme! :lol: ) and I agree the white does not appeal to stock people, who generally like to only see German Factory colours. (My car falls into the same 'oddball' category) But I do think this car has appeal outside of the stock market, I can also see it with genuine detailed Fuch's (and no headlight grilles) appealing to Cal look or Resto, it does have instant and easy 'Blingness'! being white, combined with 'split' desirability, and much as though we hate to do it, that IS a much bigger market to sell too. This car's identity could be changed overnight for the new owner.
It is no doubt easy to spend £25k restoring a car, and I have never had to do it ( thank god!) But there is some stiff competition in the over £20k category, like this one:
50 on the samba or a few at BBT including the Fabulous green 50 that I am AMAZED is still for sale!
BBT 50 and I agree with you, I would expect a lot of originality for over £20k. But I think that is also our taste, as some the highest priced vws seem to have been fully/(over)restored and resto/modified?
I just know that if I ever had £25k to spent on a vw it would only be 40's and have to be bloody special!! :lol: :lol:
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"it'll wreck the patina you haven't worked so hard to create" - 50Karmann