Greetings,
> Hey don't call the increasing prices silly, our cars are beginning to get
> more valuable.
Well, true, but.........
>From my perspective the market is not at all predictable. From what I can
>tell many
current selling and asking prices are silly. I have seen poor examples go for
more than
I think my car is worth and much nicer cars go for less than $7,000. A lot of
the people
doing appraisals have no idea what to do with a British car. They can peg the
market
on a '57 Chevy Nomad but think a heavily modified British car, say a 302 Ford
equipped
Stag (or pick any British car modified in such a manner) is a valuable hotrod.
Many of us, myself included, have a TR6 because we like to drive and tinker
with old
sports cars. Even back in the early 1980s when I purchased mine the TR6s were
very
affordable. I know the prices are going to go up, but I want to afford to
drive it, insure it,
and take it to meets. I have made modifications that keep with the "spirit"
of the car.
The TR6 currently has more power and reliability than when I got it and gets
about 24-
27 MPG highway. Is it nice, I think so. Is it original, no. Will I ever win
a concours with
it, no. Am I happy with it and its performance, yes.
A slow predicable rise in TR6 values is more inline with most hobby oriented TR
owners. I do not relish spending more than I paid for my car in 1981 on a
parts car.
>From my stand point a meteoric rise in TR6 prices fueled by speculators is not
>really
what many of TR hobbyists care to see.
God bless,
Dr. Evan Todd Yeager
The Yeager Group
1302 Monroe Street
Commerce, Texas 75428
Email: ETY@TheYeagerGroup.com
Web: http://www.TheYeagerGroup.com
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