chrisvega
Well-Known Forum User
No, not worth anywhere near the bottom estimate/reserve.
Scabs and micro blistering all over paintwork, needs a repaint, bare metal budget £5k at least, engine bay scruffy for low mileage car, seen the car up close this afternoon with Jake Rah at Silverstone. He is a 260 man and valued it £15k, I would go a bit higher but not worth £25k reserve plus 12.5% +vat buyers premium.
The 71 240Z that ukfb66 refers to made what it was worth, bid to £20.5k unsold as seller being greedy and unrealistic expectations.
That aside, car is 95% original paint which is a nice feature. The car has a genuine 57k miles from new and is pretty much factory original unmolested spec. with a major caveat ! I bought that car without its original engine. A well respected Z racer/engineer friend of mine in the States fitted a rebuilt L24 engine to the car after I bought it and that had done around 80k miles. It is a superbly rebuilt engine with perfect compression but not matching to the car if that is important to the would be buyer, a fact that was not mentioned in the auction house write up making the car less original than they portrayed. If i was in the market for a Z I would happily pay £20k for the car so I think it was fairly bid at £20.5k plus 12.5%+vat buyer premium.