Didn't JD avertise at least one of their Sammys for +£200000 last year , This auction house is just halving that and taken a bit away because the car is basically unknown.
I'd like to know why a performance derivative 240Z can't be so valued please ,
The car in question is not "
a performance derivative 240Z" though, is it? It appears to be - as far as I can see - a fairly mildly modified standard UK showroom model car that was sprinted a little in period.
No disrespect to early 1970s period sprinting, but it was perhaps best described as one of the most basic forms of private motorsport and participants were not forced to comply with national (RAC) or international (FIA) competition rules. Cars could be pretty much stock, with little or no extra safety equipment. The sprinting history for the car may be interesting, but it's hardly the same as a rule-compliant period race or rally car and it is closer to stock than anything else.
jaydeescuba said:
Think of an American or European make that was prepared for competition, won or did pretty bloody well and the preparer made a few to sell on the side....they'll be worth a mint.
I think such cases would be best viewed on a case-by-case basis, but even then this car doesn't seem to be anything like what you describe. The car in question appears to have no (period or current) safety equipment, a stock fuel tank, a stock transmission (described in the auction blurb as "close ratio"...) and a stock 3.9 ratio diff, as far as I can make out. Am I wrong? I don't see anything different in the auction description or in the ebay ad.
jaydeescuba said:
What is an ordinary Fairlady Z-L worth in Japan these days ? We often here what a Z432 is - but what about the 'lesser' cars ?
You're probably looking at figures around 40k+ GBP for a nice '69~'73 S30/S30-S, around 50k+ GBP for a nice '71~'73 HS30/HS30-S and around 65k+ GBP for a nice '71~'73 HS30-H. But as said so often,
case-by-case. Nice (even not so nice) PS30s are well over 170k+ GBP, with real corkers over 200k. PS30-SB are now stratospheric, with a good example changing hands for well over 300k last year and none on the open market.
But your point being?