I need a set! But at a "reasonable" price... maybe less than $1K? I paid
Uncle Wally $795 for my Mk II grill back in 2000 and consider that a good
deal.
Keep on Tigerin!
Jim Sencindiver
B382100451/TAC 448
http://www.tigersunited.com/car_show/sencindiver_j/default.asp
On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 1:28 PM, snakebit289 <snakebit289@yahoo.com> wrote:
> We don't know why someone thought these mouldings were worth $8K plus. Was
> it
> a private party finishing a restoration whose only missing items were these
> mouldings, was it a commercial restorer instead who had carte blanche to
> finish a Tiger II, no matter the amount, was it someone already planning to
> reproduce sets of these?
>
> The first thing I thought of was the red Mark II
> IIRC from eBay a few months ago, that looked to be held together just by
> the
> paint. Suddenly, $22K for that car seems not near so bad, if the new owner
> is
> parting it out, and now knows he has $8K in mouldings alone. The second
> thing
> that occurred to me is a certain historic Alpine V in the south with a nice
> set of Mark II mouldings. I did email the owner and suggest that he up his
> insurance value another $9K.
>
> The other factor is determining how many new
> sets will the market need. How many cars still need them, of the original
> 533, and how many sets extra to account for the Mark II's that become
> involved
> in collisions that will need them in the future.
>
> Rande
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