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£10k 172
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I asked a engine and sills pic, got no reply.
Don’t understand why she won’t post them up, I would like to think the engine bay is mint and the sills (undamaged from jacking) are the same but if there are no pics, I have serious doubts.
Don’t understand why she won’t post them up, I would like to think the engine bay is mint and the sills (undamaged from jacking) are the same but if there are no pics, I have serious doubts.
I also sold my cup for 5k a few weeks ago, was offered it by the same person who had the phase 1 so couldn’t say no tbh. That had done 66k and that was genuinely immaculate throughout. So if this one has done 18k and in the same condition, show it off as 8k is a good price.
Problem is you could buy a Trophy and polish the s**t out of that for £8k.
£5k would be probably the max tbh. The cup isn’t particularly desirable unless you’re going to batter it around a track which.... this won’t.
£5k would be probably the max tbh. The cup isn’t particularly desirable unless you’re going to batter it around a track which.... this won’t.
All 3 of my cars cost me less than this cup
Why the f**k anyone in the right mind would pay 8 grand for a car that's sat for most of its life is beyond me. It might be polished to f**k but I can guarantee it still needs work😂
Why the f**k anyone in the right mind would pay 8 grand for a car that's sat for most of its life is beyond me. It might be polished to f**k but I can guarantee it still needs work😂
Let's say you buy it for 8k, the belts need doing in 3 years time...
So youd need to keep it 10 years for it to be worth ~15k. In that time you'll have spent £1200 on belts, brake fluid every 2 years, coolant changes every few years, gearbox oil, probably a lot of bushes, maybe brake lines you'll have to pay for dry storage or use up space you already have. After all that you'll have spent maybe 11k on a car that will have appreciated 7 grand over your initial investment. Not to mention the fact that you wont be able to buy genuine parts in 10 years time too
In 10 years I could have bought and sold/broke 20 absolute shed cars and made £350 on each of them gaining the same amount of profit and 10x less hassle.
But then again you could take the gamble, buy it and then prices could go stupid and it might be worth 20k in 5 years time. That's the risk you take with investments. I would rather buy something cheap and have instant profit rather than have something sat around doing f**k all for ages
So youd need to keep it 10 years for it to be worth ~15k. In that time you'll have spent £1200 on belts, brake fluid every 2 years, coolant changes every few years, gearbox oil, probably a lot of bushes, maybe brake lines you'll have to pay for dry storage or use up space you already have. After all that you'll have spent maybe 11k on a car that will have appreciated 7 grand over your initial investment. Not to mention the fact that you wont be able to buy genuine parts in 10 years time too
In 10 years I could have bought and sold/broke 20 absolute shed cars and made £350 on each of them gaining the same amount of profit and 10x less hassle.
But then again you could take the gamble, buy it and then prices could go stupid and it might be worth 20k in 5 years time. That's the risk you take with investments. I would rather buy something cheap and have instant profit rather than have something sat around doing f**k all for ages
LOL. not sure where you are getting that they are the most common 172? surely a 172 is the most common 172, not a cup? also the actual amount of cups left on the road is down to around 800, maybe less, and they are seen as the "rawest" of the 172s given the amount of weight they got out of a standard car (82kg iirc)
give me £5k and you can have mine. 
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It’s a £5/6k car on the right day to the right person.
if I or anyone else spend endless amount of hours cleaning and polishing one car that’s kept in good dry storage conditions it’s obviously going to be a clean car.
Anyone who factors in there own running costs of servicing, tax, insurance , fuel and storage and then adds it to the sale price are nuts, if you don’t want to pay the running costs don’t buy it.
unless the market is dry with a make and model of car and there is a massive demand from buyers you would then possibly have a good chance of a sale.
what I fail to see is that on a number of occasions dawn has stated in adverts and online that she has two many cars but yet she is looking for a possible part ex with a Mk3 197/200.
if I or anyone else spend endless amount of hours cleaning and polishing one car that’s kept in good dry storage conditions it’s obviously going to be a clean car.
Anyone who factors in there own running costs of servicing, tax, insurance , fuel and storage and then adds it to the sale price are nuts, if you don’t want to pay the running costs don’t buy it.
unless the market is dry with a make and model of car and there is a massive demand from buyers you would then possibly have a good chance of a sale.
what I fail to see is that on a number of occasions dawn has stated in adverts and online that she has two many cars but yet she is looking for a possible part ex with a Mk3 197/200.
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It's not the rarety that counts as cup tax though. If that were the case the silver cups would be worth £15k+ now. It's the lightweight no frills driving pleasure spiel that people get suckerd into paying extra for. Which makes a really low mileage one even worse to see, the damn thing needs driving but it's never going to provide the amount of driving pleasure to anyone that it should be allowed to do. It needs raffling off so someone who will kick it's head in can get their hands on it!
All of its value is in its mileage so its never going to be driven by any owner ever at that money.
I'm afraid all i see is a basic Cup which all be it very nice, has just been smothered in polish and bullshit shine which will wash off after a week.
Polishing a car and dusting the calipers silver doesn't make it worth what is being asked. Its worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it, but trying to recoup whats been spent on consumables such as storage is laughable.
I may aswell say my 120k mile 182 is worth £40k, as that's what i've spent on fuel in the last 15 years!! #facepalm
I'm afraid all i see is a basic Cup which all be it very nice, has just been smothered in polish and bullshit shine which will wash off after a week.
Polishing a car and dusting the calipers silver doesn't make it worth what is being asked. Its worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it, but trying to recoup whats been spent on consumables such as storage is laughable.
I may aswell say my 120k mile 182 is worth £40k, as that's what i've spent on fuel in the last 15 years!! #facepalm
I don’t care anyone says there is no way a buyer walked in with bang on £7995 and paid that and walked away happy.
A buyer will always try to get money off it and more so if its a dealer.
The car never sold for £10k and we all knew that was never going to happen
A buyer will always try to get money off it and more so if its a dealer.
The car never sold for £10k and we all knew that was never going to happen
Either way the seller will always try and big up what they got for the sale of there car buy a few £££
on the other hand a dealer would have wanted it at rock bottom so will have paid as little as possible and once again would never disclose what they actually paid for It.
on the other hand a dealer would have wanted it at rock bottom so will have paid as little as possible and once again would never disclose what they actually paid for It.
