Phil Ethier wrote:
> Cars are not worth what you have in them.
> Cars are worth what someone will pay for them.
If the question is "How much can I get for my car?", then you're absolutely
right. But I suspect that we already knew that :-)
But if the question is "How much would I sell my car for today?", then the
answer might be quite different. After four years of work, my TR6 is
restored, equipped, modified and painted exactly the way I wanted it. As a
result, it's "worth" far more to me than in would be to anyone else.
> With all the cars for sale in the USA, it seems unlikely to
> me that there would be a rush to buy a TR250 for $26,000.
> Even if the buyer was set on a TR250, there are fine
> examples available for less than this.
My only comment was that I'm not offended if someone puts a car up for sale
at a price that reflects (at least in part) the work that's gone into it and
the costs that would be involved in duplicating it. Perhaps the $26,000 car
won't sell, or will sell for a substantially lower price . . . but if
someone comes along who wants a concours quality 250, with Webers, etc.
painted BRG--and wants it tomorrow--it's going to be expensive.
> The payoff is in the pleasure of sharing the Triumph with my lovely wife.
Now you're talking! Pretty hard to set a price on that.
Jim Hill
Madison WI
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