AFAIK, the Golden Beige was one of those original rare colored cars. And
has always seemed to bring more money that others.
Can't say if this one was painted that way for the extra $$, but if so, it
worked. But--he didn't try to hide the fact that he had changed it so I'm
OK with that. Had it been attempted to be passed off as an original GB, it
would be wrong.
Reminds me of folks with a Series 2 XKE trying to replace the open
headlights with the glass covered ones-----as long as they don't try to
imply it is a Series 1, and they like it, I'm OK with it.
Tom
> [Original Message]
> From: davidwjones <davidwjones@cox.net>
> To: <healeys@autox.team.net>
> Date: 1/22/06 11:49:07 PM
> Subject: Fw: Re: Value Insanity
>
> 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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