David, Don't you think the GB car was painted that color to in crease it's
value. Remember, this car was restored to sell. I think originality is the
right place to draw the line personally. Otherwise you will end up with the
zoo the muscle cars are faced with. A cloned resto-mod V8 M/S will be next
for the big healey if that door is opened further. Richard Bittmann BJ7
Tacoma
> Subject: Re: Re: Value Insanity
>
>
> Keith,
> Believe me, I understand your point of view, but ............maybe you
> misread
> me?
>
> For concours or for value purposes, what difference if car 4357 was
> originally OEW. and is now Gold, if cars of the same model and year were
> factory painted gold? ...maybe even the next one off the line.
>
> I could see a problem if say gold was not an option originally for the
> car's
> model and year, but otherwise, what's the difference? Last I checked,
> even
> the Concours people didn't care. The only other case where I'd think it
> would
> be improper, would be if a color was originally quite rare and a car were
> switched to that color to falsely increase it's value.
>
> Dave J.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: pennell@cox.net
> To: davidwjones ; GSFuqua1@aol.com ; healeys@autox.team.net
> Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 10:25 PM
> Subject: Re: Re: Value Insanity
>
>
> Dave,
>
> I agree with you on this. I find it strange that someone would pay $131k
> for a car that was not originally golden. I thought that the real big
> dollars
> went for cars which were complete, rare, and restored as original to a
> very
> high standard.
>
> If the buyer wanted a golden BJ8 seems to me he/she could buy one and
> have
> it restored to the same level for considerably less than $141k.
>
> But on the other hand, as someone else pointed out you have the
> excitement
> of the auction/adrenaline/alcohol/impressing others/etc going on.
>
> Keith Pennell
>
> >
> > Tell me, what is the big deal, if the color is changed, everything
> matches,
> > and it is a correct color/scheme for the model and year? The concours
> > committee does not make the distinction, -why would anyone else?
> > (Fortunately for me, my favorite color was C. red, and mine was
> originally
> C.
> > Red.)
> > Dave J.
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