Americans: more money than sense?

[Richard Saunders]

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C400402

(With all due apologies to American forumites )

[dasadrew]

par for the course over here on the continent too. Seems only UK residents think that the Stag isn't worth much. No idea why.

[richardthestag]

Supply and demand

[Motorsport Micky]

Be grateful, the lower prices in the UK means you can have your choice of cars with only other well informed people realising you are buying true classic car motoring at very reasonable money. If you love Stags it's because of the design and capabilities of it, let others pay through the nose for E Types, Aston Db, Healeys and others. No point in having a car valued at £30k plus money if it intrudes into your use of it.

Micky

[jakesmig]

Lower values unfortunately also make it easy to spend 2/3 times the value on a restoration.

John

[wilf]

Does anyone have any evidence, actual or anecdotal, of Stage prices floating upwards in the UK?

[Motorsport Micky]

John,

The trick is you buy the best car you can afford instead of spending 3 years of your life stripping and rebuilding back up.

If rebuilding is your thing, then the enjoyment you get doing it has a cost which is the amount you've spent over what the car will fetch in the future. Surely it's the ownership of the car which is what we all should aspire to, not building a car in the hope that we can profit or even get your money back on it. If the prices the cars fetch is not enough to balance the costs and that's what you want then the future resale value needs to be balanced against the rebuild costs no matter what car model it is being rebuilt. The Stag has it's market, thankfully it means the acquisition costs are very reasonable but you may not get back what it costs to rebuild, I'd still buy mine again and be able to afford it.

Micky

[Dieter H. Marschall]

Hello everybody,

the big advantage of ex-US cars for non-UK buyers ist that they are LHD. So most TRs in Germany for example are ex-US ones, too. It is difficult to sell a RHD car on the continent.

Best wishes,
Dieter.

[mike@thenook]

Does anyone have any evidence, actual or anecdotal, of Stage prices floating upwards in the UK?

From what I can see of Stags for sale on ebay there is no evidence of any selling at all let alone for a lot of money. There are some cars that have been on there for months two in particular come to mind being a very nice carmine one like mine (£18,500) it is being advertised again as clearly not sold and the blue one of non-standard rover colour at £14,500 - both these cars look exceptional (just dont like the non stanard colour idea) and I would have thought £14,000 was not unrealistic - the market seems to think otherwise........

[m9fdb]

I agree - i think they are undervalued classic but then i would at the moment as i am selling my one

[NickA]

Interesting array of instruments: quite nicely done; wonder what all 8 gauges do?

[DJT]

Interesting array of instruments: quite nicely done; wonder what all 8 gauges do?

I noticed all them too. Must be a severe case of Stag Paranoia! I think I'd develop a serious twitch keeping an eye on all of them. Bad enough with the original quota.

[Pete]

I noticed all them too. Must be a severe case of Stag Paranoia! I think I'd develop a serious twitch keeping an eye on all of them. Bad enough with the original quota.

I reckon the clock has made space for an oil pressure gauge, the clock is now on the new panel with maybe a vacuum gauge, oil temp and ammeter - just a guess. Some of those dials are full and not quadrant either.

Are wooden/leather gearknobs with overdrive switch available?