And the winner of dreamer of the year is...

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

Wait. How much are 200sx going for these days? Surely not higher than 8500. I thought you’d get a clean one for around 6/7k.

EPAndlee

Prices in Japan are even gone mad, you'd be lucky to bring one of those 20v corollas in for less 7 k if you can find one. The likes of Altezzas making 8k, Ek9s are making 10k 20k for an evo. Prices here aren't that mad

selectamatic

EPAndlee wrote: »

Prices in Japan are even gone mad, you'd be lucky to bring one of those 20v corollas in for less 7 k if you can find one. The likes of Altezzas making 8k, Ek9s are making 10k 20k for an evo. Prices here aren't that mad

This is it in a nutshell. Jap prices are dear at the moment for most of the sought after models and they're only going to keep rising for the next couple of years anyways.

As more and more late 90s cars come on market for the yanks and more and more Japanese people start storing cars rather than selling prices will stay strong.

A good clean Irish Evo 9 sold for €22k near me not that long ago so the big asking prices are being got in certain cases.

There's definitely plenty of over inflated pricing going on but if you've a car thats known to be clean in the right circles you can command a premium.

CianRyan

You’d spend 5/6 on an S14a. That needs a good bit of welding. Anything really clean budget at least 10k, bringing one in from Japan these days will probably cost you more, a lot of cars are shooting up in price because they can now be imported in the USA.

liam7831

https://m.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C1034813

Looks sound

James Bond Junior

Looks like the cat walked across the keyboard when typing the ad.

Muppet Man

only out on sunny days for fresh air

Continues to show picture of car on a cloudy day

Vicxas

Is half the battle reading that ad?

I thought i took a blow to the head reading it.

Vicxas

Is half the battle reading that ad?

I thought i took a blow to the head reading it.

colm_mcm

That’s pounds too, so €28500

fancy pigeon

colm_mcm wrote: »

Every generation gets shocked when the cars they saw being sold for peanuts at one stage shoot up in value. I remember when you could buy Twincams for under £500.

Somewhere at home is a bundle of Exchange and Marts (remember those!) from the late 90s where mk2 Escorts and Corolla twincams went for barely over £1200, max. Mk2 Escorts especially for a few hundred usually

I'll try dig them out when I find the time to do a clean out

Wibbs

EPAndlee wrote: »

Prices in Japan are even gone mad, you'd be lucky to bring one of those 20v corollas in for less 7 k if you can find one. The likes of Altezzas making 8k, Ek9s are making 10k 20k for an evo. Prices here aren't that mad

If anything prices here are quite low for many Japanese imports because of the crazy insurance premiums involved. Ireland is about the cheapest place in the world for any Honda with an R badge for example. Here sellers may advertise say DC2's at 8K, but they won't sell. 4-5K is more realistic and even then the seller will be waiting. In Japan DC2's even ropey examples are going for 10K plus and good ones more like 20k(before import taxes etc) and as they get scarcer and the Americans are paying crazy pieces for them(30/40k +) prices are stiffening. That particular era of cars has some way to go in my humble. The next "they paid how much for an old Escort??" market. That said and also in my humble the classic car market is a major bubble in the making. Particularly in some areas like air cooled Porsches where it's gone bonkers.

Wibbs

fancy pigeon wrote: »

Somewhere at home is a bundle of Exchange and Marts (remember those!) from the late 90s where mk2 Escorts and Corolla twincams went for barely over £1200, max. Mk2 Escorts especially for a few hundred usually

+1. I was offered an E30 M3 for peanuts back in the late 90's. Didn't go for it as the daft German buggers had insisted on the steering wheel on the passenger side, but talk about an investment missed. Like yourself I have some old car mags laying around and I have a couple from the early 70's courtesy of an uncle of mine where secondhand Ferrari Dino's were the price of a new Ford Cortina. Until quite recently most such cars were seen as "old cars". Well for good reason, as even brand new cars weren't close to the reliability of cars from the 90's on.

colm_mcm

fancy pigeon wrote: »

Somewhere at home is a bundle of Exchange and Marts (remember those!) from the late 90s where mk2 Escorts and Corolla twincams went for barely over £1200, max. Mk2 Escorts especially for a few hundred usually

I'll try dig them out when I find the time to do a clean out

Oh stop, my grandfather had a lovely yellow 2 door escort Mk2 that my grandmother sold for £100 after he died. This was in the early 90s.

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

fancy pigeon wrote: »

Somewhere at home is a bundle of Exchange and Marts (remember those!) from the late 90s where mk2 Escorts and Corolla twincams went for barely over £1200, max. Mk2 Escorts especially for a few hundred usually

I'll try dig them out when I find the time to do a clean out

I “learned” to drive in mk2 escorts back in the day, and by learn I mean we would drive them around the fields til they blew up or ended up in a ditch. Such a shame. I know there’s still a 4 door one lodged in a ditch about a mile from my house, it was there about 5 years ago anyway, can’t imagine it’s gone.

StereoSound

00' Audi A8 for 4,200. In the day these were nice but this one needs work even though the owner already put money into it.
Big road Tax on an almost 19 year old car. I'd give him very little for it. I think he will end up giving this away.

https://www.adverts.ie/car/audi/a8/2000-audi-a8/16059555

Bigus

StereoSound wrote: »

00' Audi A8 for 4,200. In the day these were nice but this one needs work even though the owner already put money into it.
Big road Tax on an almost 19 year old car. I'd give him very little for it. I think he will end up giving this away.

https://www.adverts.ie/car/audi/a8/2000-audi-a8/16059555

No point in having an A8 unless it's a V8 end of story.

StereoSound

6.5k for a knackered Vauxhall calibre, no keys, no log book, UK plates. No dreamers he says! I wouldn't take it for free! Use it for halloween as a bonfire in my opinion.

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/vauxhall-calibra-v-6-limited-edition/19740628

liam7831

StereoSound wrote: »

6.5k for a knackered Vauxhall calibre, no keys, no log book, UK plates. No dreamers he says! I wouldn't take it for free! Use it for halloween as a bonfire in my opinion.

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/vauxhall-calibra-v-6-limited-edition/19740628

Looks like who ever did that to it had Halloween in mind, I agree only a parts car

liam7831

StereoSound wrote: »

6.5k for a knackered Vauxhall calibre, no keys, no log book, UK plates. No dreamers he says! I wouldn't take it for free! Use it for halloween as a bonfire in my opinion.

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/vauxhall-calibra-v-6-limited-edition/19740628

Looks like who ever did that to it had Halloween in mind, I agree only a parts car

Avatar MIA

liam7831 wrote: »

Looks like who ever did that to it had Halloween in mind, I agree only a parts car

"Very unique" mind :rolleyes:

What happened to the paintwork?

lawred2

StereoSound wrote: »

6.5k for a knackered Vauxhall calibre, no keys, no log book, UK plates. No dreamers he says! I wouldn't take it for free! Use it for halloween as a bonfire in my opinion.

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/vauxhall-calibra-v-6-limited-edition/19740628

Ferrari style ???

Do they have some sort of cult following those cars? Because I thought they were tacky and derivative even when new

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

lawred2 wrote: »

Ferrari style ???

Do they have some sort of cult following those cars? Because I thought they were tacky and derivative even when new

In the UK. Not here.

colm_mcm

No keys or logbook is the icing on the cake.

pah

Avatar MIA wrote: »

"Very unique" mind :rolleyes:

:rolleyes:

There are no varying degrees of unique ffs

CianRyan

I’d actually kinda like it, if it was finished well it wouldn’t be totally terrible.
Are they RWD? Obnoxious drift car that’s a little left of field? :pac:


Edit: Did my research, noooooope!

Avatar MIA

pah wrote: »

:rolleyes:

There are no varying degrees of unique ffs

A fellow pedant.

at9qu5vp0wcix7

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/420i-turbo-grand-coupe/20080512

Not exactly dreaming if you look purely at the specs - a 2015 4 series BMW. But then when you look at the bodykit and bonnet...

CianRyan

Looks well, just a shame about the engine in it.

MetzgerMeister

Avatar MIA wrote: »

What happened to the paintwork?

Sun damaging the pigment in the paint turns it like that. It happens a lot of red cars especially if they are single stage paint jobs i.e. no lacquer layer on top.

A machine polish would see it right again.